2010 Year In Review – Motorsport Lens – Part 2
The Porsche racing team would win the 2010 Drivers’ Championship with their 911 GT3 RSR. Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long are scheduled to return with the team for 2011. Pictured at Petit Le Mans.
The Porsche racing team would win the 2010 Drivers’ Championship with their 911 GT3 RSR. Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long are scheduled to return with the team for 2011. Pictured at Petit Le Mans.
From F1 to Audi to Pikes Peak to rally racing, we pick some of the most important motorsport moments, highlights, and events in 2010.
Filled with 500-600hp cars, Gymkhana Grid had more than a few nicely built competitors. Here are just 10 of our picks from the crowd.
Using elements of autocross as well, the Gymkhana Grid event boiled down to a mixture of timed drifting and “real” gymkhana.
SCCA and time attack racers were parked next to show vehicles that could barely fit credit cards between their tires and wheel wells.
The all-wheel drive class was led by Ken Block’s Gymkhana 3 Ford Fiesta and Tanner Foust’s X-Games/Rallycross Ford Fiesta.
John Pangilinan would eventually finish 2nd in the 2010 SEMA Show’s Scion tC Tuner Challenge, sporting the only motorsport inspired creation in the event.
The all-new Scion is one of the first turbocharged models in the US thanks to Descendant Racing (330whp), has big custom Brembo brakes, a full cage..
We recently had the opportunity to attend a taping of Top Gear, which will debut on the History Channel in November. The production value in the shooting is Top Gear high, more clear and beautifully shot than anything else on American TV.
2010 FD Season Drifts To A Stellar Closing At The House Of Drift
Scion Racing and its two Formula Drift sponsored drivers, Tanner Foust and Ken Gushi. Foust drives a NASCAR V8-powered rear-wheel drive Scion tC and Gushi a 3S-GTE-powered tC.
Let the comment bashing begin. Unlike NBC, History Channel is not backing out of their plans for a US version of the UK Top Gear TV show. They’ve recently released this trailer for the show and the promo shows off the three hosts and a sample challenge that they will be taking part in – moonshine running.
Competition whittled down to the final four: Foust, Deegan, X-Games rookie Samuel Hubinette, and Subaru drifter/rally racer Stephan Verdier. As the four cars lined up at the top of the Coliseum, anticipation was high for a thrilling race.
With TV bragging rights on the line and no standardized rulebook to worry about, most of the turbocharged, all-wheel drive cars were making near 600hp.
Formula DRIFT returned to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for Round 4: All In. Champion Tanner Foust takes the victory in his Rockstar / Hankook Scion Racing tC, while Chris Forsberg in the NOS Energy Drink / Maxxis Nissan 350Z moves to the top position overall in the chase for the Formula DRIFT Pro Championship.