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Car racing is quickly evolving to embrace new technologies through series like Formula E and Extreme E. It may even find a home on the Moon in the near future. French startup MACA is looking to add flying cars to the list of emerging technologies activ… Continue reading Hydrogen-electric flying car looks to take F1 racing airborne
If you desire a sim gaming rig, there are off-the-shelf options up and down the market that stretch as high as your budget can afford. Some choose to eschew this route, however and build their own from scratch. Few people go quite so far as [Popicasa POPStuDio], however.
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A few decades ago you might have been satisfied with a crude wireframe flight simulator or driving a race car with the WASD keys. Today, gamers expect more realism, and [600,000 milliliters] is no different. At first, he upgraded his race car driving chair and put on VR goggles. But …read more
The story of modern-day Audi motorsport began when it drove its quattro into the World Rally Championship series back in 1981. Rallying therefore runs deep at Audi, but the Four Rings has still never raced in the toughest of them all: Dakar. That’s set… Continue reading Audi looks to find footing in Dakar with beastly electrified rally car
Looking to give himself a competitive edge, racer [Douglas Hedges] wanted to come up with a system that could give him real-time feedback on how his current performance compared to his previous fastest lap time. Armed with a Raspberry Pi and some Python libraries, he set out to add a …read more
Harleys and Indians are used to competing with one another in showrooms, but a new race series is putting these giant American cruisers head to head at the famous Laguna Seca racetrack in the “King of the Baggers” invitational – the motorcycling equiva… Continue reading Interview: Roland Sands builds “Challenger RR” race cruiser for Indian
Some of us have computer mice with more buttons than we have fingers, resolution tracking finer than a naked eye can discern, and forced-air vents. All these features presuppose one thing; the user has a functioning hand. [Federico Runco] knows that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, will …read more
Motorcycle hillclimb racing has provided some spectacularly fun highlight videos over the decades. The basic tenet – find a huge, super-steep and dastardly hill and watch people try to get motorbikes up it – makes for some wild watching.Continue Readin… Continue reading Indian builds a one-off stretched FTR750 to go hillclimb racing
Should the rest of the field be sweating? In only its fourth season at the top level of road racing, Austrian manufacturer KTM has won its first race – with rookie rider Brad Binder also delivering South Africa’s first race winner in MotoGP history.Con… Continue reading KTM pulls off stunning first-ever MotoGP win
If waking up to the smell of burning rubber gets your motor running, then a new project planned for Silverstone Circuit by Twelve Architects may be of interest. It will consist of a housing development overlooking the iconic British racing circuit, giv… Continue reading Silverstone luxury homes rev up for a trackside view