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Chevrolet Racing Wins 11 Championships in 2014

Chevrolet Racing Wins 11 Championships in 2014

NASCAR, IndyCar, NHRA and Sports Car championships wrap up successful season Chevrolet completed one of its most successful years in its motorsports history in 2014, earning five manufacturer and six driver championships in NASCAR, IndyCar, NHRA, United SportsCar Championship and Pirelli World Challenge series. In addi ... Continue reading

Race Central TV Joins The Auto Channel TV Network +VIDEO

Race Central TV Joins The Auto Channel TV Network +VIDEO

Veteran Racer-Sportscaster Kurt Hansen Hosts Weekly Award-Winning Show LOUISVILLE, KY - December 12, 2014: The Auto Channel is pleased to announce the addition of "Race Central TV" to the TACH-TV program schedule. "Race Central TV" is America's premier motor sports television show for all local, regional, national and ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz Give Five Young Drivers Chance to Test Drive DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupe

Mercedes-Benz Give Five Young Drivers Chance to Test Drive DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupe

Five drivers tested the DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé in Jerez de la Frontera Mercedes-Benz reward Felix Rosenqvist, Lucas Auer, Esteban Ocon, Maximilian Götz and Charles Pic with DTM test for their achievements Toto Wolff: “The brand with the three pointed star has for decades enjoyed great success in bringing o ... Continue reading

Tracks: Racing the Sun - Book Review By Steve Purdy

Tracks: Racing the Sun - Book Review By Steve Purdy

Tracks: Racing the Sun A Novel by Sandro Martini Aurora Metro Books – UK www.tracksracingthesun.com Reviewed By Steve Purdy Michigan Bureau The Auto Channel Historical fiction is great fun because it can flesh out and add vivid color to subjects already partially familiar, in this case the early days of motor raci ... Continue reading

Bentley Continental GT Adds Potent Ice Power in 2015

Bentley Continental GT Adds Potent Ice Power in 2015

Power on Ice - the ultimate winter ice-driving event returns for 2015 The Continental GT3-R makes its dynamic debut on the ice Programme designed by four-time World Rally Champion and two-time ice speed record breaker Juha Kankkunen CREWE -- October 29, 2014: Bentley returns to the icy north of Finland for Power on Ice ... Continue reading

Infiniti Brings Formula One Car, Drivers and Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge to the Streets of Downtown Austin

Infiniti Brings Formula One Car, Drivers and Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge to the Streets of Downtown Austin

Infiniti Brings Formula One Car, Drivers and Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge to the Streets of Downtown Austin NASHVILLE, TN -- October 15, 2014: Infiniti Motor Company, Ltd. brings the sights, sounds and smells of international Formula One racing to downtown Austin, Texas on October 29, as Infiniti Red Bull Racing drivers Dani ... Continue reading

Audi Takes to the Race Track With the Sportiest Piloted Driving Car in the World

Audi Takes to the Race Track With the Sportiest Piloted Driving Car in the World

Audi has developed the world's sportiest piloted driving car. At the German Touring Car Masters (DTM) season finale, the Audi RS 7 piloted driving concept car will demonstrate its dynamic potential and driving capabilities for the first time on the Hockenheimring - at racing speed, without a driver. "We are pressing fo ... Continue reading

Impressive Chinese Debut for Bentley Continental GT3

Impressive Chinese Debut for Bentley Continental GT3

Bentley and Absolute Racing score second-place finish in Shanghai Continental GT3 proves popular with Chinese fans Team hopes for another strong performance to come in Macau (Crewe / Shanghai, 13th October 2014) Bentley’s race-winning Continental GT3 achieves second place in the 11th round of the 2014 GT Asia Seri ... Continue reading

Gumball 3000: Fast Cars, Hot Women and One Epic Rally

Gumball 3000: Fast Cars, Hot Women and One Epic Rally

By Larry Cervantes, Chief Communications Officer for Anastasia This past June, four countries hosted 120 of the world’s hottest luxury cars (and drivers) for a charity car rally that crossed two continents. The Gumball 3000 rally, founded by Maximillion Cooper in 1999, traveled from Miami to Ibiza, stopping along ... Continue reading

Hyundai Motorsport Future WRC Car based on New Generation i20

Hyundai Motorsport Future WRC Car based on New Generation i20

Hyundai Motorsport has carried out the first roll-out of its next WRC car, based on the New Generation i20 Bryan Bouffier tested the car for the first time on a private testing ground last month The team will continue development of the car with a series of tests scheduled until the end of 2014 and throughout 2015. Oct ... Continue reading

Nutson's Auto News Nuggets: "Don't-Miss" Auto News W/O September 15-21, 2014

Nutson's Auto News Nuggets: "Don't-Miss" Auto News W/O September 15-21, 2014

MPG, New Cadillac, Apple watch, NHTSA Troubles, Toyota C-HR, Formula E, Porsche Pods, Nutsons New Nuggets ... Continue reading

Subaru Rally Team Canada Set to Tackle Rallye Défi with New Car and Driver

Subaru Rally Team Canada Set to Tackle Rallye Défi with New Car and Driver

Subaru Rally Team Canada excited to debut all-new rally-prepared 2015 WRX STI at Rallye Défi. All-new 2015 Subaru WRX STI rally car developed by Rocket Rally Racing to best compete in the Canadian Rally Championship. Martin Rowe cannot wait to get behind the wheel as driver of the new vehicle; to challenge the competi ... Continue reading

Eyeing the Checked Flag Early: Team Preps for the 2015 NASCAR Season

Eyeing the Checked Flag Early: Team Preps for the 2015 NASCAR Season

“ Even with three solid months of racing left in the 2014 NASCAR season, Toyota team Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) is getting ready for 2015. This week the team announced they’ll add a fourth Sprint Cup Series Camry to the lineup next year with two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) runner-up Carl Edwards. The 35-year ... Continue reading

Consumers Vote Chevrolet SS Tops Among Production Versions Of NASCAR Vehicles

Consumers Vote Chevrolet SS Tops Among Production Versions Of NASCAR Vehicles

If NASCAR drivers raced in production versions of their cars, 57 percent of KBB.com visitors think the Chevrolet SS would perform best in the Sprint Cup Series, according to a recent online poll from Kelley Blue Book. KBB.com Quick Poll: If NASCAR Drivers Raced In Everyday Cars Sold at Dealerships, ... Continue reading

World Vision Hopes to Rev NASCAR Fans Giving Engines for Clean Water

World Vision Hopes to Rev NASCAR Fans Giving Engines for Clean Water

NASCAR fans will have the opportunity to change lives in a village across the globe this month. World Vision, the largest non-governmental provider of clean water in the developing world, is asking fans to donate $10 to provide clean water for four years to a child in the African country of Zambia. As fans give, World ... Continue reading

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