At the IAA Mobility show, BMW has shown a new concept of what an e-bike could be in the near future.
Estimated time of travel between the two Canadian hubs is touted to take just 45 minutes, can carry around 54 passengers, and would cost around $70. For reference, a plane journey take 50 minutes, and travel by car is over 3 hours.
The British Open is one of the four golf tournaments classified as a “major”, a term appropriated by the SCCA but with a longer-standing history in the world of golf.
Winding Road Racing’s Austin location is moving to a new building on July 10th. We poured a fancy new ramp that is designed to work with race cars. We tested it out this week, and we’re happy to say it passed with flying colors!
You don’t want to miss this, we promise, at least if you have any interest at all in Formula 1.
Parents are typically excited to welcome a new arrival to the family, and so we are excited to announce a new partnership between Winding Road Racing and Thunderhill Raceway Park through which WRR will be the on-site retail provider of motorsports equipment at Thunderhill.
We’re pleased to announce the opening of our second location! The new office, which combines a storefront and a distribution warehouse, is located at 18437 Mt. Langely, Suite N in Fountain Valley.
Patrick Hoffstetter is our guest contributor this week. Patrick is a young scribe from Austin, Texas who attended the same Porsche Club of America event where we ran the 911 GT3 Cup car back in May. Here Patrick offers up some perspective on what it’s like to catch an event like this when you’re not running around doing race prep and instead just enjoying the spectacle and comradery of it all.
With over 350 million viewers in more than 170 countries, Top Gear is one of the most popular TV shows… in the world. The interplay between Clarkson, Hammond and May, their access to the most coveted vehicles ever built and equally desirable places to put them through their paces, and the freedom afforded to them by the hefty episode budgets that allows them to put their outlandish ideas into motion have made the series a hit amongst car lovers across the globe.
It comes at little surprise that Daniel Craig will find himself at the helm of an Aston Martin for the next 007 film, SPECTRE. But what sets the next film apart from its predecessors is that instead of Bond launching rockets and throwing out spike strips from a heavily modified version of a current product Aston Martin model, he will instead do so from the all-new DB10, a bespoke coupe designed specifically for the film.
Perfect for the racing junkie in your life, these films convey the intensity of competition in an honest and unfiltered way. Legendary races on the world’s most demanding tracks are captured here in a way that brings the viewer directly into the action. These are the films set the standard for racing cinema, and they’re guaranteed to be a hit with race fans both young and old.
A quarter mile of N329 highway in Oss, Netherlands is being used a trial run for an entirely new way of illuminating highways at night. Instead of relying on power-hungry overhead lights like traditional roadways, the road itself actually glows in the dark by way of a photo-luminescent powder integrated into the road paint.
In the world of console racing simulators, two franchises garner the lion’s share of attention: Forza Motorsport for Microsoft’s Xbox and Gran Turismo for Sony’s Playstation. But Slightly Mad Studios, the group behind the crowd-funded racing title Project Cars, might just have a legitimate contender on their hands.
The Electronics Entertainment Expo is going on right now, and for those that aren’t in the know, it’s one of the premier venues for new games. Both Sony and Microsoft have held press conferences about their new consoles, while many gaming studios have been previewing new titles, as well. And while we might be interested in the new Super Smash Bros. (What? It’s fun!), we know you’re aching to see the newest items in the world of racing games. We’re here to deliver, with a complete list of trailers for games like DriveClub, Forza Motorsports 5, Gran Turismo 6, Mad Max, and The Crew. Check out the list.
One series that’s struggled just below the top ranks of Forza and GT is Need For Speed. The old series was making waves three-and-a-half years before the original Gran Turismo arrived on our shores, but a string of lackluster or overly arcade-like titles and paired with a few critical misses have taken the shine off this old series. Need For Speed Rivals, due out on PC, XBox 360, and Playstation 3 on November 19, takes the series back to the halcyon days of Hot Pursuit, when the racing was between drivers and police.
Our colleagues in the tech industry had a busy night. Sony held its first Playstation 4 event, and while there was a great deal to talk about (including the fact that Sony didn’t even show the actual console), we’re most interested in the PS4’s first racing game.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, is to the world of video games and electronics what the Geneva Motor Show is to the auto world.…
Colin McRae’s beloved racing series “DiRT,” is making a departure from its established formula in the form of DiRT Showdown. The previous installments have been based firmly in reality, with rally racing taking center stage, as it should given the Colin McRae legacy. The latest DiRT project is taking a step in a different direction, a more violent direction, and we’re okay with that.
In anticipation of our upcoming review of Forza Motorsport 4 for the XBox 360, we’ve taken to finding ways to improve our virtual driving experience. Sure, using the regular controller works fine, but we prefer the feel of a wheel in our hands. We love the force feedback wheels we’ve used, but they are clunky, take up a lot of space, and are difficult to use unless attached to some solid piece of furniture. Now, we’ve come across a happy medium, the XBox 360 Wireless Speed Wheel.
The long awaited racing title for the PlayStation 3, Gran Turismo 5, has been delayed again. According to Sony, its November 2 release date has been cancelled, and the company now says it will release “this holiday season.”
In the process of putting together the GT3R Hybrid article, we certainly couldn’t help but notice that the car was proudly displaying the Gran Turismo name and logo across its windscreen. Now, as any driving gamer worth his salt is sure to know, Porsche has been conspicuous by its absence from every version of GT thus far. Could it be that the German automaker has changed its stance on offering its products to the hordes of GT fans?
Not really any news to report here, but we thought we’d take just a moment out of our day to show a newly dropped set of images from the upcoming GT5 title.
If there’s one aspect of driving that we’d much rather simulate than actually do, it would be having the fuzz breathing down our necks at 160 miles per hour (seriously, those days are long behind us). Luckily, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit was announced at E3.
