Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2010
Video: Two 2011 Ford F-150 Trucks Go Head To Head On Drag Strip
Racing trucks never really caught on, just as the NASCAR Truck Series, but that hasn?t stopped our friends over at PickupTrucks.com from racing two new Ford F-150 trucks. The two trucks that faced off were both V6 models for 2011.
The website took these two new trucks to the Milan Dragway in Michigan and put them head to head in their Work Truck Shootout. While trucks usually don?t line up and drag race each other, it was interesting to see the power of these two new models.
The first truck, which ran a 15.87 second quarter mile, was the naturally aspirated 3.7-liter V6 with 302 horsepower and 278 pound-feet of torque. The quicker EcoBoost model with 365 horsepower and 420 pound-feet of torque ran a 14.67 second time at 94.6 miles per hour. Interestingly, both of these two times were quicker than the half-ton V8 models tested by the site in 2008.
Video: Two 2011 Ford F-150 Trucks Go Head To Head On Drag Strip originally appeared on topspeed.com on Sunday, 31 October 2010 06:00 EST.
Lewis Hamilton: ?I?m going to enjoy pushing??
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Jackie Stewart interview: ?Drivers of today are best since my day? (Part 2)
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Video : A Lap around Valencia with Mark Webber
Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber takes us on a lap of the Formula One street circuit in Valencia, scene of the upcoming European Grand Prix
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McLaren lead the First Practice Session in Spanish Formula One Grand Prix
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McLaren drivers out of title race
 Is it now a three-way battle for the title? |
?Focus and concentration will be of paramount importance and there is none stronger in this regard than Ferrari?s Fernando Alonso.?The Guardian?s Oliver Owen thinks that it is Mark Webber?s title to lose now, and that this may be the Australian?s last realistic chance of winning the title.
?He has driven beautifully. Monaco and Silverstone spring to mind. He has been an uncompromising racer, not giving Vettel or Lewis Hamilton an inch in Turkey and Singapore respectively. Most importantly, he has largely avoided the bouts of brain fade that can wreck a season ? his on-track hooning in Melbourne when racing Hamilton being the only exception. But there is a feeling that for Webber it is now or never, that a chance of a tilt at the title may never come again. He is certainly driving as if that is the case and that has been his strength.?According to The Mirror?s Byron Young, both McLaren drivers are now out of the title hunt after their fourth and fifth place finishes in Suzuka.
?McLaren's title hopes died yesterday in a weekend from Hell at Suzuka. Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton finished fourth and fifth in a Japanese Grand Prix they had to win to have the remotest chance of keeping their title bid alive."The Sun?s Michael Spearman was of the same opinion, saying ?Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button's title hopes were in tatters after a shocker in Japan.?
Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/10/mclaren_drivers_out_of_title_r_1.php
Hyundai Equus DUB Edition headed for SEMA
Hyundai has teamed up with DUB magazine to create a specially-modified Equus for SEMA. It features two-tone paint job, a mesh grille, and an aerodynamic body kit.Samstag, 30. Oktober 2010
Judgement day looms for Ferrari
 Could Alonso be stripped of his German Grand Prix win? |
?With Alonso trailing Lewis Hamilton by 41 points after failing to score in Spa last time out, perhaps the powers-that-be would prefer not to dock him a further 25 points and, in all likelihood, remove him from the championship race. A deduction of the team points accrued in Germany and a suspended ban is considered more likely.?Richard Williams of the Guardian said the only sensible thing to do would be to abolish the unworkable team orders rule that flew in the face of over 100 years of motorsport history.
"Proceedings could be dominated by Formula One's usual political machinations, or by an outbreak of common sense. The latter would see Mosley's unworkable law being erased as swiftly as it was so foolishly imposed."Meanwhile, 1996 champion Damon Hill has told the Daily Telegraph that he thought the WMSC would be unwise to strip Alonso of his points entirely.
