If you’ve ever wanted to get involved in a Gumball style road rally but can’t find your way into the scene, now may be your chance. The folks at Thunderball Rally are planning what looks like a classic event in September 2008. Fantastic cars. A fantastic route. Costumes! That’s right, for a whopping 50 pounds, one can dress up like Dom Delouise and cruise from London through the French Alps, down the Stelvio pass and in to Monaco! That’s a darn sight cheaper than some of the other, more infamous events.
Ayrton Senna will always be considered one of the finest drivers ever to compete in Formula 1. In fact he stood upon the top spot of the podium at Monaco, the crown jewel of F1, no fewer than 6 times. The 2007 edition of the famed Monaco event takes place this coming weekend and marks the twentieth anniversary of Senna’s first win on the historic circuit. There is a whole host of events planned to celebrate the occasion.
Named for the legendary Scottish driver, the Jim Clark Memorial Award is awarded annually to a Scottish citizen who has made a difference to motor racing. The 2007 recipient is TV host Lee McKenzie. 28 year old Lee has been chasing her journalistic dreams since the ripe old age of 15 and has covered F1, DTM, Porsche Supercup and currently is traveling with A1GP. She even got her WRC co-driver’s license and has competed in several WRC rounds, proving that she can put her knowledge of the sport to good use inside the car as well as on screen.
Super hot Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock has gotten her hands on the super hot new Audi TT. Why does she need a TT? Well, to carve up the mountain roads around her boyfriend’s neighborhood. Why do the rich and royal types get all the hot Olympians? Oh yeah…something about being rich and royal!
Quattro. The name evokes thoughts of white, yellow and black Group B rally cars cresting wet yumps at the 1000 Lakes Rally, or drifting past stone houses in the hills above Monaco. With the evolution of the Quattro, that beast has become known as the über Quattro. Every AWD Audi since has been a Quattro, but never as outrageous as that early Eighties monster. Until now.
Audi has combined modern German technology with German/Italian motivation to create the ultimate road going Audi. Audi’s Quattro system, aluminum construction and a high revving V8 shared by Lamborghini, this really may be the new über Q. Time will tell if this model will back up the motorsports dominance that the original Quattro displayed. What is certain, is that Audi has built a hyper performing, road holding new über Quattro that could be an equally important part of the Quattro legend.
Visit our gallery of shots from the Canadian International Auto Show, taken by Jaimie from Random
The Formula 1 schedule has been released for 2007. Not that I’ve been since 1991, but it’s good to see that Canada is still on the roster. Missing from the list are the European GP and San Marino.
The full line-up is as follows:
Australia, March 18
Malaysia, April 08
Bahrain, April 15
Spain, May 13
Monaco, May 27
Canada, June 10
United States, June 17
France, July 01
United Kingdom, July 08
Germany, July 22
Hungary, August 05
Turkey, August 26
Italy, September 09
Belgium, September 16
China, September 30
Japan, October 07
Brazil, October 21
Just think, full battle gear just like in motocross. Pit his highness against Hill, Villenueve and Alonso & see how long he can go without getting his butt kicked!
For some stunning photos from qualifying at Monaco, be sure to visit Axis of Oversteer
As regular readers of The Garage may have noticed, we are suckers for vintage racing of any sort. Phillip over at Classical Drive has posted about the wonders of visiting a vintage weekend. He sends us to Axis of Oversteer, a great blog for vintage racing enthusiasts, and anyone who’s really into BMW’s and the Lotus Elise. They have some fantastic in car video and a really nice slide show of images from this year’s Monaco Historics race.
