With the BMW Oracle America’s Cup boat tossing their conventional sails for an enormous wing this week, questions have been pouring in from all over the world with readers wanting to know about these strange looking “sails.” Uncommon on private sailboats, wing sails have been used for decades by speed sailing enthusiasts – where portability and adaptability are of little concern when world records are on the line …Â Details & Pictures
Tony Schumacher and Larry Dixon entered the Full Throttle Series season finale separated by a single point. In the first round of Top Fuel qualifying Thursday, they were just a thousandth of a second apart.
Lined up side-by-side for the final pass of the first day of qualifying at the season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals, Schumacher, the points leader, had a 3.832-second run at 316.52 mph to Dixon’s 3.833 at 314.31 … Details
Peugeot looks to be getting serious about its 3WD hybrid design which we first saw last year at the 2008 Paris Motorcycle Show with the HYbrid3 compressor. Debuting at the Milan Motorcycle Show will be a roofless version named the HYbrid3 Evolution which replaces the 21 bhp 125 cm3 supercharged motor with a 41 bhp 300 cm3 supercharged engine giving it a total of 49 bhp when combined with the two 3 kW (4.1 bhp) front wheel motors. The Evolution comes with stop-start engine technology and…Â Details
Zodiac Media presents __________ (yet to be announced). 3 months of footage so far and continuing to compile. This is just a teaser for what’s to come. So far featuring: Michael Hopkins, Dean Bowen…