"Flexing their muscles because they can is not necessarily wise. I don't think a punishment that big would fit this particular crime."Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/09/judgement_day_looms_for_ferrar.php
Bird watching at Mercedes GP Petronas
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Rare Pagani Zonda R test drive on video
Fifth Gear host takes Pagani Zonda R to its limits. The Zonda R recently posted a record-setting lap time of 6 minutes 47.5 seconds for the 20,832 km Nordschleife track at the Nurburgring.Cadillac ATS confirmed - new details emerge
GM has announced plans to invest $190 million in their Lansing Grand River assembly plant for the production of a new entry-level Cadillac.Crunch time in Korea for McLaren drivers
Lewis Hamilton heads to South Korea for the country's inaugural grand prix this weekend predicting that the new circuit "should suit our car quite well". For the sake of his rapidly dwindling hopes of winning the drivers' world championship, he had better be right.
Hamilton's title challenge, like that of team-mate and fellow Englishman Jenson Button, has reached a critical point. Basically, they need to beat their championship rivals at the new Korea International Circuit in Yeongam on Sunday to get properly back into contention. The team have admitted as much themselves, in fact.
Mathematically, it's not all over for Hamilton and Button if they do not win, but realistically it probably would be, a situation that only increases the pressure and anticipation ahead of Formula 1's biggest step into the unknown for years.
Let's get the mathematics out of the way first.
Our graphic shows how the McLaren drivers have dropped back in recent races
After he won the Belgian Grand Prix at the end of August, Hamilton was leading the championship by three points from Red Bull's Mark Webber. The two had pulled out a substantial lead over the other three contenders - Webber's team-mate Sebastian Vettel, Button and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso - to the point that it was beginning to look like a two-horse race.
Six weeks later - after three torrid weekends for Hamilton and, to a lesser extent, McLaren - Hamilton is 28 points adrift of the Australian, and Button 31, with a maximum of 75 points available in the remaining three races. Webber, meanwhile, retains the lead, with Alonso and Vettel tied 14 points behind him.
After Korea, the available points will go down to 50 - hence the urgent need for Hamilton and Button to make up serious ground this weekend. It is not necessarily all over if they don't - but, alone among the title contenders, both Hamilton and Button could drop out of contention this weekend.
If Webber wins, Hamilton must finish at least eighth to keep alive any mathematical hope of winning the championship and Button cannot be lower than sixth.
It is a discouraging picture but, as you would expect of world-class sportsmen, both McLaren drivers are looking only at the positives.
The track, they believe, should suit their car more than Japan did two weeks ago. The team have two new developments to fit to their car, which - if they work as planned - could make them not only contenders, but front-runners. New tracks throw up variables that make for unpredictable weekends, and McLaren's meticulous preparation could give them an advantage.
There is merit - and holes - in all those arguments.
Korea will undoubtedly suit the McLaren more than Japan, where the Suzuka track - as Vettel himself admitted after he led Webber to a dominant one-two - might have been made for the overwhelming aerodynamic superiority of the Red Bull.
Yes, the new Korean track features an infield section featuring a sequence of long- and short-duration corners that will play into the hands of Red Bull, but it also features two very long straights, one of them 1.2km, where the Red Bull will struggle. In theory, the layout should even things out nicely among the three teams.
As well as a new front wing, McLaren have further developed the 'F-duct' aerodynamic device they pioneered at the start of the season and which has since been adopted by all the major teams, and this could further tilt the balance.
Korea could be a crucial weekend for the five title contenders. Photo: Reuters
This device works by 'stalling' the rear wing on the straights - reducing drag and therefore increasing straight-line speed. As such, it enables teams to run more downforce in the corners, thereby making the car faster through them, without the normally attendant penalty on the straights. Alternatively, it allows them to keep the cornering downforce where it would normally be, and simply be faster down the straight.
McLaren introduced a new version of the F-duct in Japan which changed the part of the wing that was stalled - previously it was the flap; the new one stalls the main plane, in theory increasing its effectiveness - but they abandoned it because it was not working as well as expected.
It therefore became the latest in a series of advances introduced by McLaren that did not work - at least at first. By contrast, new parts introduced by rivals Red Bull and Ferrari have generally gone on their cars without problems and made them faster.
Equally, it is fair to say that McLaren's meticulous preparations do not always necessarily mean they respond better than their rivals to the unexpected. On the contrary, in fact, there are many people in the F1 pit lane who will tell you that there have been times when what some regard as McLaren's excessively data-driven approach has worked to their disadvantage.
It will be interesting, then, to see how all the title contenders respond to the avalanche of uncertainties that will greet them in Korea.
