Collaborate Disseminate
Christian Von Koenigsegg, polymath of the automotive world, doesn’t strike me as a man to take chances. Yet on August 18 he turned up at the Laguna Seca race track with a car and driver, neither of which had ever seen the track in the flesh. The driver… Continue reading Lap record at first sight: Koenigsegg Jesko tears up Laguna Seca
With driver Chris Ward in the captain’s chair, the Czinger 21C clocked in a 48.83-second run with 3rd through 6th place all separated by less than 0.9 of a second. The overall winner was the Ford Supervan 4.2 (you should use the word “van” loosely) wit… Continue reading Czinger 21C zings its wingers to the record books at Goodwood
For those who aren’t old enough to know what a Rubik’s Cube is, it’s a 3D puzzle that became a craze in the early ’80s. The puzzle is solved when each of the cube’s six faces is a solid color. In the early 2000s, Rubik’s Cubes enjoyed a resurgence in p… Continue reading Video: Air-con wiring robot sets new Rubik’s Cube world record
It’s official: 2023 was the hottest year on record. Independent analyses by NASA, NOAA, WMO, Copernicus and the UK Met Office all reached the same conclusion, with the year also breaking a slew of other records and experiencing a string of severe weath… Continue reading 2023 confirmed as hottest year on record by 5 separate organizations
In 2019, a bold male seabird threw caution to the wind, flying above Typhoon Faxai as the storm pummeled southeastern Japan. It was the start of an 11-hour, 1,146-km (712-mile) crazy journey, that took the bird 15,000 feet higher than normal, at three … Continue reading Bird takes on typhoon for an insane 700-mile sky-high ride of his life
A Swiss student team has absolutely smashed the record for the world’s fastest-accelerating EV. Surreal-looking video shows driver Kate Maggetti rocketing from 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) in a staggering time just under one second. Here’s how they did it.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: World’s Fastest, Record-breaking, World Records, ETH Zurich, Electric Vehicles, Crazy
Continue reading 0-100 km/h in less than a second: Swiss EV team destroys world record
After breaking 23 production car records in a single day back in May, the Rimac Nevera has now taken on the fabled Nurburgring Nordschliefe track in Germany, and comes away as the fastest electric production car the ‘ring has ever seen.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Rimac Automobili, World’s Fastest, Record-breaking, Nurburgring, Hypercar, Electric Vehicles
Continue reading Record-hungry Rimac sets fastest production EV lap at the Nurburgring
NASA and NOAA have confirmed what many people have felt firsthand – July 2023 was the hottest month in recorded history, which goes back about a century and a half. The finding follows a worrying trend that has a decent chance of setting 2023 as the ho… Continue reading July 2023 ranked hottest month on record in past 170 years
Californian hypercar company Czinger has its sights set on a swag of lap records worldwide, and its innovative 21C hybrid hypercar got its first taste of blood last month on home court, slashing more than two seconds off the Laguna Seca lap record held… Continue reading Czinger 21C hypercar smashes Laguna Seca lap record
Earlier this year we saw Mercedes-AMG roll out its most powerful V8 ever, the GT Black Series, and the automaker has wasted little time in showing what it can do. While street legal, the 4-liter twin turbo was designed to do its business primarily on t… Continue reading Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series claims production car record at Nürburgring