Post Tagged with: "race"

Motorcycle motivation

The AFM or American Federation of Motorcyclists  is a non profit organization, the oldest in the country, solely based around motorcycle road racing. Check out this awesome video they have produced.  

read more

Ferrari 458 vs Koenigsegg Agera R

Nothing like a little dice now and then to give you some perspective of how quick the big boys toys really are  

read more

Fastest Corvette ZR1

9,68 seconds is all it took this corvette to run the 1/4 mile. That will ensure a punishing is handed out to almost any car on the road that you may come across. The corvette crossed the line doing 235 km/h. I.e 0 to 235km/h in 9 seconds.    

read more

Casey Stoner takes Brno MotoGP win

Casey Stoner captured his sixth win of the season in front of 155,400 fans at Brno for Sunday’s Cardion ab Grand Prix České republiky, stretching his Championship lead to 32 points over Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing). Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) got the hole shot from his first pole position of the season, with Lorenzo [...]

read more

MotoGP buzz back on with Brno press conference

Refreshed and ready for their imminent return to action after a two-and-a-half week interval since Laguna Seca, the MotoGP class returns to the track on Friday morning for the opening session of the Cardion ab Grand Prix České republiky. Discussing the 11th round of the 2011 campaign on Thursday afternoon at the Brno circuit were [...]

read more

MotoGP: Pedrosa back to winning ways at Sachsenring

Dani Pedrosa emerged victorious from a three-man race-long battle for first place at the eni Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland, with Jorge Lorenzo wrestling second from Casey Stoner on the final corner of a thrilling Round 9 race. Repsol Honda’s Pedrosa had his usual great start, taking the hole shot ahead of Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing) [...]

read more

International Xtreme Enduro ERZBERG

KTM celebrated its seventh consecutive win at this year’s Red Bull Harescramble when Taddy Blazusiak etched his name into the Erzberg Rodeo history books by clinching his fifth consecutive victory in the world’s toughest one day Enduro race where only nine out of 1898 riders made it to the finish. The Polish rider qualified fourth [...]

read more

Driven: Audi A1

Today, one of the most anticipated Formula one races was on the TV.  The Monaco F1 GP. This glitzy race is accentuated with girls in Bikini’s, celebrities, fast cars, fast boats and enough Rolex’s to enable even Stevie wonder to tell the time.  Traditionally there is a lot of hype in the build up to [...]

read more

Pirelli’s new supersoft to make its mark on the principality

Pirelli heads immediately from one of the quicker tracks seen on the calendar to the very slowest, but at the same time definitely the most glamorous: Monaco. The tight and twisty confines of the Principality are ideal territory for Pirelli’s PZero Red supersoft tyre, which makes its debut in Monaco. For the first time, by [...]

read more

MotoGP: Pedrosa powers to first victory of the season in Estoril

After a race long-duel with fellow Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing), Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) raced to victory at the bwin Grande Prémio de Portugal on Sunday and with it claimed his first win at the Estoril circuit in any class. Third was Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda). Pedrosa, who only recently had surgery on [...]

read more

MotoGP announcement: Japanese race postponed

Due to reasons of force majeure, the Japanese Grand Prix, at the circuit of Twin Ring Motegi, originally scheduled on April 24, has been postponed to 2 October 2011. Here is the race calendar: March 20 Qatar* Doha/Losail April 3 Spain Jerez de la Frontera May 1 Portugal Estoril May 15 France Le Mans June [...]

read more

Ridden: 2011 Suzuki GSX-R750

Evolution has once again made the new Suzuki GSX-R750 a bike that is in a class of its own. The 750 is interesting in that it shares the best of both worlds, taking the handling qualities of a 600 and mixing them with the raw power of a 1000cc superbike. In essence one struggles to [...]

read more

Toyota’s offerings at Tokyo Auto Salon

Small in size but big in attitude, a pumped-up, track-ready interpretation of the super-smart iQ city car leads a posse of tuned and tweaked Toyota concept and production cars at the Tokyo Auto Salon. The world’s largest annual aftermarket parts show that took place from 14 to 16 January, gives leading tuning firms and custom [...]

read more

Nasser Al-Attiyah wins Dakar Rally; De Villiers finish second overall

Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah was declared the winner of the 2011 Dakar Rally Argentina Chile on Saturday when he crossed the finish line in Buenos Aires 49 min 41 sec ahead of Volkswagen team-mate Giniel de Villiers of South Africa and 1 hr 20 min 38 sec in front of last year’s winner Carlos Sainz of [...]

read more

VW take top three places on penultimate Dakar stage

A flooded, muddy landscape greeted the weary survivors of the Dakar Rally Argentina Chile on Friday morning following heavy rain overnight in the San Juan area of Argentina, but it was not enough to interrupt the three-car Volkswagen caravan that continues to head the 2011 edition of the world’s longest and toughest motor race. At [...]

read more