Mercedes confirmed that it has purchased a 75.1 percent share of Brawn GP and will relaunch it as a works team in 2010.
Mercedes has agreed to sell its 40 percent shareholding in McLaren back to the McLaren Group over the next three years...
News from Autoweek: Toyota has confirmed that it will pull the plug on its Formula One program immediately. The news was announced by company boss Akio Toyoda just days before a much anticipated meeting where the team's budget was to be discussed...
The 2010 Amgen Tour of California will venture high up into the Sierra Nevada, dispense with the traditional prologue, include a time trial in Los Angeles and feature the first mountaintop finish in the race’s history at Big Bear...
Ok, it's a story that we already know the ending to - yes Lance Armstrong, fresh from the Tour de France handily beats six time champ Dave Wiens in the 2009 Leadville 100, one of the toughest one-day mountain bike races on the planet...
Ok, it's a story that we already know the ending to - yes Lance Armstrong, fresh from the Tour de France handily beats six time champ Dave Wiens in the 2009 Leadville 100, one of the toughest one-day mountain bike races on the planet...
If you have a bit of time this coming Saturday October 17, check out a truly unique annual event. The fabulous Granogue Estate of the DuPonts is open to the public and hosts a cyclocross bike race that attracts riders and fans from all over...
DETROIT (AdAge.com) -- It's the end of the road for Saturn, as General Motors Co. pulls the plug on the iconic car brand following an11th-hour breakdown in talks with would-be buyer Roger Penske...
Danica Patrick has yet to make a commitment on her racing plans for 2010, but for one, Tony Stewart seems to think the IndyCar star will experiment in NASCAR, perhaps as early as next season...
Danica Patrick has yet to make a commitment on her racing plans for 2010, but for one, Tony Stewart seems to think the IndyCar star will experiment in NASCAR, perhaps as early as next season...
Danica Patrick has yet to make a commitment on her racing plans for 2010, but for one, Tony Stewart seems to think the IndyCar star will experiment in NASCAR, perhaps as early as next season...
The 64th Vuelta a España gets going this Saturday in Assen, the Netherlands. It's the first time the race has started outside the Iberian peninsula and the organizers hope that this will add a bit of zing to an event that occasionally lacks a bit of the 'X Factor'...
The following story was aired on WDEL News and on the WDEL.Com Web site August 3rd:
Man Charged with Killing Bicyclist
A Perryville, Maryland man has been charged with killing a bicyclist this spring...
After several days of speculation, Ferrari announced on Wednesday that seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher will replace the injured Felipe Massa in next month's European Grand Prix in Valencia, Spain...
Lance Armstrong announced after Thursday's Tour De France stage that he and long-time team director Johan Bruyneel are forming Team Radio Shack for 2010...
At nearly 38 years old, he sits in second place in the 2009 Tour De France, but has little chance of catching his Astana teammate Alberto Contador. Still, after 7 wins and nearly four years away from the sport - is second anything to be unhappy about...
On the heels of the recent ouster of Tony George as head of Indianapolis Speedway and the Indy Racing League comes word that embattled FIA chief Max Mosley has decided to "retire...
News Alert from Autoweek:
Tony George will no longer have day-to-day responsibility for running his family businesses, including the Indianapolis Motor Speedway...
From the RAAM Web Site:
Dani Wyss RAAM Champion 2009
I was on the course from coast-to-coast, or as much as you can be when someone is recording the second fastest solo rider time in the history of RAAM...
Solo Men’s Update
Robic picks up 9 minutes on Wyss at time station 47. Both men have average speeds over 15 mph. Outstanding!
Time Station 48 Robic increases lead to 16 minutes on course...
At noon Wednesday - hard as is may seem to believe - but after nearly a week on the road - the Race Across America solo competition was a virtual dead heat:
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The eyes of most of America's sporting world may have been on Long Island, where the PGA Pros endured the pressure of a rare Monday finish to the US Open at famed Bethpage Black...
Race Across America (RAAM) Update: We have a race in the men’s solo division. The four time RAAM champion and two time defending champion, Jure Robic is leading one time champion Dani Wyss of Switzerland...
General Motors has chosen Swedish luxury sports car maker Koenigsegg Automotive AB as the preferred bidder for the Saab brand, news reports said.
Koenigsegg and Norwegian investors have signed a letter of intent to take over Saab, Swedish television said, attributing its report to unnamed sources...
As Chrysler and General Motors sort through the "legalese" in court, if everything goes well Autoweek lists 10 cars worth watching out for.
1. Chevrolet Volt
GM’s environmentally conscious flag-bearer remains on track for a late-2010 rollout...
