| DFW Drive Your Dream Program Puts $1,000,000 Worth of Cars in Driver's Hands for a Day; 2,000 Horsepower, Ferrari, | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 6:47:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | DALLAS, Nov. 10, 2006 -- Imagine a day where you drive five of the world's hottest, most desirable luxury and sports cars. Can you see yourself behind the wheel of a Ferrari F430 on the open road? Taking on the curves in an Aston Martin V8 Vantage? Feeling the power of the 2007 Porsche Twin Turbo? Unwind a Lamborghini Gallardo Coupe? Take off in a Corvette Z06? Dream no more -- these five cars make up the 2,000 Horses Tour, and you can drive all five of them for $989, less than a thousand dollars per day. Weekly guided tours begin in December, expanding to Houston, San Antonio and Austin in January 2007. DFW Elite Auto Rental is expanding its luxury car rental offerings with the introduction of the new 'Drive Your Dream' program. This unique program gives drivers the opportunity to participate in several different pre-planned automotive tour packages, driving multiple exotic and luxury cars during the course of a single day.... | |
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| | | Halliday to hold her horses today | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:46:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Halliday, a three-time winner with co-driver Clint Field in the LMP2 class of the American Le Mans Series, not only is an accomplished sports car racer. She also is an equestrian with hopes of making it to the Olympics. Today, Halliday will be guiding a prototype sports car with about 550 horsepower, not an Irish thoroughbred, around Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca's 2.238-mile road course in the four-hour ALMS season finale at the Monterey Sports Car Championships. Halliday and Field are third in the LMP2 standings, having won three times in the No. 37 Intersport Racing Lola B05/40. Halliday, 27, is completing her first full season in the ALMS. She drove a partial schedule in 2005, scoring three victories. Halliday grew up in Fallbrook, near San Diego, and got a jump on her equestrian career at age 8.... | |
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| | | Jerez, Day One: Ferrari set the pace | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:46:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ferrari set the pace on the opening day of testing at Jerez on Tuesday with Marc Gene soundly beating Luca Badoer to the P1 slot.Test drivers Gene and Badoer, both at the wheel of a 248 F1, worked on development of Bridgestone tyres. Gene covered 101 laps with a best time of 1:17.883, which put him 0.909 seconds ahead of his fellow Ferrari tester.Third place went to Alex Wurz. The Williams test driver clocked a 1:19.549 during his 108 laps, putting him a further 0.757s adrift of Gene's P1 time.Lewis Hamilton set the fourth best time as he conducted a 50km shakedown with the two McLaren MP4-21 cars that will test on Wednesday and Thursday. The GP2 Champion was however 5.033s off the pace.Narain Karthikeyan completed the timesheets for Williams. He did just 10 laps with a best time of 1:23.550.Times01.... | |
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| | | Bentley Wishes, Ferrari Dreams Come True, at Least for a Day | | Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 10:45:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | A man with a child in tow leaves a store just off Route 50 in Middleburg. After taking a few steps, he is suddenly afflicted with rubber-neck syndrome. Something has caught his eye. He pauses. The little girl holding his hand staggers forward, pulling his arm. But he's somewhere else, perhaps imagining what it feels like to tap the clutch and hit the gas on the red Ferrari passing by. Down the road, two guys in a black Ford Mustang are equally enraptured. The passenger slaps the driver across his chest. Look. Their heads jerk left and they stare at the red wonder. .... | |
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| | | Bobbi on the podium at Spa | | Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 8:45:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | After 24 hours of an intense and exciting race, Matteo Bobbi finished the Spa marathon 3rd in the GT category to earn a podium place. This result could have been better had it not been an accident with Livio behind the wheel, which saw the team lose valuable time in the pits. Although the team repaired the car in under an hour, the chance of victory was gone. Despite the disappointment of losing a possible victory, Bobbi was pleased to end the race with a podium finish "To cut the finish line after a spectacular and exciting race like the 24 hours of Spa is just a great feeling," he said. "I'm a little sour about the accident that cost us almost an hour of delay. Had it not been for this, we could have fought for the lead. However, the prestigious 3rd place is very satisfying to all of us.... | |
