Twelve photos of the Infiniti EMERG-E electric sports car concept have unceremoniously leaked to the Internet today, ahead of concept car's official announcement.
Luciano Burti Roberto Bussinello Jenson Button Tommy Byrne Giulio Cabianca
poniedziałek, 27 lutego 2012
Infiniti Emerg-E concept photos leaked
Twelve photos of the Infiniti EMERG-E electric sports car concept have unceremoniously leaked to the Internet today, ahead of concept car's official announcement. 
F1 2011 Launch Catch Up – McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull, Sauber, Toro Rosso, Renault…
Catching up on the launches in one mega post. Here in you’ll find quick interviews with senior members of the team and photos from the Red Bull, Sauber, Renault Lotus, Toro Rosso, Mercedes and McLaren launches. Apologies for being somewhat late, the whole blog isn’t running at full power until the season starts again. Red [...]
Conny Andersson Mario Andretti Michael Andretti Keith Andrews Elio de Angelis
Red Bull under the spotlight
 Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel celebrate with Red Bull boss Christian Horner on the podium |
Thierry Boutsen Johnny Boyd David Brabham Gary Brabham Jack Brabham†
niedziela, 26 lutego 2012
Custom/Show Truck
While things dry on the 33, thought I'd let this one out of my head and into some plastic. Calling it PU3762T
Thanks for looking, J2
Marcel Balsa Lorenzo Bandini Henry Banks Fabrizio Barbazza John Barber
2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 features an improved TapShift transmission [video]
Chevrolet has announced the 2012 Camaro ZL1 will offer a six-speed automatic transmission with an upgraded TapShift function. It enables the model to accelerate from 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds 
Luciano Burti Roberto Bussinello Jenson Button Tommy Byrne Giulio Cabianca
Karthikeyan Makes Surprise F1 Return With HRT
Narain Karthikeyan has made a surprise return to Formula One after being announced as one of Hispania HRT’s drivers for the 2011 season. The Indian driver was unveiled as the first racer to be working with the Spanish based squad, who look likely to enter into a second season of racing despite on-going financial concerns. [...]
Tom Belso JeanPierre Beltoise Olivier Beretta Allen Berg Georges Berger
Williams and Mercedes lead testing mileage as Lotus hit trouble | 2012 F1 testing
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Williams have been the busiest team in testing so far, racking up over 3,750km with their FW34.
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Christian Danner Jorge Daponte Anthony Davidson Jimmy Davies Colin Davis
sobota, 25 lutego 2012
60-66 Chevy longbed question...Done!!
Hi Guys,
I'm going to attempt to convert the Revell 64 Chevy fleetside to a longbed 4x4. The best research I have been able to come up with is a parts oder sheet that shows the different quarter panel lengths below.
I have the extra parts, and scored a set of 8 lug wheels that should finish things off. I didn't realize that the longbeds were longer both front and back of the wheel well, although I suspected as much. I've also got some pretty good reference pics of finished trucks. I'm just wondering if anyone else has been here and what kind of problems/solutions others may have discovered.
Thanks.
Bernard Collomb Alberto Colombo Erik Comas Franco Comotti George Connor
Ferrari 620 GT teaser no. 2 released [video]
It has been only 2 days since the first teaser arrived and now Ferrari has bestowed upon us a second video showing scenes of the 599 successor's manufacturing. 
John CampbellJones Adrián Campos John Cannon Eitel Cantoni Bill Cantrell
piątek, 10 lutego 2012
1/16 K & K Dodge
I built this in 1987 out of a General Lee . The nose and wing are balsa wood . Also , no decals used . . . my hands were steady back then ! TooOld
Audi TT-RS Plus
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Audi is preparing to bring out the new generation TT-RS in 2013, but before that happens, the company is sending the current generation out with a more powerful bang. Called the TT-RS Plus, this new model will be offered in both coupe and roadster versions. In Germany, the TT-RS Coupe equipped with a manual transmission will be priced at €60,650 ($80,500 at the current exchange rates) and €62,800 ($83,500 at the current exchange rates) with the seven-speed S tronic . The TT RS Plus Roadster has a list price of €63,500 ($84,500 at the current exchange rates) with the manual transmission and €65,650 ($86,000 at the current exchange rates) with the seven-speed S tronic.
The Audi TT-RS Plus will be the most powerful TT-RS model launched on the market. It is powered by a 2.5 liter five-cylinder turbo engine that delivers a total of 360 HP - an increase of 20 HP over the standard version. As a result, the model will sprint from 0 to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds with a top speed that has been increased to 173 mph.
UPDATE 02/10/2012: This review has been updated with the official details and images for the Audi TT-RS Plus.
Hit the jump to read more about the Audi TT-RS Plus.
Audi TT-RS Plus originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 10 February 2012 10:00 EST.