Usually, F1 teams turn up at a circuit for a grand prix weekend with mountains of data from computer simulations so that when the cars go out on the track, the fundamental set-up work is complete, leaving just fine-tuning to do.
The new Korean F1 track has only just been finished in time for the race race. Photo: Reuters
They will have almost none of that in Korea. The final layer of asphalt was laid only a fortnight ago, and the track passed fit for competition on 12 October. The teams know the layout, but virtually nothing else.
As a result, the speed of the corners, the gears they are taken in, the optimum downforce level for the track, all these things will become apparent only during practice, the first session of which starts at 0200 BST on Friday.
It is then, impossible to predict how the teams will compare. And much more than usual the success or failure of the teams' weekends will be determined by the quality of their work and the decisions they make on Friday and into Saturday.
As one McLaren man told me: "If the new rear wing developments work, and we work well on Friday, we could finish one-two. If they don't and we don't..."
If they don't, well, it could be all over for Hamilton and Button by Sunday night.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2010/10/crunch_time_in_korea_for_mclar.html
Lamborghini Murcielago Yeniceri Edition by Unicate
Named after an elite fighting squad from the Ottoman Empire, the Yeniceri features a reduced ride height, LED lights, and ConcavTen wheels.Phantom 61 Falcon GT........New Roof On.......10/29
I am taking the roof from a 66 Mustang and making a phantom Falcon GT..
I have started a phantom Mustang panel and this will be the HT GT...More coming soon...
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Freitag, 29. Oktober 2010
Your questions answered - Japanese Grand Prix
Does Lewis Hamilton have the composure and ability to get his title challenge back on track? Who do I think have been the best new team? Who would I like to win the world championship and who do I think will? Is there a chance this season's title fight could go down to a last-race climax as exciting as 1986?
Watch my answers below.
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Red Bull only left with one choice, but will they take it?
As I have been saying for weeks now, Christian Horner must back Mark Webber for the Championship or risk losing it. After an eventful Korean Grand Prix, it is looking rather more like the latter of those two statements.
Everything looked rosy for the Championship leaders after qualifying with the team securing their 8th front row lockout of the season. But all that was before ...
My fascinating and educational weekend in Korea
Hello from 30,000 feet.
As I write this, it's 1300 BST on Monday but my body clock is about as confused as Force India's Adrian Sutil appeared this weekend.
I'm not sure what's going on or where I am, to be honest, such are the effects of travelling across various time zones at all hours.
After another fascinating race weekend, we'll soon be landing in Paris, before our final leg to London and, a few moments ago, a few of the BBC team decided to do a little freshening up.
There were about five of us all lined up outside the claustrophobic plane toilet cleaning our teeth and I commented to one of the producers that we resembled a load of early morning students getting ready to head to lectures.
Now, people often ask how I ended up as a TV presenter, and the answer my Mum always hates me giving is that I failed my A-levels.
I must quickly provide the caveat at this point that I did indeed return to Norwich's Hewett High School for an extra year and emerged with decent grades in English, Politics and Psychology (the middle one is particularly handy working in F1!).
However, it was while retaking my exams that I started doing work experience at Anglia TV, which led to a job earning around �5,000 a year. Then it was on to CBBC and eventually to standing next to Eddie Jordan and David Coulthard in the pit lanes of the world.
Quite a story, and I've been incredibly lucky. However, I do feel I've missed out on one element of life - being a student.
Thankfully, I think this job sometimes allows me to glimpse what life must be like living with a bunch of like-minded mates, enjoying work and play in not quite equal measure.
I guess the difference is that instead of the bus into Manchester it's a flight to Melbourne; in place of lectures, it's live TV.
However, many elements are the same, and this weekend was a bit like a student field trip as we tackled the mammoth journey to the the Yeongam circuit.
Caption: "The start-finish line at the Yeongam circuit rising high above the F1 drivers at the weekend Photograph: Getty"
The flight itself is no more arduous than to China or Japan; it was more the journey at the other end, really.
Recently new circuits have been near or even in big cities - Shanghai, Valencia, Singapore and soon Delhi. However, this certainly isn't the case in South Korea.
Imagine, if you can, Bernie Ecclestone announcing a Grand Prix in Middlesbrough.
