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0Motorsports: Back from vacation and straight to the Spa for the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix [spoilers] 1346621100
We know it's been barely over a month, but it sure seems like a lot longer since the last Formula One race. At the end of July, Fernando Alonso lead the standings ahead of Mark Webber, Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen after eleven of twenty grands prix were completed this ...
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Video: Watch nine McLaren MP4-12Cs get ready for Spa 1343088000
This weekend there will be nine English visitors to the 24 Hours of Spa endurance race, all of them with the surname MP4-12C GT3. The nine cars are being fielded by six teams, one of which has already been victorious in GT races with its McLaren racer. Have a look at the video below to watch, ...
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Video: Watch this 19-year-old F2 racer dramatically save his own bacon in the wet 1341514680
Dino Zamparelli has mad skills behind the wheel of his FIA Formula 2 machine, and he managed to show just how good – or how crazy he is – on Belgium's legendary Spa circuit. As the track filled with rain mist from cars in front him, Zamparelli, 19, sped toward a group of cars ...
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Official: Audi Sport scoops up ex-Peugeot driver Marc Gené for reserve role 1334930280
When a major automaker shuts down its racing program like Peugeot did at Le Mans, it leaves a big gaping hole for everyone involved. The French automaker's departure from endurance racing left the series organizers scrambling for another team to take its place just as it was preparing to inaugurate ...
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Video: Rally legends at Spa is music to our ears 1330459080
The Legend Boucles de Spa is a historic rally held in the Ardennes Forest around Spa, Belgium, and it commemorates the actual Boucle de Spa rally races held for 37 years from 1953 to 1990. The drill is simple: lots of drivers plotting vintage machinery at various levels of anger through the ...
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2011 Belgian Grand Prix was a hard day at the Spa [spoilers] 1314552720
Everyone deserves a little break once in a while. But once that vacation is over, it's time to get back to work. For the Formula One circus, that break took the better part of a month, giving the drivers and their teams some much-needed R&R from the Hungarian Grand Prix that served as the ...
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Bruno Senna to take Heidfeld's place at Renault for Spa 1314275280
Most drivers who fail in F1 fail downwards – that is, they drop down to another form of motorsport and change focus. But if your name is Senna, you fail up. Having tested for Honda before it closed up shop and quit F1, Bruno Senna took the only chance he had to get onto the grid when he ...
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Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 meets its father at Spa 1311883320
Though today the letters stand for power and performance, if you go back four decades, almost nobody had ever heard of a tuning garage called AMG. That was until the Mercedes-Benz tuner showed up at the 1971 running of the 24 Hours of Spa with... a luxury sedan. But not just any luxury ...
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Official: McLaren MP4-12C GT3 to debut in triplicate at Spa 1311703260
The moment of truth is upon McLaren this weekend. After rolling out its MP4-12C road car to positive reviews, the racing team turned automaker is turning itself back into a racing team with the new McLaren GT division and its MP4-12C GT3 – the first GT racer from the Woking, UK outfit since ...
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Intercontinental Le Mans Cup hits Spa-Francorchamps [spoilers] 1304973000
The second round of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup took place in Belgium, and even though the Audi R18 took to the starting line for the first time, Peugeot was able to take the top two spots on the podium after six hours of racing. Interestingly, the qualifying results were the opposite of ...

