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Posted Feb 01 2012, 03:02 AM by Rod Chong with 21 comment(s)

RANDOM SNAP>> TAKE A BOW: THE MP4-27
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Mclaren have just taken the wraps off of their new MP4-27 Formula One machine, with a technical presentation taking place at their Woking HQ earlier today. The new car is said to be an evolution from last year's machine, built with the goal of challenging for race wins from the get go....

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Posted Jan 30 2012, 05:00 AM by Rod Chong with 10 comment(s)

VIDEO ROLL>> A GT-R IN DUBAI
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I find it truly amazing to see how two people armed with little more than a 5d camera, a 50mm 1.2 lens and an Iphone4S can make such a smooth and stylish automotive film like this. Props to the Crank&Piston team for this little gem of a video!

:Rod

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Posted Jan 25 2012, 06:30 AM by Rod Chong with 4 comment(s)

VIDEO ROLL>> PORSCHE 917S AT DAYTONA
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The legend of the Porsche 917 has it, that the car was such a frightening thing to drive, that many of the factory drivers felt a sense of relief when assigned to the lesser 908 open cockpit cars. With the 917s hitting warp speeds in excess of 240 mph at Le Mans, this isn't surprising.

Now much has been made of the 917s exploits at Le Mans but the history of the 917 at Daytona is also quite interesting too. This is especially true when you hear stories about how Pedro Rodríguez would literally drift the 917 around the superspeedway bankings. Remember back in 1970, there was no bus stop chicane on the back straight to slow the cars down. This combined with a profound lack of downforce and bia-ply tires would certainly have made for a hairy ride.

This Gulf Oil promotional video will give you a good feel for the state of motorsport in 1970, both in terms of the cars, but also the role of personality and film-making. I can't help but smile to myself when I see how formal JWA team boss John Wyer comes across in his interview. Times certainly have changed!

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Temple of Speed: The Porsche 917 at Spa 

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Posted Jan 25 2012, 05:20 AM by Rod Chong with 5 comment(s)

RANDOM SNAP>> WELCOME TO AMERICA
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This weekend's "Rolex 24 at Daytona" will mark the race debut of the Audi R8 GRAND AM. Two customer teams will be running the cars: APR Motorsport (pictured) and Oryx Racing. We'll be watching their progress closely! Rolex 24 2000 Retrospective Pt1 Rolex 24 2000 Retrospective Pt2

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Posted Jan 23 2012, 12:01 AM by Rod Chong with 15 comment(s)

RANDOM SNAP>> THE MINI VISTA
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A rather epic snapshot from this weekend's Rallye Monte Carlo....

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Posted Jan 22 2012, 05:00 AM by Rod Chong with 12 comment(s)

VIDEO ROLL>> WRC MONTE CARLO HIGHLIGHTS: DAY 3 & 4
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Here are the highlights of day three and four of the Monte Carlo Rallye.

The event has now concluded with Loeb taking a well deserved victory. The Mini team must also be well pleased with their second place result, not to mention Petter Solberg and Mikko Hirvonen's excellent debuts for Ford and Citroen respectively.

 

Final Top 5 Positions:

 1.  Sebastien Loeb - Citroen      

 2.  Dani Sordo - Mini           

 3.  Petter Solberg - Ford           

 4.  Mikko Hirvonen - Citroen        

 5.  Evgeny Novikov  - M-Sport Ford 

 

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Posted Jan 21 2012, 06:00 AM by Rod Chong with 19 comment(s)

VIDEO ROLL>> WRC MONTE CARLO HIGHLIGHTS: DAY 1 & 2
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I've been fishing around the interwebs today, looking for Monte Carlo Rally photos and just noticed that Michelin has started producing a steady stream of WRC youtube videos on their website: Best of Rally Live.

And as not all of you WRC fans have access to Eurosport's excellent Monte Carlo Rally coverage, this should allow you to get a visual on the latest action. Enjoy!