Now, this is by no means a dig at the north-east, just a reference to the fact that 'Boro is about five hours by coach from London and an area more famous for shipbuilding and fishing than for its motorsport heritage. Just like Mokpo, the nearest town to the Korea International Circuit.
And that brings me on nicely to our home for the weekend.
Once we'd bumbled almost the entire length of South Korea we arrived at our 'love hotel' in Mokpo on the Yellow Sea coast.
Now, I'm not going to make another comparison here about student lifestyle. However, the 'Orange Motel' actually played quite a pivotal role in our weekend, and created quite a stir among the media.
The reason for the love hotels' existence is that young people in South Korea often stay at home until they are married and therefore need somewhere they can go for a little privacy.
Well, it seems love hotels make up most of the potential accommodation in Mokpo, so clearly business is booming!
Despite reports to the contrary, the rooms were clean, pretty normal and exactly what you need if looking for somewhere to simply grab a few hours' kip each evening.
One of our team, however, found an electric 'love chair' in his room, complete with diagrams on the wall. I'll leave the rest to your imagination.
The Koreans were incredibly keen to impress the world, and were quite unhappy about the perception generated in some quarters that these places were akin to brothels. So one evening I arrived back at the hotel to find a local Korean TV news camera crew were keen to come into my room and interview me about my experience.
Needless to say, I felt a little uneasy answering questions about whether we have love hotels in Europe, and the crew wanting to film me "looking natural" and "going about my business".
It was an educational weekend in a number of ways.
We are all so used to having total control of our lives that it can be a liberating experience to head to a foreign land and 'go with the flow'.
In Singapore, you could almost be in any modern city in the world, such is its lack of character as high-rise steel and glass buildings slowly eat up the structures that would have once defined it.
It's fair to say they're not averse to a sky-scraper or two in Korea, but it is also a country like no other I've ever visited, and one where you do feel you're getting a taste of a totally different culture.
There is very little English spoken, so meals are quite an exciting lottery, and our morning spent filming at a fish market was incredible.
Using the universal language of hand signals and smiles, we were able to film the piece we wanted and it was clear that the locals were definitely excited about the arrival of F1 on their shores.
Their education in the sport could do with a little work, though.
We were showing them pictures of the five title contenders and every time they pointed to any picture they said "Schumacher", such is the great man's global appeal still I guess.
It was also a new experience arriving at the circuit.
In the past few years perhaps new venues such as Abu Dhabi and Singapore have spoilt us somewhat; certainly I've never experienced any sporting venue as unfinished as this one getting the nod to host a global sporting event in front of millions.
There is no question that in time it will be great, and that the paddock and grandstands are impressive. What it really lacked, though, was anything that separated it from the rest.
Apart from the Far Eastern-looking bridge over the start-finish line, there was nothing that told of the local culture, or defined it.
It wasn't helped by being surrounded by flatlands as far as the eye could see. In fact, coming from a Fenland farming family, I felt quite at home.
However, the race was anything but flat.
I enjoyed our pre-race build up, but it does feel strange doing the show without one of the three amigos.
Because Eddie, David and I have only hosted Formula 1 with each other, it does feel there is a big part of the magic missing when one of us isn't there.
This season David has missed Spain and Korea, EJ wasn't in China and I was otherwise engaged for Japan. Come Brazil, though, we'll be reunited!
David was joining us live from a few thousand miles away at the McLaren HQ - we wanted to give an idea of the lengths to which teams go to ensure they are totally on top of all the possibilities when it comes to the race.
McLaren are among the teams who have a group of engineers following the race live from their factory, and feeding in advice live back to the engineers on the pit wall. And the way things unfolded, that proved to be invaluable as David gave us updates from the very heart of the team as he listened to the drivers' radio chatter in 'Mission Control' during a real race of attrition.
I was monitoring the comments from Chris Evans and many other F1 fans on my Twitter feed and it was clear that you guys were unimpressed by the delay at the start.
"Best cars, best drivers but they won't race in the rain?", "Shame on these guys, start the race and those who don't fancy it can pull into the pits," were just two of the comments. Many hundreds more were the same.
Martin Brundle said in commentary that perhaps F1 shouldn't bother with wet tyres any longer.
