Mad About Cars

NASCAR – one of the most professional and popular motorsports in the U.S with television ratings ranking it second place just behind the National Football League. In terms of money Nascar is also the second richest motorsport in the world, with only Formula One taking the lead.

Nascar is the largest body of stock cars across the united states, its three best races being the ‘Camping World Truck Series’, the ‘Nationwide Series’, and the ‘Sprint Cup’, and Nascar sanctions more than 1,500 events at over 100 tracks across 39 U.S states between Canada and Mexico.

With races drawing 75 million fans across 150 countries and spending in a region of $3 billion in annual sales these fans are considered the ‘brand-loyal’ of all sports.

Best of all is ‘Daytona Beach’ where the best and most extreme land-speed records are set in the world! Synonymous with fast cars, and 8 consecutive World Records between 1927 and 1935.

Lets go there!!!

Red Bull put a spanner in the works by battling two legends head to head on the infamous 800 metre ‘Mur de Grammont’ cycling track in Belgium this weekend.

Just a week before the Tour of Flanders cycle race is due to fly over, the occasion marks the first time that any vehicle, not to mention a ‘rally car’ has had the privilege of driving over the cobbles during race periods.

Yes that’s right, 5 times World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb went up against 10 time World Motor-cross Champion Stefan Everts – Citroen C4 against KTM MX.

Two test runs were done prior to the event but both times were kept a secret leading up to the big duel, where eventually time was on the bikers side but winning by only a ‘tenth’ of a second!!!

Wow, now that’s close! – but for Sebastien the forfeit was to clean Evert’s motor-cross bike after the competition had finished. What a great event idea! Thank God for Red Bull!!!

Sebastien said – “It was a fantastic experience.” Red Bull came up with a great idea when they suggested this duel, and I’m delighted to have had the opportunity to meet Stefan. He’s a truly magnificent champion, and his 10 world titles are an exceptional record of achievement. Of course I would have preferred to have won our duel, but it was a very close contest! I had the upper hand on certain parts of ‘The Wall’ but I lost time in other places. At the end, it was too close to call.”

And Stefan replied – “I hope I’m the only person to beat Sebastien this year – or at least I wish that for him! It was a real honour for me to meet him. I’ve got a deep respect and admiration for rally drivers. I just tried to ride very cleanly in order to gain the maximum time possible and win.”

On 21^st March a new body-shop for high end motor cars such as TVR has been opened to the public for state of the art bodywork and bespoke trimming service.

Designed around specialist sports cars and fibreglass, the facility has been approved by TVR, Lotus and Ferrari!

The Coventry TVR Specialist offers a 3 month promotion for body lifts and treatment to chassis for Chimera and Griffiths models.

TVR Power has its own fleet of courtesy and like for like replacement vehicles, and the body-shop has ICI computerised paint matching schemes so you can customise your own paint colour.

Full Re-Sprays are the bomb!!!

WRC Round 4 of 12 – Rally de Portugal sponsored by Vodafone is set to kick off at the beginning of April 2^nd – 5^th and is the first pure gravel rally of the season for 2009.

Based on the West Coast of Portugal, this Rally is one of the world’s classic rallying fixtures, predominantly a centre for many of the most nail biting events in the history of Sport.

The event has been re-born in the Algarve – a change from its usual legendary spot on Portugal’s West Coast. Its base is set in Faro with stages creeping above the town into the hills, fast open roads and hard tracks which are more abrasive.

Since 2007, there are 2 new stages and now a Super Special Stage that opens and closes the event on Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon.

Drivers will tackle 18 stages in total at a distance of 361.36km….

Ok, hot off the press! I bet you haven’t heard this 1!

2 Major production lines in the motor industry are creating a mammoth monster vehicle!

BMW Mini and Australia’s ‘Touring Pitch’, (manufacturers of the ‘Winnebago’) are collaborating with each other in an attempt to create the mammoth ‘Mini-Winnie’!!!

Yes that’s right, think of the front end of a mini merged with the body of a Winnebago, and you get the ‘Mini-Winne.’
All the luxury of cabin travelling combined with the stylish design of the Mini all rolled into one!

Ha Ha! And you actually believed it! ………… April Fools!!!!