Mercedes-Benz 300SL winning at Le Mans in 1952…
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video of the day. missing the winter.
i don’t like the summer…in fact i think it sucks….people are annoying, nyc streets are filled with losers, and i don’t like sweating. BRING BACK the winter and bring back the good times! I can’t wait til i get the new car out onto the slopes.
here’s a video to let me daydream a bit……the big daddy version of my A3….the delicious RS3 (not sold in the US, or else it would have 100% been mine)
Could F1 be coming to New Jersey?
(photo from WSJ of proposed location of track)
(thanks to Stampchez [qw] for the tip!)
Being a NYC resident, i’m hugely excited by this article. We have heard this all before, as a couple of years ago there was some buzz about F1 coming to Liberty State Park in New Jersey—-but this time, there seems to be some positivity regarding the possibilities.
DO IT BERNIE, you sad old geeza!
link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903341404576484073501204538.html8
Audi R8 LMS GT3 wins 24 hours of Spa.
Audi have just one their first ever Spa 24 hours race with a GT3-class R8 LMS. The class is HIGHLY competitive, and the R8 beat out Porsche, BMW, Aston Martin, Mercedes and many other manufacturers for their first ever win at the 63rd running of the legendary Belgian endurance race. The 2nd place finishers (BMW) were a full 2 laps behind the R8….
WELL done!
more details about the race here:
http://www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/2011/07/2011-total-24-hours-of-spa-audi-complete-spa-domination
photos via Audi Sport
foto of the day. A110.
*sigh*
from TuningFever (with some modification)
video of the day. night driving. 911 GT3 R @ ‘Ring
all types of goodness…
foto of the day. 131 Abarth.
Fiat 131 Abarth from the 1981 Rally D’Isola
jumpers.
Tagged airborn, audi quattro, ford escort, jumping, landing, rally
foto of the day. 208 CS.
Siata 208 CS (1952)
recap of R18 Le Mans victory.
This is such a well-made and put together video by Audi Sport about the remarkable 2011 win at Le Mans. Worth watching, even if you are not an Audiphile like me.
foto of the day. 90 IMSA
Tagged audi imsa 90, photos, pics, quattro
Porsche returning to Le Mans in 2014.
With Audi surpassing Ferrari in the all-time Le Mans wins with 10 currently, the all-time leading marque (16 wins) is set to return! Porsche is planning a return to Le Mans, and I for one am very excited to see more competition to the greatest race in the world!
video of the day. can am 1967 (repost)
i will contend that the greatest sounding cars in the history of motor racing were can am cars. if you would like to debate me about this, then you have never witnessed them in person!
I had posted these videos about a year and half ago—but just saw them again today and had to repost them.
race footage from 1967 Road America.
foto of the day. D20
1953 Lancia D20 Coupe partaking in the Targa Florio
F1 4-cylinder Turbo vs. V6 Turbo…and how Audi influenced the FIA.
(rendering below, via Speed Arena–not actual car!)
By now i’m sure you have heard the debates about Formula One switching to a V6 Turbos OR 4-cylinder Turbos by 2013/2014. The latest news being reported by ESPN is saying that Audi was one of the primary reasons why F1 had initially agreed to switch to 4 cylinder turbos. Apparently Audi had originally said they would join, and the FIA obliged by accepting the idea of the 4 cylinder turbo. After the decision was made, Audi then flipped and decided the finances weren’t working out for them to join F1—and changed their mind. Following Audi’s uncertainty about joining F1, the FIA has recently decided that it is going back to the original idea of V6 Turbos.
I, personally, am a big fan of 4 cylinder turbos and feel they would have enhanced development of road going 4 cylinder turbos in street cars—-and am dissappointed that Audi retracted their original idea of joining F1. I think it would have been great if they had joined—possibly filling the void that BMW had left when they retreated from F1 a few years ago. Here’s hoping they change their minds again and decide to enter!
http://en.espnf1.com/fia/motorsport/story/52832.html?CMP=OTC-RSS
(thanks to Stampchez for the tip!)
Porsche 908 at Targa Florio.
There’s something about those gulf colours and orange arrows that gets me going big time…
foto of the day #2: TT-RS
Here’s a picture of the Audi TT-RS that just won the SP4T Class at the Nurburgring 24 Hour race. Excellent!
Nurburgring 24 Hours is underway. Watch LIVE online.
There are several sites streaming the Nurburgring 24 Hour race, but they are all using the same live German feed—-however i am disturbed that they play awful music in the background during the race, alternating with german commentary….which is present on ALL the feeds i’ve looked at, including the official one. Those crazy germans….WHY in the world is the original broadcast playing that rubbish music!? I haven’t a clue…”Radio Nurburgring”? really?
But either way, i can’t complain—–as the full 24 hours is available for FREE online streaming.
http://tv.audi.com/portal/#/01
the Maserati Bora that never raced Le Mans.
The Maserati Bora is a classy 70s supercar in my mind—and i’ve always thought of it as the ‘kind, gentle, relaxed’ 70s italian supercar—-with its soft lines, non-aggressive stance, and its non-angry look. Compared to other 70s italian supercars, the Bora (as well as its sister car Merak) have generally come across as the gentleman in a fine wool blazer compared to its riotous peers in gold chains and silk shirts.
What I never knew is that in 1973, Maserati was set to enter the Bora into Le Mans as part of the gran touring class. Its competition would have surely been the likes of the Ferrari Daytona which had won in 1972. As i’ve understood the story from QV500.com, Maserati needed to sell 500 Boras to get it homologated for these 1973 races—-which they obviously didn’t do. Additionally the car didn’t meet the ‘other’ standards for other classes—-meaning that the Bora Competizione (or Bora GR4 or Bora Group 4) never made it onto the the starting grid, and this car was lost into the archives of 70s mystery cars. I wasn’t even aware of this car, until I stumbled across a photo of a strange looking Bora, which upon investigation resulted in a search which yielded minimal photos, information, or data. The QV500.com site had the best bit of info on the car I could find, and you can head over there to read their concise writeup about the car in question:
http://212.227.190.137/maseratiborap2.php
here are some photos was able to scavenge online, with many of them credited to a gentleman named Andreas Birner
more photos by Birner can be found here:
http://www.maserati.org.au/gallery/MASERATI/RACE_Cars/Bora_GrpIV_gallery.html
other photos:
more info and pics:
http://www.leblogauto.com/2010/06/breve-rencontre-maserati-bora-competizione.html
the illustrations of Peter Hutton.
These are very cool and very original. I especially love the way he annotates information about the cars above the angular cutaway sketches. The Maserati 250 T-shirt is quite nice, although too red for me to order unfortunately. Prints and cards are quite affordable—a nice place to pick up a few gifts for yourself or a petrolhead in your lives.
http://www.peterhuttonillustrator.com/products via Ecurie
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