It’s going to be a heck of a race come 12th & 13th August over in Batu Kawan, Penang for 24 motor-racing enthusiasts who graduated yesterday from the Vios Challenge Racing School. Having completed a compulsory introductory course where professional trainers imparted such fundamentals as race and safety protocols, advanced car handling techniques and maintaining proper race driving lines, the …
Audi will be the first German automobile manufacturer to race in Formula E. The brand with the four rings is taking over ABT Sportsline’s place on the grid. The Allgäu-based team has been successfully present in Formula E since the electric racing series’ inception and in the future will be taking care of the Audi race cars as the fielding …
Toyota endured a painful Le Mans 24 Hours once again this year in which two of its TS050 Hybrids did not reach the chequered flag while the remaining car finished ninth. Hopes were high of a first Toyota win at Le Mans when the pole position-winning #7 TS050 Hybrid of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Stéphane Sarrazin led for the …
Toyota will start the 85th Le Mans 24 Hours from pole position after setting the fastest-ever lap of the Circuit de la Sarthe in the final qualifying sessions on Thursday evening. Kamui Kobayashi became the second Japanese driver to earn pole position with a lap of 3 mins 14.791 secs at 8.14pm during second qualifying in the #7 TS050 Hybrid …
The record of 18 overall wins is the most popular figure about Porsche and Le Mans. Double it, and this is how many further interesting facts you will find here. Discover what the Porsche 919 Hybrid has in common concerning the power supply of a small village, at what time did Mark Webber complete his first-ever lap in an LMP1 …
TEAM MUGEN (Director: Nagataka Tezuka) announced that McLaren-Honda racing driver Jenson Button will join the team for a one-off race in the SUPER GT Series, GT500 class. Jenson will drive a Honda NSX-GT at the 46th International SUZUKA 1000km, Round 6 of the SUPER GT series (August 27) at Suzuka Circuit, Japan. The announcement means TEAM MUGEN will race with …
This will give you chills. Scott Dixon must have one heck of a powerful guardian-angel to have walked away from this massive shunt at the Indy 500. Jay Howard had slowed to let a faster car pass, but underestimated the corner and ran into the wall. Bouncing back on track, he was broadsided by Dixon at full speed. Thanks to …
Honda has kicked off a new brand marketing campaign called “Racing at Heart,” linking the automaker’s diverse, high-performance motorsports program to production vehicles including the new Civic Type R, Civic Si and Ridgeline. The video above highlights Honda racing programs including the Verizon IndyCar Series, Red Bull Global Rallycross and desert truck racing – demonstrating how the brand’s deep roots in competition …
Best known for playing Magneto in the X-Men series as well as a recent starring role in Alien: Covenant, actor Michael Fassbender has stepped into the real-time role of racecar driver as he successfully completed the first round of the 2017 North American Ferrari Challenge racing series. A lifelong fan of Ferrari and Formula 1, the Hollywood actor began his training …
Local homeboy race-ace and reigning Audi R8 LMS Cup champion Alex Yoong has done it again, winning Round 2 in front of his home fans at the Sepang International Circuit last weekend! The Team Audi R8 LMS Cup driver snatched the lead from pole-sitter Alessio Picariello of team “MGT by Absolute” from the start and never looked back, crossing the line …
Malaysian Supermoto Championship (MSMC), the country’s largest supermoto competition in search for the next superstar rider, returns to the nation. Round 2 for the 2017 season will take place on Saturday and Sunday, 6 and 7 May 2017, at Taman Tasik Permaisuri, Cheras, from 9:00am to 6:00pm. Admission is free to the public. “The two-wheeled motorsport has always been a growing …
The Ferrari Challenge Asia-Pacific made its return for the 2017 season last weekend, kicking off in Abu Dhabi (6-8 April).This is already proving to be a particularly exciting season, with driver Zen Low introduced as the sole Malaysian participating in the race series and the first Malaysian to compete in the brand new Ferrari 488 Challenge model. Zen Low has …
Audi has expanded their Sports portfolio with the introduction of the Audi R8 LMS GT4. This is the replace for the GT3 model which was released in 2009 in order to cater for Audi’s growing customer racing program. The Audi R8 LMS GT4 stands for production-based racing. It has directly been derived from the Audi R8 Coupé V10, is powerful …
Lamborghini has kicked off the 2017 Super Trofeo Asia Series last weekend (8/9 April) at the Sepang International Circuit, marking the race debut for the sixth consecutive season. The 2017 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia Series saw teams from all over the world competing this year, with competitors from the continental European and Middle Eastern Super Trofeo series joining the Asian championship, in what …
BMW Motorsport is back again this year with the BMW M4 DTM for the 2017 DTM season. The M4 have been developed according to the new technical regulations for this new season. This year sees the BMW M4 DTM with more horsepower, more than 500hp. The BMW M4 DTM doesn’t use the standard S55 3.0L engine on the road going …
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