Toyota F1 Parts Sale
Looks like Toyota is wanting to clear out some of the garage space in their Cologne Germany GP headquarters, because they’re selling off some race used bits and bobs. Man, I could have titled this post, “Chris, give me a raise.”
Category: Racing
Jun 03, 2009 | 0 comments
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They Call It Memorial Day For A Reason
The last Monday in May is Memorial Day. The Day before that, is, for gearhaeds and car racing fans, A High Holy Day. It is a day for us, like The Hajj is to a Muslim. It is on this day, Memorial Day, that The Indianapolis 500 is run, and occasionally on the same day, [...]
NASCAR Racer Jeremy Mayfield Suspended For Drug Abuse
We don’t normally talk about racing much here at Automoblog, but since it is the month of May, and the racing season is really starting to cook, and this is something you don’t normally see in the racing world, it’s worth taking a look at. Jeremy Mayfield, NASCAR driver and team owner along with two [...]
May 11, 2009 | 2 comments
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Tobey Maguire To Play Phil Hill In Biopic
While poking around for background info on another car story I came across this little bit of (what could be) great news: Hollywood will be doing a biopic about Phil Hill, the first American world driving champion, and Tobey Maguire is going to take the lead.
Like all announcements of upcoming racing movies, I look upon [...]
May 06, 2009 | 2 comments
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Digger Worst Mascot In Racing
Like a lot of you, I’m a racing fan. I’m not really into NASCAR, but I do watch it if nothing else is on. Recently, NASCAR, showing their ever-present good taste, decided to come up with a mascot for its ground mounted track cameras. Yeah, that’s what was really needed, a frinking mascot for an [...]
Apr 07, 2009 | 2 comments
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Panoz Back To ALMS Prototypes With Bio-Fuel?
Don Panoz is an inventive guy. He’s responsible for the nicotine patch. And then he took the (considerable amount of) money from that and started a winery AND a sportscar company. And then after that, he started The American Le Mans Series (the ALMS) to bring big-time sportscar racing back to America and more in [...]
Mar 24, 2009 | 0 comments
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Oh Look, Keanu Reeves Wants To Be A Racer
It seems that Keanue Reeves has gotten bored with his, er, talent still unrecognized by the members of The Academy, and has decided to pursue car racing. Luckily for us, it doesn’t seem to be anything too serious or anything approaching long term goals, because normally, when actors want to be race car drivers, it’s [...]
Mar 19, 2009 | 5 comments
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Mitsubishi Call it Quits On Dakar And Cross-Country Rallies
What?! ARRGH! In the words of Charlie Brown, ARRGH!
Mitsubishi recently announced that they have decided to pull the plug on their factory operations racing in the Dakar Rally as well as all other cross-country rally events. You know, the usual (for this period) reasons: economic downturn etc etc etc. Still, this is a blow.
Mitsubishi [...]
Mar 05, 2009 | 0 comments
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