McLaren’s upcoming Ferrari fighter (something they will be doing a lot of this year) has been given a good wringing out by Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button at Goodwood, and surprisingly they like it. But then why would would they bite the hand that feeds them (lots of cash)? McLaren just announced the MP4-12C’s full [...]
Many moons ago I lived about 5 miles away from the section of Mulholland Highway known as “The Snake” that Tanner Foust picked to debut his new Street Drift video series. I spent many a weekday afternoon banging up and down the two mile stretch between the Rockstore Cafe at the bottom and “The Gallery” [...]
It seems like a lifetime since the end of last year’s F1 season but here we are finally with the season opener from Bahrain. There’s been a major shuffling of seats–notably 2009 Champ, Jensen Button going to Maclaren and multi-champion, Michael Schumacher coming out of retirement to fill his place at the now named Mercedes [...]
Looks like our good friend Tanner Foust has something crazy up his sleave judging by this teaser that just showed up on his YouTube channel. Its a quick 15 second clip of him hooning his awesome 600 horsepower Nascar V8 propelled Rockstar Energy Drink Scion tC on what looks like our favorite stretch of Mulholland [...]
If you are of a certain age, as I am, then the Group B rally cars of the early 80s are the n’est plus ultra of anything driven by an internal combustion engine on four wheels. Packing unlimited horsepower into econobox based hot hatches with all wheel drive and minimum weight these cars were then [...]
Birds Nest Olympic Stadium, Beijing, China–Seven time F1 World Champion, Michael Schumacher, and his Team Germany team-mate, Sebastian Vettel, claimed their third consecutive ROC Nations Cup title today. The pair beat the Autosport Team GB pairing of new F1 World Champion, Jenson Button, and three time World Touring Car Champion, Andy Priaulx, in a tie [...]
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again – the Ford Mustang is one of the most varied and versatile sports cars on the planet. Find me another car that’s just as sharp on a road course as it is sitting in your sister’s parking space in high school. Or tearing up a handful of [...]
There’s been a lot of talk about whether Ken Block could stand up against world rally champ 40 times over, Sebastien Loeb. Most of verdicts say Block is nothing more than a showman – good for gymkhana displays of car control and little else. Thing is, when the guy isn’t pimping DC Shoes like they’ll [...]
The mad wrenches at Stillen have worked up one helluva Nissan GT-R to tackle this year’s Targa Newfoundland. The team’s doing great so far thanks to a massive amount of testing and R&D pre-race. Leg three finished up yesterday and included everything from wide-open stretches of tarmac to a few technical bits through residential sections. [...]
With teams dropping out of F1 faster than we can keep track of, the future of the sport isn’t looking too bright. Er, make that wasn’t looking too bright. Lotus has decided to jump back into the fray for the first time in 16 years. Supposedly, the team will slide into BMW-Sauber’s vacant spot. Lotus [...]


