Formula 1 journalist James Allen posted on YouTube footage of Bruno Senna driving a two-seater Formula 1 car on the new Abu Dhabi Grand Prix circuit where the final round of the World Championship will be held next month.
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The 25th anniversary is silver, the 50th is gold. And the 40th? Another precious metal, or more correctly metal, rubber and glass - the Nissan Z®. Forty years ago, on October 22, 1969, the Datsun 240Z arrived in North America, heralding a new era in sports car design.
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One week away from the opening round of the 2009-2010 A1 Grand Prix "World Cup of Motorsport" series in Surfers Paradise, several motorsport web sites and newspapers state that the A1GP cars are still locked in Great-Britain.
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Casey Stoner, who struggled for fitness in the first part of the championship, believes he has now put the illness that interrupted his season behind him.
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Extensive renovations were recently completed at Mercedes-Benz Canada's North Vancouver dealership to create a state-of-the-art, flagship facility on Vancouver's upscale North Shore.
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Laurenz Schaffer, since the year 2000 director of the Munich studio of the BMW Group subsidiary DesignworksUSA, will be taking on the position of the President of the California based company on 1 December 2009.
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GUELPH, ON, - In celebrating the 10th anniversary of the award-winning Buckle Up Bears car seat inspection program, The Co-operators and the Infant & Toddler Safety Association (ITSA) officially launched a new ITSA website today that will help keep Canadian children safe on our roads.
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The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) announced the inaugural class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame today that includes: the late Dale Earnhardt, founder Bill France Sr., Bill France Jr., driver/owner Junior Johnson and Richard Petty.
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Despite crew-chief, Brian Pattie's. inspired strategy of consistency to get Juan Pablo into the Chase for the Sprint Cup, winless Montoya knows he's got to get a race victory if he has any chance to win the Championship.
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Mont-Tremblant, Quebec -- Driving the all-new Volkswagen Golf is like welcoming back an old friend. There's a mix of familiar and unfamiliar, sweet and sour that captures the imagination and turns a trivial meeting into a memorable discovery. Journalists got a taste of the car during a media launch held by Volkswagen Canada in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec.
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Malaysia's national A1Grand Prix team is reportedly in talks with the new Lotus F1 Racing entry about collaborating in 2010.
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After Max Mosley publicly voiced his support for FIA presidential candidate Jean Todt, the neutrality of F1's governing body has now been further called into doubt.
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Here are the main short motorsport news of this day, Thursday October 15, 2009.
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Auburn Hills, Mich., - A 556-horsepower Dodge Challenger, a Jeep® Wrangler that transforms into a mobile campsite, a luxury Dodge Ram 1500 and a go-anywhere, do-anything extreme Jeep Wrangler with 40-inch tires. It must be SEMA season.
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Halloween is the time of year for squeals, squeaks, screeches and things that go bump in the night, but when these eerie and haunted sounds come from your car, it's time for maintenance. Noise is to the vehicle what pain is to the body: a warning.
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TORONTO, - Just days before the official on-sale date of October 17, Porsche is displaying its new, four-door Panamera at Holt Renfrew stores in Vancouver, Toronto (Bloor Street) and Montreal.
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General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson on Wednesday was in talks with state-run Korea Development Bank to try to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in fresh loans for the troubled GM-Daewoo subsidiary, officials said.
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Months after it acquired a majority stake in local auto group Auto Union, estimating the entire company at EUR10m, Bulgarian industrial and financial group Eurohold said it had sold one of its properties for EUR 27.3m.
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An official Malaysian marketing mission on automotive related products and services to Tehran recently secured RM10.3m (USD3m) worth of orders from Iranian vehicle manufacturers and parts importers.
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