After a 20 year hiatus, BMW specialist/manufacturer, Alpina, will return to motorsports with an entry into the 2009 FIA GT3 European Championships in addition to a few other prominent endurance races.
Alpina’s motorsports history boasts of winning three European Touring Car Championships with such legendary drivers from F1 and Touring Cars as Niki Lauda, Jacky Ickx, Hans Stuck and Dieter Quester. Alpina drivers also won the Nürburgring 24 Hours numerous times, as well as the 24 Hours of Spa in 1970.
With Alpina’s B6 S model as the basis, the B6 GT3 …

A video of the Lexus LF-A doing some shake down run to prepare for the 24hour Nurburgring in May.

That sound is pure supercar status. I love the sound when it downshifted. I can’t wait to see this car.

Round 1 of King of Europe Drift over at Hungary brought out some unbelievable bimmers.
Check out this white E36. Looks preety much stock, white with some Motorsport style graphics. Oh, hmm.. what’s that on the hood??

That is a 500hp, V8 S62 Motor commonly found in the E39 M5s. And yeah no need for HFM, costume tuned with MAP sensors probably.

Ok so some might say, that motor is too heavy and might offset the weight distribution blah blah blah..
Well here’s another option. Stick with the S50 Motor but mount it further …

Autoblog compiled the definitive guide to the Nürburgring, courtesy of BMW. Twenty eight pages filled with valuable tips from driver such as Jorg Muller who along with Hans-Joachim “Strietzel” Stuck won the 2004 24 hours of Nurburgring. The guide also illustrates the fastest line through the track, on every sweeps, which are even color coded to tell you which gears you should be on.
Here’s a sample:

I’m not sure I’ll be lucky enough to try this at the real thing but wonder if it works on GT4? Hmmmm.
Thanks BMW!
For the …

I went to the Long Beach Grand Prix to check out the ALMS racecars and other racecar series run around the streets of Long Beach. Today was set up and practice runs. Weather was a lot better than last week, 82-85 degrees with a cool breeze from the beach.
Here are some pictures:
When we got there, the Formula drift cars were heading back to the garage while the Super Lap Battle cars wait for their turn.

Drift riderz..

Then we strolled down to the Champ Car paddock..

And the American Lemans paddock..

I doubt these …

We were in Long Beach today running errands. Most of the streets are blocked off getting ready for next week’s Grand Prix.

But today was also Round 1 of the Formula Drift. My friend JP hooked me up with couple of tickets so we decided to swing by and check it out since we are in the area already.

Plenty of Skylne R34s…

The stance on this green 240 was perfect but the drift battle scars hurts a little.
This is also the debut of the “rear wheel drive” Scion tC with Ken …

I came across these pictures a while ago. I really want to see more pictures of these cars. Looks like it’s a series. It was just cool to see E39 M5s and E60 M5s racing against each other