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Mountain bikes? Check. Road bikes? Damn straight. Hardtails, duallies, carbon, steel, alloy? 26ers? 650b? Yep, yep and yep...

F1 2011: no change here…

Posted by Tim Robson at 8:42 am on Monday October 31, 2011

Is anyone going to even watch the last two races of the 2011 F1 season? I mean, the organisers may as well engrave the trophies now, send them out via DHL and save themselves the expense of running a race. Sebastien Vettel continued his plunder of the 2011 silverware, winning the inaugural – and uninteresting [...]

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Bird’s eye view…

Posted by Tim Robson at 12:25 pm on Thursday October 20, 2011

We’re not sure we’d like to try and drive a modern F1 car with one hand over our eyes, but Pirelli development driver Lucas di Grassi was up for the challenge. With a small camera mounted in front of his right eye, he takes us on an installation lap of the Barcelona circuit in the [...]

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Indy 500 winner killed in race crash

Posted by Tim Robson at 9:23 am on Monday October 17, 2011

The season-ending oval race for the Izod IndyCar championship has ended in tragedy, with a ferocious crash taking out 15 cars and killing defending Indy 500 winner, Englishman Dan Wheldon. The accident started in the midfield pack early in the event, with two IndyCar rookies making contact before spinning in front of the pack. Wheldon’s [...]

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Button wins race, Vettel wins title

Posted by Tim Robson at 10:26 am on Monday October 10, 2011

Jenson Button took his third win of the season at yesterday’s Japanese Grand Prix, leading home Fernando Alonso and – as if it was ever in doubt – record-breaking double world champion Sebastian Vettel. Though he did well to cover a move from Button off the line, Vettel was eventually leap-frogged after the second round [...]

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Nail-biting win for Tander/Percat

Posted by Tim Robson at 6:24 pm on Sunday October 9, 2011

After 161 laps and almost six hours of racing, it came to 0.2sec – HRT’s Garth Tander’s winning margin over the fast-finishing Craig Lowndes in the Triple Eight car. Massive gallery of the weekend here! On a cold but dry day on Mt Panorama, Triple Eight didn’t lead a lap all day, with both HRTs, [...]

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F1 2011: Vettel’s title to lose

Posted by Tim Robson at 9:25 am on Saturday October 8, 2011

One point. That’s all he needs. The man who’s won nine races so far this season, started on pole for 11 of them and finished no lower than fourth since October last year needs to take just a single point from this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix to claim his second consecutive Formula One world championship. [...]

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The best Bathurst belters

Posted by Tim Robson at 10:37 am on Thursday September 29, 2011

Let’s look back at some of the most monumental wrecks in the Mountain’s long and illustrious history. Reckon we’ve missed one? Let us know in the handy comments box below. David Besnard’s massive smash in 2011; Fabian Coulthard bins his Bundy Commodore in 2010; The track gets blocked in 1981; Marcos Ambrose and Greg Murphy [...]

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Gunter Schaldach’s massive crash at Road America

Posted by Tim Robson at 2:49 pm on Friday September 23, 2011

US racer walks away from this massive shunt at Road America earlier this year…

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