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Plans to build own car for 2015

Drayson Racing has been announced as the first confirmed team in the 2014 Formula E season. Lord Drayson made the announcement at the Low Carbon Racing Conference. Formula E is hoping to have a field of 10 teams for the 2014 season.  Dray...

It used a modified LMP1 car with a Lola chassis and proprietary electric motor

Drayson Racing Technologies has set a new World Electric Land Speed Record for a car weighing under 1,000kg by setting an average of 204.185mph over two runs within an hour of one another. The run was done at dusk on June 25 at Elvington Airfield ...

Using a custom-built Lola chassis with proprietary motor

Drayson Racing Technologies will attempt to set the World Electric Land Speed on June 25 on a 1.86-mile runway at an RAF base in Yorkshire, England. They are using a specially built Lola B12/69 chassis, which is a modified Lola B12/60 LMP1 ca , wi...

It will be available in a demo soon

Gran Turismo 6 has revealed yet another track for players to race on. Players will be able to race up the Goodwood Hill in the game, and at least for now, it will be exclusive to GT6. The game’s maker, Polyphony Digital, announced the ad...

The previous record was set in 1983 by a Range Rover

Philip Young and Paul Brace will attempt to drive a modified Fiat Panda TwinAir from Cape Town, South Africa to Marble Arch in London in an overland route in February to break the previous record of 14 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes set by Bri...

Today Formula One drivers had the first contact with the Korean Grand Prix circuit. During the two sessions the drivers got used to the slippery conditions, with no major situations and no one making a visit into the barriers as many thought possible...

CABLED (Coventry and Birmingham Low Emission Demonstrators) have published the second results of a UK-wide electric and low carbon vehicle testing project. The work now being published is a report of six months into the year-long trial of 25 Mitsu...

If you go on a trackday the first thing that any racing driver or instructor will tell you to do is invest some money in your own skill set…not the car’s. That said I’ll let you in one car mod that will make all the differen...

Everything you need to keep in mind when taking a car to the road for a test drive

So, you’ve identified the car you fancy buying and you want to work out whether it is in fact the car for you, or maybe you are a budding road tester and want to understand how to assess a vehicle…but how do you do it? It is all t...

If you have not had a panic attack today and feel the need to, you really need to watch this video.  This video purports to show a road to Berdyansk, Ukraine, on the Crimean on Constitution Day on June 28. Due to the traffic the police op...