Unfortunately there has been to many problems with the local rep to organise the Bukit Putus BallsOut event that was schedule on 30 Oct 2010, and we have decided to cancel the event rather than put everyone’s hopes up after the previous postponement. It has turned out to be a bit of a farce with [...]
It began with Alonso leading the championship, then Mclaren’s 2 drivers leading the way. Lately Red Bull has come to the fore. Now with 2 races to go, Alonso returns to lead We’re referring to the F1 Driver’s Championship lead of course. 5 drivers with a chance, albeit a narrow one for Jenson, with 2 [...]
I went to get a bunch of laps at Sepang’s North Circuit in the Petronas Formula BMW racecar from the Petronas Formula Xperience (PFX) program for young drivers. It’s a Real Racing Car this: proper slicks, sequential shift with a clutch, non-servo brakes and downforce. The PFX racing school was established in 2006, and targeted [...]
Valentino Rossi finally has permission from Yamaha racing boss Masao Furusawa to switch to Ducati for the Valencia tests, which take place in the days after the season finale at the Spanish track on 7 November. “Last night I spoke with Furusawa,” Rossi was quoted as saying by Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, “and he [...]
BMW, currently in endurance racing with the M3 and the WTCC in 320i are returning to their former playground, The Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, or DTM for short. The weapon of choice, naturally, is the M3. In 2012 BMW will go up againts old foes, Audi and Mercedes-Benz, aiming to add to their 3 titles. The past titles [...]
Datuk Syed Zainal has just officially announced the name of the new PROTON model, based on the current model Mitsubishi Lancer, which he mentioned “is tentatively set to be launched by November 10″. Sales bookings are now open at all Proton Edar and EON dealerships, with prices starting from RM 79,888 for the base model, [...]
We took the VW Scirocco to our own Touge event at Bukit Putus for a performance test of the gorgeous VW Scirocco. That weekend, it performed all tasks requested of it admirably, and proved itself to be an incredibly desirable, everyday sports car. This included high-speed highway cruising transporting 4 adults and a bootful of [...]
Jason Plato’s second win in a day at Brands Hatch secured his second BTCC crown, nine years after he won his first for Vauxhall. “It’s been a fantastic weekend and I’m just over the moon,” Plato said. “We really hit the sweet spot with the car this weekend, which we’ve only done once or twice before this [...]
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to postpone the Bukit Putus BallsOut Touge and Drift event to 30 Oct 2010. Times and schedule at the same. Tengku Djan and some of Malaysia’s top drifters will be attending, with Djan giving Taxirides to 10 lucky guys who’ve signed up and forked out RM [...]
Autocar’s Steve Cropley interviews Lotus’s new CEO Dany Bahar for the inside story on how they will carry out its plan. “I always had a weakness for this brand,” says Hethel’s rule-changing CEO of 12 months, Dany Bahar. “Even while I was working at Ferrari, I knew Lotus was special. But to me, the products weren’t [...]
Sebastien Loeb clinched a record seventh consecutive World Rally Championship title with the 60th win of his career and his sixth of the season – in his home rally in France. He secured the title in his home town of Haguenau in front of a vast and ecstatic local crowd. “For sure it makes it [...]
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