Monthly Archives: June 2012

Goodwood Festival of Speed’s stellar line-up

June 19, 2012   simon

Goodwood has announced the list of drivers appearing at this year’s Festival, and it might be easier to say which top drivers are not there.The line-up includes Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Alain Prost, Nico Rosberg, Mark Webber, Kenny Roberts and James Toseland, while Grand Prix teams present will include Red Bull Racing, Ferrari, McLaren, Lotus, Mercedes and Caterham. In addition, the leaders of Red Bull Racing, Christian Horner and Adrian Newey, will drive up the 1.16-mile Goodwood hillclimb.

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Facelift for Kia Sorento

June 18, 2012   simon

A facelifted Kia Sorento will arrive in the UK in the autumn.The revised model receives a re-engineered bodyshell, revised styling front and rear, plus reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
The styling features new headlamps with LED highlights, a new tailgate with LED rear combination lamps, new bumpers (front and rear) and the option of 19-inch alloys.
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Saab 9-3 nearly new – £13,599

June 18, 2012   simon

The news that Saab is to be saved (or maybe not) by a multinational consortium, has been celebrated by Motorpoint, which has 2011 9-3 models in stock. The 9-3 1.9 TTiD 160 Turbo Edition Estates are available from £13,599 – which compares to a list price of £24,120 when the car was last on sale. The cars have around 13,000 miles on the clock. That means they have suffered a theoretical depreciation of almost £1 per mile, although nobody was actually paying list price for Saabs last year.At around the price of the most basic pre-registered Focus estate, the Saab 9-3 estate might be worth a look.
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Audi wins again at Le Mans as Toyota wins respect

June 18, 2012   simon

Audi have won the 80th Le Mans 24 Hours, claiming their 11th victory in 13 years and taking a clean sweep of the podium.Andre Lotterer took the chequered flag in the #1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro to win his and his co-drivers’, Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler, second successive Le Mans. Their diesel hybrid car finished the race one lap ahead of the #2 car of Allan McNish, Tom Kristensen and Rinaldo Capello with the traditional diesel R18 Ultra of Mike Rockenfeller, Oliver Jarvis and Marco Bonanomi third.Unlike last year which ended with one of the closest finsihes in Le Mans history, the 2012 edition was a typical endurance race, a war of attrition where reliability and accidents played their parts as much as outright speed. As we’re in the middle of Euro 2012 it seems appropriate to say that the Le Mans 24 Hours was also a race of two halves.
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Le Mans: Both Toyotas out, Davidson in hospital with ‘broken back’

June 17, 2012   simon

Toyota have pulled their sole remaining car out of the Le Mans 24 Hours after 11 hours and 134 laps, leaving the Audi team holding the top three positions. Alex Wurz was the driver who brought the TS030 HYBRID home and out of the race after a lengthy spell in the pits in the eighth hour which resulted in it stalling in the pit lane and forced the Toyota mechanics to push the car all the way back to the garage for repairs.The Austrian driver was well down the order when he rejoined but the petrol-powered hybrid car was not showing its earlier pace. The problems were the result of his team-mate, Kazuki Nakajima’s collision with the Nissan Deltawing in the sixth hour which also led to the Nissan’s retirement.
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