This is probably the coolest behind the scenes F1 video you will see all year. Sauber’s chief designer, Matt Morris, explains how a modern day Formula One car is put together using this very cool full size cutaway racecar. Everything is pretty tightly packaged, including the driver, which you will see when Sergio Perez is placed inside the cutaway.
It’s taken Sauber two years to put this display together and they deserve our thanks and admiration. Great job guys!
Here, from a worm’s eye view, is an awesome battle for position during a Porsche Carrera Cup event held over the Nürburgring 24 hour race weekend. The video takes us on a white knuckle ride for a full lap of the Nordschleife. We know you’re gonna like this one, so sit back and enjoy the ride.
Conor Daly has walked away from this spectacular and horrific accident in yesterday’s GP3 race at the Monaco Grand Prix. The 20-year-old was battling for position in his Lotus GP with Dimitry Suranovich from Marussia Manor Racing. The scrap between the two drivers began at Mirabeau and ended brutally just after the tunnel.
For his part in the crash Suranovich was disqualified from the event, deemed to have ignored warning flags after losing his rear wing and making too many moves to defend his position.
Video of the incident can be seen below and we only have to look back to the loss of Dan Wheldon to realise just how lucky young Daly was to survive this crash.
Conor Daly is the son of former F1 driver Derek Daly. He’s now in reasonably good spirits and thankful for modern safety technology, tweeting: “Thank you @GP3_Official for having a safe car. That was definitely the biggest crash Ive ever had. #mymomwillbethankfultoo”
[Thanks to Chris & Micky for the tips]
In his latest video Chris Harris reveals one of the first cars he lusted after as a child was the E28 BMW M5. He says at the time he could barely imagine sitting in one. And now he has one all of his own. He still loves it.
Perhaps it’s the comparatively simple nature of 1980’s engineering which has allowed for a more casual approach from Harris. This, we think, is one of his best Drive videos yet.
When we first saw a link to this video a day or two back we were attracted by the promise of Nico Rosberg and Mika Hakkinen driving the Monaco Grand Prix circuit in a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster. A couple of F1 stars on one of motorsport’s most famous tracks; sounds like it could be okay, right?
So you can imagine our distaste when we saw what can only be described as the total shite dished up in this production. We challenge you to watch all 3 minutes and 27 seconds of it.
Worse, is the fact that Mercedes-Benz has been pushing this clip on media portals around the globe. Has anyone associated with Benz they actually watched it? Surely not, they’d be too embarrassed to admit to its existence if they had.
The only positive we can take from the footage is that the Monaco GP is on this weekend. Oh yeah!
Following yesterday’s news concerning Sydney Motorsport Park we can now bring you an onboard lap of the new 4.5km Long Circuit.
V8 Supercar driver Jonathon Webb is at the wheel of a Radical sportscar and the new section of track starts at 1:03 into the clip. The 830m extension to the original Eastern Creek layout takes around 30 seconds for Webb to complete.
[Source: Speedcafe]
It seems the latest internet meme sweeping the world is to get into your Lamborghini Gallardo, drive it like a tossbag and see how long it takes until you to spin it around so that you’re facing oncoming traffic.
On the evidence of this video it’s Green 1–Orange nil.
Details on the location and ramifications of this latest clip to come our way are scarce. One detail is pretty clear, though: don’t drive like this on a public road, for any of the obvious reasons that immediately spring to mind.
[Thanks to Pete for the tip]
In his latest Drive video Chris Harris takes to Brands Hatch in a Porsche 911 Turbo S and a Nissan GT-R Track Pack (available in the UK and Japan only). It’s not the first time the Turbo S has found itself in an online battle against the GT-R. Of course, it won’t be the last either.
To the question Harris’ mind: Does the £10K extra asked for the Track Pack over the standard GT-R make a noticeable and worthwhile difference? And, which of these two cars would he take home, assuming a desire for a daily driver capable of handling the odd track day?
Youtube channel Drive takes us to Stuttgart and inside the Porsche Classic workshop with this recent video.
Porsche Classic has a turnover of around 300 cars a year, which are attended to by a team or experts old and new. Anything from a rusty 356 requiring a back to metal rebuild, to 1960s 911s and more technically advanced 959s can be seen inside the workshop.
Original parts and tooling are used, where possible, and parts from Porsche Classic can be ordered through the broader dealership network around the globe. Interestingly, where documentation doesn’t exist, Porsche will make contact with retired former employees to confirm precise details.
It’s about emotion, they say, and ensuring that the proud record of Porsches remaining in active service continues. It’s claimed something like 70% of all Porsches ever made are still on the road.
Colin McRae tearing up the “Mad Manx” on the Isle of Man in a beautifully prepared MkII Ford Escort. What’s not to love. Check out this great archival footage and marvel in the commitment shown by McRae in his lightweight, yet brutal, pocket rocket.
If you don’t get a kick out of this clip, there’ll be no pleasing you. Ever.
Assuming you do enjoy these highlights rather a lot, we expect you’ll also enjoy finding out more about that Ford Escort.
[Source: Road Magazine]
Sometimes all you have to do is watch and laugh.
Remember kids, there’s always a time and place if you want to fool around. Public roads are definitely not the place.
[via Autoblog]
Stiges Terramar is a little known oval racing circuit near Barcelona in Spain. Its concrete construction, featuring 60° banking, was completed around 80 years ago. It’s one of the oldest tracks in Europe, apparently second only to Brooklands in England.
In 1923 Stiges Terramar hosted a sanctioned Grand Prix event. However, the gate receipts were taken by the builders who were trying to recover unpaid funds from cost overruns. No prizemoney was able to be passed to the drivers and the circuit was never used for a GP race again. Minor events were held sporadically over the next three decades, with the last recorded action being in the 1950s.
Until now. Red Bull grabbed a pair of Spanish driving stars—dual world rally champ Carlos Sainz and current DTM racer Miguel Molina—and put them in a top-spec Audi R8 LMS and said go your hardest lads. The result is a nicely produced video which returns the thunder of racing to Terramar.
The clip has plenty of history about the track, too. Only trouble is the voiceovers are all in Spanish. Good for you if you can understand it, but if you just want to watch the action fast forward to about five minutes in.
[via Autoblog]