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Lyn St. James Introduces the Motorsports Industry to the Hagerty Education Program at America’s Car Museum

Lyn St. James Introduces the Motorsports Industry to the Hagerty Education Program at America’s Car Museum

Former Indy 500 driver named program ambassador TACOMA, Wash. (May 19, 2015); – Automotive restoration and preservation education is entering the motorsports realm, thanks to record-breaking racer Lyn St. James, who was named an ambassador of the Hagerty Education Program at America’s Car Museum (HEP). HEP, a ... 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

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

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

Nutson's Automotive News Digest - Week of May 4-10, 2015

Nutson's Automotive News Digest - Week of May 4-10, 2015

Automotive News Digest - Week of May 4-10, 2015* The First Lady of Auto Racing has taken the checkered flag. The auto industry has lost a legendary figure with the passing of Denise McCluggage. She was a racer, writer and great friend to a broad range of people both inside the industry and outside as well. Denise began ... 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 One Lap Of America At Corvette Museum May 8th

2015 One Lap Of America At Corvette Museum May 8th

About The One Lap of America Created by Brock Yates (a longtime presence on the Car and Driver masthead) and popularized by the movie Cannonball Run, the Tire Rack One Lap of America Presented by Grassroots Motorsports Magazine is a modern iteration of the Cannonball Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash of 1970. Tod ... 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

Posse Films Announces Film About Legendary NASCAR Driver Bobby Allison Entitled: Racer's Heart

Posse Films Announces Film About Legendary NASCAR Driver Bobby Allison Entitled: Racer's Heart

Posse Films, LLC, the inspirational feature film production company that controls the rights to several historically significant and uplifting life stories, recently announced the making of a biopic about the larger-than-life NASCAR pioneer, and NASCAR Hall of Fame member, Bobby Allison. “This film will allow othe ... Continue reading

Subaru to Debut New Rallycross Fighter for 2015 at New York International Auto Show

Subaru to Debut New Rallycross Fighter for 2015 at New York International Auto Show

After a year of secret development, the cover comes off Subaru Rally Team USA's new 2015 WRX STI rallycross car at the 2015 New York Auto Show, set to compete in Red Bull Global Rallycross and X Games Rallycross. Dubbed VT15x, this is the third evolution of an STI-based Rallycross car for Subaru in four years built by ... Continue reading

2015 Honda North American Motorsports Overview

2015 Honda North American Motorsports Overview

The Honda Racing Ladder detailed - Indy car and other pinnacle series programs - Grassroots Motorsports offerings TORRANCE, CA -- March 24, 2015: Introduction -- Earlier this year, Honda Motor Co., Ltd announced Honda's worldwide motorsports overview for 2015. With the company racing in more than 100 motorcycle and aut ... Continue reading

MOTORAMA Custom Car & Motorsports Expo March 13, 14 & 15, 2015 at Toronto's International Centre

MOTORAMA Custom Car & Motorsports Expo March 13, 14 & 15, 2015 at Toronto's International Centre

TORONTO, ON (CANADA) • Inside Track Communications – publishers of Inside Track Motorsport News, Inside Motorcycles, MX & Off-Road and the producer of the Canadian Motorsports Expo – is now the owner / promoter of the traditional hot rod / classic car / motorsports show held in mid-March at Toronto’ ... Continue reading

Amy Purdy to Pace Daytona 500 In Bold, New Toyota Camry

Amy Purdy to Pace Daytona 500 In Bold, New Toyota Camry

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) U.S.A., Inc. and Daytona International Speedway today announced that ‘Dancing With the Stars’ finalist and Paralympics bronze medalist Amy Purdy will serve as the official pace car driver for the 2015 Daytona 500 on Sunday, Feb. 22. Purdy, a top-ranked adaptive snowboarder in the U.S. ... Continue reading

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