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| | | Blend it like Mallya | | Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 2:45:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | MINUTES before this year's Grand National meeting at Aintree racecourse, a flamboyant, larger-than-life Indian tycoon called an impromptu press conference. As the runners and riders left the paddock, Vijay Mallya, head of India's UB drinks group that includes Kingfisher beer and Bagpiper whisky, prepared to speak. His gripe was with the Scotch Whisky Association which a month earlier had flexed its muscles in opposition to India's punitive tariff system. .... | |
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| | | This Ain't Pamplona: The 2006 Bullrun is Off! | | Posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 12:46:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK: So the initial hype is over and the action has begun. We just got off the phone with Alex Roy, who isn't competing in this year's Bullrun, but showed up in the Team Polizei M5 to escort the drivers up to Pocono and document the happenings. And happenings there were. After the jump, a gang of pics and lotsa anecdotes. According to Alex and his photog pal JF Musial (who shot all of the photos for the story), somewhere on the high side of 60 to 80 cars showed up for the start of the race rally, and Roy reports that this year's start contained more high-end, solidly-prepared cars than in years past, including a trio of Audi RS4s, one of which, of course, was driven by Mario Andretti, as well as a couple of Spykers, one of which was piloted by Olympic hero Carl Lewis. The other Spyker, right off the bat, didn't fare so well.... | |
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| | | Busch pulls away down the stretch | | Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:46:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOUDON, N.H. (AP) -- Kyle Busch had to go to overtime Sunday at New Hampshire International Speedway for his first NASCAR Nextel Cup victory of the year. Busch passed Elliott Sadler for the lead 61 laps from the end and appeared to have the victory all wrapped up before a crash involving Hendrick Motorsports teammate Brian Vickers and rookie Clint Bowyer brought out a caution flag on lap 298, just three laps from the scheduled end of the Lenox Industrial Tools 300. The race was extended even longer when Michael Waltrip ran into the back of Robby Gordon on lap 303. The last restart finally came on lap 307. By that time, both rookie Denny Hamlin and Carl Edwards had moved past Sadler, but Busch easily pulled away from the challengers in the two-lap sprint to the finish.... | |
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| | | Le Mans: Care Racing Thursday qualifying report | | Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:50:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Ferrari 550 Maranello of Peter Kox and the Convers MenX Team was very close to beating all but the spectacular Aston Martin Racing DBR9s in qualifying yesterday, only to be edged out in the final minutes by a Corvette and the BMS Scuderia Italia DBR9. Former Ferrari 550 driver Tomas Enge claimed his 5th consecutive GT1 pole position for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in an Aston Martin.In 5th position in the GT1 class, the Russian-Czech team was the fastest of the three Ferrari 550s here at Le Mans. Peter Kox set the quickt time and said afterwards: "Well, I think that we were not ashamed in the qualifying, and fifth place is maybe even better than we could have hoped for. Having said that, I am a bit disappointed because the gaps are quite close and the car definitely had the potential to go quicker.... | |
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| | | Car racer Ed Hugus dies | | Posted Monday, July 10, 2006 6:46:08 AM by Blog57 Team | | The record book shows no indication that Ed Hugus drove the winning car of the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans. Mr. Hugus contended, however, that he indeed drove the winning Ferrari 250LM for two hours in the middle of the race. The truth may never be known, as Mr. Hugus died June 29, a day before his birthday. He was 82. According to noted automotive historian Michael T. Lynch, who lives in Monterey and knew Mr. Hugus, no record or account can confirm Mr. Hugus' claim, but he finds it hard to believe that Mr. Hugus would make the story up. "Ed was such a decent, modest guy, I can't believe that he would lie about something like that," said Lynch. "On the other hand, as an historian, I have never been able to find any reference, photograph or anyone who was there who said it definitely happened, and I've researched the issue for years." Mr.... | |
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