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Well, if you had pressed the red button after the show, we were lucky enough that Jenson Button joined us for around 15 minutes to discuss all kinds of elements of the race. We even rode onboard with him as he explained how similar the camera shot was to what he was actually seeing.
He confirmed that the visibility was almost nil, that he could hardly see his front wheels and he had to keep wiping his visor. At this point I must admit that there was next to no rain and it had only been drizzle for the previous 30 minutes. So what was the problem?
Later that evening I spoke to the race director Charlie Whiting, who confirmed the problem was visibility as opposed to the amount of rain falling.
One could assume that, having never run a test weekend, perhaps the circuit wasn't quite ready for its wet weather baptism.
Mind you, the conditions did make for a corking grand prix once that action started.
Mark Webber touching the paint, kissing the wall and then being crunched into by Nico Rosberg meant it was all eyes on leader Sebastian Vettel.
Before long we reached three-quarters race distance, which meant full points were awarded and Webber was no doubt thinking of his team-mate snatching all 25 points and the championship lead.
Meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton had jumped Fernando Alonso at the pit stop and then lost it at Turn One, while Button was engaged in his own titanic struggle. He revealed live on the F1 Forum that he was running a different set-up to Hamilton that didn't seem to help.
I was watching the race unfold with EJ at McLaren as that was due to be our Forum location. Jenson's team were sinking lower in their chairs as he was fighting it out with the back-markers, while Lewis had others on the edge of their seats. It was incredible to watch the differing emotions within a team.
How were your emotions when Vettel suddenly slowed, Alonso skipped past and the impotent RB6 pulled to the side?
That moment cost Vettel 32 points and the championship lead. Why 32? Well, in that one moment he lost all 25 of his, and gifted 7 extra, vital points to Alonso.
What a season Alonso could have for Ferrari.
He won his first race, the Italian GP and could now become the fourth Ferrari driver since Fangio, Jody Scheckter and Kimi Raikkonen to win the title for Ferrari in his debut season.
I guess we'll find out what unfolds in two weeks' time at Interlagos - and you don't need me to remind you what has happened in Brazil the past five seasons. Will the title be decided there again?
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/jakehumphrey/2010/10/my_fascinating_and_educational.html
Jackie Stewart interview: ?I was fortunate to race in my era? (Part 1)
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Bahrain F1: Live Race Results and Positions after 1st Lap
Here are the standings after the 1st lap at Bahrain F1 Grand Prix:
1 VETTEL ? Red Bull
2 ALONSO ? Ferrari
3 MASSA ? Ferrari
4 ROSBERG ? Mercedes
5 HAMILTON ? McLaren
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R32 skyline weekend track use
hey guys. This one was a stock GTR that i thought needed some added spice.
i decided to try my hand at building a roll cage from scratch (thanks to all who offered advice on here) so it's not perfect but for my first attempt at it i'm pretty happy.. even though my 1 yr old daughter thought otherwise and "helped" daddy. after fixing that up it's coming along slowly.
just letting the body gas out after clear coating the decals and carbon hood, then i'll polish it out and hopefully by then i'll have the suspension sorted and it can go together
the little gauges, switches etc. are all scratch built. the switches(yellow) were some metal bits from the local discount electrical store.. no idea what they're for but awesome for modelling! gauges are all sprue offcuts with detail master gauge faces then a drop of clear. playing with a water filled gauge at the moment.. post it if it works out.
anyways, i'll stop babbling now.
this was my template for the cage
and my highly technical measuring device.. a piece of styrene strip and a marker!
you can see the white styrene tube running alont the roofline.. pretty close. i love eyeball engineering
as always, comments are welcome.. good bad whatever.
any advice/constructive criticism is welcome too
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Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2010
Ecclestone pushes for Mosley return
Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that he sees no reason why Max Mosley should not be handed a new role within the FIA.
The former FIA president opted not to stand for re-election last year and was replaced by Jean Todt.
However, Ecclestone said of Mosley: "Yeah, I didn't want him to go. It would be nice to have him back. Max could be president of the FIA looking after Formula One ...
