Jules Bianchi, the 25-year-old Formula 1 driver, passed away yesterday morning after being in a coma following his freak accident at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix 9 months ago. At that time, Bianchi raced for a backmarker team — the Ferrari-powered Marussia F1 — and was among the best from the Ferrari Driver Academy program, Scuderia Ferrari’s own driver development program.
To celebrate winning the Formula One Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships for the fourth year in a row, the Infiniti Red Bull Racing team did doughnuts with one of its F1 cars on the Burj Al Arab helipad, that too on video.
With so much competition from Lexus and Nissan, Honda has officially gone open with the new NSX CONCEPT-GT hybrid racer. The racecar turned up at the GT500 class of the Round 5 2013 AUTOBACS SUPER GT at the Suzuka Circuit. It is due to make its first full appearance at the 2014 SUPER GT Series next year.
Last Saturday’s NASCAR Daytona race, ended with several race-cars destroyed in a huge crash, with bits of the cars flying into the grandstands, leaving at least 11 fans injured.
The Red Bull Car Park Drift Regional Finals are headed to Jordan this year. Twelve drivers hailing from eight different Arab countries will be competing against each other for the ‘Regional King of Drift’ title on October 19th, 2012.
At the 2012 Paris Motor Show, Bentley have disclosed their racing intentions in the form of the Continental-based GT3 race car, a concept currently being developed by a dedicated team at the factory in Crewe.
The Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE (ATCUAE) officially launched a new season of motor sport in the Emirates with aims to build for the future by attracting and developing young local talent.
Rich-man James Glickenhaus’ custom Ferrari P4/5 Competizione caught fire after setting an all-time lap record for a Ferrari-powered car during the qualifying session at the recent 24 Hours of Nurburgring.
Gazoo Racing Masters of Nürburgring, a tuning design and race engineering firm associated with Toyota have produced a race-ready version of the Toyota GT 86 sports coupe.
Advanced Global Trading, a “carbon credit” brokerage group based in Dubai, will help the Lotus Formula 1 Team minimise its carbon footprint and reduce emissions as it targets carbon neutrality in 2012. For those not aware, carbon credits are sort of like payments made by the so-called ‘polluter’ for charitable ‘green’ activities that improve the environment, effectively cancelling out any damage done by them. Other notable payees include SUV-maker Land Rover and the TV show 24.