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In this uk campaign we’ll see the 7 times Formula One champion Michael Schumacher bringing a powerful message:
Drinking and driving don’t mix, if I don’t do it, why would you!
Not really, “If I don’t do it, why would you” is not a strong argument, yet I don’t ever do it, so… If I don’t do it, why whould you? ;)
As we all motorsports fans long expected, this upcoming weekend we have a new edition of the anual Le Mans 24 hours race, again from saturday 3pm until sunday 3pm several of the most known racing teams which includes pilots, mechanics, engineers, assistants and lots more people are gonna give us one of the best spectacles in racing ever.
Le Mans 24 hours, 24 Heures Du Mans, 24 Horas de Le Mans
For thee who haven’t seen the documentary video “Truth in 24″ from Audi, I strongly recommend you to download it from iTunes, it’s freely available, and is impressive, I expect to see Mr. LeMans obtaining his 9th title this year!!!
Long live to Le Mans and may the best team wins !
And this is how my desktop looks!
Super GT 500 - Japan, Round 3
Beautiful !!!!
Este 26 de Abril en el Campo de Marte comienza en campeonato de Autocross 2009 con la primera a realizarse en el Campo de Marte, Organizado por AutoX Perú, bajo conducción del varias-veces campeón de AutoCross en USA, Kiko Seibt, TODOS invitados ;)
Two thousand and nine racing season has begun, and us followers are well aware that this year with the new vehicles on the escene yet with the teams budget limitations drivers will have to give the mosty most out of them to own the pole and/or to lead the race and win, exciting !!!
I for one follow the Group A & Group N categories like: DTM, Australian V8, Le-Mans series, American Le-Mans Series, Super Taikyu, Japanese Super GT , British Rally, Ireland Rally, WRC, the Argentinian TC 2000, and locally the Peruvian Desafío Movistar (an all noveu drivers race) and Peruvian Super Turismo 2000 (go Honda!).
We all expect to see them angry & furious Mercedes Benz, Audi, Ford, BMW, Vauxall, Holden and my favorites Honda Type R and Nissan R34 & R35 roaring and conquering every apex and straight to the final lap!
Nissan GT-R, 2009 Super -GT Round 1
Exciting times !!!!
Last night Takeo Fukui, president of Honda Motor Co. announced that Honda won’t continue to support the F1 racing sub-division Honda Racing F1 with immediate effect, meaning their retirement from the F1 racing for the 2009 season, the news has been shocking for the racing sub-division itself, the engineers, the crew, the drivers and all of us followers to one of the greatest racing companies, earlier this year Honda had been predicted to be one of the top 4 for the 2009 season.
Starting in 1964 with the passion of its fonder, Honda has always been close to the Formula One, from John Surtees who won the first Grand Prix (1967 in Italy), the amazing Ayrton Senna, and recently Jenson Button. This announcement closes a long relationship between the manufacturer and one of the ultimate racing events.
At the moment there are several serious buyers for the sub-division, we hope Honda Racing F1 to continue the next year’s season although it may be under another name.
Long life to the champions.
Honda RA271 – 1964 season, where everything began.
Honda RA108, 2008 season.
Honda Racing F1 Crew.
“Sky News” news’s coverage
It is not a surprise for no-one that Honda Type R cars are by far of the fastest, most respected, best engineered cars around and since Honda Access’s Modulo Civic Type R appeared it is kicking every other car’s ass, as an example, the guys at Best Motoring tested the car again a stock Civic Type R fd2, a Nismo Fairlady Z33 and a Subaru Impreza Sti Spec-C Type RA-R, the top of the line car for subaru impreza, see the results for yourself.
It seems the Modulo Civic Type R fd2 will become the stock production model for the fd2 for 2009, what a wonderful news!.
Modulo Civic Type R (fd2)
If I had the money Jay Leno has, this high performance (or their tuned versions) vehicles will be on my garage, for starters:
Honda Civic Type R (EK9)
Honda Integra Type R (DC2)
Honda Civic Type R (FD2)
Honda NSX Type R (NA1)
Nissan Skyline R34
Mitsubishi Evolution IX GSR
Toyota AE86 (hachiroku)
Porsche 911 GT3
And my garage should look like this:
As en engineer and a racer, my preferences are: High Performance over Big Engine, so, no American Muscle will ever enter my preferred cars list.
I have nothing but compliments to the Nissan team behind the engineering of the R35 GT-R super car, it have defeated every car, in every circuit (and road) at any price… and to probe that the Best Motoring guys (the bible to sports cars fanatics all over the world) have recored the tests in the new issue called Nissan GT-R LOADED, this is a video I definiteky will get.
In the picture Above Nissan R35 GT-R vs the Porsche 911 Turbo, 911 GT3, Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera and NSX Type R.
I am waiting for 2009 Honda NSX-R, the Naturally Aspirated car that WILL defeated the GT-R monster!!!
UPDATE: Edmuns.com have also made a review for the american version of the GT-R (less “bold” than the Japanese version), and it defeats all opponents as expected!
Nurburgring has become the performance benchmark race circuit for sports cars manufacturers, almost every week there’s a new car trying to beat the record, and the new record is here: 7:26.4 (with the GT-R making 7:29.2) and it belongs to the Corvette ZR1 2009, this new record has caused some controversy and continues being debated in specialized forums, because of that the guys at Garage 419 made their own test as you can see below.
