TOYOTA GAZOO Racing is delighted to announce that Finnish driver Juho Hänninen and his co-driver Kaj Lindström will compete in the 2017 FIA World Rally Championship. Kaj Lindström and Juho Hänninen Led by four-time ...
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Responsible for Motorstorm, WRC and Driveclub, Evolution Studios is no more, Sony has confirmed. Evolution’s latest title, Driveclub, had a troubled development cycle, and now the studio is being closed for good. Sony announced ...
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Specifications for the production version of the Citroen DS3 Cabrio Racing have been announced, largely mirroring its concept variant seen earlier this year at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Sharing the concept car’s matte grey ...
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A number of garment factories in Haiti were forced to close last week following protests by workers demanding a higher minimum wage. The workers say a rise in the minimum wage set out last month, and due to come into effect from 1 ...
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Hyundai has announced its future high-performance sports cars will be badged under a new motorsport-bred ‘N‘ sub-division. Similar to Nissan‘s Nismo tuning division and Volvo‘s Polestar, the Hyundai N brand will be ...
The landscape outside Seville ishellishly hot and dominated by dust. Yet it’s here amid the dry brush and sharp rocks that Hyundai’s WRC test drivers are toiling stoicly on their i20 rally car without an air-conditioned ...
CarAdvice spoke with Hyundai WRC team principal Michel Nandan at the WRC test sessions in Spain about the challenges of developing a new motorsport program and Hyundai’s use of Australian Chris Atkinson as a factory test driver. CA: ...
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Hyundai will be hoping a return to the World Rally Championship (WRC) in 2014 will be enough to bolster its share of younger male buyers. The South Korean manufacturer earmarked its renewed involvement in the WRC as a means to capture a ...
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Hyundai Motorsport GmbH says it is committed to its three-year World Rally Championship program starting in 2014, but admits timing is tight. Unlike rival manufacturers Volkswagen and Citroen, who already have team structures and mature ...
With four rounds of the 2013 World Rally Championship (WRC) left to go, Rally Australia presented Volkswagen Motorsport with?the opportunity to not only secure its number one driver his maiden world title in the team's inaugural year, but ...
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Citroen Australia has announced it will enter a two-car factory-backed team in the 2014 Australian Rally Championship (ARC). The two competition-prepared Citroen DS3-R3s will race under the banner of Team Citroen Australia, steered by the ...
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The all-new Volkswagen Golf R has been seen, and heard, on the move for the first time with the release of a new clip. Released by Volkswagen, the video shows a race track janitor ‘stumble’ across the new Mark VII Golf R ...
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The Netherlands-based specialty chemicals producer Tanatex Chemicals has introduced new fluorine-free technology for water repellency under the HydrECO Concept name. The technology avoids any of the environmental questions being raised ...
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Hyundai Motorsport has secured the services of rally ace Chris Atkinson, with the Australian joining the team’s testing and development program ahead of its 2014 re-entry into the World Rally Championship (WRC). Thirty-three year ...
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TANATEX Chemicals presents the HydrECO Concept, which entails comprehensive fluorine-free alternatives to water repellents. Awareness impulse Fluorocarbons are still the state-of-the-art chemistry for water repellents. But this ...
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