Track Day Motor Sports

Mini returns in international rallying. From 2011 to the British in selected rounds of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC be) represented and contested in 2012 the entire season. No flash in the pan, the commitment has been created over several years. Emergency vehicle is the Mini Countryman WRC, which is developed on the basis of the standard model of Prodrive in close cooperation with Mini. The first test use of the Mini Countryman WRC will take place in autumn 2010.

As a powerful heart of the four wheel drive racing car makes a 1.6-liter four-cylinder turbo engine from BMW Motorsport for the rich propulsion. The car meets the new regulations of Super2000-FIA International Automobile Federation, which requires the use of turbo engines of 1,600 cc and all-wheel drive. In addition, the new vehicles come in with enhanced technologies relevant to the production to use. The result is a significant total cost reduction of 25 percent. Read more…

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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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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