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Reiter KTM X-Bow Track-Only Racer Teased, It’s Got a Fully Enclosed Cabin
Reiter KTM X-Bow Track-Only Racer Teased, It’s Got a Fully Enclosed Cabin

11 Nov 2014, 11:02 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / When Austrian motorcycle maker KTM unveiled the X-Bow at Geneva back in 2008, many track junkies got instantly in love with the so-called crossbow. It features wacky styling, a turbo 2-liter Audi pe...

 
Mark Webber’s Red Bull RB3 Can Be Yours for Ferrari F12 Money
Mark Webber’s Red Bull RB3 Can Be Yours for Ferrari F12 Money

7 Nov 2014, 17:52 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After a sour experience with Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber decided to leave Formula 1 for good and have a go at endurance racing. He raced 6 times this year for the Porsche Team, but let’s be ...

 
2015 Porsche 911 RSR Racecar Spied Flying on Water at the Nurburgring
2015 Porsche 911 RSR Racecar Spied Flying on Water at the Nurburgring

6 Nov 2014, 16:43 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Be afraid, be very afraid, the racing man’s 911 is on its way to becoming even more hardcore than it already is. Porsche was recently spied testing the 2015 version of their 911 RSR, with the ...

 
2015 Chevrolet COPO Camaro Arrives at SEMA, Only 69 Will Ever be Built
2015 Chevrolet COPO Camaro Arrives at SEMA, Only 69 Will Ever be Built

4 Nov 2014, 12:49 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / With the all-new sixth-gen Camaro still half a year away from its public debut, Chevrolet is trying to capitalize with the last model year of the current generation. After the 2015 Camaro Comme...

 
Ferrari FXX Racecar For Sale at Speculative Price
Ferrari FXX Racecar For Sale at Speculative Price

3 Nov 2014, 01:52 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We know this sounds like somebody is selling a Ferrari here, but what's actually being offered here is some sort of a dream, namely the possibility to race with the Prancing Horse. To be more p...

 
440 HP Radical SR8 RSX Redlines at a Whopping 10,500 RPM
440 HP Radical SR8 RSX Redlines at a Whopping 10,500 RPM

1 Nov 2014, 12:24 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Founded in 1997 by two engineers and amateur drivers, UK-based Radical Sporstcars is just what its name implies – a specialty automaker that makes probably the most radical road-legal and purp...

 
Nurburgring Circuit Sold to Russian Billionaire Viktor Kharitonin
Nurburgring Circuit Sold to Russian Billionaire Viktor Kharitonin

31 Oct 2014, 15:26 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / It's a well-known fact that a circuit going by the name of Nurburgring is probably the last frontier for the track junkie. It's heaven for petrolheads with gasoline running through their v...

 
Renault Sport RS 01 Spied Going Flat Out at Monza
Renault Sport RS 01 Spied Going Flat Out at Monza

20 Oct 2014, 09:08 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Renault Sport skunkworks is best known for its super hot RS variants of the Twingo, Clio and Megane, but the division had a go at building a limited-run racing car recently. Known as the RS 01, ...

 
Porsche 919 Hybrid Le Mans Racer's Steering Wheel Explained: Buttons Galore
Porsche 919 Hybrid Le Mans Racer's Steering Wheel Explained: Buttons Galore

17 Oct 2014, 18:56 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / This year's edition of the FIA World Endurance Championship was a bit of a surprise, chiefly because Porsche returned to the competition after a long hiatus with a full-on LMP1-H contender - th...

 
Watch a Rally Driver Go Flat Out with the Hood Up
Watch a Rally Driver Go Flat Out with the Hood Up

15 Oct 2014, 15:13 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / You don’t need to be a rally driver in order to go flat out when in doubt. Amateurs can do this too (hopefully not on public roads), but the professionals will always live up to their name and...

 
V8 Supercars Star Craig Lowndes Has a Holden Named After Him <span>· Video</span>
V8 Supercars Star Craig Lowndes Has a Holden Named After Him · Video

10 Oct 2014, 14:37 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Three-time V8 Supercars champion and five-time Bathurst 1000 winner Craig Lowndes agreed to lend his name for a very special and extremely rarefied breed of the Holden Commodore SS V Redline. Bas...

 
Sebastian Vettel's Salary at Ferrari: $80 Million a Year Makes Him the Highest-Paid F1 Driver Ever
Sebastian Vettel's Salary at Ferrari: $80 Million a Year Makes Him the Highest-Paid F1 Driver Ever

9 Oct 2014, 09:16 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After he went through professional karting series, the German Formula BMW, the Formula 3 Euro and Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Sebastian Vettel became the third driver for the BMW Sauber team at the ...

 
Chrysler Puts an End to the SRT Motorsports Dodge Viper GTS-R Racing Program
Chrysler Puts an End to the SRT Motorsports Dodge Viper GTS-R Racing Program

7 Oct 2014, 17:52 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / When Dodge offered us a sneak peak in July at the Viper GTS-R track-focused bruiser, we were happy the 2014 IMSA TUDOR United SportsCar Championship was offered with one of the nicest-looking cars c...

 
Watch a Renault Clio Rally Crash Nearly Take Out The Crowd
Watch a Renault Clio Rally Crash Nearly Take Out The Crowd

6 Oct 2014, 17:09 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / They say front-wheel drive is safe. Sure, that may be true, but when it comes to rallying, safety is an extremely relative notion. This lesson was learned the hard way by the driver and co-driver of...

 
Scale Model F1 Wheels Are What Your Office Needs
Scale Model F1 Wheels Are What Your Office Needs

23 Sep 2014, 22:59 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / As enough of you can exemplify with the help of their desks, scale models come in a pleasing variety of shapes and sizes, but we've recently come across a development that seems truly worthy fo...

 
16-Year-Old F1 Hope Crashses Formula One Car Doing Donuts
16-Year-Old F1 Hope Crashses Formula One Car Doing Donuts

1 Sep 2014, 09:03 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / What were you doing when you were 16? Sure, you may have spent some time behind the wheel, but if Max Verstappen were to answer that question, he’d tell us he is preparing for the 2015 Formula...

 
SCG 003 Gets Twin-Turbo V12, Pricing Starts at €2.1 Million
SCG 003 Gets Twin-Turbo V12, Pricing Starts at €2.1 Million

28 Aug 2014, 14:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / When somebody hears the SCG 003 name for the first time, we imagine that he or she would think of a photocopier or washing machine. In fact, SCG 003 is the pet project of Hollywood director and bank...

 
Renault Sport RS 01 Debuts at Moscow Motor Show <span>· Video</span>
Renault Sport RS 01 Debuts at Moscow Motor Show · Video

27 Aug 2014, 16:03 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Even though Renault predominantly builds urban runarounds that take you from A to B as economical as possible these days, the RS skunkworks division is hard at work, coming up with hardcore versions...

 
Must Watch: Formula 1 Cars Attacking Spa-Francorchamps' Eau Rouge
Must Watch: Formula 1 Cars Attacking Spa-Francorchamps' Eau Rouge

22 Aug 2014, 14:00 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Ask any Formula 1 driver, even the ones that raced in the golden era of the sport, to name their favorite corners in the calendar and you'll be overwhelmed of hearing Eau Rouge after Eau Rouge ...

 
Max Verstappen to Become the Youngest Formula 1 Driver in History
Max Verstappen to Become the Youngest Formula 1 Driver in History

19 Aug 2014, 07:17 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Remember Jaime Alguersuari? The Spaniard started his F1 career with Toro Rosso back in 2009, and is currently regarded as the youngest Formula 1 driver ever because he was only 19 years and 125 days...