Duane Carter Eugenio Castellotti Johnny Cecotto Andrea de Cesaris Francois Cevert
poniedziałek, 23 maja 2011
Webber beats Vettel to pole
czwartek, 12 maja 2011
Williams seek to end cycle of decline
If the idea was to attract attention, Williams certainly succeeded. Choosing Mike Coughlan, one of two men at the heart of 2007's 'spy-gate' scandal, to spearhead your attempt to reverse a cycle of decline is guaranteed to get you headlines.
This, after all, is the man who, when he was employed as McLaren's chief designer, sent his wife to photocopy nearly 800 pages of Ferrari technical information in a local shop. Unsurprisingly, the assistant got suspicious, phoned Maranello, and the rest is history. McLaren were ultimately fined $100m and thrown out of that year's constructors' championship.
Coughlan was banned from F1 for two years and has filled his time since designing a vehicle for the army, working in the US-based Nascar stock-car series and, briefly, for the still-born Stefan Grand Prix team.
Now, though, he is back, following a decision by Williams to employ him as chief engineer in a reshuffle of their technical department aimed at recapturing the glory days of the third most successful team in F1 history.
As part of the changes, Sam Michael, who has been technical director for seven years, and chief aerodynamicist Jon Tomlinson have both resigned, although they will stay in their current roles until the end of the year.
And in perhaps the most significant change of all, Williams co-founder Patrick Head will retire from his role as director of engineering later this year, although he will remain involved in both the F1 team and specific other Williams sister companies as a shareholder and board member.
Head is one of the most experienced and widely respected men in F1 so, for the many both inside and outside F1 who care about whether this iconic team can recapture at least some of their past form, his continued involvement is reassuring.
As these changes have made clear, though, those hopes can no longer be invested in Head or even, to some degree, team founder and owner Sir Frank Williams, who formed one of the most remarkable partnerships in F1 history.
The man who has been given the reins is the chairman Adam Parr, who was formally named as the man in charge of the day-to-day running of Williams last summer.
The wheels have been coming off at Williams for some time. Photo: Getty
Since then, Parr and the seven-man Williams board have certainly been ringing the changes.
The first was the decision to drop the promising German Nico Hulkenberg, who impressed increasingly in the course of his debut season in 2010, and replace him with Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado.
Judging by their careers so far, Maldonado is not Hulkenberg's equal on ability, but he came with a sizeable and lengthy sponsorship deal from his country's state oil company.
The decision to hire him, then, was an effective admission that long gone were the days of Williams being successful enough to choose their drivers on merit and let their performance on track deliver the necessary sponsorship resources. That particular equation had been reversed by the tide of declining results.
A second controversial decision was floating the team on the Frankfurt stock exchange, making it effectively the only F1 team to be a publicly listed company - although of course Mercedes and Ferrari are indirectly listed through their parent companies.
It has not gone especially well so far. The shares fell on their first day of trading and recently had lost a third of their value. They rebounded, though, on Tuesday following the news of the changes at the team.
The fact that there was a resurgence is interesting in itself - it's not necessarily what you would expect in the context of a decision to employ a man at the centre of one of the two biggest scandals in F1 over the last four years.
But while Coughlan's return was certainly a surprise to many in F1, perhaps that reflects an essential truth about his appointment, one voiced by Williams and Parr themselves. Spy-gate was a long time ago, he has served his punishment, it is probably time to move on.
That certainly seems to be McLaren's view of the matter. "The events that led to our decision to terminate Mike's contract occurred nearly four years ago," a spokesman told BBC Sport. "He's an experienced engineer and Williams are a famous team which we would all like to see recover to better fortunes."
The reshuffle at Williams follows the worst start to a season in the team's history, with drivers Rubens Barrichello and Maldonado failing to score points in the first three races. But unacceptable as that was, as Williams have themselves described it, what really prompted the changes was the difference between on-track performance and pre-season expectation.
For a number of years now, Williams have started each F1 season proclaiming that their new car was the one that would deliver a return to form. The difference in 2011 was that this time they really believed it.
The new FW33 is quite a radical design, featuring a remarkably small gearbox, the intention of which was to free up as much airflow as possible to what is now the critical area at the bottom of the rear wing.
"This year, we really thought we'd come out fighting," said the team's head of communications, Claire Williams, Frank's daughter, on Wednesday. "We thought we had the potential for more podiums only to find the reality was we had regressed further. After however many years, that wasn't acceptable any more."
In the short to medium term, it is Coughlan who has been charged with turning the team's fortunes around. The 52-year-old is to be considered for Michael's soon-to-be-vacant role. And even if they ultimately appoint someone else as technical director, Coughlan is responsible for next year's car and will clearly remain a key figure in the technical department for some years to come.
He is a man of vast experience - he has been in F1 since 1984 and has worked for Lotus, Benetton, Ferrari, Arrows and McLaren. He is regarded as very bright, enthusiastic and hard-working, even if he is, as someone said to me on Wednesday, "not exactly Adrian Newey".