Personally I’m NOT a fan of the whole “American Muscle” thinking cars, i prefer a small engine with the best engineering on it, so in the table below you can see the specs for both cars with the price included, if I could buy a car, with no hesitation i would choose the GT-R.
Of course The GT-R is by far a better car, it has 150HP and 240 N.m less and 200Kgs more than the ZR1, USD$30,000.00 less and just 3 seconds down… An obvious choice!!!
The proclamed almost non-tuneable Nissan GT-R (the same one that runs Nurburgring in 7.37 minutess and is causin’ terrible headaches to most of the sports cars makers worldwide) is going to participate in the Tokachi 24 Hours, tuned by Nismo, the tuning has been unpublished to the present day, yet some weight reduction is to be done, here some of the pictures of the expected final look for the Nismo GT-R.
After the appearance of the Nissan GT-R, now there’s one more production-ready car spyshots at nurburgring circuit, it is the 2009 Audi R8, powered by a 525bhp 5.2litre V10 engine… not my favorite one, i still prefer the Honda NSX 5.5L V-10.
Here the video, enjoy!
By now, most of the people somehow related to the sports car world knows the Nissan GT-R is breaking all records and beating all sports cars in the world or is i like to say “eating porsche’s, bmw’s and lambo’s for breakfast”, but now! rumor has it that Honda is making prototypes for a NSX exclusively to “make better times” and re-break all GT-R records, the new NSX could come with 5.5L, v10, iVTEC engine, impressive! for a brand that always have bet for small engines with super great NA power… here’s a peak of an spy shot at Nurburgring, Germany!
That delicious roaring sound let us know that of course whatever competition vehicle Honda makes will be a winner, and that is a fact now, we all know it!!
I found 4 powerful reasons to buy a PS3, and these are:
1) Metal Gear Solid 4: (?????????4)
2) Final Fantasy XIII: (???????????XIII)
3) Initial D: (?????)D
and,
4) Gran Turismo 5:
I’ve played 1 & 2 since PS1 and 3 & 4 since PS2 and i’m sure (as you can see in the trailers or read in reviews) with these games everyone have enough reasons to ask for vacations and stay at home playing.
The 24 Hours of LeMans has just finished, North American viewers could catch the action on Speed Tv. Unfortunately, unlike the old Speedvision days, there wasn’t full 24-hour coverage, even worst, Speed Tv did not transmit the event live for Latin America, well there’s always Radio LeMans.
Via nihoncar.com I found out that registrations for the Best Prize Ever are now OPEN, sadly I can’t afford a PS3 right now!.
The terms with capital letters set out below have special meanings:
Competition:
The GT Academy competition comprising an online Time Trial and a National Final as described herein
Prize:
the opportunity to participate in a four day event at Silverstone and a further chance to win an intensive motor racing training course and a place as a driver with an experienced motor racing team at the Dubai 2009 24 hour race
Promoter:
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd with a registered office at 10 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7LP
Terms and Conditions:
[HERE]
Honda Japan, the manufacturer of the ‘Type R‘ vehicles (available only in the Japanese Domestic Market -JDM-) has developed a Racing Prototype for the FD2 Civic Type R, this because the most famous Honda tuners MUGEN, SPOON SPORTS and HONDA ACCESS JAPAN have their own versions of the R vehicles based upon the Honda ones, and these vehicles are by far the most refined, fast, and enjoyable track oriented cars you can experience.
Here a peak on the new 2008 Civic Type R Concept vehicle.
Driver for the test: Keiichi Tsuchiya, a.k.a. Dorikin, Dori-Dori or Drift King.
Impressions: Impressive car, really fast, beautiful sound and unbeatable corner exit acceleration.
Enjoy your ride~
Via nihoncar.com i found out that Nissan and Polyphony Digital have allied to bring us, every Sport Cars fanatics in the world the Best Prize we could ever dream of.
In one hand we have Nissan, the Japanse vehicle company manufacturer of the Best Most powerful GT SuperCar of Japan, the Nissan Skyline R35 GT-R and in the other hand there is Polyphony Digital the makers of Gran Turismo, again the Best and only one real driving simulator game right now!.
So, what is this all about?:
It’s simple. What you need is a PS3, a connection to the Playstation Network (PSN), and a copy of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Now you can enter and compete in the GT Academy and, one hotlap at a time, rank up to become the only winner. And what a prize! The lucky (and talented) guy (come on girls!) who comes out number one will be offered four months training to earn a racing license, then will compete with the Nissan Team behind the wheel of a Nissan 350Z at the Dubai 24h early next year!.
What could be a better prize than taking 4 months of racing driving lessons with the Pro’s and after that competing in a world class competition, goodbye Gaming Cellphone, welcome savings for a PS3 !!!
You can spend hours flipping through vehicles catalog pages and/or googling for beatiful hatchback vehicles and you won’t find any hatchback ever made more beautiful than the Honda Civic EK chassis (the chassis made between 1996 - 2000)
Here in Lima, you can find no more than 50 of them, some are equipped with the modest low-fuel-comsumption D engines, while the most wanted ones came equipped with the powerful B16 engine (codename: VTi) which current trade value continues growing with time opposite than what happens with most other vehicles, it’s not beautiful but the naturally-aspirated most powerful as well, that’s why we love Honda!
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