2 months ago
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Josh Herrin leads the way for Team North America - on a Yamaha R7!
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FIM North America announced its roster for the 2026 FIM Intercontinental Games, taking place Dec. 10-13 at the famed Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna in Goiânia, Brazil, with all six FIM Continental Unions (CONU) battling for global bragging rights.
After a successful inaugural event in 2024, the 2026 FIM Intercontinental Games will provide an opportunity for FIM North America - which is made up of the American Motorcyclist ******* ociation, Canadian Motorcycle ******* ociation and Barbados Motoring Federation - to once again compete against the remaining CONUs from around the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Oceania.
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Josh Herrin leads the way for Team North America - on a Yamaha R7!
Begin press release:
FIM North America announced its roster for the 2026 FIM Intercontinental Games, taking place Dec. 10-13 at the famed Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna in Goiânia, Brazil, with all six FIM Continental Unions (CONU) battling for global bragging rights.
After a successful inaugural event in 2024, the 2026 FIM Intercontinental Games will provide an opportunity for FIM North America - which is made up of the American Motorcyclist ******* ociation, Canadian Motorcycle ******* ociation and Barbados Motoring Federation - to once again compete against the remaining CONUs from around the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Oceania.
#north #intercontinental
2 months ago
The NASCAR community is still reeling over the death of Kyle Busch, including his older brother and fellow racecar driver Kurt Busch. The Busch family lost Kyle suddenly on May 21 after a severe case of pneumonia worsened.
Kurt's first public comments since his brother's death came this week during an appearance on NBC's "Today." The emotional interview gives some insight into the traumatic experience for the Busch family.
"I was at the hospital, I was there all day, hoping, praying, hoping for a turnaround," Busch said during "Today" show Friday. "I said, 'I got you man. Come on, I got you. I got you. Come on, be strong.'"
The Busch brothers' NASCAR careers span several decades, including various championships. Kurt received entry into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2026, joining the exclusive group of 70 drivers and other members.
MORE: Sea-Doo unveils game-changing watercraft honoring F1 legend Ayrton Senna
#busch #kyle #come
Kurt's first public comments since his brother's death came this week during an appearance on NBC's "Today." The emotional interview gives some insight into the traumatic experience for the Busch family.
"I was at the hospital, I was there all day, hoping, praying, hoping for a turnaround," Busch said during "Today" show Friday. "I said, 'I got you man. Come on, I got you. I got you. Come on, be strong.'"
The Busch brothers' NASCAR careers span several decades, including various championships. Kurt received entry into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2026, joining the exclusive group of 70 drivers and other members.
MORE: Sea-Doo unveils game-changing watercraft honoring F1 legend Ayrton Senna
#busch #kyle #come
3 months ago
Ayrton Senna is, for many fans, an untouchable figure – three world **** les, 41 race victories, and a driving talent that still gets debated three decades after his death at Imola in 1994. In a 2009 Autosport poll of 217 current and former Formula 1 drivers, Senna came out on top as the greatest the sport has ever seen. Tiff Needell, a former F1 driver and longtime television presenter, would like a word with whoever wrote that ballot.
Speaking on the Cars & Money podcast, Needell was clear on how he felt about the driver: "He could not be the world's greatest driver because he used his car as a weapon. I mean, to take off Alain Prost to win a world championship, he just wiped him out."
The incident in question was the 1990 **** anese Grand Prix, where Senna drove into Prost at the first corner, eliminating both cars and securing his second **** le in the process. Prost has claimed Senna confessed to making the maneuver intentionally, both in public statements and in private.
For Needell, the comparison point isn't Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen. It's Jim Clark, the Scottish driver who dominated the mid-1960s and won two championships.
"Jim Clark, the world's greatest driver, would never have done that," Needell argued on the podcast. It's a deliberately high bar, and one that's hard to argue against – Clark's record is essentially spotless in this regard.
#senna #driver #cars #former
Speaking on the Cars & Money podcast, Needell was clear on how he felt about the driver: "He could not be the world's greatest driver because he used his car as a weapon. I mean, to take off Alain Prost to win a world championship, he just wiped him out."
The incident in question was the 1990 **** anese Grand Prix, where Senna drove into Prost at the first corner, eliminating both cars and securing his second **** le in the process. Prost has claimed Senna confessed to making the maneuver intentionally, both in public statements and in private.
For Needell, the comparison point isn't Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen. It's Jim Clark, the Scottish driver who dominated the mid-1960s and won two championships.
"Jim Clark, the world's greatest driver, would never have done that," Needell argued on the podcast. It's a deliberately high bar, and one that's hard to argue against – Clark's record is essentially spotless in this regard.
#senna #driver #cars #former
3 months ago
Cristiano Ronaldo posted two photos to his personal Instagram account this week captioned simply "My toys," and unlike most athlete garage flexes, the hardware in the frame actually holds up to scrutiny. The images, viewed directly on his verified account, show him perched on the fender of a low red Ferrari inside what looks less like a garage and more like a boutique dealership: polished stone walls, gallery-style track lighting, glass panels overlooking greenery, and cars parked on what appear to be rotating display turntables. It's built to be looked at, so let's actually look at it.
