Upgraded Hyundai i20 WRC
Hyundai

Hyundai Motorsport WRC Campaign

Since the appointment of Team Principal Michel Nandan in January, the Hyundai Motorsport team has focussed not only on building its bespoke facility in Alzenau and getting the i20 WRC ready for intensive testing later in the year but also on consolidating technical, sporting, and marketing sides the team. [Read More]

Nissan Altima V8 Supercars
Motorsports

Nissan Welcomes New Competition to V8 Supercars

Nissan became the first manufacturer to confirm it will join Ford and Holden in V8 Supercars when it announced on 9 February 2012 that it will partner with Kelly Racing to form a factory team from the start of the 2013 season. Nissan Motorsport will field four Nissan Altima V8 Supercars from 2013, powered by production-based VK56DE engines. [Read More]

BMW & MINI Driving Experience
BMW

BMW and MINI Driving Experience

In 1977 BMW became the first carmaker to offer drivers the chance to hone their skills at the wheel – and it has continued to do so ever since. In 2003, the BMW Group began offering a new group of customers the chance to make use of its safety training expertise – with the MINI Driver Training programme. [Read More]

FPV Ford Performance Racing’s first Car of the Future (COTF)
FPV

FPR Car of the Future Joins EcoBoost Family

Ford Performance Racing’s first Car of the Future (COTF) Falcon will run in Ford’s EcoBoost motorsport livery when it takes to the track joining other Ford squads around the world currently running the colour scheme, including teams in NASCAR and the World Rally Championship. [Read More]

Rhys Millen Wins 2WD Time Attack Class at 2012 Pikes Peak Hill Climb in RMR Genesis Coupe
Hyundai

Rhys Millen and Hyundai Genesis Coupe Sets New World Record at 2012 Pikes Peak Hill Climb

Rhys Millen Racing has been the team to contend with in recent years at Pikes Peak. In 2011, Rhys nearly broke the famed 10-minute barrier in his dedicated PM580 tubeframe hillclimb racer. In a classic father/son family effort, Rhys’ father, Rod Millen, set the current record in the same Genesis Coupe, [Read More]

Goodwood Festival of Speed, W 125, 1937, Fahrer: Jochen Mass
Mercedes Benz

2012 Goodwood Revival – 1930s Silver Arrows

Mercedes-Benz Classic is bringing four original pre-war Silver Arrows to the racetrack at this year’s Goodwood Revival (14 to 16 September 2012). The Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix cars from the 1930s are playing the starring role in a staged race together with Auto Union vehicles from the Audi Tradition collection [Read More]

Motorsports

V8 Supercars return to Sydney Motorsport Park on August 25 and 26.

The Australian Racing Drivers’ Club (ARDC) has announced a one-off, celebratory ticket price to mark the return of the V8 Supercars to Sydney Motorsport Park on August 25 and 26. To be known as the Sydney Motorsport Park 360, it offers tremendous value for fans and kicks off a week of major celebrations for the ARDC’s 60th anniversary [Read More]

Motorsports

V8 Race’s customers are now driving on tyres from Hankook

V8 Race said it was the largest consumer of motor racing tyres in Australia, conducting over 100 race experience days a year, spread across eight circuits in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Northern Territory. The pinnacle experience is the two days a year that V8 Race has access to the legendary Mount Panorama circuit at Bathurst. [Read More]

Lexus IS F CCS-R for Pikes Peak 2012
Lexus

Lexus Unveils LEXUS IS F CCS-R Pikes Peak Hill Climb Contender

Lexus has unveiled a modified IS F sedan that will race at the legendary Pikes Peak International Hill Climb next month.
Known as the IS F CCS-R, which debuted at the Tokyo Auto Salon in 2010, it features a number of modifications from the standard IS F road car to enhance performance and satisfy racing safety regulations. [Read More]