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Latest WRC report at Autosport.com

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Posted Jan 08 2012, 12:33 AM by Rod Chong with 2 comment(s)

VIDEO ROLL>> DAKAR 2012 DAY SEVEN
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Stage Six on Dakar 2012 was cancelled due to snow and ice, so we move directly to catch the action from Stage Seven. The desert stage favoured the Hummers of Robby Gordon and Nasser Al-Attiyah who dominated the day and moved up the overall order as a result.

Current standings from Autosport.com -

Pos  Driver                Car           Time/Gap

 1.  Stephane Peterhansel  Mini         15h32m53s

 2.  Krzysztof Holowczyc   Mini          + 11m22s

 3.  Robby Gordon          Hummer        + 13m09s

 4.  Nani Roma             Mini          + 18m05s

 5.  Giniel de Villiers    Toyota        + 34m07s

 6.  Nasser Al-Attiyah     Hummer        + 42m54s

 7.  Leonid Novitskiy      Mini          + 54m26s

 8.  Carlos Sousa          Great Wall  + 1h12m50s

 9.  Lucio Alvarez         Toyota      + 1h41m38s

10.  Erik van Loon         Mitsubishi  + 1h48m39s

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Posted Dec 31 2011, 07:00 AM by Mike Garrett with 13 comment(s)

CUTTING ROOM FLOOR>>2011'S LOST SCENES
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It's time now for our final Cutting Room Floor post of 2011. In addition to leftover photos from this month's shoots, we've also added a mix of unseen material from the year gone by, including unpublished shoots, small events, and some random car sightings. Enjoy!...
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Posted Dec 30 2011, 05:20 AM by Rod Chong with 34 comment(s)

PHOTOS OF THE YEAR 2011>> THE SPREAD OF THE STICKERS
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As we wind down the last of our 2011 stories, I thought it would be fun to put together a different type of themed gallery, which focuses on the much sought after Speedhunters stickers. Whenever we attend events, Speedhunters team members around the world are normally more than happy to give out these stickers. You just have to come up to us and ask! We estimate that over 20,000 of Speedhunters stickers have been printed since the website began, perhaps more. As a result, we often encounter our own...
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Posted Dec 22 2011, 03:00 PM by Rod Chong with 15 comment(s)

PHOTOS OF THE YEAR 2011>> RODBOT'S VIEW PT3
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McLaren MP4-12C, Spa 24Hs, Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium Ok chaps, here's the third part to my review of 2011. It's been quite the year for me, with big a relocation from my native Vancouver, Canada to new digs in Stockholm, Sweden. I've now more or less stopped trans-Atlantic travel, with my life more firmly rooted in Europe and all the automotive goodness it has to offer. For this blog post, I'm not going to get as wordy, and will just let the photos do the talking. Alan Sinnott Dirt...
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Posted Dec 21 2011, 09:30 AM by Rod Chong with 235 comment(s)

SPEEDHUNTERS AWARDS 2011>> MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR
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Whilst you and I may all be car fanatics to the nth degree, it's also quite unlikely that we share the same automotive interests or express this facination in the same way. Some of us build cars, while others race them; some shoot photos of cars and still others work in the industry. It's all pieces of the puzzle called international car culture. This range of expression and taste is also likely reflected in our choice of car magazine purchases. Most of you Speedhunters will likely have wildly...
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Posted Dec 19 2011, 06:00 AM by Rod Chong with 21 comment(s)

PHOTOS OF THE YEAR 2011>> RODBOT'S VIEW PT2
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Hello Speedhunters. I hope you're enjoying our Photos of the Year 2011 edition! Like you, I'm finding it quite interesting to look at the various Speedhunters Photographers' take on these series of articles. Whether it's Larry Chen, Jonathan Moore, Ross I'Anson, Linhbergh Nguyen, or Paddy McGrath's images, you can look at each shooter's work and start to see their photo language at play. Why have they chosen the photos? Is it the car? Is it the memory of the moment? Is it the composition of the shot? Or the emotion? Sense of light and style? What are the common elements to each of their shots? There is no right or wrong answer to any of these questions, but ultimately each team member is trying to create images which in some fashion or another will cause a reaction in you, the viewer. This emotional response is itself an automatic process; in an instant you'll likely have decided if you like, love, hate or are indifferent to a Speedhunters picture....
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Posted Dec 06 2011, 06:10 AM by Rod Chong with 20 comment(s)

