Red Bull’s pursuit of championship leader Brawn GP resumes at the European Grand Prix, where Ferrari reserve driver Luca Badoer returns to Formula One’s starting grid for the first time in a decade to fill in for the injured Felipe Massa.
Badoer, who has tested for the Italians since 1998, will navigate the Valencia street race in place of Massa, who continues to recover from skull fractures suffered in a freak accident at the preceding Hungarian GP.
It’s Badoer’s first race for Ferrari and first start since driving for Minardi 10 years ago. The 38-year-old, whose gap between F1 races is the second longest in history, also holds an unwanted record of never having scored a point from 49 races…Â DetailsÂ
An El Niño condition may be brewing, but in the Southern Hemisphere there is no more waiting as extraordinary storms have been a regular occurrence over the last several weeks, generating some of the most intense surf seen in years. Most recently, one of the biggest and best swells to ever hit South Africa arrived last Sunday, producing more eye-popping entries into the Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards fueled by Monster Energy. Those latest photographs may be viewed on the BillabongXXL.com website.
This was the third significant swell to strike the region in ten days, sparking a series of key sessions at the spooky big wave break of Dungeons, off of Cape Town. A warm-up swell hit the region on August 6, followed by a huge and windy episode on August 11 which saw some massive tow-in waves worthy of the XXL Biggest Wave category. And on August 16 yet another enormous swell arrived, but this time with … Details
Jolene Van Vugt has become a reality TV star on the MTV show Nitro Circus
Jolene Van Vugt is a professional motocross racer, the first woman to back-flip a dirt bike and a member of the MTV reality stunt show Nitro Circus.
While those first two are easily explained to the average person, describing what the Nitro Circus is to those not familiar with the show is more challenging.
However, Nitro Circus star and extreme sports legend Travis Pastrana sums up what …Â Details
