Corvette Racing partner squad Pratt Miller Motorsports will add a prototype programme to its IMSA SportsCar Championship roster next season by fielding an LMP2 entry alongside its GTD Pro effort.Pietro Fittipaldi has switched from the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing IndyCar programme to lead its driver line-up in an ORECA-Gibson 07. He will be joined by Irishman…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration hit Ford with a $165 million fine over its handling of recalled backup cameras on almost 600,000 cars this week. The fine, which is the second-largest penalty in the agency’s history, will see the Blue Oval pay $65 million upfront, with an additional $100 million due… Read more…
Unless he dies before he takes office, which, considering his age and mental state, isn’t implausible, Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States. Only time will tell just how many millions of lives will be ruined by his disastrous policies of hate and corporate deregulation, but if you need a clue……
After almost two decades working at one of the most successful junior single-seater teams in motorsport, Stephanie Carlin joined McLaren at the beginning of the year, supporting young drivers who are part of the team’s Driver Development Programme.Carlin’s route to the job is in stark contrast to the previous academy chief at the Formula 1…
Audi bosses called the cops on their own workers on Wednesday after employees protesting a plant closure in Belgium stormed a meeting between company executives and union officials. More than 150 protesters were escorted from the factory by police armed with batons and shields after they called for job security. Read more…
Frank Ocean’s “White Ferrari” hit the Spotify charts for the first time this week, which surely only says good things about our collective mental health. We’re all going fantastic, folks, and we will be forever. At least it wasn’t “Nikes.” Read more…
Stellantis is in trouble: Dealers are sitting on thousands of cars they can’t sell, even with discounts, there’s been rumors of brands that could be sold off and sales are so bad with some brands that their CEO has had to speak to foreign governments about their performance. Worse yet, aside from Jeep and Ram,…
Since the dawn of commercial jet travel, the uninformed masses have looked up at the skies and assumed the vapor trailing off of airliners was the government covertly spraying chemicals over the country. Contrails will be a topic of discussion at this month’s COP29 summit in OPEC+ member-state Azerbaijan. A recent… Read more…
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice 928 is claimed by its seller to have a “laser straight body.” That’s somewhat comical, considering there’s hardly a single straight line on Porsche’s bubble-butt coupe. Let’s see how straight the seller is being about the price. Read more…
Ask Jan Lammers to name his favourite racing car, and he doesn’t plump for any of the Formula 1 machines he raced or tested – and the latter category includes the world championship-winning Lotus 79.Nor does he go for the Toyota TS010 3.5-litre Group C contender he describes as the “fastest thing I ever drove”….