Hummer finally appears to have found a home, and it’s with a Chinese industrial-equipment company.
General Motors and Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co...
NANTES, France (Reuters) – Close to 200 prisoners will cycle around France next month, watched by scores of guards on bicycles, in the first penal version of the Tour de France, authorities said Monday...
The Indianapolis 500 takes the green flag at 1 PM Sunday May 24. Who do you think takes the checkers first?
My gut is that it's Helio Castroneves' year...
The Indianapolis 500 takes the green flag at 1 PM Sunday May 24. Who do you think takes the checkers first?
My gut is that it's Helio Castroneves' year...
The bikes are back in Wilmington this weekend. The 2009 Wilmington Grand Prix festivities begin Friday, May 15 with a kick-off party from 5 p.m. in the 500 block of Market Street
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From DelDot:
Aiming for a Goal of 100 Cyclists to Pedal in Delaware Legislators Bicycle Ride
Dover -- The Department of Transportation's (DelDOT) Delaware Bicycle Council is hoping 100 cycling enthusiasts will participate in this year's Delaware Legislators Bicycle Ride to Dover on May 13...
From Media Post:
In a last-minute deal, NBC Universal's Universal Sports, the sports cable network and online destination of Olympic sports, has struck a deal to carry the world's second-largest road bike race, the Giro d'Italia...
Cable network Versus will not be televising any of the Giro d'Italia, the world's second-biggest road biking race. Lance Armstrong had targeted this event for a major victory -- another step in his comeback...
Lance Armstrong will get in some pre-Giro training after all.
Although the UCI had originally decided to enforce a rule that would have prohibited Armstrong and two of his teammates, Levi Leipheimer and Chris Horner, from racing the Tour of the Gila, the governing body apparently changed its mind...
Pontiac--the brand famous for the GTO, the Firebird, the Star Chief and most recently, the Solstice--is dead. It will be phased out by the end of 2010 as part of sweeping cuts announced Monday by General Motors as it tries to remake itself into a smaller company with fewer plants, workers and dealers...
GM thinks this is the future of urban transportation - the PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility). Looks like a combination wheel chair, golf cart, phone booth and OSHA nightmare...
An Alert From AutoWeek:
The FIA determined that defending world champion Lewis Hamilton lied about events at the end of the Australian Grand Prix.
After meeting with Lewis Hamilton in Malaysia ahead of this weekend's Formula One Grand Prix, the FIA has excluded the defending Formula One world champion from the results of last weekend's season-opening Australian Grand Prix--and not, directly, for an on-track incident...
Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk has pulled the cover off his much-anticipated second car. The Model S five-door hatchback will go into production in late 2011 at a rate of 20,000 per year...
Lance Armstrong crashed hard in Monday’s opening stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y León and was transported by ambulance to a hospital in nearby Palencia, Spain...
Formula One will soon have a U.S. based team with a pair of American drivers, as F1 veterans Ken Anderson and Peter Windsor revealed plans to enter a team to be called USF1 into competition as early as 2010...
To win his third consecutive Amgen Tour of California, Levi Leipheimer needed every bit of help he received from his Astana teammates. That was emphasized on Sunday when 10 riders broke clear on the upper reaches of Palomar Mountain, and Leipheimer was the only Astana man who could follow the attacks...
The state of California is preparing for legions of cycling fans to descend upon its road sides for the fourth edition of the Amgen Tour of California...
With all the hoopla surrounding the return of Lance Armstrong, you may have missed that another Tour De France champion is coming back - albeit one that had his title stripped away...
Mere months after announcing his comeback, Lance Armstrong is in Australia and ready to start next week's Tour Down Under. If you're not a cycling fan, cancer advocate or survivor or one of the nearly 25,000 following his every move on Twitter, understand that one doesn't jump into the pro ranks by just throwing your leg over a saddle and go for a ride like we would to the corner market...
Picture it:
The sun is setting in the west over the Pacific Ocean in California. Buffy and Betty are sitting by a pool drinking margaritas. What do these botox infused beauties talk about? Politics? The economy? Of course not, they talk about fashion...
Everyone in the auto industry seems to be lamenting the possibility of a merger between General Motors and Chrysler. Certainly the labor unions are scrambling to figure out how to block this potential 'union...
Paul Newman was always my favorite actor. And that had nothing to do with the fact that he was a race car driver and team owner. Who among the male population wouldn’t want to be him? Handsome, suave, Hollywood icon, great long-time marriage, philanthropist...
