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Lottery Winner is First to Register for Rally Ireland 2009

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December 6, 2008 in Racing, Rally and Vollkswagen Polo. Closed

What would you do if you won the lottery? Go on a nice vacation, buy a new car maybe? How about enter in a professional rally? That’s what Ken Treacy did. Ken was part of a lottery pool at the Dan Morrisey Concrete Company in Corlow, Ireland. The group of 16 won 25 million dollars in the Irish lottery, the largest payout in the lottery’s history, and with each of them walking away with a cool 1.5 mil we would have to say they did pretty well.

Ken has been racing rally cars for the last 10 years and after a sudden financial boost he was first in line to sign up for Rally Ireland, literally, he was the first person to register! What car is he driving might you ask? Well a Volkswagen of course, a polo to be more specific.

So this makes us wonder, what would you do if an extra 1.5 million dollars suddenly found it’s way into you bank account?

Source: WRC.com

LIVE: 24hr of the Nurburgring links

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May 24, 2008 in Racing. Closed

Late start getting this to you all. They are roughly 2:15 into it.

Official (has tickers and news plus video): http://adac.24h-rennen.de/en/live/streaming.html

High Quality Video version

We have this link playing in QuickTime (copy+paste)

http://www.wige-iptv.com/cms/livecast/24h/live7-8.asx

Test list updates:
http://adac.24h-rennen.de/en/live/database.html

Here is a great piece using Google maps to display car locations on the complete circuit!
http://events002.gps-explorer.de/ If you click on a car it will locate it on the map in blue. At the bottom there is a button “weitere” to display more cars.

and good ol’ Radio Le Mans http://www.radiolemans.com/

24h of the Nurburgring / ADAC Zürich 24h Rennen updates

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May 23, 2008 in Racing. Closed

It has been a bit tough to get the info as the official site gives the option for “English” but as you click it goes to German even though the url says /en.

The official home page has live tickers if you want to travel over there.

*Edit: Just got this translation on the Audi R8

23/05/08 10:36 # 41 (Düchting / Saurma) Audi R8
in slower ride in GP course on the road – smoke from the engine compartment

1st Qualifying

Pos. – Nr. – Marke – Runde – Zeit
1 – 1 – Porsche 911 GT3 RSR – 5 – 8:26.730
2 – 4 – Porsche 911 – 5 – 8:29.838
3 – 2 – Dodge Viper GTSR – 6 – 8:31.132
4 – 3 – Porsche GT3 RSR – 6 – 8:39.495
5 – 24 – Porsche 911 GT3 – 7 – 8:43.082
6 – 6 – Aston Martin DBRS 9 – 3 – 8:49.880
7 – 23 – Porsche 911 GT3-MR – 5 – 8:50.968
8 – 10 – BMW M3 E46 GTS – 5 – 8:53.076
9 – 5 – BMW Z4 M-Coupe – 5 – 8:56.825
10 – 69 – BMW Z4 Coupe – 6 – 8:57.506
11 – 25 – Porsche 911 GT3 – 3 – 9:00.828
12 – 26 – Porsche 911 GT3 Cup – 6 – 9:01.098
13 – 31 – Porsche 997 RSR – 3 – 9:02.344
14 – 90 – Lamborghini Gallardo – 1 – 9:02.749
15 – 64 – BMW Z4 M – 5 – 9:05.735

1st Training

Pos. – Nr. – Marke – Runde – Zeit

24 – 118 – VW Scirocco – 7 – 9:28.355
31 – 117 – VW Scirocco – 6 – 9:36.295
56 – 122 – VW Golf GTI – 7 – 9:53.026
85 – 116 – VW Scirocco – 6 – 10:11.442
41 – Audi R8 – no time

Lamborghini: 36TH ADAC ZURICH 24H RACE 2008

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May 21, 2008 in Lamborghini and Racing. Closed

Unfortunately, there is only one Lamborghini listed.

RAEDER MOTORSPORT I
Lamborghini Gallardo
SP 8 / 4.000 cc up to 6.200 cc
Tilke, Hermann
Adorf, Dirk
Simon, Patrick
http://www.reader-motorsport.de/

Nürburgring Nordschleife – “The Green Hell”

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May 21, 2008 in Racing. Closed

The running of the 36TH ADAC ZURICH 24H RACE 2008 (official name) or 24-Hour Race at the Nürburgring takes place this weekend. In our books this is one of the big ones! No, it is not Le Mans, but if something is named “The Green Hell” has 33 left turns and 40 right turns and is 25.359 km in length, it tops our charts!

If you have access to Forza 2 on XBOX360, have a go at this track!