That was a bit harsh. Newey, the man responsible for Red Bull's current period of domination, is a genius, one of the greatest engineers in F1 history. The problem for all the other F1 teams is that he is one of a kind. But you can see why the comparison was made - their shared history means it is Newey's shadow that hangs heaviest over Williams.
The team's spell at the very top of F1 ended with his departure for McLaren. The final car he had an influence on, the 1997 FW19, was the last Williams to win a title. And they have never been the same since.
Frank Williams has admitted that letting Newey go, not acceding to his demands for more involvement in the running of the team, was his biggest mistake. But expecting a return to those days, of the fastest car in F1, of seasons - entire eras - of domination, is a pipe dream, as Parr himself admits.
When I asked him on the eve of the season why Williams had not won a race since 2004, he turned the question back at me. "Let's just switch it around," he said. "Why would you expect Williams to beat Ferrari?"
It was a fair point. Years of lack of performance have produced a vicious circle of decline. Lack of results makes it harder to attract the best drivers and sponsors with big money. Lack of resources makes it even harder to produce a winning car. And not being able to attract a man who can transcend it - a Hamilton, an Alonso - makes the results even more elusive. So it goes on.
Even Barrichello's vast experience and highly regarded technical ability, which was instrumental in helping Williams recover from a poor start last year, has not helped them produce a competitive car in 2011.
Coughlan's job, then, is not to return Williams to its previous heights, but to restore respectability, get them back on an even keel. Only then can they think again about going further.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2011/05/williams_look_for_way_out_of_c.html
środa, 11 maja 2011
Alonso crunches the numbers
Fernando Alonso has been crunching some numbers and has pointed out that while he has scored fewer points in the first four races of 2011 than in 2010, he is actually ahead when the same four events are compared. Last … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2011/05/11/alonso-crunches-the-numbers/
Chrysler 300C Touring SRT8 "WIP"
This is my first posting of a WIP and also my first resin build. This is going to be the Chrysler 300C Touring SRT 8 that Chrysler sold in Europe. I'm starting with a Jimmy Flintstone 300 Magnum resin body, Revell Magnum SRT8, Revell Chrysler 300 SRT 8 (1/24) and AMT Chrysler 300C. It looks like I will use the rear bumper from the 300 SRT 8 and the dash board. I will use the Magnum for chassis and interior the 300 for the front grill and lights. Here some pictures of what I have. Going with metallic red and Chryslaer gray tones inside.
Picture from the internet.
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/955857.aspx
Aston Martin Zagato Concept
Aston Martin will be celebrating the iconic DB4GT Zagato’s 50th anniversary with a new concept car developed in collaboration with the Italian design house Zagato. The concept car will make its first appearance at the Villa D?Este Concours on May 21st, 2011 and will make its racing debut at N�rburgring on May 28th. Only one teaser image depicting a rounded sports car has been revealed as of now, so expect more news on this celebratory model in the next few days.
Dr. Ulrich Bez, Chief Executive said: "The DNA of both Aston Martin and Zagato has combined successfully to make some of the world?s most desirable collector cars in the past and in this special anniversary year of the DB4GT Zagato it is appropriate to explore a modern collaboration. Now is the right time for a new Aston Martin Zagato and in combining our design intelligence I think we can create something fitting of the iconic DB4GT Zagato that has gone before and since established itself as one of the most famous Aston Martins of all time."
The original Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato made its first appearance in 1960 at the London Motor Show. It was essentially a much lighter DB4 GT that got worked on by the Italian Coachbuilder to include a 3670 cc straight-6 DOHC engine that produced 314 HP with a top speed of 154 mph.
When production for the new Aston Martin Zagato concept car goes underway in 2012, we expect a limited number of units to be produced, much like the 20 unit limit provided by the original model.
Aston Martin Zagato Concept originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 11 May 2011 10:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/aston-martin/2011-aston-martin-zagato-concept-ar109458.html
Best Babes in Formula One (F1) Grand Prix: Pictures, Photos
Women have always been one of the major attractions of Formula 1. The glamour that women bring to this motor sport is wilder than most of the things that you can imagine.
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When you go to watch any In. These sexy women make the sport popular and far more interesting than any other sport that [...]
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When you go to watch any In. These sexy women make the sport popular and far more interesting than any other sport that [...]
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Mosley loses EU privacy case
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has announced that it does not agree with former FIA President Max Mosley that the media should give prior notice of intended publications to those who feature in them. The court argued that the private lives of British people are protected in a number of ways, including [...]
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/mosley-loses-eu-privacy-case/
1955 Chevy Convertible w/ 2010 ZR1 engine.
This is one of my projects i have worked on about 3 weeks start to finish. I hope everyone likes it.
http://public.fotki.com/waddellsbodyshop/1955-chevy-convertible-/
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/957696.aspx
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