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Goodyear Introduces Two New High Performance Tires

Directional 5

Goodyear Asia Pacific has launched the ultimate performance tires for luxury sports performance vehicles and tuned sports cars, and sporty coupes.. The Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2 and the Goodyear Eagle F1 Directional 5. The Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2 with ActiveBraking Technology is the successor to the award-winning Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric, which three [...]

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SNF: M7 Japan and Forged Racing sign-up!

SNF_newcatspo

SNF progresses further this coming Round 5 with the support of reknown international brands M7 Japan and Forged Racing signing-up as sponsors for the FF Festival and Race Cars category! M7 Co., Ltd Japan is a Japanese company specialising in world-class automotive products, with an ever-expanding line of revolutionary automotive products that not only focus [...]

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Insane £150,000 Mugen CRZ Is The Only One In The World & Fifth Gear Drives It

Mugen CRZ

How does a £150,000 (yup, that’s British pounds) Honda CRZ sound to you? Insane ain’t it? Well how about if we told you that it’s also probably one of the most fiercest and noisiest hybrid? Still doesn’t change a thing does it? Well thank god then that this Mugen CRZ is just a prototype, built [...]

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NASCAR vs Formula 1 – Hamilton & Stewart Swap Seats

Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton swaps seats with legendary NASCAR champion Tony Stewart. Its a pretty interesting watch as the two champions swap seats, Lewis having no problem with the NASCAR racer but Tony obviously taking some time to get used to the massive downforce and braking capabilities. Here’s the six part episode to kill your boredom.

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MotoGP: Stoner Storms Laguna Seca

Casey-Stoner

Casey Stoner defeated Jorge Lorenzo in a battle for supremacy between the championship leader and reigning world champion. Pole sitter Lorenzo kept the lead for over 70% of the race, initially from a chasing Pedrosa. Pedrosa however, succumbed to Stoner’s challenge midway through the race and finished a distance 3rd. The Sacchsenring winner was unable [...]

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Incredible Hill Climb Video of Monster Tajima Beating the 10min Mark at Pikes Peak

Monster Tajima

Nobuhiro ‘Monster’Tajima is a legend at the Pikes Peak Hillclimb event. Almost unbeatable. And this year he proved why again after he won the event for the sixth consecutive time, making it eleven times in total since 1988. The 60 year old Japanese pilots a specially adapted Suzuki SX4 with a twin turbo 3.1liter V6 [...]

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Pole Sitter Afiq Ikhwan Wins JK Racing Asia Series

Rd7 (L-R) Lucas Auer 2nd, Afiq Ikhwan 1st, Nabil Jeffri 3rd

It was an action packed JK Racing Asia Series Round 7 race where pole sitter Afiq Ikhwan took home his first win of the season today. The 19 year old www.Meritus.GP driver had to work hard for the win when he had to fended off the charges of the Lucas Auer and Nabil Jeffri who [...]

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Malaysian sets new qualifying lap record at the JK Racing Asia Series in Indonesia

Afiq Ikhwan_Pole R7(1)

Afiq Ikhwan claimed the fastest time of the day and beat the Series record at the circuit to claim pole position for JK Racing Asia Series round 7. Ikhwan’s time of 1:30.918, beat the qualifying lap record held by Sean McDonagh who set the record back in 2008 by 1.1second. “I am so happy! We [...]

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7min 26sec. Fastest bike lap around the Nurburgring?

Ring Bike

The Nurburgring is legendary for snuffing out amateurs from the pro’s. It’s also the ideal place for manufacturers to prove their products worth, the GTR leading the way with that. It may not be the fastest, but its definately one of the most affordable fast-around-the-Ring sports car available today. The ‘Ring is also famous for [...]

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The Nissan GTR is Faster Than Your Brain!

GTR Crash

The Nissan GTR is fast. No doubt about that. It’s faster than most other supercars on the road today. No doubt about that either. It’s also much cheaper than the competition. Because it’s fast, Japanese and cheap, it’s easily available to some that are looking to bust the guts of some egotistic supercar drivers out [...]

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It’s Asian Festival of Speed Indonesia Week!

Porsche Carrera Cup Asia

Cars, equipment, crew and officials are arriving in Indonesia for the Asian Festival Of Speed, this coming weekend on 23-24 July 2011. The AFOS Indonesia will be the first event held at the Sentul International Circuit since 2009 and will host the JK Racing Asia Series (formerly known as Formula BMW Pacific) and the Asian [...]

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Speed or Handling? BMW or Porsche? Fifth Gear Decides!

Speed or Handling copy copy

It’s a question that has hounded humans since the very first day we set out racing motorcars. Handling or speed? Even modern video games make you choose which you prefer, and in video games its easy to have both. But in real life having both is either going to be very expensive, or non existent. [...]

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UMW Toyota Unveils New RM26mil Showroom – In Ipoh

UMWT top management with Ipoh branch staff

UMW Toyota Motor announced today it is aiming for a total of 80 Toyota sales, service and spare-parts (3S) centre by the year 2013. The company is investing RM300 million to enhance its sales and aftersales facilities to cater for the increasing number of Toyota vehicles. The announcement was made at the official opening event [...]

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GT: Paul Ricard serves tasty GT treat

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GT racing continues this season in Paul Ricard. Both GT1 and GT3 had their plethora of cars serving dicy action and the typical thrill and spills that best served by the GT boys. Saturday had the Reiter Engineering Gallardo taking the spoils wjhle on Sunday it was the Prosepeed Porsche that emerged victorius. GT3 Race [...]

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