Fifth Gear - Series 13, Episode 8
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »Episode eight rolled off Fifth Gear's production line last night. Starting off at Anglesea, as usual, was another pointless comparison, as usual. This week saw a Porsche Cayenne GTS against a BMW X5 4.8 V8. And just in case you ...
MINI Challenge racer takes the rollover line at Nürburgring
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in MINI, Motorsports, Video | No Comments »Following on from yesterday's post about the 2008 Australian MINI Challenge debut I thought it might be a good time to raid the vault for this classic, if alarming, footage from a MINI Challenge support race at the 2006 Nürburgring ...
R56 MINI Challenge makes worldwide racing debut in Australia
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Australia, MINI, Motorsports | 4 Comments »This weekend saw the world racing debut of the new R56 MINI Challenge cars. The 2008 Australian series kicked off at Sydney's Eastern Creek and Neil McFadyen from the M3 Motorsports team has taken the round win. McFadyen claimed the ...
‘Loaded’ BMW M3 CSL time attack practice lap
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in BMW, Video | 1 Comment »The boys from 'Loaded' have published a new clip on YouTube featuring the supercharged BMW M3 CSL. It was filmed during one of the practice laps before their record time attack run of just 7 minutes 22.8 seconds in November ...
Niki Lauda’s crash at 1976 Nürburgring GP - part 2
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Motorsports, Nurburgring history | No Comments »Following on from part 1 of this Niki Lauda special, below is a 13 page feature from an unknown German magazine. Some of the images contained within are quite graphic with a clearly bloodied and burnt Lauda captured on film. ...
Nordschleife entry improvements underway
Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in Nurburgring news | No Comments »Been looking at the Nürburgring Nordschleife webcam today and wondering what all the fuss is about? Some minor works are being undertaken to improve access to the Nordschleife for cars/motorbikes and to increase pedestrian safety in the busy car park area. ...
Street race to threaten Nürburgring Grand Prix?
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Motorsports, Nurburgring news | No Comments »The Yahoo! Eurosport UK website is reporting that Walter Kafitz, Nürburgring GmbH CEO, has recently brushed off speculation that a possible street circuit in Berlin or Hamburg could threaten the future of Grand Prix racing at the Ring. Responding to ...
More snow at the Nordschleife
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Nurburgring news, Photography | 2 Comments »After about a month of clear weather, the Nürburgring Nordschleife is again under a blanket of fresh snow. The image to the left was just captured off the Nürburgring webcam (Jules Perry version), and you can clearly see the snow ...
Fifth Gear - Series 13, Episode 7
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Fifth Gear | No Comments »The seventh episode of Fifth Gear's thirteenth series aired in the UK recently. Crumbs, this latest installment really was scraping the bottom of the barrel. As usual, Vicki kicked off the episode by punting a couple of cars around Anglesea, ...
Nürburgring Nordschleife aerial image poster
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in Track guides | No Comments »Following my earlier review of Nürburgring Nordschleife: An Enthusiast’s Bend Guide the author sent me a review copy of his poster, based on the one originally used to promote the publication. I received the Large size (21.3” x 32” or ...
Niki Lauda’s crash at 1976 Nürburgring GP - part 1
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 Posted in Motorsports, Nurburgring history, Video | 2 Comments »It's now over 30 years since Niki Lauda's horrific accident at the 1976 German Grand Prix held at the Nürburgring. In a recent article for the TimesOnline Austrian journalist Helmut Zwickl recounts the events. It is a moving article that ...
MINI Challenge inspires Jason Bargwanna
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 Posted in Australia, MINI, Motorsports | 3 Comments »The Australian debut of the 2008 MINI Challenge series is just days away, with the Eastern Creek round being held this weekend. This morning's emails revealed the following press release from BMW which on the surface sounds quite good, but ...
RUF CTR ‘Yellowbird’ - part 2
Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in Porsche, Video | No Comments »As promised, here is a longer clip featuring "Yellowbird", otherwise known as the RUF CTR (see below for the clip). In 2005, when John Hennessey tested the car for Road & Track's Thunder Road feature, he said: "That thing's a blast. ...
Nürburgring Nordschleife damaged by wild storms
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in Nurburgring news | No Comments »As seen on the bridgetogantry.com website, wild storms last Friday have wreaked havoc at the Nürburgring forcing a temporary closure of the track. Almost a dozen trees fell during the storm, with reports that a further two have collapsed since. Read ...
RUF CTR ‘Yellowbird’ - part 1
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in Porsche, Video | No Comments »The RUF CTR, based on the 1987 model Porsche 911 Turbo, was probably the first of their wild creations to gain worldwide notoriety. Due in part, of course, to the extreme video footage of the car lapping the famous Nürburgring ...
