News From Street Racing Community
There is more to hear from the car racing community apart from the adventure stories. Let us see what is on air about the racing streets.
Dave Senders wins a pro-Subaru STi from DC Shoes
Dave Senders wins the DC Shoes and Action Pursuit Group (producers of Hot Import Nghts and HINCity) ‘drive all day party all night’ prize offered to car enthusiasts. They procured a DC Shoes’ custom Gumball 3000 Subaru WRX STi, a street/daily driver version of their racecars. There is much more about the Subaru STi – it was driven by pro-skateboarder Rob Dyrdek in the villainous European race. Apart from this ‘heavy’ prize, Dave Senders also received a VIP treatment offer for the grand party at all 2007 HIN shows! More details of the news can be seen at http://www.hincity.com/news/.
HIN’s car week at Honolulu
Come Honolulu, the paradise of earth. The pretty island of Oahu hosted the annual stop of the Hot Import Nights in December 2nd week. The attraction of the event was the models assembled there from across the world, especially from Hawaii along with the prettiest cars from the mainland. To find more details of the event log on to http://www.hincity.com/news/.
Here is some news about the happenings in the sporty cars’ world. http://news.windingroad.com/ gives you a wide coverage from the track and field of sports cars.
The First Porsche RS Spyder Customer Cars goes to Dyson Racing
It is celebration time for Porsche. Dyson Racing, a famous group from Poughkeepsie, NY, will hoist a pair of Porsche RS Spyder racer from Stuttgart in the 2007 American Le Mans Series LMP2 class. Dyson Racing’s association with Porsche dates back to their earlier venture with 962s in GTP competition, which was held in the period 1985 to 1991. And the team had won 12 events in the series. Chris Dyson, Guy Smith, Andy Wallace, and Butch Leitzinger will spearhead the new 2007 series.
Honda to rebuild Suzuka
The renowned race circuit Suzuka, known for the Japanese Formula One GP from 1987 onwards, will be rebuilt by Honda. Be it the tussle for power, or anything else; this is great news for the sporting community. Remember, Honda had lost the Japanese GP contract to Fuji Speedway, a Toyota-owned company, and for the first time in the modern racing era, Speedway will host the race in October 2007.
With the news about Toyota’s renewal of a five-year deal with Bernie Ecclestone to stage the Japanese GP, likely in 2012, Honda is hoping for a Pacific GP break from 2008 onwards. The last of such a series happened in the period 1994-95.
OEM Sprinter Parts to Convert your Dodge or Freightliner
An unbelievable offer from OEM Sprinter Parts to convert the Dodge or Freightliner Sprinter to their Mercedes counterpart. They do this by offering a conversion kit including one that supplies full Benz grille, a 316CDI grille nameplate, replacement wheel hubs, door decals, steering wheel badges and a Mercedes’ signature windshield decal, etc. These all are the OEM Benz parts, and so try your luck doing it.
