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Citroen's Survolt Charges Around The Le Mans Circuit

Citroen's Survolt Charges Around The Le Mans Circuit

The stunning Citroën Survolt racing car concept made its first all-electric laps of the legendary Le Mans Circuit last weekend, at the Le Mans Classic. ... Continue reading

Online Voting Begins for Ford Customer Service Division’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Car Design Contest to Support Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Online Voting Begins for Ford Customer Service Division’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Car Design Contest to Support Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

• Voting for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) design that will be featured on the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car begins Tuesday, July 6, and ends on September 3, a total of 60 days in honor of Wood Brothers Racing’s 60-year anniversary of racing Ford prod ... Continue reading

Swiss Racecar Driver Buys One-of-a-Kind Tesla Roadster

Swiss Racecar Driver Buys One-of-a-Kind Tesla Roadster

ZURICH--Swiss racecar driver and promoter Fredy Lienhard has bought a Tesla Roadster Sport that gained fame as the record-setting winner of the Monte Carlo Alternative Energy Rally. “And this particular car wrote history as the first fully electric car to win an international FIA race. Automobile racing must fully ... Continue reading

Yokohama Tire Corporation Releases Second Educational Video

Yokohama Tire Corporation Releases Second Educational Video

<b>New “Yokohama Tire Tips” segment focuses on 'how to read the sidewall of a tire' and is again hosted by off-road racing champion Cameron Steele. Video can be seen on the company’s Website and YouTube</b> FULLERTON, July 6, 2010: How to read the sidewall of a tire is the subject of Yokohama Tire Corpor ... Continue reading

Citroen Survolt Makes Its Track Debut At The Le Mans Classic

Citroen Survolt Makes Its Track Debut At The Le Mans Classic

Citroen's stunning all-electric racing car concept, Survolt, will come to life on 10th July when it makes its first ever on-track appearance at the Le Mans Classic - piloted by experienced female racing driver Vanina Ickx. ... Continue reading

Proton On Podium In New Zealand

Proton On Podium In New Zealand

The PROTON R3 Rally Team turned in precisely the confidence-boosting performance the team needed on this weekend's third round of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship, the International Rally of Whangarei, with Alister McRae taking second in his Satria Neo S2000. ... Continue reading

Yokohama's Electric Vehicle Wins with Record Time at Pikes Peak

Yokohama's Electric Vehicle Wins with Record Time at Pikes Peak

<b>EV bests previous “Race to the Clouds” mark by over a minute</b> Vehicle driving on Yokohama tires and powered by a new AC Propulsion motor broke the record for electric vehicles in the 2010 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado Springs, Colorado over the weekend. With Japanese driver Ikuo Hanawa ... Continue reading

Mclaren Mp4-12c: The World Public Debut At The 2010 Goodwood Festival Of Speed With Jenson Button And Lewis Hamilton

Mclaren Mp4-12c: The World Public Debut At The 2010 Goodwood Festival Of Speed With Jenson Button And Lewis Hamilton

McLaren Automotive will be presenting the groundbreaking new MP4-12C to a public audience for the first time at Goodwood Festival of Speed, which takes place from Thursday 1- Sunday 4 July 2010. Current Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button and 2008 Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton will drive the 12C up Goodwoo ... Continue reading

Ford Customer Service Division Launches NASCAR Sprint Cup Car Design Contest To Support Juvenile Diabetes Foundation

Ford Customer Service Division Launches NASCAR Sprint Cup Car Design Contest To Support Juvenile Diabetes Foundation

• Ford Customer Service Division (FCSD) has joined the effort of finding a cure for Type 1 Diabetes by partnering with Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in raising funds and awareness through its NASCAR Sprint Cup Program. • JDRF children have the chance to design the paint scheme of the No. 21 Mot ... Continue reading

Talented Athletes Awarded Alfa Mito's At European Trials

Talented Athletes Awarded Alfa Mito's At European Trials

Four promising athletes on the UKA World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) received an unexpected bonus at the Aviva European Trials & UK Championships in Birmingham, after being announced as winners to receive a brand new Alfa Romeo MiTo Cloverleaf. The Cloverleaf badge itself is a symbol of sporting success and firs ... Continue reading

Enjoy a Long Weekend of Summer Fun at Landrovermax!

Enjoy a Long Weekend of Summer Fun at Landrovermax!

Visitors to this year's LANDROVERmax!, held from Saturday 28th to Monday 30th August at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire can make the most of the Summer Bank Holiday by enjoying a long weekend of camping and caravanning in the heart of the country. ... Continue reading

Honda And Evans Ready For A Barossa Thrash

Honda And Evans Ready For A Barossa Thrash

The Evans Motorsport Honda Civic Type R is ready and raring to attack Round Four of the Australian Rally Championship, the Scouts Rally in South Australia from June 25 to 27. ... Continue reading

Robin Hood Rally Arrives In Tuxedo NY June 25 & 26. Second Installment Of Televised Amateur Race Series On Closed Roads To Benefit Local Community

Robin Hood Rally Arrives In Tuxedo NY June 25 & 26. Second Installment Of Televised Amateur Race Series On Closed Roads To Benefit Local Community

Tuxedo NY, June 18, 2010: Take 55 cars, 54 men and one woman, add six miles of asphalt, $500,000 worth of prizes at stake, throw them together for two days of challenging racing in the historic Hudson Valley and what do you get? The Robin Hood Rally, www.robinhoodrally.com, a televised series of 10 amateur road races o ... Continue reading

Mclaren Automotive Confirms European Retail Network As Mp4-12c Begins World Tour In Germany

Mclaren Automotive Confirms European Retail Network As Mp4-12c Begins World Tour In Germany

McLaren Automotive, the world's newest sports car company, today confirms the majority of its European partners in the UK, German, French, Belgian, Italian and Swiss markets. ... Continue reading

Yokohama Adds Orange Oil-Infused Race Tires to Pikes Peak Electric Buggy

Yokohama Adds Orange Oil-Infused Race Tires to Pikes Peak Electric Buggy

FULLERTON, June 16, 2010: Yokohama Tire Corporation’s ADVAN® ENV-R2™ orange oil-infused race tires have another mountain to conquer…literally. Already the official spec tire in the IMSA Patrón GT3 Challenge by Yokohama and the new ALMS GT3 Challenge (GTC) Class, the ENV-R2 is now poised to take on ... Continue reading

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