It’s unlikely the name Joseph Schumpeter is mentioned in the garages where crew members tune the expensive race cars of Dale Earnhardt Jr., Danica Patrick or John Force.
But Schumpeter would have grasped better than most how the sport of auto racing is engulfed in financial turmoil as the 2009 season arrives…. More info
Despite some cost-cutting at Formula One and changes in the design of its race cars, one constant remains in the international racing series for 2009: The teams to beat are McLaren Mercedes and Ferrari.
The two teams combined to win 14 of the 18 races last year and McLaren’s driver Lewis Hamilton, at 23, edged Ferrari’s Felipe Massa by a single point to become the series’ youngest champion in history…Â More info
…had a severe sense of d?j? vu after first playing Snowboard Riot on Wii. Shushing through this downloadable title, it dawned on me: this is just a clone of Snowboard Kids, but with hipster characters instead of the oversized anime boarders that were used in Atlus’ previous designs. You don’t get much in this ten dollar purchase: four uncreative slopes with absolutely no single player progression. Its focus is more on the pick-up-and-play racing, but with very little at stake (and with some of the most obnoxious rubberband AI routines ever), there’s not much draw in Hudson’s competitive design.
Snowboard Riot isn’t so much a snowboarding game as it is a racing game on snow…Â More info…
The Aston Martin V12 Vantage has arrived and yes, you want one. Evolving the styling and engineering exercise Aston unveiled in 2007 and set for a Geneva Motor Show debut, the blokes Gaydon claim the V12 Vantage is the most driver-focused sports car the automaker has ever produced.
Power is provided by a 6.0-liter V12 putting out 510 hp at 6,500 rpm and 420 lb.-ft. of torque at 5,750 rpm. The Vantage’s new-found grunt is sent through a carbon fiber driveshaft to a rear-mounted six-speed manual gearbox. The transmission benefits from an oil cooler and a new rear diffuser helps cool the standard limited slip differential. Aston claims a 0-60 time of 4.1 seconds and top speed of 190 mph…Â More Info…