Posts Tagged ‘max mosley’

Hollywood, meet California: First example of new Ferrari fetches $520k in charity auction

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Click for more hi-res images from the Ferrari California launch event in Santa Monica, California "We're not building a cheap Ferrari". That was the oft-repeated party line from Maranello as the Prancing Horse marque was plainly working on the new California. Well no kidding, not at these prices.The......

Monterey 2008: The Toyota Race of Legends

Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Click image above for high-res gallery from Laguna SecaThis year's edition of The Toyota Race of Legends looked to be another exciting race, giving fans a chance to see former racing greats mix it up in identically prepared Scion tCs. Basically they are the same cars that are used in Long Beach for ......

Ford’s AV8R Mustang nets $500k for charity

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Click above to view a high resolution image Auctioning off a Ford Mustang seems to be a pretty effective way to raise money for charity. The very first Shelby GT was auctioned for $600,000 at Barrett-Jackson in 2007, and the first GT500KR sold for $550,000, both raising money for charity. The latest......

Win the lottery? Have Stig take you for a spin

Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Lottery winners can often have subhuman tendencies, so it's only natural that you'd want to hang out with equally awful subset of humanity, racing drivers. The Stig is a perfect representation of those with abnormally high levels of octane in their blood, and his/its services around Silverstone were......

Auction action: Drive a Lotus, help earthquake victims

Friday, June 20th, 2008
Last month China's Sichuan province was devastated by a massive earthquake that killed as many as 70,000 people. If you've wanted to donate to help the survivors but were waiting for just the right opportunity, this could be it.Our friends over at China Car Times are holding several auctions with th......

First Cadillac CTS-V auctioned off for charity

Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Click the image above for more high-res pics of the CTS-VIf you had your heart set on dropping big-time coin to own the first next-gen Cadillac CTS-V, you're already too late. CTS-V numero uno was auctioned off Thursday at a charity benefiting prostate cancer, and amazingly the 550 hp monogrammed s......

Frank Washington Charity Auction begins: bid now, bid often

Thursday, March 27th, 2008
We meet more and more automotive journalists in the industry with every auto show we attend, and we've noticed a definite sense of brotherhood that exists among all who get to do this insanely sweet job for a living. We appreciate those veterans who've been kind enough to befriend a little blog like......

FIA to cap F1 team budgets for 2009

Thursday, November 8th, 2007
We love Formula 1. Have for years. We believed it was the pinnacle of motorsport, and by golly each team had the stratospheric budget to prove it. There was a time when a single top team in F1 spent enough to run 12 or 13 top dollar teams in IndyCar. Teams have been wanting the costs to come down, w......

McLaren mea culpa: we’re sorry about Stepneygate, and Ferrari was right

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
During the Stepneygate scandal over the course of the 2007 Formula 1 season, more than one critic accused the FIA of being on a witch hunt against McLaren. Based on what McLaren said it knew, and what the FIA said it knew, it looked to many like the governing body was simply doing everything possibl......

F1 espionage case, Pt. II: The Appeal

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
FIA President Max Mosley (above) announced today that last week's decision by the World Motor sport council will be appealed. It appears the Italian motorsport authorities didn't like the idea of McLaren getting off so easily. Although they found that McLaren had indeed been given Ferrari's confiden......