Lewis Hamilton scored his first podium finish for the Mercedes AMG Petronas team on Sunday at the 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix, incidentally the team’s home race. While the newcomer had a great race overall, he did have one funny moment on the circuit. On his first pit stop, a tire change in Lap 8, the former McLaren driver actually went into the McLaren pit stop box, which many of course found amusing.
The gaffe prompted these tweets from McLaren’s official Twitter account:
When kids think of drag races, scenes like this probably run through their mind. Both cars are incredibly powerful, and noisy, and awesome. They both even stand up when the green comes. Where it differs, is that there’s a tricked out Camaro in one lane… And a Jeep Cherokee in the other. Now, the Cherokee [
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This past weekend brought about the 8th annual Spring Festival of LXs and with such a massive group of Charger, Challenger, 300 and Magnum owners located in one SoCal location, the Chrysler Group used the show to debut the new limited edition SRT Charger 392. Unfortunately, this new package doesn’t add any go-fast goodies but ...
This is the kind of thing that sells trucks. The conditions are, as you can see, pretty terrible. It’s raining. There’s no grass, just wet dirt an slight grade uphill. The dump truck is stuck, ...
Dear ATVC: I raced ATCs in the early 1980s and remember the fast guys used to race Tiger 3-wheelers. Were these factory machines or custom builds and if they came from a factory, what ever happened to Tiger? Tiger was a short-lived American ATV manufacturer who basically blurred the line between a factory and a [
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By now you’ve all heard about the Late Model Racecraft 4th Gen. Camaro that’s eclipsed well over 200 mph in the standing mile on several occasion. While paroozing BoostMD’s Facebook page we came across photos of what appears to be the Camaro, now in pieces after a high-speed wreck. Apparently the driver is OK, thankfully! [
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In our previous Black Fridays feature, we have looked at a bunch of smokey Cummins Turbo Diesel powered Ram pickups tearing up the competition on the drag strip but this week we look at a CTD sittin’ in front of the barn…sooting up a storm for the sheer joy of creating gobs of smoke. While ...