In one of the most anti-climactic elements of Lance Armstrong's return to professional cycling, it was announced that he would team with former US Postal and Discovery Channel director Johan Bruyneel and join Team Astana...
On Tuesday 9/9 Lance Armstrong confirmed what rumors had been saying about his return to the professional peleton in 2009:
AUSTIN, Texas – September 9, 2008 – Today, Lance Armstrong, cancer survivor, founder and chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) and cycling champion, released the following statement regarding his return to professional sports:
“I am happy to announce that after talking with my children, my family and my closest friends, I have decided to return to professional cycling in order to raise awareness of the global cancer burden...
From the New York Times:
Phil Hill, the only American-born Formula One champion, died Thursday at the age of 81. He died at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula...
Ok, it's not strictly "On Wheels", but our ol' buddy Lance Armstrong is back in the non-cycling news again, this time for being the No. 1 residential water user in Austin, Texas (pop...
Wiens and Armstrong Shatter Leadville Record.
Dave Wiens pulled away from Lance Armstrong in the final ten miles of the August 9 Leadville Trail 100 in Colorado, winning the race for the sixth time, in record time...
Forest fires notwithstanding, you gotta admit that Southern California is a great place to be a car lover. You'll see more exotics and classic cars in one week traveling around SoCal than in a year here in the Northeast...
Spain's Carlos Sastre wrapped up his maiden Tour de France triumph on Sunday following the final stage of the race into Paris. Quick Step's Gert Steegman won the stage 21 sprint finish up the Champs-Elysees...
Some thoughts on rest day two - heading into the Alps.
If Stage 15 was any indication, the next few days will feature attack after attack as the top six contenders—all within a minute of each other—battle for the right to wear yellow into Paris on Sunday...
Thoughts as the Tour gets ready to resume after the first rest day and 10 stages completed.
While we may not know many of the names of those who have made a splash thus far in the Tour; Stefan Schumacher (who?) Kim Kirchen (an American team maybe, but ditto), we have to admit that so far, the racing itself has been aggressive, unpredictable and utterly entertaining...
Ok, I've got an ever-lengthening list of things that drive me crazy on the road - most of which these days fall into the stop-doing-everything-you're-doing-except-concentrating-on-driving realm...
News of pro cycling's demise seems greatly exaggerated. Despite several prominent team sponsors leaving cycling and causing concern about the health of the sport, other major players are coming aboard even in midseason, an unusual development...
Professional cycling’s most successful team director JOHAN BRUYNEEL, will be at the Chester County Book & Music Company in West Chester on Tuesday evening, June 17th...
Hummer's rapid descent from hot to not is an automotive tale for our times.
As recently as 2006 the truck was still seen by many consumers as a fun -- even cool -- ride, making regular appearances in Hollywood (notably on HBO's "Entourage") and at big sporting and red-carpet events...
Kryptonite, the bike lock company, has released its Top 10 Worst Cities for Bike Theft.
The worst of the worst is Philadelphia, and it "won" going away -- "not even close" is how Kryptonite's marketing manager Donna Tocci described Philly's rotten honor...
More bumps, rocks and obstacles have been added to Beijing’s Olympic mountain-bike course, which failed to impress riders in its debut last year, according to a UCI expert...
If you have a bit of time this coming Saturday October 17, check out a truly unique annual event. The fabulous Granogue Estate of the DuPonts is open to the public and hosts a cyclocross bike race that attracts riders and fans from all over...
A 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder sold for $10.9 million at an auction on May 18, setting what is believed to be a world record for the most expensive sale of a vintage car...
The bikes are back in Wilmington this weekend. The 2009 Wilmington Grand Prix festivities begin Friday, May 15 with a kick-off party from 5 p.m. in the 500 block of Market Street
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May is National Bike Month; May 12-16th is Bike-To-Work Week; and May 16th is Bike-To-Work Day. If you haven’t already put down the car keys and started to “Go By Bike,” here’s how to get started pedaling to wherever duty calls...
OK, so yesterday (Tuesday 5/6), I trade in my trusty '99 Chrysler 300M for a new vehicle. It was a great ol' car that took more than it's share of abuse over its nearly 159,000 miles and nine years...
With time beginning to run out before its official debut at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, the Chevrolet Camaro development team has been busy lately. The Camaro traveling circus has flown up from Down Under (the car is sporting Victoria, Australia plates) and is stretching out a prototype's legs on the Nurburgring, which in the past several years has become a favorite GM testing destination...
Toyota is back at the Nurburgring testing its long-awaited LF-A supercar. And, as the pic shows, the company looks to be readying an even higher performance version of the car, complete with trick aerodynamics...
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