This last weekend Long Beach CA held its yearly Toyota Grand Prix with Formula one racing, a celebrity race with the famous Scion TC’s and the must see Formula D drifting races! This event is the single largest event in the city of Long Beach in its downtown district and the whole weekend generates over 200,000 people! Its the longest running street race held in North America with a [...]
This was one of the best seasons for the X Games and tricks were mastered, surprising outcomes, crazy crashes, medals out for the taking and a tribute was made. Winter X Games this year was awesome to watch from the snowboarding women and men in super pipe, snowmobile’s best trick and ski’s big air. These were just some of the many competitions that were challenged for this years riders and [...]
Want to know the in and outs of a professional drift car? Watch professional drifter Dai Yoshihara’s tech Mike Kojima talk and show the technical inner workings of Dai’s Nissan S13 car. One of many videos from GT Channel following Dai Yoshihara on the 2011 Formula D drifting season with a series called Behind The Smoke. Of course theres some rad camera angles from GoPros and following Dai and his [...]
May of this year Red Bull held a soap box race in downtown Los Angeles and there were at least 40 teams coming out to the busy downtown streets to compete their rad themed racers! Some were LA themed of course, some were from famous movies and others were from pop culture that anyone would recognize just from a single glimpse. The course had some tests for the racers from [...]
Check out Puma’s new shoe “Faas”. Looks pretty cool and in their commercial they take you through a ride learning the cool features of the shoe. Uh oh Nike Free…you got some competition.
California Adventure here in Socal is getting a new section put together for 2012 called “Cars Land”. Umm…really? Cars Land? I think a better name could have been thought up but whatever. This new ride included in the new land is called Radiator Springs Racers and its a coaster type ride with a Ferrari looking car racing you through all of the Springs. (Nice choice selection by the way Disney, [...]
If Mario Kart was actually real…i think I could imagine it like this. Just more crazy and actual characters freaking me out because they’re actually real.
As a thank you to all of Porsche’s fans on Facebook, this 911 GT3 R Hybrid race car was fully covered in 1,000,000 Facebook names who “like” their page. Whats even more awesome is if you “like” their page before this lovely Porsche was made, you can search for your name on the car! Check out the nice video showing the process of the Porsche beast getting its exterior makeover [...]
Here’s the new commercial for Volkswagen’s Beetle and they took the literal name of the car and put a racing beetle. I thought it was a very nice concept for the commercial and the effects look amazing! Love the song too and look out for this commercial during the Superbowl XLV! http://www.vw.com/en.html
Another of the Fast and Furious to add to the collection! With characters from some of the movies coming together to make the Fast Five. Starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Ludacris, and Tyrese Gibson all in this movie seem like too many main characters but from the trailer i would say no. Set in Rio De Janeiro, the story takes place from the movie Fast and Furious [...]