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93 ej1 fixed
hi im new to this site but not new to building im still a rookie but im learning . here my ej1 its gunna be rhd , wire tucked n maybe turboed . and every thing else stock as can be but side skirts n rear bumber came with the kit . let me know what you think thanks
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Official F1 2010 game by Codemasters arrives in September
July 7 '10
"F1 2010" is an upcoming official game of the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship and will include all of the official 12 teams, 24 drivers and 19 circuits from the 2010 season. It will be released in September 2010 on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows platforms. Before the opening race of the South Korean Grand Prix in October, players can drive the new Korean International Circuit!
Some of the features of the game have been revealed in the F1 2010 developer videos (below) by Codemasters Studios.
Tracks and Cars
The new video takes viewers behind the scenes at F1 2010 developers, Codemasters Birmingham, and shows how all of the cars and circuits from the exhilarating 2010 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP? have been painstakingly recreated in the game.
To deliver fans the most authentic FORMULA ONE? experience, CAD (Computer Aided Design) data and extensive reference photography has been used to accurately simulate the 19 circuits that will host the 2010 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. Once tracks are created, former FORMULA ONE driver Anthony Davidson, who is working as Technical Consultant on F1 2010, gives his feedback from a driver?s perspective about the look and feel of each circuit in-game.
?Driving the real world circuits enables me to give that impression to the guys creating the game,? said Davidson. ?There?s all these details that only a driver would know about. For instance, turn eight in Spa; I know straight away any car I have ever driven there always understeers and it?s knowing that kind of detail as a driver that you can get over into the game. The circuits feel really spot on.?
- www.formula1-game.com
Weather
In the video, the wide ranging effects of weather and their impact in the game are revealed. FORMULA ONE test driver Anthony Davidson explains that although you have some information about the weather at your disposal, how you use that information is crucial: ?The teams know by the radar where the weather is coming from and how long it?s going to last. You?ll be aware of what the weather?s doing roughly, and then you can make your call, just like you would in real life.?
In career mode, F1 2010?s weather system is fully dynamic, mirroring real life conditions which change at any time, whether between sessions or during a session itself. The weather authentically reflects the conditions at each of the 19 GRAND PRIX? locations, meaning rain is unlikely at Abu Dhabi but conditions can be unpredictable at Spa and Silverstone. Presenting a further challenge, players can set the weather conditions and experience the dramatic affect they have on racing in GRAND PRIX, Time Trial and Multiplayer modes.
- www.formula1-game.com
Handling
Anthony Davidson, who has been embedded into the team, explains the unique ?twitchy? way in which FORMULA ONE cars handle and how this is translated into authentic gameplay. His experience, combined with real world data and feedback from the teams, drivers and tyre manufacturers is enabling the F1 2010 team to bring alive the sensation of being an F1 racing driver like never before. As in real life, aerodynamics plays a pivotal role in racing, and players will feel how cars can corner at extremely high speed yet perform very differently at lower speeds.
- www.formula1-game.com
Thanks to www.formula1-game.com. Video credit: eurogamer
Japanese brands still dominate U.S. reliability survey
Toyota's Scion brand was the most reliable marque in the Consumer Reports survey. Porsche was number 2. But the survey showed marked improvements for GM and Ford brands while Audi, BMW and Mercedes took a hit.NBC and NASCAR working on producing new reality drama series
The ever-growing TV niche that is reality television is in the process of adding one new member to its family, and this time around, every NASCAR-loving person in the world should definitely stand up and take notice.
NBC, together with NASCAR, is in the process of developing a reality-based TV show that will center on the world of NASCAR. The show, which has been given the working title ?The Crew?, will be written and produced by Joe Pokaski ? you might remember him from his work with Heroes ? with NBC Universal-based producer Scott Stuber. The idea for the show centers around a NASCAR racing team where, despite having their own personal lives, still works together to become the best team they could be.
No timetable has been set on when the show will begin to air, but NBC is working hard on acquiring licenses from NASCAR to use names, logos, tracks, and race footage to make the show as realistic as possible.
Nevertheless, this NASCAR-centered reality drama will definitely attract its share of viewers when the show begins airing on NBC. When that will be is still up in the air, but consider our curiosities to be definitely piqued, especially considering NBC gave up the opportunity to host America’s version of Top Gear because they didn’t feel America would respond well to a car themed TV show. Hmm...
NBC and NASCAR working on producing new reality drama series originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 21:00 EST.