What a fantastic sketch….
from Clovis Images via Alpine Portugal
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Audi wins again at Le Mans!!
VIDEO of the FINAL LAP!
Audi WINS 2011 @ Le Mans! What an exciting, inspiring, and fantastic race. Definitely one of the finest Le Mans races i’ve ever seen…….beating the Peugeot 908 by 13 seconds, and despite the horrible crashes of the #1 and #3 R18 TDIs…….the #2 car prevailed!
Audi now has 10 wins at Le Mans, Porsche is still ahead with 16.
The #2 R18 TDI was driven by the youngest team in the Audi arsenal—piloted by Fassler, Lotterer, and Treluyer.
(fantastic photos via JoshD @ Quattroworld.com —-click link for more great victory pics)
Fuck Ferrari.
(photo from SpeedTV)
…and their moronic, incapable, asshat drivers! #3 McNish knocked out of Le Mans by a moron driving a 458 Italia…….who believed that he should maintain a racing line even when 2 R18 TDIs with flashing LED lights are pounding the road behind him. Thanks a lot, Ferrari! My hatred grows…
BOTTOM LINE: Yes i concede McNish was too aggressive in this situation, but THE SLOWER CAR CANNOT MAINTAIN ITS RACING LINE.
video of the crash:
fotos of the day. R18 qualify #1 and #2 for Le Mans.
the R18 TDI is amazing. LE MANS is almost here!! These are fotos from the qualifying the last 2 days.
photo via Audi Sport
Chris Harris on the Noble M600, Porsche GT2 RS, and others…
The Noble M600 is by far and away my favourite ‘supercar’ around at the moment—-it looks amazing, and it is just epic cool from its engineering to its raw turbo madness. Oh and there’s a F40 and an XJ220 in the video too…
Great video again, by probably the best in the business—Chris Harris.
Le Mans 2011 Spotter Guide
great stuff!! (thanks to Halle for the tip!)
VIA: http://www.spotterguides.com/le-mans-2011-guide
(click to enlarge)
Le Mans week is here!
Rejoice! The finest week in motorsports has arrived—–the race of all races, the 24 Hours Of Le Mans is upon us. For many people this signals the proper start to ‘summer’, including myself. Of course it is no secret that I am an Audiphile through and through—-it is also no secret that Audi and Peugeot have had some fierce battles in the past several years, culminating in one of the great rivalries in motorsports history. Motorsports have these days become numb and unexciting; however Le Mans has retained most of its charm. I still get a buzz every time i see the start of the race, even though it is not nearly as dramatic as the old days when people ran into their cockpits.
So will the new Audi R18 TDI be able to surmount the fierce Peugeot 918 HDi reign? I would like to hope so, but we’ll just have to follow along the best we can!
I know that the entire 24 hours will be broadcasted with continuity in Europe on Eurosport TV, however we are not so lucky in the US. That being said, we live in the age of bootlegged online TV—-and i’m quite sure many many feeds from Europe will surface that day. If they don’t, Audi have set up a fantastic minisite which will go live the day of the race. They will have 24 hour live on-board coverage of the three R18 TDIs which are racing—–accompanied by live telemetry and race data. Fantastic.
http://www.audi-microsites.com/lemans/
I will add some more links and information to other feeds as the race gets closer—–obviously I cannot watch all 24 hours—-but I always watch as many hours of coverage as I possibly can.
Another great source of race day coverage is of course the fantastic Radio Le Mans<
video of the day. transformation of the A1.
watch them turn a basic Audi A1 into a fire breathing 503hp monster as the Audi A1 Clubsport quattro
via Fourtitude
imagine commuting to work in….
an F1 car!
Allan McNish on being an Audi racing driver.
McNish is one of my favourite endurance drivers—-and a great driver. Le Mans is coming on June 11th!
video of the day. vintage rallycross.
Somebody posting a ‘newer’ rallycross video reminded me of these older Rallycross videos available….this one has an A110 vs. a Stratos in the 1978 European championship! Epic cool.
most authentic F1 onboard footage around…
Jalopnik found this amazing footage of Bruno Senna holding a cell phone and taping him screwing around in his F1 car at SPA. Totally unique video, gives a very different more chaotic interpretation of the feeling of being in an F1 car. Bruno Senna is a superstar for making this and uploading it himself!
foto (s) of the day. R18!
The Audi R18 TDI is simply stunning—-the most striking race car i’ve seen in many, many years. I will be proud to be supporting Audi during the next Le Mans! Here it is in its full Audi Sport livery. All 3 cars! 1, 2, and 3.
foto of the day. benzes.
a bunch of killer Mercedes-Benz race cars!
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foto of the day. Bragg & Mercer
I must admit I don’t know a whole lot about Caleb S. Bragg or Mercer, however I came across this foto in the fantastic Library Of Congress Archives on Flickr. Apparently from a bit of research, Bragg was the fastest qualifying race car driver in this Mercer for the 1913 Indianapolis 500. Cool foto, from a very cool archive of classic old & vintage fotos.
foto(s) of the day. quattroporte evo.
ah, i had no idea this even existed—-a racing version of the modern Maserati Quattroporte, lovingly referred to as Evo.
This car is privately raced in the SUPERSTARS SERIES and raced this past weekend by a Swiss team at Monza. Hot stuff, yeah….
(click for hi-res version)
a couple bonus lo-res fotos of this new find.
best gif ever!
a look of disgust…(let it load completely…or save gif for best results)
(got this from Strassenversion!)
2011 Targa Tasmania begins!
Walter Rohrl is part of the team behind the Porsche 911.
IEDEI 