A member of Marcos Ambrose's pit crew chased a loose tire into the infield at Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500, trying to save drivers from a fiery crash. But no good deed goes unpunished. During green-flag pit stops on the race's 67th lap, Jimmy Watts, a gasman on Marcos Ambrose's pit crew, chased a loose...

We went out to FAR Friday afternoon and setup to test. On Saturday FAR was a busy place, monprops, biprops, hybrids, solids, static tests, flights, with a lot of people. The whole Masten crew came out to watch us fly the blue ball. We brought food, fired up the grill and tried to make sure [...]...

Somebody at the Department of Labor just re-posted this original report from 1965. It is heart-wrenching in how closely its high-level observations (aside from particulars of detail that have changed in 40 years) remain true, and to what degree the “savage and brutal effort” of so many p...

Paul Breed posts: Today we tested a new catalyst pack for the blue ball. This is not the motor that we have been machining recently, its a new solid catalyst for the older stainless motor we flew last year. The test was almost perfect. We had no setup issues and everything just worked. The catalyst ...

A perfect image of the lust-worthy Audi R15 TDI LMP1 race car has surfaced and damn, it's awesome. Following the domination of the oil-burning Audi R10, the R15 will have some big shoes to fill, but......

Paul Breed posts: The Cat screens and Cat assembly is complete. The modified Motor for the Blue ball is 100% ready to test. We hope to test next weekend. Depending on how the 2009 LLC rules turn out we could be doing flight test in as little as two or as many as 10 weeks. If [...]...

Paul Breed posts: I’m building a screen based catalyst for the blue ball. Unfortunately I can’t talk much about the catalyst construction, I have a NDA with a third party that covers parts of the design I have parts that are from public sources and parts are my own creation alas its hard to tell...

Red Bull Racing took the wraps off of its new 2009 F1 car, the RB5, at Jerez on Monday. We wonder if they'll try to add additional power to it with the little energy drink. galleryPost('redbullrb5', 33, 'Red Bull Gives You Wings'); Red Bull Racing took advantage of the 2009 F1 rule changes and creat...

Were you interested in Dick Thompson's SCCA-dominating 1963 Corvette Z06? Sorry, you lost your chance. It just went for $1.05 million at the Mecum auction in Kissimmee, Florida. This weekend saw the......

Ever wanted to see how an F1 car is assembled? We have too. Luckily, we've obtained this timelapse video of Toyota Panasonic's F1 team assembling their just-revealed 2009 F1 car. Full press release below. galleryPost('2009ToyotaF1Car', 3, '2009 Toyota F1 Car'); THE MAKING OF TF109 TF109 – or Toyot...