Motorsports
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Bugatti will build 500 examples of the 3:4 scale Bugatti Baby II with prices starting at $33,000.
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Class-winning Le Mans racer rolls into Jay Leno's Garage
If someone ever utters the phrase, "Do you want to see my class-winning Le Mans race car?" to you, the answer is always yes. It's unlikely that you'll hear such a phrase, however, unless your first name is Jay and your last one Leno. Such a phrase was said to Jay, and thankfully he answered...
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Watch 900-HP Trucks Bomb Down A Snow-Covered Mountain: Video
Red Bull gathered eight Pro4 race trucks and drivers at a ski resort in Maine for a little motorsport fun.
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2012 MINI John Cooper Works Coupe To Tackle Nurburgring 24 Hours
Joining the assortment of fully fledged race cars and hyper-expensive supercars at this weekend’s grueling Nurburgring 24 Hours endurance race will be this very cute 2012 MINI John Cooper Works Coupe race car. Based on the recently revealed 2012 MINI Coupe, this racing version picks up an...
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MINI WRC Team Gets Official Launch In Oxford
Since the first hintings of the return of the MINI name to the world stage of rallying last July, right up through to the testing stages and constant teasing, we have longed to know what form MINI’s efforts for the World Rally Championship (WRC) would take, and now we finally know. The new...
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MINI Wins On Debut At Italy’s Rally dell’Adriatico
You already know MINI will be back in WRC this year, testing at a limited number of events ahead of a full push for the 2012 season. One of these events was this past weekend’s Rally dell’Adriatico in Italy where the John Cooper Works backed MINI S2000 rally car stormed to victory at...
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MINI chose the Paris Auto Show to pull the wraps off its all-new FIA World Rally Championship car, which is based on the new 2011 MINI Countryman and signals the brand's reentry into world-stage rally racing. The WRC, which has been under development for two years, gets a 1.6-liter turbocharged, direct-injected four-cylinder engine To be piloted in 2011 by Kris Meeke, the new WRC will contest in six of 13 scheduled racing rounds, with a full season of racing planned for 2012. The new MINI WRC was developed with motorsport partner Prodrive, and tested extensively on Prodrive's 250-acre U.K...