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Motorsports Brands - Usain Bolt Goes For Gold With Nissan

Motorsports Brands - Usain Bolt Goes For Gold With Nissan

Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man and champion Olympic sprinter, is targeting another record-breaking performance by offering his passion and performance instincts to the Nissan team developing a special 'Bolt' version GT-R. ... Continue reading

Special Motorsports Event - 2012 Lingenfelter Weekend in Ohio

Special Motorsports Event - 2012 Lingenfelter Weekend in Ohio

By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Michigan Bureau The last time this reporter attended a drag race was probably in the late 1980s, so when invited to the Lingenfelter Performance Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park near Norwalk, Ohio, I was intrigued to make the trip. Not only would I see some serious drag racing but ... Continue reading

Special Motorsports Event - Celebrities on track for the Mazda6 Celebrity Challenge at the 2013 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix

Special Motorsports Event - Celebrities on track for the Mazda6 Celebrity Challenge at the 2013 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix

Australia's greatest ever Paralympian, Matthew Cowdrey OAM, and London Olympics Golden Girl, Anna Meares OAM will line up on the grid against Britain's greatest ever Olympian Sir Chris Hoy MBE in the Mazda6 Celebrity Challenge at the 2013 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix. ... Continue reading

Sydney-Based Duo Crowned in Audi's National Golf Final

Sydney-Based Duo Crowned in Audi's National Golf Final

The 2012 quattro cup golf season ended yesterday in a thrilling finale at the NSW Golf Club at Henry Head, with Audi owner, Jason Rubenstein and Giora Friede clinching victory. Out of thirty two participants who competed at the Australian final, Rubenstein and Friede will go on to represent Australia at Audi's Quattro ... Continue reading

Special Motorsports Event - Skoda Australia Partner with Drapac Professional Cycling

Special Motorsports Event - Skoda Australia Partner with Drapac Professional Cycling

Skoda Australia are proud to support Drapac Professional Cycling as major partner. ... Continue reading

European GT Championship - McLaren Makes A Clean Sweep Across Europe With Triple GT Victories

European GT Championship - McLaren Makes A Clean Sweep Across Europe With Triple GT Victories

As 2008 Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton crossed the line in Monza to claim victory for the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team, McLaren was actually celebrating its fourth victory of the weekend following success across Europe in GT championships. ... Continue reading

Historics - Derek Daly To Race In Goodwood Revival With All Irish Team

Historics - Derek Daly To Race In Goodwood Revival With All Irish Team

Goodwood, Sep. 13, 2012: Irish born Derek Daly returns to racing for the first time in 20 years this weekend when he takes part in the world's premier historic race meeting, The Goodwood Revival, September 14th-16th. The former Formula One driver, Derek will be sharing a 1963 Sunbeam Rapier with Coleraine born Harry Sh ... Continue reading

Special Motorsports Event - Ferrari Enthusiast's Winning Bid Helps Earthquake Victims

Special Motorsports Event - Ferrari Enthusiast's Winning Bid Helps Earthquake Victims

A special ceremony took place this afternoon in Monza, when a 599 XX Evo was driven into the paddock. It's the car that Ferrari had put up for auction to raise funds for the families who were victims of the earthquake that hit the Emilia Romagna region back in May. ... Continue reading

Spyker WILL Build Paris-to-Peking Super SUV

Spyker WILL Build Paris-to-Peking Super SUV

Ambitious Again By Henny Hemmes Senior European Editor The Auto Channel AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, August 30, 2012; Some five years after its planned production start, the Spyker Paris-to-Peking SSUV will finally be realized. That was the latest news this week from Spyker CEO Victor Muller. Thanks to an investment of ... Continue reading

Epic Vauxhalls Join Chris Evans' Car-Fest This Weekend

Epic Vauxhalls Join Chris Evans' Car-Fest This Weekend

Vauxhall's latest and greatest sports cars will be heading South this weekend to star in the first ever Car-Fest, brainchild of car-nut DJ Chris Evans, who will be raising money from the event for Children in Need. ... Continue reading

International Rally - Proton Wins Rally Of Thailand

International Rally - Proton Wins Rally Of Thailand

Current British Rally Championship leader Tom Cave drove remarkably in his debut as a factory driver for PROTON enroute to setting fastest time in 11 of the rally's 13 special stages, and to win by a margin of more than 10 minutes. ... Continue reading

Intercontinental Rally Challenge - Andreas Ready To Sink His Teeth Into Transylvania

Intercontinental Rally Challenge - Andreas Ready To Sink His Teeth Into Transylvania

You can usually count on Andreas Mikkelsen to stake a claim on anything he sets out to do, and the Skoda UK Motorsport driver's aim for the Sibiu Rally Romania (20-21 July) is to extend his lead in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. ... Continue reading

Special Motorsports Event - Ford's 2012 Jim Clark Award For Rally Driver David Bogie

Special Motorsports Event - Ford's 2012 Jim Clark Award For Rally Driver David Bogie

The Association of Scottish Motoring Writers has honoured Dumfries rally driver David Bogie with this year's Ford-sponsored Jim Clark Award in recognition of his sporting achievements. ... Continue reading

Historics - Derek Bell And Bentley Inspired By 'Mission Motorsport' Team At Le Mans Classic

Historics - Derek Bell And Bentley Inspired By 'Mission Motorsport' Team At Le Mans Classic

Bentley's brand ambassador and five time Le Mans winner, Derek Bell MBE, returned to the iconic French race circuit last weekend to spearhead a unique motorsport challenge. ... Continue reading

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