This week in motorsports: Formula 1 decides that the World Driver’s Championship will now be awarded based on total number of wins, Audi’s R15 burns up the track during testing at Sebring, and former race team head and CEO Jean Todt officially leaves Ferrari…. Details
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Issaquah native is 2008 Â hydro racer Rookie of the Year
When he hits a straightaway at 180 miles per hour at the Sea Fair Chevrolet Cup on Lake Washington, unlimited hydroplane racer Kip Brown describes his boat as a nimble machine.
Amid the chaos of cutting through three- to four-foot-high waves behind the outwash of competitors’ rooster tails and with buoys racing by, he said he doesn’t experience the true power and agility of his 30-foot, 3,000 horsepower behemoth until he actually has to … …Details
The old-timers took to the course at Honolulu Hills Raceway this weekend.
That doesn’t necessarily mean the riders – it was the motorcycles.
Bikes dating all the way back to the 1950s were in action as AHRMA, the American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association held a cross-country race on a four-mile course up and down the hills and ravines at Honolulu Hills.
Riders from as far away as Davis and Tiburon got on bikes…Â Details
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In the spirit of true adventure, a Christchurch man has skateboarded across continents fending off wild dogs with a pole, partying with fiddle-playing rednecks and eating horse-penis salami.
Now, 28-year-old Rob Thomson has come home with a Guinness World Record and a taste for wheeled transport of the non-motorised type.
This week, Thomson returned to Christchurch after a 2½-year journey.
By the time he arrived at his parents’ Halswell home he had worn out three pairs of shoes, three sets …Â
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