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Monaco 2012 - Red Bull rock the roads in Monte Carlo

The Monaco Grand Prix wasn't the classic that we have come to expect from a season filled with incredible racing, but it had enough spectacle to make it an interesting weekend. A lot of the teams were split between one driver doing well and the other either retiring or struggling at the rear of the grid.

Source: http://sidepodcast.com/post/monaco-2012-red-bull-rock-roads-monte-carlo

Alex Caffi Michele Alboreto Georges Grignard Neville Lederle John Barber

First Gibb-Harrell ZL1 Camaro sells for $400,000

Photos courtesy Mecum The cars nearly bankrupted him, but if Fred Gibb is known for anything among Chevrolet performance enthusiasts, it’s for convincing Chevrolet to fit the storied all-aluminum ZL1 427-cu.in. V-8 into a handful of Camaros, thus creating one of the fiercest and fastest cars on the dragstrip. This past weekend, the first of [...]

Source: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/05/22/very-first-zl1-camaro-sells-for-400000/

Juan Jover Mauri Rose Bruce Halford Holden Willy Mairesse

Musclepalooza XV comes to Lebanon Valley Dragway this weekend

Time once again to start the summer right, with a gathering of proper performance machinery at a venue enabling head-to-head competition. Hemmings Musclepalooza at Lebanon Valley Dragway in West Lebanon, New York, is just the ticket, providing a sanctioned quarter-mile track for those with lead feet and an adjacent expanse of asphalt for the show-n-shine [...]

Source: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/05/24/musclepalooza-xv-comes-to-lebanon-valley-dragway-this-weekend/

Ricardo Rosset Johnny McDowell BMW Claudio Langes Adolfo Schwelm Cruz

Hello, Kodo: Mazda Previews Next 6 with Snazzy Takeri Concept

Mazda has announced that it will debut this Takeri concept next month at the 2011 Tokyo auto show; it’s a thinly disguised preview of the next Mazda 6. The stylish Minagi concept?which became the production CX-5 crossover?was the first vehicle to wear the company?s latest Kodo design language, but the Kodo-fied Takeri is even more [...]

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Paul Pietsch Oswald Karch Giovanni Lavaggi Stirling Moss Peter Whitehead

2013 Ford Flex AWD EcoBoost Tested: A Big Box Filled with Surprises

An entertaining subtext in the ongoing saga of the automobile is the phenomenon of a box with wheels that can dust at least two-thirds of the traffic mix at any given stoplight. In the case of the EcoBoosted Ford Flex, two-thirds may be conservative. Make it 80 percent. Maybe even higher, given the ambush factor: [...]

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Yves GiraudCabantous Mario Andretti Thomas Monarch Jan Lammers Joe Fry

Franchitti earns nearly $2.5 million for Indy win

Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/28/2096070/franchitti-earns-nearly-25-million.html

Oswald Karch Giovanni Lavaggi Stirling Moss Peter Whitehead Phil Cade

Video: Good Samaritans dragged away in flood trying to save motorist

Filed under: Sedan, Etc., Safety, Videos, South America

It takes less than two feet of moving flood water to carry off a vehicle, and while that's a disturbingly small amount, the number drops to just six inches when it comes to sweeping an adult off of their feet.

A handful of residents in Barranquilla, Colombia recently discovered this fact the hard way when flood waters made local streets impassible. As one woman tried to navigate her car away from the swift water, the engine stalled. When it became apparent she was unwilling to abandon her property, a group came out to help. That's when things went downhill.

After a good fight, the group was forced to let go of the car, which slid to a side street. Three of the good Samaritans lost their footing and wound up floating father down the street. While two of the men were eventually pulled from the water, it's unclear what happened to the third.

What's the lesson here? Don't risk deep water, and if you are foolish enough to do so, be smart about when to let the car succumb to Mother Nature. Scroll down to take a look at the video.

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Timmy Mayer Alberto Crespo John Nicholson Masten Gregory Gimax

Stanford Wires Up John Morton, Ancient Porsche in the Name of Science

When I was 10, I found a copy of Sylvia Wilkinson’s The Stainless Steel Carrot in a used-book shop in Louisville. The book chronicles the early career of racing driver John Morton, including most of his time on Peter Brock’s BRE Datsun Trans-Am team in the late 1960s and early 1970s. You can probably guess [...]

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Citroen Fabrizio Barbazza Marc Gene Alex SolerRoig Jean Alesi

Franchitti wins 3rd Indy 500, gives nod to Wheldon

Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/27/2093611/franchitti-wins-indianapolis-500.html

Cliff Griffith Honda Brian McGuire Tony Maggs Warwick Brown

40 Years of BMW M

BMW?s M division turns 40 this month, and to mark the occasion we?ve collected reviews and tests of the most iconic M machines from our archives. First, though, a brief history of BMW?s in-house tuning arm. The brand first assembled under the BMW Motorsport name in 1972, and for much of the 1970s its activities [...]

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Jo Schlesser Pagani Bernard de Dryver Tony Trimmer Joe Kelly