Hyundai Motorsport has recently unveiled the i20 WRC racer at the carmaker`s facility in Alzenau, Germany. The racer will make its racing debut at the Monte Carlo Rally, next January, the model coming with a series of important modifications that would make it a real threat for its competitors. From a visual standpoint, the mods
Brazil’s Sao Paulo motor show has been quite the event for rather cheeky crossover concepts and new cheap car launches so far. Volvo came to the event with something different in mind, they actually introduced a new racing car. No, you read right, that’s exactly what they have. Unusually, the new racer is a Volvo
Ever since its introduction two things about the Bentley Continental GT have stood out. The first was the luxurious feel and the second was the immense bulk. Sure, there are ideas of it being fast and it having a turbocharger setup that would break rolling roads but its weight would never be something to get
Those who are big fans of Lotus and racing might be getting mixed feelings from Formula 1 but unfortunately for them things aren’t going to change soon. Their favorite British brand has just unveiled a refreshed version of the Lotus Evora GX that will take place in the Grand-Am fights. Lotus make big claims that
Sport of the simpletons, can’t hold a candle to Formula 1, a mindless motor sport that’s all about crashing, one where progress doesn’t seem to happen. Yep, that’s the typical description of a NASCAR event but the fans have the sort of attitude that kind of makes people not want to speak Nascar ill. Just
RM Auctions is the sort of place where rare and exotic metal moves through once every couple of days but whereas most of them are ancient, this one is quite fun. This is not the story of some sort of slightly unusual looking vehicle that had been stored in garages all of its life and
As most of us are readying ourselves for a long weekend drooling over the GT action in the Le Mans 24 hour race, others are in the final stages of preparation for Pikes Peak. Pikes Peak is a special event which features a simple sprint race of 12.42 miles. Or is it? Is it really
If it’s fun you’re looking for but you have no interest in breaking the bank on a purchase, all you need to do is go to the French. For a decently small amount of money, they’ll hook you up with a pocket rocket like you wouldn’t believe. All the fun, without too much of a
So the McLaren MP4-12C is one fast supercar huh? Well wait till you see what it can do on a race track. Oh and don’t think I’m talking about the new owners of the British supercar taking it for a round at Silverstone or Dunsfold (for those who know). McLaren have officially debuted their GT3
As I’m sure you’ve heard of by now, the Swedish company called Saab is so far down the financial decline route that just about everybody is declaring them permanently dead. But are they? Apart from living on forever in the company’s diehard fans, the Saab 9-3 will get to rumble again, as a racing car.
Sweden is a wonderful country. Among the many reasons behind that statement we find how serious they are about having their own touring car racing series. Known as the Swedish Touring Car Championship for a while it recently got itself a re-brand into the Swedish Racing Elite League is quite the pretty affair. Sure, it’s
The Italians are a bit shaken up by the recent snow and very low temperatures that have hit the country but still have managed to release their latest F1 race car. Very innovative titling and copyrighting was used as the new Formula 1 racer Ferrari will be competing with this season is called the F2012.
With the 24 hours of Le Mans creeping up on us, manufacturers are starting to make claims about their cars and even unveil them. In the ambitious return segment for this year we find Toyota with their recently spotted 2012 Le Mans racer. Back then, a couple of photos were the only available, now we
Since the registering time frame for Le Mans is drawing to a close, more and more action on this matter is turning up on the matter. After Peugeot’s surprise announcement about cancelling off their Le Mans 24 Hour project, the “slot” will be filled in by Toyota who’ve entered the final stages of development on
The Nissan 370Z, regardless of shape and options is pretty much one of the most exciting sports cars you can buy today and yet the Japanese keep coming up with newer better versions. Sadly though, with this one here, the Nissan 370Z RC I fear that they may have gone a little over the top
Audi has just announced the market launch of their new TT RS racer, a vehicle they designed based on the TT-RS street car that is everything but that. With a goal to cover Audi’s customer racing necessities it will be taking place in the SP4T class of the VLN Endurance Championship. The “birth” of the
Just because Porsche’s engineers have been hard at work on rolling out the new 2012 911 and sketching out their future Ferrari beater doesn’t mean the company was overwhelmed. Their most important product for racing fans, the 911 GT3 R just got a bit of a facelift for the 2012 model year and it just
The British at Aston Martin may have dropped their DBR9 racer from the lineup of specialized competition vehicles, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be offering a V12 for racers of the world. To that end they’ve just announced that they will be offering the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 racer as a replacement soon
McLaren’s latest big boy toy has had its first serious encounter with the world of endurance racing at the 24 hours at Spa. The British company announced somewhat gingerly that they would take their racing converted MP4-12C in the GT3 class the past weekend. Even though none of the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 units that raced
