By Laura Heng
Redline Track events kicks off their racing season with a cornucopia of racing events in a single weekend at Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond, CA. Spectators were able to feast on a buffet of different disciplines of motorsports with the four different racing events running simultaneously. The Redline Pro Track Challenge is where the high dollar machines came out to do battle for a chance to win a part of the massive $250,000 prize purse being offered and the Redline Pro Time Attack is the traditional time attack we are all familiar with. The MotoIQ Pacific Tuner Car Championship (MPTCC) which is a half hour wheel to wheel race with a vast array of cars competing on the same racing surface. And lastly we had the Lotus Cup series which is a manufacturer supported series that featured their own time attack and wheel to wheel race.
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By Mike Kojima
After an epic hammerfest to convert Dai Yoshihara's Time Attack car into a drift car, we ended our last installment with the car being loaded onto a container and shipped to Abo Dhabi in the nick of time. Now follow the team as they get to Abu Dhabi and attempt to compete in a rushed together totally unproven and untested car. What happens next? Read on!
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If you recall, last month, Formula D Team Falken ace Dai Yoshihara got an invitation to participate in a Formula D expansion event in Abu Dhabi the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. The event is going to be held at the Yas Marina Circuit, a world class F-1 approved facility on February 25th 2011.
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By Efrain Olivares
Magnus Racing is a second year team that has quickly made an impact in endurance racing in North America. The team, which will compete in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series and the American Le Mans Series, achieved a number of standout performances throughout its rookie season last year.
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Now it's time for the moment all of you motorsports fans and racers have been waiting for, the official launch of the MotoIQ Pacific Tuner Car Championship Web site! All the information about the series is to be found on the site from the car rules, to competition license requirements and applications, event registration, spectator ticket sales and the 2011 schedule.
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Our good buddy Louie Contreras of L-CON fabrication is having the grand opening of his new very unusual shop, The FlagShip. The FlagShip combines Louie's awesome motorsports fab shop with Rogue Status and other clothing, Suicide Machines custom bikes and other eclectic stuff. It's sorta hard to explain so you just have to check it out. Be there Sunday December 19 from noon onward and hang out with us. Prepare to be amazed if you are into race cars, hot street cars and bikes.
By Laura Heng, photos by Jeff Naeyaert
With Formula D, Redline Time Attack, and SuperLap Battle all on winter break what is a racer to do during the downtime? Thankfully actions sports superstar Ken Block has cooked up a brand new form of motorsport that is a hybrid of drifting, autocross, stunt driving, and a little bit of drag racing. Ken Block put his own stamp on gymkhana and unleashed some of the world’s best drivers and machines on the Irwindale tarmac to show the rest of the world what US based gymkhana is all about.
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Gymkhana Grid: Ken Block Invitational LIVE on MotoIQ!
We are pleased to bring you the live Broadcast of the Ken Block Invitational Gymkhana event today and tomorrow here on MotoIQ thanks to a media partnership with YoParts and Driftstream. Click inside to see the Schedule & Chat Live!
We'll be there Saturday, will you?
VIDEO: Climb Attack Brazil, Full Length Version
It's the 25th and here as promised is the full version of the video! Our Friend DC Chavez shot this killer video of Rhys Millen ripping it up at a hillclimb event in Brazil!
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