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ALMS: Successful first test for the RS Spyder

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January 28, 2008 in Porsche and Racing. Closed

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The new RS Spyder, with which Porsche is eager to continue its success streak in the American Le Mans Series, has passed its first practical test. On the opening of the official winter test in Sebring, the Weissach-developed and built sports prototypes concluded their testing programme without problems. Traditionally the winter test begins the countdown to the start of the season on 15th March, when the Sebring 12 hour race, one of the great sportscar classics, takes off on the airfield circuit in Florida.

In radiant sunshine and spring temperatures, four RS Spyders, run by Porsche teams Penske Racing and Dyson Racing, rolled onto the track . Over the winter the most successful race car of the 2007 American Le Mans Series underwent further developments in various areas after securing eight overall and eleven class victories last year. ‘For the new season we made some more improvements to the aerodynamics,’ says Porsche head of motorsport Hartmut Kristen. Obvious differences are the new nose and the new rear wing. The engine also underwent modifications. Hartmut Kristen: ‘In this area it was all about reducing fuel consumption and improving the driveability. And we managed this.’

On the first day of the winter test Porsche concentrated primarily on the basic set-up of the RS Spyder for the bumpy circuit in addition to trying out new tyres. Roland Kussmaul, head of performance, was visibly pleased. ‘We’ve achieved the insight that we had hoped for.’ Although the fight for quick lap times is not the first priority, title defenders Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Romain Dumas (France) still managed to post the top time of the day in the LMP2 class with their Penske RS Spyder with starting number 7. Roland Kussmaul: ‘We are always happy to take a top time home with us.

- Porsche AG

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American Le Mans, Patrick Long, Porsche, Porsche RS Sypder

2008 Fresh From Florida 200 at Daytona

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January 27, 2008 in GTI, Racing and Volkswagen. Closed

News from Friday’s Fresh From Florida race. Back in October, we posted news regarding APR’s motorsport entries in the 2008 Grand-Am Koni Challenge series.

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Bildon Motorsport has teamed up with GSM Racing this year and brings back their Volkswagen GTI to the series. GSM also has an Audi TT entered!

Friday’s race came and went, almost overshadowed by the Rolex 24 of Daytona. We were even to busy to watch or report on it, live.

Thursdays first practice saw an Acura and two Chevy Cobalts go 1-2-3. The first GTI was that of APR with Pobst/White in 10th. The second was Bass/von Molke in 23rd. GSM’s GTI was 34th with the last APR entry posting no time. The GSM Audi TT posted no time as well.

The second practice was much better with Pobst/White placing 3rd. Bass/von Molke was 15th and GSM’s GTI 46 with the TT in 47th. No time posted for the third APR GTI.

Qualifying saw Acura TSX got 1-2 and a Honda Accord take 3rd. The top GTI was that of Pobst/White in 8th. Bass/von Molke came in 31st, GSM’s GTI in 34th, with no times from practice the APR GTI of Tucker/ Zabinski pulled in 36th and the Audi TT posted no time.

There was another practice on race day but in the end it was Acura’s taking the top 4 places. APR’s Pobst/White placed 21st, Tucker / Zabinski 23rd and Bass/von Molke 41st.

GSM Motorsport’s GTI placed 42nd and the Audi TT 47th.

We have no official follow up’s from the teams/drivers but will post if we do.

Mark your calendars/TiVo’s for Feb 2, 8:00 PM SPEED *

Technorati Tags: Volkswagen GTI, Fresh From Florida 200, APR Motorsports, Randy Pobst, Ian Bass, GSM Motorsports, Bildon Motorsport, Rolex 24 At Daytona

Rolex 24 at Daytona

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January 27, 2008 in Porsche and Racing. 1 Comment

We are way behind in posting from this weekends Rolex 24 at Daytona and Fresh From Florida 200. We have been moving the office around.

Either way, as we type it is now 9:10am with 4.5hrs left. It has been a complete weather event with rain on and off since the start. Both classes have seen their share of lead changes and attrition!

Datonya Protype class:
Alex Job Racing with their Porsche/Crawford car sits in 3rd overall, 1min back.
The Brumos Racing Porsche / Riley sits in 9th 17 laps back.
The Vision Racing Porsche / Crawford sits 12th, 22laps back.
Spirit of Daytona – Vision Racing Porsche / Crawford is 19th, 42 laps back.

*The Spirit of Daytona car uses the V8 out of the Cayenne.

GT class:

TRG (The Racers Group) has a total of 7 cars (Porsche’s) entered. Right now 3 of them, #67,#66, #64 sit in 2-4. A Mazda RX-8 sits in first. We are not sure where the 2 TRG’s lost laps to the Mazda.