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Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s not often that we toot our own horn here at Down Shift but this morning we feel like celebrating…because what better way is there to head into the weekend than fresh off the high […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes With Rivals Lexus and Honda Square In Their Sights Nissan Unleashes the Monstrous GT-R NISMO GT500 On Japanese and European Racers In 2014 When DTM and the Japanese Super GT circuits merged late last year, […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Grand-Am Had A Lot Riding On Saturday Night’s Race and It Showed In a battle of youth versus experience, 22-year-old Jordan Taylor held back five-time GRAND-AM champion Scott Pruett over the final half-hour to win tonight’s inaugural […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nissan’s Innovative ZEOD ( Zero Emissions On Demand Race Car ) Aims To Redefine Modern Motorsports By Building On the Legacy of the First Deltawing The ZEOD RC will run at Le Mans 2014 in […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Veteran Driver Amy Ruman Holds Off Stiff SCCA Competition and Brings Home A Sweeping Victory at Watkins Glen Amy Ruman stole the show from two of the hottest Sports Car Club of America GT-1 racers […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes A Quick Lap Around the Circuit of the Americas In AV8 Supercar Holden Commodore Prototype While the Holdens may be what comes to mind when most Motorsports enthusiasts think of Super V8, in last weekend’s Austin 400 race at […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Austin Texas Prepares for V8 Thunder from Down Under with Australia’s Exciting V8 Supercar’s Inaugural Austin 400 Appearance While F1 may fit the image of a city that bills itself as America’s cultural and live music capital, an unknown […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Italian Design Balanced By Modern Chinese Sensibility Gives The World A New Hybrid Supercar, the Vulcano. Italian/Chinese design house Icona has revealed its Vulcano supercar in Shanghai and based on initial images and performance specs, the one-off […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Because It’s Just Not the Indy 500 Without A Corvette Pace Car Is It For the twelfth time since 1978 the Indianapolis 500 will be paced by a Chevrolet Corvette. That shouldn’t come as a big surprise. Corvette […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes CORE Autosport Will Debut Their New Porsche GT Program In Monterey ROCK HILL, S.C. – CORE autosport’s long-awaited debut in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón’s GT category will take place next […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes These Rumors Always Pop Up, Sorry F1 Fans There Will Be No Racing In Long Beach The bosses of the iconic US street race in Long Beach have once again officially denied reports formula one […]
Reading Time: 9 minutes An Electric GT-R? Really? Carlos Tavares, recently promoted to COO of Renault, hinted at as much at the 2011 New York auto show. “Of course, it’s going to be zero emissions. […]
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