View the original "My toys" post on Cristiano Ronaldo's Instagram
Strip away the sunglasses-and-white-shirt theater and the hardware tells its own story. In the foreground of both shots sits a low, wide Ferrari with a sharply creased nose, integrated splitter, and shield badge consistent with the styling language of Maranello's hybrid hypercar flagship. Parked nose to tail with it is a second Ferrari that has no windshield at all, a dead giveaway for the Monza SP1 or SP2, Ferrari's "Icona" series barchetta. Ferrari's own spec sheet credits the Monza with 810 metric horsepower from a V12 borrowed directly from the 812 Superfast, and a "virtual wind shield" aero channel that redirects airflow over the driver's head instead of putting glass in front of their face.
Wedged in front of both Ferraris is a deep maroon Bugatti wearing the brand's oval "EB" badge and the round quad headlamps that mark it as one of the Veyron-generation cars rather than the sharper-edged Chiron that replaced it in 2016. ******* uming it's the roofless Grand Sport Vitesse the exposed targa panel suggests, that's the variant Bugatti's own press materials credit with a 408.84 km/h (254 mph) top speed set with the roof removed, a record for an open-top production car that stood specifically because Bugatti engineered the Vitesse's structure to stay rigid at that speed without a fixed roof tying the chassis together.
Further back, a black coupe wearing a towering, strut-mounted rear wing lines up with the unmistakable silhouette of a McLaren Senna, the track-focused hypercar McLaren built in a limited run of 500 examples, each hand-assembled over roughly 300 hours. McLaren's own figures put the Senna at 789 horsepower from a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8, a 335 km/h (208 mph) top speed, and a 2.8-second run to 62 mph, with that enormous wing doing real aerodynamic work rather than just looking angry. A handful of other cars are visible deeper in the frame, including a pale, low-slung shape and a boxier silhouette, but neither is clear enough in the photos to identify with confidence.
#monza #bugatti
View the original "My toys" post on Cristiano Ronaldo's Instagram
Strip away the sunglasses-and-white-shirt theater and the hardware tells its own story. In the foreground of both shots sits a low, wide Ferrari with a sharply creased nose, integrated splitter, and shield badge consistent with the styling language of Maranello's hybrid hypercar flagship. Parked nose to tail with it is a second Ferrari that has no windshield at all, a dead giveaway for the Monza SP1 or SP2, Ferrari's "Icona" series barchetta. Ferrari's own spec sheet credits the Monza with 810 metric horsepower from a V12 borrowed directly from the 812 Superfast, and a "virtual wind shield" aero channel that redirects airflow over the driver's head instead of putting glass in front of their face.
Wedged in front of both Ferraris is a deep maroon Bugatti wearing the brand's oval "EB" badge and the round quad headlamps that mark it as one of the Veyron-generation cars rather than the sharper-edged Chiron that replaced it in 2016. ******* uming it's the roofless Grand Sport Vitesse the exposed targa panel suggests, that's the variant Bugatti's own press materials credit with a 408.84 km/h (254 mph) top speed set with the roof removed, a record for an open-top production car that stood specifically because Bugatti engineered the Vitesse's structure to stay rigid at that speed without a fixed roof tying the chassis together.
Further back, a black coupe wearing a towering, strut-mounted rear wing lines up with the unmistakable silhouette of a McLaren Senna, the track-focused hypercar McLaren built in a limited run of 500 examples, each hand-assembled over roughly 300 hours. McLaren's own figures put the Senna at 789 horsepower from a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8, a 335 km/h (208 mph) top speed, and a 2.8-second run to 62 mph, with that enormous wing doing real aerodynamic work rather than just looking angry. A handful of other cars are visible deeper in the frame, including a pale, low-slung shape and a boxier silhouette, but neither is clear enough in the photos to identify with confidence.
#monza #bugatti
3 months ago
In Formula 1, a driver's permanent race number is highly personal. It becomes a central part of their brand, their merchandise, and their legacy. When Kimi Antonelli arrived at Mercedes to replace Lewis Hamilton, he had his pick of available numbers.
He immediately chose the number 12.
For the average viewer, a number is just a digit painted on the nosecone. But for motorsport purists, the number 12 carries an immense, almost holy weight. It was the number that defined the early McLaren career of the legendary Ayrton Senna, the three-time world champion and a man widely regarded as one of the greatest talents to ever sit in a Formula 1 ******* pit.
During a recent appearance on the Significant Figures podcast, Antonelli opened up about the emotional and historical significance of selecting Senna's number, revealing how deeply the Brazilian icon has influenced his own path to F1.
Antonelli was born in 2006, 12 years after Senna's tragic passing at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. However, as the son of a sportscar driver and team owner (Marco Antonelli), Kimi grew up immersed in motorsport history. He spent his childhood watching DVDs of Senna's greatest drives alongside his father.
#number
He immediately chose the number 12.
For the average viewer, a number is just a digit painted on the nosecone. But for motorsport purists, the number 12 carries an immense, almost holy weight. It was the number that defined the early McLaren career of the legendary Ayrton Senna, the three-time world champion and a man widely regarded as one of the greatest talents to ever sit in a Formula 1 ******* pit.
During a recent appearance on the Significant Figures podcast, Antonelli opened up about the emotional and historical significance of selecting Senna's number, revealing how deeply the Brazilian icon has influenced his own path to F1.
Antonelli was born in 2006, 12 years after Senna's tragic passing at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. However, as the son of a sportscar driver and team owner (Marco Antonelli), Kimi grew up immersed in motorsport history. He spent his childhood watching DVDs of Senna's greatest drives alongside his father.
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