Track Day Motor Sports

Who is determined to master a specific mission, should participate in the Torpedo Run!

The Basic information: St. Moritz (Switzerland) – Turin (Italy) – St. Tropez (France) – Geneva (Switzerland)

Time: 24/09/2010 – 26/09/2010

New challenges, action-packed events, parties and eccentric gourmet delights prepared unforgettable hours. In the day events are fun and excitement combine to create a unique adventure. Read more…

The Opel Insignia Sports Tourer Opel OPC, the one image carrier par excellence have set the wheels: brawny, lifestyle, and with powerful vice ambitions comes the new OPC station wagon. A new promotional video shows the Insignia Sports Tourer OPC in the wild.

The Opel Insignia OPC Sports Tourer familiar as the OPC sedan on a 239 kW/325 hp and 435 Nm, 2.8-liter V6 turbo-power for adequate thrust.

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With biomethane into the “Green Hell” The three teams in the Volkswagen factory-loaded and prepared Scirocco GT24-CNG the 24-hour race at the Nurburgring take of 12 bis 16. to 16 Mai hoch motiviert in Angriff. May motivated to attack. 100 percent thanks to the use and alternative fuel bio-natural gas 80 percent fewer CO2 emissions – the Volkswagen team presents itself also well prepared for the legendary race on the Nordschleife. On Tuesday completed the three emergency vehicles in Oschersleben their final function and are thus ready for the motorsport marathon. At the Volkswagen squad relies on a diverse mix of riders: Peter Terting, Florian Gruber, Jimmy Johansson and Nicki Thiim the Junior Team are among the three Quartet. Vanina Ickx, Nasser Al-Attiyah, and Klaus Dieter Depping Niedzwiedz control the second vehicle. The Volkswagen Board for Technical Development, Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, and the head of chassis development for the Volkswagen brand, Prof. Dr. Stefan Gies, and Bernd Ostmann and Peter Wyss pilot of the third Scirocco GT24-CNG.

“A long-distance classics like the 24-hour race on the Nordschleife requires a meticulous and perfect preparation,” said Volkswagen Motorsport Director Kris Nissen. “Before this, I’m racing highlight good things: For every action, our team plays from the routine, which has also provided for two ‘Dakar’ victories and numerous class wins at the 24-hour race. “ Now we want to prove that bring technical innovations such as the bio-natural gas drive-ideal endurance properties and on the track for the stand that distinguishes Volkswagen road vehicles for years: reliability, sportiness and innovation. ”

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Mika Hakkinen, the Formula 1 world champion from 1998 and 1999, for years the humorous testimonial of Hermes-Versand. In the new commercial of German logistics company, he now plays the lead role. Again, the Finn is once more thanks to better tactics against another sovereign by höchgerüsteten cars.

For us, much more interesting: Häkkinen commercial vehicle is a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss. THE floor of Daimler.

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BMW has good memories of this event. 18 of the 37 previously awarded victory in the Eifel went to BMW drivers. Eight times the brand even celebrated a double success. BMW leads the eternal High-score not only the triumphs in the overall classification, but is also in the class wins again. 122 successes in the various categories are to date to book.

BMW opened in 1970, the list of winners of the 24 hours from the Nurburgring, as Clemens Schick dance and the young Hans-Joachim Stuck in a BMW 2002 ti triumphed. 1998 succeeded Andreas Bovensiepen, Marc Duez, Christian Menzel and stucco with the BMW 320d the first victory for a diesel-powered vehicles at the event.

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The 24-hour race at the Nurburgring on 15/16. May is fast approaching: Porsche and its customers, teams use the largest motorsport event in Germany a total of 33 vehicles. With the number one go the defending champions from Team Manthey Racing the race: the Porsche works driver Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas, Marc Lieb and Manthey pilot Marcel Tiemann pilot of the new, 480-hp 911 GT3 R. your ambitions, the fifth overall victory in retract a result, they have already indicated in the preliminary races before the Eifel marathon.

On the first and second round of the Endurance Championship Nürburgring happened to the yellow-green racer, the finish line first. “The new 911 GT3 R convinced me from the start with his highly predictable handling and reliability,” says Timo Bernhard. “These are precisely the qualities that a long-distance race car must have in order to easily get over the distance and at the end standing on the podium near the top.”

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Admittedly, it is unusual, the former “Rookie of the Year” Ken Block to see in a Ford Fiesta rather than in his
Subaru Impreza WRX. In a YouTube video presents Ken’s new Fiesta, which he, together with the Monster World Rally Team This year, both in the X-Games as well as in the Rally America Championship is the first time roll at the start.

The prelude to the Rally America Championship, the Sno * Drift Rally 29 bis 30. 30 Januar in Atlanta (Michigan) machen. Ken Block reaped at the X-Games and earned several medals last year in his rally debut in 2005, the title of “Rookie of the Year”. By the end of last year, he competed for the Subaru Rally Team USA in a Subaru Impreza, which it acquired through its Gymkhana on Youtube Videos reputation, and was the beginning of this year announced his move to Ford and his start in the World Rally Championship where he will start with a Ford Focus.

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Actually, it was expected that Danica Patrick is the first woman to be a long time since the cockpit in the formula one gets one, but two weeks ago Gachnang confirmed the Campos team, the young Swiss racer Natacha as a test driver. The Spanish racing team boss Adrian Campos is under 2010 in the series aboard , and works with chassis manufacturer Dallara race car at full speed on the premiere season.

As early as next week is the first vehicle tests in wind tunnel complete. Many staff for the new factory have already been set. Now, only missing the race drivers.

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It looks brutal, and his performance confirmed the impression: the new Fiesta, with the U.S. rally star Ken Block ‘s next gymkhana videos will turn it in him.

After he had left in the winter, the Subaru Rally Team and is switched to Ford, also a new vehicle for his millions intuited video was due: he was formerly on the road with a Subaru Impreza, it sounds almost modest that he has now switched to a Fiesta .

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