Archive for January 2010
Jan 28th, 2010 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Latest News, Retrospective
The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart is celebrating its first anniversary on Sunday, 31st of January 2010.
More than 530,000 visitors and over 2,500 guided tours are underlining another success story of the prestigious Porsche marque. The Museum has developed into a truly dynamic enterprise in only the first 365 days of its existence.
Mr Achim Stejskal, the [...]
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Jan 25th, 2010 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Historic Motor Racing, Latest News
The 13th Historic Monte Carlo Rally will run from January 28 to February 3, 2010, just one week after the modern and 78th Monte-Carlo Rally.
In accordance with regulations drawn up by the Automobile Club of Monaco “cars may be admitted which comply with road legislation and of which a similar model took part in a [...]
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Jan 21st, 2010 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Latest News, Retrospective
RetroMobile celebrates two centuries of urban locomotion and is the must-visit event of the year for those interested in the world of collectors’ vehicles and the history of locomotion.
Some 300 exhibitors, including specialists in classic cars, major manufacturers and European importers, will meet up 22-31 January 2010 for the 35th Retromobile show in the Porte [...]
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Jan 18th, 2010 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Latest News, Retrospective
Lotus Motorsport has unveiled its new Lotus Evora Cup, a racer designed for a new ‘one-make’ pan-European Evora Cup race series later this year.
The car has been designed to offer a level of performance that would make it even competitive in GT4 racing. Claudio Berro, Director of Motorsport at Group Lotus plc stated, “Lotus has [...]
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Jan 14th, 2010 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Historic Motor Racing, Latest News
High in the Dolomites, the WinterRAID, an extraordinary spectacle, takes place on 14 – 16 January 2010.
High walls of snow, searching headlights, turn after turn, the cold hardly noticed and ice crystals on the windscreen. Somewhere ahead lies the first test, looking through swirling snowflakes, are we on slippery ice? Anything is possible!
And then on [...]
Tags: challenging rally, dolomites, ice slalom, klosters, lenzerheide, st. moritz, the myth continues, winter raid, winterraid Posted in Historic Motor Racing, Latest News |
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Jan 11th, 2010 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Latest News, Retrospective
Twenty years of success for Europe’s largest motorsport show will be celebrated at Autosport International in Birmingham’s NEC on 14-17 January 2010.
Autosport International, now in its 20th year, is the largest dedicated trade motorsport exhibition in Europe. The format of the show incorporates two trade, followed by two public days, uniquely catering for the industry [...]
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Jan 7th, 2010 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Latest News, Retrospective
Bugatti 100 Expo, will be celebrating the very essence of the Bugatti make: sport, design and elegance in the Autoworld car museum in Brussels til January 17th 2010.
From the Type 13 to the present Veyron Grand Sport, all can be admired. On display are also one of the six Royales and the prototype forerunners of [...]
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Jan 4th, 2010 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Latest News, Legendary Circuits Series
What are they, Legendary Circuits? If you ask someone in his twenties, I am sure you will get a different answer, then when you ask someone my age.
The first Grand Prix I watched live, was the 1967 Zandvoort Dutch GP. There I was, 14 years old at that time, buying myself a ticket with some [...]
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