Fans of Formula 1 driver Mark Webber can snap up a piece of racing history, with his 2004 Jaguar R5 F1 car on sale in the UK for 299,000 pounds (AUD$510,540). The impressive vehicle was listed with website F1-sales.com recently and comes in the Jaguar team’s complete green livery. Powered […]
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David Coulthard does helipad donuts atop Burj Al Arab hotel
What’s better than doing donuts? Doing donuts on a helipad some 210 metres from the ground of course. David Coulthard decided it would be an appropriate way to celebrate Red Bull Racing’s F1 Championship win last weekend by performing some donuts on the 24-metre wide helipad atop the Burj Al […]
Sebastian Vettel & Red Bull Racing win fourth F1 Championship
Sabastian Vettel has secured the 2013 Formula One Drivers’ World Championship and Constructors’ World Championship, becoming the youngest ever F1 driver to claim four consecutive championships in the sport’s history. Vettel and the Infiniti Red Bull Racing Team have dominated for most of the 2013 Championship season, claiming ten Grand […]
Honda’s 2015 F1 1.6L V6 turbo engine sound preview
Honda has released a snippet soundtrack of its new 1.6-litre turbo V6 F1 engine which will be used from the 2015 season. As part of new regulations for the sport, all teams will have to adopt a 1.6 V6 layout from next year. The engine is being developed by Honda […]
Red Bull Racing – How to make an F1 car (part 4): assembly
The next installment of Red Bull Racing’s ‘How to make an F1 car’ video series has been released, this time going over the assembly processes. Each of the five different cars they make contains thousands of parts, which, according to chief engineer Paul Monaghan, all play a special role in […]
Spirit of McLaren, 50 years in the making
The short video starts with the narrator saying, “every story has a beginning, just as every race track has a start line”. The video pays tribute to Bruce McLaren, and the success McLaren has achieved in Formula One. It’s fifty years since Bruce McLaren started a ‘little’ team called Bruce […]
Red Bull Racing – How to make an F1 car (part 2): composites
Red Bull Racing and Infiniti have released the second video in a mini-series outlining the details of ‘how to make an F1 car’. The latest goes over some of the technology in construction and composite materials.
Honda creates 1989 Ayrton Senna ‘ghost lap’ at Suzuka
Earlier this year, Honda took data from Ayrton Senna’s 1989 McLaren-Honda Formula One car to create a nighttime audio and visual wonder piece at the world-famous Suzuka circuit. A trail of lights, along with a line of speakers were placed on the track to mimic Senna’s lap position, race line, […]