Kia Motors Motors America announced today that they will team up with Kinetic Motorsports to bring the Kia Forte Koup to compete in the Street Tuner class in the Koni Challenge next year. Stalwarts Andy Lally and Nic Jonsson have been tapped by Kia and Kinetic to pilot the cars in 2010.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Penske Performance President Tim Cindric confirmed Penske's plans for the 2010 racing season.
Friday, October 9, 2009
AutoWeekRacing.com is reporting that J.C. France was, “was arrested just past midnight Thursday morning after police stopped him following an alleged street race in Daytona Beach, Fla. J. C. France was charged with driving under the influence and possession of cocaine.”
Friday, October 2, 2009
Indy Car: Vitor Returns to Indy – After his crash in this year’s 500 Vitor Meira returned to IMS for a test this week. Grand Am: Bosch Engineering Octoberfest Preview – Koni Challenge drivers talk about the upcoming race at VIR coming up on Sunday October 4th. Formula 1: Renault Penalty Verdict - So these two guys from Australia Max [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Penske’s deal to buy Saturn from GM and outsource manufacturing to another manufacturer has fallen through. It was believe that Penske was negotiating with Renault to take over the manufacture of Saturns but the details apparently could not be worked out. Penske Automotive released a statement that said they had negotiated an agreement with another manufacturer [...]
Friday, September 25, 2009
On the About Us page of the Grand Am website they refer to the Daytona Prototypes (DPs) as an “extremely raceable and relatively affordable format”. DPs cost between $400,000 and $500,000 and are available from five separate constructors and have approved power plants from seven different manufacturers (both import and domestic). Each of these seven [...]
Thursday, September 24, 2009
According to AutoWeek Scott Pruett will not be assisting the the test of the new RSR (formerly RocketSports) Jaguar XKR this weekend at Petit Le Mans as was originally planned. This is most likely due to the fact that it was originally to occur on Friday during practice and is now looking like it will be more [...]
Monday, September 21, 2009
My relatively random thoughts on this past race weekend 9/18 – 9/20/2009:
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Grand Am has posted a video of some drivers thoughts on the test at Indy. It’s worth checking out. Come on 12 Hours @ the Brickyard!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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