2012 marks the end of full-time competition for the most successful rally driver the world has ever seen, Sebastien Loeb. He finished this season with his ninth consecutive championship as well as winning gold in the X-Games Rallycross. This is a tribute video to Loeb’s career in WRC made by a dedicated fan.
Monster Energy flew Ken Block and Vaughn Gittin Jr. to the UK to compete in the Gymkhana GRID Finals. From what I can tell, this was the final event in a European championship. Ken and Vaughn raced the rear wheel drive and all drive champions for fun after they won their events. Oh yeah, there was also a massive party.
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The nice weather gave us a pretty nice turn out at Cars and Coffee this month. This event happens on the first Saturday of every month at Waverly Place in Cary.
This is the story of one of the cars featured at SEMA this year. It’s a 1969 Ford Mustang built by Bodie Stroud. The car is probably the most extreme definition of a resto-mod. Stroud cut out the Mustang’s unibody frame for a separate air-spring chassis. Under the hood is an ultra-rare aluminum 494 cubic inch V8 that Ford originally built for Mario Andretti’s Can-Am car in 1969. Only 10 of these engines were ever built and they never saw competition because they made too much power for the Can-Am cars at 777 horsepower. The rest of the body was modified to look somewhat like the funny car drag racers of the same era.
Formula 1’s official safety car driver, Bernd Maylanda, walks us through his career and the stable of safety cars he’s driven. All of the cars had been gathered with Bernd in a barn for a photo shoot for German car magazine. The line starts at the 1999 CLK55 and goes all the way to the debut of the new SLS AMG GT safety car for 2013.
Here’s some bonus footage of the current Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Wagon F1 Medical Car testing on track: