[AutoBlog.com] It’s no secret that running a motorsports team is a lot of work, but probably most of us don’t know how much time and effort it really takes. Just building the race cars can take hundreds of man hours, as evidenced by this stop-motion video created by the U.S. Subaru rally team. Starting with [...]

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Mitsubishi has unveiled their entrant in the 2009 Dakar Rally which has recently relocated to South America. The Mitsubishi Racing Lancer MRX09, MRX standing for Mitsubishi Rally Cross Country, will be a three door version of the Lancer sportback with typical offroad bits - raised suspension, fat tires, piss pouches…
Before I get ahead of myself [...]

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Sony Computer Entertainment out of Europe and Nissan have brought the two brands together to open a real-life racing academy in Dubai. The best and brightest drivers will eventually get behind the seat of a Nissan 350Z for a 24 hour endurance race sometime in January 2009. Finalists will also get, as part of their [...]

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Rain made Japan’s Indy 300 a difficult race but Twin Ring Motegi will be best known as the home of the first female driver to win an Indy Car event. Danica Patrick, a powerful name in herself, almost certainly won the race 198 laps into the race after passing Helio Castroneves. Just two laps [...]

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Nissan has long wanted to jump on the Porsche band-wagon and finally has gone ahead with a track special Nissan Z for racing enthusiasts - serious racing enthusiasts. The Fairlady Z Type 380RS-Competition will cost $285,700 (¥28,350,000).
But I guess you get a decent package out of it. The special Nissan Z is tuned by inhouse [...]

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It’s well known that the GT-R is not just hype, the car itself is a phenomenal machine off and especially on the track. Now the whole racing world plus more than 32,000 spectators know it too. Team XANAVI NISMO GT-R (#23) piloted by Satoshi Motoyama and Benoit Treluyer came in first place at the Super [...]

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Nissan has announced they’ll feature the new Nissan GT-R as the official pace car for this Sunday’s Super GT 2008 Series at the Suzuka Racing Circuit in Japan. This year also marks the return of the Nissan GT-R GT500 in the GT Series, the 493 hp race car weighs in at 1,100 kg and will [...]

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The fellas at Ralph Willis Automotive in Salinas, California managed to get a Lexus IS-F onto their DynoJet dynamometer. The results, as you can see below, were impressive. The IS-F is rated at 416 hp and 371 lb-ft of torque at the engine - and it delivered 333 of those horses and 318 lb-ft of [...]

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