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Imagine Racing a Real Car in a Virtual Reality Helmet, Blind to the Real World. . .

Imagine Racing a Real Car in a Virtual Reality Helmet, Blind to the Real World. . .

Castrol EDGE Titanium Trial: Titanium Strong Virtual Drift #Virtualdrift Castrol EDGE has premiered its latest Titanium Trial driving challenge, featuring Formula Drift professional Matt Powers driving his Roush Stage 3 Mustang whilst wearing a state-of-the-art Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 headset: blind to the real w ... Continue reading

Historic Week for Mazda at 2015 Indianapolis 500

Historic Week for Mazda at 2015 Indianapolis 500

- Mazda racer Marine Staff Sgt. Liam Dwyer to attend on anniversary of “Alive Day” – IRVINE, Calif. (May 19, 2015) – Mazda has been in business since 1920, while the Indianapolis Motor Speedway began hosting events in 1909, and this week features a series of firsts for the venerable auto maker at th ... Continue reading

Monaco Grand Prix "Pit-Bits" From Nicholas Frankl On The Scene

Monaco Grand Prix "Pit-Bits" From Nicholas Frankl On The Scene

Monaco May 20, 2015; In spite of the many issues facing the financially struggling teams and the F1 circus as a whole, the driver are all in good form and enjoying their ‘home’ race. Most of the F1 drivers are Monaco residents, its safe, small, friendly, fun and you don’t pay income tax. Nico Hulkenberg ... Continue reading

First All-Women Racing Team Set to Compete in the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 in 2016

First All-Women Racing Team Set to Compete in the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 in 2016

Katherine Legge Named as the Driver for Historic Brickyard Run INDIANAPOLIS, May 15, 2015 -- Grace Autosport, the first all-female IndyCar Series racing team, announced their plans today to compete in 100th the running of the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. From team owner to race engineers to aero ... Continue reading

Inspired By Motorsport, Recording and Analysis of Driving Data on Tracks

Inspired By Motorsport, Recording and Analysis of Driving Data on Tracks

Exclusive for Porsche GT sports cars; Porsche Track Precision app GT sports cars from Porsche demonstrate clear inspiration from the world of motorsport, and this track breeding is enthusiastically embraced by customers. Four out of five Porsche GT road cars ever built have been driven on the track. One in three enthus ... Continue reading

Local Motors Reveals First Co-Created Helmet in NASCAR

Local Motors Reveals First Co-Created Helmet in NASCAR

Ben Kennedy wears No. 11 racing helmet designed online PHOENIX -- May 15, 2015: Local Motors and Ben Kennedy, driver of the No. 11 Local Motors Toyota Tundra, together revealed the world’s first co-created NASCAR helmet this week. Designed, created, and brought to life online in less than four weeks, the Ben Kenne ... Continue reading

BMW Motorrad USA Launches $1 Million Contingency And Rider Support Programs

BMW Motorrad USA Launches $1 Million Contingency And Rider Support Programs

BMW Motorrad USA Launches $1 Million Contingency And Rider Support Programs ... Continue reading

NASCAR and NASCAR Digital Media Partner with DraftKings to Fuel Daily Fantasy Sports Games

NASCAR and NASCAR Digital Media Partner with DraftKings to Fuel Daily Fantasy Sports Games

Innovative gameplay will give fans the opportunity to win exclusive prizes BOSTON and DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., May 14, 2015 -- NASCAR® is entering the rapidly growing daily fantasy sports space by selecting industry leader, DraftKings, as its "Official Daily Fantasy Sports Partner." Through the three-year agreement, Draft ... Continue reading

Toyota Flexes RAV4 Muscle with New Rally America Series Entry

Toyota Flexes RAV4 Muscle with New Rally America Series Entry

Renowned Off-Road Driver Ryan Millen to Drive RAV4 Rally Car in 2015 Rally America 2WD-Open Class TORRANCE, CA -- May 6, 2015: Toyota unveiled its RAV4 rally car at the Monster Energy Supercross Championship finale this weekend at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. Ryan Millen, who won the 2014 Baja 1000 in a Toyota Tundra ... Continue reading

2015 Acura TLX 3.5 SH-AWD w/Advance Package Review and Acura Racing Experience +VIDEO By Carey Russ

2015 Acura TLX 3.5 SH-AWD w/Advance Package Review and Acura Racing Experience +VIDEO By Carey Russ

2015 Acura TLX 3.5 SH-AWD Advance Review and Acura Racing Experience By Carey Russ ... Continue reading

Chevrolet Introduces 2016 Corvette Z06 C7.R Edition

Chevrolet Introduces 2016 Corvette Z06 C7.R Edition

Track-to-street connection honored with limited production model BOWLING GREEN, KY -- April 24, 2015: Chevrolet today introduced the 2016 Corvette Z06 C7.R Edition – a road-going, track-capable homage to the Corvette Racing C7.R racecars. It’s offered in Corvette Racing’s signature yellow livery – o ... Continue reading

Toyota Mirai Takes to the Track

Toyota Mirai Takes to the Track

Mirai Will Pace Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Mirai Is First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle to Pace a NASCAR Race RICHMOND, VA -- April 23, 2015: Toyota today announced the 2016 Toyota Mirai, a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle, will pace the Toyota Owners 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond Internatio ... Continue reading

Nissan Named a Presenting Sponsor of WINNING: The Racing Life of Paul Newman Charity Screening Premieres

Nissan Named a Presenting Sponsor of WINNING: The Racing Life of Paul Newman Charity Screening Premieres

Nissan’s rich history in motorsports highlighted throughout the new documentary film focusing on the racing activities of actor/philanthropist Paul Newman Many of Newman’s many motorsports victories and championships came behind the wheel of Nissan and Datsun vehicles Los Angeles and Indianapolis charity prev ... Continue reading

The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back

2 podiums and 1 lap lead. That's the total Scuderia Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel notched up last year. With most, including myself, watching Modena implode from massive internal management and driver changes, there was little to look forward to from the red cars in 2015. Boy, were we wrong! Vettel's passion is back wit ... Continue reading

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