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Penske’s Pagenaud on Indy 500 Pole. McLaren Shut Out
Simon Pagenaud, driver of the #22 Penske IndyCar Chevrolet V6, qualifies fastest Sunday May 19, 2019, capturing the pole position for the IndyCar Series Indianapolis 500. The 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 will take place on Sunday, May 26. Continue reading
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Ballot 3/8 LC Due at 2019 Hampton Court Concours of Elegance
The cutting-edge French racing car, capable of 124 mph, was driven to victory at the 1921 Italian Grand Prix in Brescia by Jules Goux. The engine’s double overhead camshafts, four valves-per-cylinder and hemispherical combustion chambers were the works Ernest Henry. Continue reading
50 Years of Porsche 917 to be Celebrated at Goodwood
After having won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 917 short tail did it again the following year by carrying Martini Racing colors and the number ’22’ and with Gijs van Lennep and Helmut Marko sharing the driving. Continue reading
McLaren Confirms Multi-Year Deal with IMSA Sportscar Championship
Customer team Compass Racing will roll out with the 720S GT3 for the first time at the inaugural round of the Sprint Cup at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course next month, running in the highly-competitive GT Daytona (GTD) class. Continue reading
New 2020 Mustang High Performance 330-hp Four Banger
This appears to be – subject to Dodge and Chevrolet responses – the most powerful four-cylinder sports car offered by an American automaker. This comes from an, ahem, EcoBoost engine via Ford Performance and upgraded handling components from the Mustang GT Performance Package. Continue reading
Chinese Driver Ye Yifei Joins Renault Sport Academy
The 18-year-old, who hails from Xian, China is claimed to be one of the most promising stars of the junior categories. In 2019 Yifei will race for Hi-tech GP in the FIA Formula 3 Championship. Yifei started karting aged ten, taking two national titles. At 14, he made the move to Europe and single-seaters. In 2016 Yifei became the first Chinese driver to win an international title winning the French F4 championship with 14 wins, 17 fastest laps and 10 pole positions. Continue reading
F1 Champ Mika Häkkinen to Run Suzuka in McLaren 720s GT3
Häkkinen will make his debut start at the Suzuka 10 Hour alongside two-time Super Formula champion Hiroaki Ishiura and Japanese Formula 3 racer Katsuaki Kubota. The trio will drive the new 720S GT3 for the fourth round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli on 23-25 August. Further information on the entry, including details of the customer team that will be running the car, will be confirmed in the coming weeks. Continue reading
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Tagged auto industry commentary, autoinformed.com, automotive blog, Ken Zino, McLaren 720S GT3, Mika Häkkinen
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2019 Corvette Grand Sport to Pace 103rd Indianapolis 500
Indianapolis 500 fans also will see 33 2019 Corvette Stingrays on the roads of Central Indiana this spring and in the IPL 500 Festival Parade on May 25 in downtown Indianapolis. The popular cars are provided to central Indiana business leaders and dignitaries and serve as a promotional role for the race, Chevrolet and Corvette. This is the first time since 2007 that matching Corvettes are serving as the 500 Pace Car and festival cars. Continue reading
Porsche E-sports – First Global Virtual Racing Series?
Forty “sim racers,” who have successfully made their way through a global qualifying process, will compete in series of ten online races – the first gets underway on April 13 on the virtual version of the Barber Motorsport Park in Alabama, USA. The final race will take place on September 28 at the Circuit Monza, Italy. The championship offers a $100,000 prize pool, according to a 1 April release. Continue reading
Sebring Twelve Hours – Half the Daytona Race, 25% of the Rain
The No. 911 Porsche GT Team 911 RSR of Nick Tandy, Patrick Pilet and Frederic Makowiecki won at Sebring for the second straight year by just 1.951 seconds over the hard-luck No. 66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT of Joey Hand, Dirk Mueller and Sebastien Bourdais in GTLM. Continue reading
Sebring This Weekend – Endurance Test for Sports Cars, Fans
Two Porsche 911 RSR cars* on Friday will race more than 1,000 miles at round six of the Sports Car World Endurance Championship (aka WEC), with another two identical Porsche models on Saturday undertaking the twelve-hour IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at the so-called Super Sebring race this weekend. Continue reading
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Tagged auto industry commentary, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, automotive blog, endurance racing, Hans Herrmann and Jo Siffert, imsa, Ken Zino, sports car racing, Twelve Hours of Sebring, wec
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Toyota Gazoo Racing Enters e-Motorsports
Toyota claims that involving e-motorsports as one of the pillars of TGR motorsports activities, shows it is actively working to make motorsports and sport cars more accessible, and enjoyable across generations and around the world. Owners of the Gran Turismo Sport for PS4 and PS4 software; are eligible and participants must be six years old or older. There will be 13 rounds scheduled for 2019 with a one-race final event held at the Tokyo Motor Show in October. Continue reading
Supercomputers, 3D Printing Used for Mustang Shelby GT500
“We created and studied designs among the engineering teams and proved out different strategies long before we built our first prototype cars,” said Matt Titus, Ford Performance vehicle engineer. “Not only did this improve the effectiveness of the designs, it reduced the time it took to develop the GT500 – and the costs associated with that.” Continue reading
St. Petersburg: Newgarden in Penske Chevy Wins Opener
In a tough technical race that called into question the safety of IndyCar’s emerging philosophy to keep street tracks running under green with only local yellow flags. As a result, there were several accidents – luckily non injury but machine shredding – after initial accidents occurred as speeding race cars tried to squeeze by. Continue reading
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Tagged auto industry commentary, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, automotive blog, indycar, Ken Zino
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Speedway Motorsports Ownership Scuffle Underway
Whether this is simply a legal ploy that allows the Smith family to take over the Speedway at a bargain price by demonstrating due diligence, or just exhaust noise designed to talk the stock up remains to be seen. Continue reading →