The drivers from Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One teams are taking their first laps on the great unknown that is the new Korea International Circuit today, at least their first laps in the real world. Previously all four of them got to try out the virtual version in the simulator.

That can prove invaluable when it comes to learning a new track like Yeongam it’s the only chance they’ll have to ‘see’ the track before driving it flat-out at the wheel of a multi-million dollar racing car.
Andy Damerum is Red Bull Technology’s VR guru. As the driver development manager for the F1 Simulator at Milton Keynes, Andy puts everyone through their paces and ensures the simulation is as close to the real thing as science can make it. A toy it isn’t.
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There was a time when dragstrips and road courses across America were bustling with the sounds of screeching bias-ply burnouts and solid-lifter crackling, and lead-infused fuels burned under high compression. The muscle car era was in full swing, and the manufacturers waged war in battles of horsepower and cubic inches.

At some point though, it seems like those with the vintage cars threw in the towel and stopped showing up, leaving the late-model crew to have all of the fun. Now we’re not saying that you should be hanging out at the track all the time, but you should be able to enjoy all of that high-horsepower hardware that you’ve installed under the hood, and taking your car to your local racetrack offers that opportunity in a very safe environment.
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The Castrol Honda race transporters are still stuck after three days on the M25, and would any spectator who has arrived on a Honda SP-2 please contact the organisers, as the team would like to borrow a bike for the afternoon. The Daily Telegraph sponsorship logos will be applied free.

Would Colin Edwards, currently second in the championship and the only man to have put consistent pressure on series leader Troy Bayliss, stand any chance of being even remotely competitive on the road version of his race bike? Even with slick racing tyres and the lights removed?
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It’s said that when you’re traveling at 80 mph on an ATV, you’re covering over 117 feet per second. In the time you blink your eyes, you can travel over 60 feet. If realizing that you’re riding blind for that period of time is scary, throw in 3-foot-deep whoops, rain ruts, boulders and dust for miles. These are conditions that not every rider can handle on their best day.

It takes a special type of person to tackle the terrain of the open desert on a fast ATV. That’s where guys like Wayne Matlock come into the picture. Wayne has been racing in the rough deserts for years and has just the mentality and skill it takes to win championships. In 2007, he won the championship in the Best In The Desert and the National Hare & Hound series and also secured second place in the 2007 SCORE Off-Road series. It’s because of this track record that Honda has signed him to race its ATVs in the desert since 2006 and continues to support him in 2008.
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Is it possible to keep racing car performance and still save the planet? Warren Pole joins touring driver Fiona Leggate at Silverstone to find out. With petrolheads fast becoming pariahs as society becomes ever greener, you could be forgiven for thinking that the internal combustion engine will soon be legislated off the planet, leaving us all humming about in dolphin-friendly, battery-powered bubble cars packing the excitement of an afternoon at the local rest home. And this is understandable. After all, oil is running out, the planet is heating up and something’s got to give. But what if you could save the planet and keep the performance? Well, you can because with a little judicious tweaking it turns out that bioethanol can make a car go like absolute stink.
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