What’s life like for a successful, retired F1 driver? Just ask Michael Schumacher, who isn’t exactly whittling away his remaining days in a rocking chair. He recently gathered with former Mercedes-AMG Petronas teammate Nico Rosberg, as well as retired racing drivers Bernd Schneider, Bernd Mayländer, and Karl Wendlinger at the Nürburgring Nordschleife for some friendly [...]
The BMW Z4 GT3 has claimed its first podium finish at the Nürburgring 24 Hours (DE): Maxime Martin (BE) brought the number 25 BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS car home in second. As well as Martin, Yelmer Buurman (NL), Andrea Piccini (IT) and Richard Göransson (SE) were also in action over the course of [...]
The new BMW M5 Facelift made its world debut this past weekend at the annual M Festival. The M Division chose to introduce their most iconic model in front of tens of thousands of fans attending the 3-day long event. Along with design updates, the BMW M5 Facelift also debuts the Competition Package. The new [...]
The Nürburgring has seen better days, financially-speaking, that is. After having gone under bankruptcy protection in July of 2012, the renowned racetrack is now set to find a new owner who is to take over from the current patrons, the German government. However, the price will be far lower than the $ 515/€400 -million debt [...]
With 17 hours of the Nürburgring 24 Hours (DE) behind them, the number 25 BMW Z4 GT3 – with Maxime Martin (BE), Yelmer Buurman (NL), Andrea Piccini (IT) and Richard Göransson (SE) at the wheel – is currently second. The race had previously been suspended for more than nine hours due to heavy rain and [...]
Following yesterday’s teaser video of the concept car Aston Martin will reveal on May 19 at the Nürburgring, the first photos of the car surfaced on the Internet. Taken by a Spanish journalist from Motorpasion, the photos show only the rear end of the DBR1-inspired concept – enough to make us want to see more. [...]
Pop quiz: which Porsche is more powerful and faster, the 997-gen 991 GT2 RS or the Carrera GT? You might be forgiven for answering the latter, as it was Porsche’s hypercar and a Ferrari Enzo rival whether the former just a souped-up version 911 Turbo at half the GT’s price. The numbers, however, tell a [...]
The Aston Martin Hybrid Hydrogen Rapide S completes a lap of the Nurburgring’s Nordschleife on hydrogen. (Credit: Aston Martin) Hydrogen and electricity dominate the discourse of zero-emission vehicles, and Aston Martin set out to prove the worth of the former on Germany’s famed Nurburgring race course. The British automaker completed a lap of the 15-mile [...]
We know what your first question will be about the spy video and these latest shots of the 2015 Subaru WRX prototype, but unfortunately, we can’t give you an answer yet if this is the wishy-washy (read complete letdown), production version of the dramatic WRX Concept, a WRX iteration of the current Impreza to be [...]
Michael Schumacher will become the second driver to tackle the Nürburgring Nordschleife in a modern Formula One car after Nick Heidfeld’s 2007 lap in a BMW Sauber. Since 1976, when Niki Lauda suffered a horrible crash on the Nordschleife, the track was deemed too dangerous for Formula 1 racing and was taken out of the [...]
Yes, yes, we know that GM’s troubled Australian arm Holden has already given us a taste of the redesigned 2014 Ute along with its Commodore saloon sibling, but how often do you have the opportunity to see a two-door, pickup truck version of a mid-size model doing the rounds on the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife track? We [...]
It’s off for the Nürburgring track for BMW’s engineers and the upcoming i8 hybrid sports coupe that will be joining the Bavarian brand’s production lineup in showrooms around the world from next year at prices that will exceed the €100,000 (equal to US$ 130,000+) mark in Europe. The excruciatingly slow striptease continues with the latest [...]
With just a few months left before its world debut, the 2014 F80 BMW M3 takes on Nurburgring for a series of testing sessions. As we reported earlier, the F80 BMW M3 will be powered by an inline-six engine, despite a V6 engine being tested at some point in the process. The engine of choice [...]
BMW takes three of their upcoming 2014 models to the famous Nurburgring. First, we have the 2014 BMW i8, the hybrids sportscar that uses two different drive systems – an electric motor and an internal combustion engine. The electric motor is not a secondary power source, but rather an equal partner of the internal 1.5 [...]
Pranksters are the kind of people who make all our lives better. Sure, life may not be so great for the people getting pranked, but the benefit to humanity in general is beyond comprehension. Would you not laugh at the news that racing around the Nürburgring Nordschleife was stopped recently, because track officials discovered a [...]