27 year-old French hotshoe Loic Duval hardly needs introducing, but just for the record, he's been a race winner in some of the top racing categories in Europe and Japan over the last number of years. Hailing from the French town of Chartres, just an hour's drive from Le Mans, the 24 Hours has been [...]
Over 8,000 folks turned up for the 3rd installation of Formula Drift Singapore from 24th to 25th May. For the first time ever, the event was held at Turn 1 to 3 of Singapore’s F1 Street Circuit. Before I cover the main event, I thought it would be interesting to give a flavor of Singapore’s [...]
A few weeks ago, Scott drove to a giant Mazda Miata gathering at the infamous Laguna Seca race track. As he pulled his car up and parked, an older gentlemen came up to his car. Scott over heard the older gentlemen say to a fellow companion: “Oh, this car must be here for the car [...]
How low can you go? Not any lower than this Toyota pick up! It's time to wrap up the coverage of the Mooneyes Street Car National with this last selection of shots from the other Sunday. When asked to post more VW material I knew I had to show you guys this spotless Type 34 [...]
Anybody else getting excited for the North American debut of the Mazda2 AKA, the Demio? I sure am. Here's Trial's tuned Demio for a bit of inspiration. Can't wait to have a go behind the wheel in one of these! -Mike Garrett Trial
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It was a stereotypical English day at the newly renovated Silverstone racetrack: gloomy and chilly. A light mist was just starting to form as the springtime sun was just starting to dip into the horizon. The track was cold, none of the FIA GT cars have hit the track. It was a day of setting [...]
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… And now on to the serious business of European GT Racing… We thought we'd shoot our new BMW Z4 GT3 before it hits the track tomorrow and gets all grimed up. Wow what a machine! Enjoy the photograph! Linhbergh will be along shortly with his own photo too! :R FIA GT1-GT3 Silverstone 2010 Coverage [...]
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Just uploaded a new desktop wallpaper featuring JTP and his RX7 laying rubber and bursting in ear drums on the streets of Hollywood. Head over to the Desktops section for widescreen or standard versions. -Mike Garrett
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This year is promising to be the most exciting season in D1 yet, as more foreign drivers make the trek over to Japan to participate in the series. This past weekend, while I was covering the Mooneyes Street Car Nationals in Odaiba, D1 hit Autopolis for Round 2 of the 2010 championship where Suenaga took [...]
There are several MK3's that keep pushing the envelope. One of them belongs to James Ford. He recently upgraded his MK3 with a full airride setup thanks to Bagyard. You can check out a full report on how he did it right here. -Jeroen Willemsen
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Another car feature from Kevin Raekelboom’s archive, and another super clean bagged Euro machine. In this case we have a first generation Audi TT built by Maarten Swijns out of Beverlo, Belgium. Like a good majority of the cars that Kevve has brought us out of this region, Maarten’s TT has been tweaked in all [...]
It's gearing up to be an interesting couple of days up here in Ebisu Circuit with the G1 Gaijin Grand Prix tomorrow and then the Spring Drift Matsuri on the weekend. I spent most of the day chilling out with Andy and Emily from Powervehicles.com looking through their impressive selection of drift cars but the highlight [...]
Down to earth with a bump, the AMG Mercedes squad trailed back to Affalterbach to conduct the post mortem on the Le Mans debacle. That the two engine failures suffered were as a result of the failure of a very minor part added to the sense of injustice. But the AMG squad are real professionals, [...]
The roads of Southern California are filled with vintage cars of all types, from lowriders and hot rods, to restored muscle cars. A question that might come to mind is just where people find the parts to build these things. Well, a good number of them come from the car-specific swap meets, like the ones [...]
When contemplating our lives, personally and professionally, there are areas that all of us prefer not to dwell on. Failures, accidents, disasters are generally airbrushed out of our memories and our CVs, the past is held to be a happy place Corporate bodies are no different, being essentially an extension of human activity, so it [...]
