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Next weekend’s Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta will be the first race in North America for the Nissan DeltaWing…and perhaps most excitingly it will also not be the innovative light-weight racer’s last. […]
The four-time IZOD IndyCar Series champion will join younger brother Marino behind the wheel of the No. 95 Level 5 Motorsports Honda Performance Development ARX-03b P2 car at the 2012 Petit Le Mans. […]
After nine events and thousands of miles throughout North America, championships in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón come down to one last race…the 2012 Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. […]
The 2013 SRT Viper coupe goes on sale later this year, and right on schedule, Chrysler’s go-fast brand has released pricing info for the new sports car. […]
Volvo and its racing partner, Polestar, have become more and more entwined recently, and the latest result of their partnership is this hotted-up C30 Polestar Limited Edition. […]
The 2013 Lexus GS almost didn’t happen. According to Karl Schlicht, who was Lexus’s product planning and marketing chief at the time of the car’s conception, “The accountants wanted to combine the rear wheel drive performance oriented GS platform with the more sedate front wheel drive ES platform.”
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Chrysler is said to be working on a third model to add to its new SRT brand, which launches late this year with the 2013 Viper. A new-age SRT Barracuda will be the nascent brand’s second model. […]
A new venue for the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón looks to play a huge role in determining the 2012 ALMS champions. The VIR 240 is the first race at Virginia International Raceway for America’s premier sports car racing championship. The four-hour race – hence the ‘240’ – pays two additional points per position, a critical factor with all but two titles up for grabs. […]
Motorsports lost a true friend over the weekend in Scott Roembke, the beloved and widely respected COO of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.
Today’s landmark announcement of a 2014 merger between the American Le Mans Series and the Grand-Am Rolex Series continues to generate reaction from inside and outside of race paddocks… […]
Grand-Am and American Le Mans announced a merger Wednesday that will join them as one series beginning in 2014. Grand-Am founder Jim France and ALMS founder Don Panoz said in a joint statement at Daytona International Speedway that the new series will start with the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2014 and likely include 12 races. […]
With three rounds left in the 2012 championship, the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón heads to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for the second running of the city’s downtown street race. […]
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