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Kiwi Racing Star Takes on Streets of Monaco

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Kiwibloke’s first love has always been cars, the faster the better. In Kiwibloke’s mis-spent youth he owned two Alfa Romeo club cars, a 33QV and a Sprint QV. He was spectacularly unsuccessful emulating the success of former kiwi Formula 1 stars including Denny Hulme, Chris Amon, and Bruce Maclaren among others, and now runs a [...]

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Tags: Motor racing · New Zealand · a1gp

Quotable Quotes – Burt Munroe

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What’s your name young man? ….. McFarland…Mike McFarland
I knew a McFarland, he used to sell milking machines in Timaru….
You must be related because he was a total prick…..
[The World's Fastest Indian]
[Burt Munroe]

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Kiwi Supercar Driven at Taupo

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The hand built Hulme Canam car was driven last weekend at the Taupo A1GP event. Named after Kiwi Formula One driver Denny Hulme, the Hulme CanAm is scheduled for limited production build in 2010, with a provisional price of Euro 295,000. The development of further model derivatives is planned, including a Coupe version.
Designed and hand-built [...]

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Swiss also Steal Taupo A1GP

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Things turned ugly for Black Beauty at Taupo this afternoon, with New Zealand driver Chris van der Drift failing to recover from a nightmare first lap in the A1GP feature race. Switzerland’s Neel Jani won the race, after a pitlane error let him past series leader and sprint race winner Adam Carroll of Ireland. Portugal’s [...]

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Formula One Solves Problems for the Masses

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One of the big benefits of formula one racing cars roaring round Monaco is that they represent the state of art of vehicle technology. Many technology advances in braking, combustion and aerodynamics among others first arrive in Formula then move to high performance vehicles then to mainstream vehicles.
The Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) is one [...]

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Kiwi Black Magic Takes Second Overall in A1GP Series

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New Zealand claimed second in the A1GP series for the second year running with New Zealand driver Jonny Reid hailing the team’s consistency.

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Hamilton 400 Race Two Highlights

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Serious Kiwi Racing Simulation

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Pro-motion from Auckland has just introduced the latest and most realistic car simulator in New Zealand

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Hamilton 400

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The Hamilton 400 was held a couple of weeks ago. Those of you who have grown up down up know of the 40 year old tussle between Holden and Ford that culminates each year at the Bathurst 1000. The series is known as the V8 Supercars. Unlike NASCAR, it has retained since 1960 the Stock [...]

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Bugatti Veryon does 407 km/h

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Wow……
[youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx2rvcT6eOw]

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Tags: Motor racing · Top Gear