PHOTOS OF THE YEAR 2011>> RODBOT'S VIEW PT.1
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Unless your name is Dino Dalle Carbonare and you're faced with a fully packed Japanese event schedule, the majority of the Speedhunters crew are slowing the pace down slightly and are getting ready to present our photographic year in review. So without further ado, here is my first selection of what I consider to be my best photos of the year....
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Posted Dec 01 2011, 06:00 PM by Rod Chong with 38 comment(s)

MUSEUMS>>A DAY AT THE PORSCHE MUSEUM PT2
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Ok let's continues on with our tour of the Porsche Museum. We've already shown you the restoration workshop and the start of the main exhibition, and now we'll walk through to the finish of the displays. Our first stop packs quite the punch with a 917K being flanked by Hans Herrmann's #64 Porsche 908. This car is famous for coming second at Le Mans in 1969 to Jacky Ickx's Ford GT40 by a mere 120 meters. Is that enough dish for you? An interesting fact, for any train-spotters in...
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Posted Nov 30 2011, 11:30 PM by Mike Garrett with 20 comment(s)

CUTTING ROOM FLOOR>>NOVEMBER 2011
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You might not imagine November being a big month for Speedhunting, but for many of us it's one of busiest months of the year. Here's what the team cleaned up from the cutting room floor in November....
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Posted Nov 30 2011, 01:00 PM by Rod Chong with 20 comment(s)

COLLECTABLES>> THE PORSCHE MUSEUM SHOP
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Before we move to part two of our Porsche Museum tour , I'm going to take you for a quick look around their gift shop. It's filled with all sorts of Porsche rarities and is perfect fodder for any serious Porka memorabilia collector. The entrance to the Porsche Museum shop contains what must be the coolest 1/43 die cast display on the planet. See those graphical lines? They contain a complete collection of mini Porsche machines. I'm a bit of a predictable creature as my camera is always...
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Posted Nov 29 2011, 04:30 AM by Rod Chong with 49 comment(s)

CAR SPOTLIGHT>> DEUTSCHE TOURENWAGEN MASTERS 2012 AT ESSEN
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Unless you're living in New Zealand and are enjoying the height of the D1NZ drift season, this time of year is slim pickings for us race fans. The sound of unhinged racing engines has fallen silent at motorsport venues across the world. Champions have been crowned, celebrations finished, and post mortems completed. For people like me, this isn't necessarily a good thing. I absolutely love car racing in all its various forms, so any month without the smell of race fuel is not something to...
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Posted Nov 28 2011, 11:45 AM by Rod Chong with 38 comment(s)

MUSEUMS>>A DAY AT THE PORSCHE MUSEUM PT1
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I would like to personally thank each and every one of you who have taken the time to fill out the 2011 Speedhunters Survey. While we have been operating the site based on instinctual observations for the past few years, having you tell us outright about your automotive lives has been a real eye-opening moment for us. We've known for a long time that many of you have a deep interest in Japanese car culture, but what was more unclear to us was if you appreciate our efforts to showcase automotive content outside of this sphere....
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Posted Nov 28 2011, 02:00 PM by MikiTaka with 56 comment(s)

NFS EURO SPOKESMODEL SEARCH >> ... AND THE WINNERS ARE ...
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When first asked to help judge the NFS Euro Spokesmodel search , I jumped at the opportunity. In addition to helping out my friends in Team NFS, I was eager to share the experience of a lifetime with the spokesmodel candidates. Along the way, I met a lot of wonderful girls and I have to admit that it became increasingly difficult to pick out clear winners as the search progressed. Yet now that the project has come to an end, I am equally excited to introduce you to the two lovely ladies who will...
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