‘If Alonso is the best, come and try to beat us’
Date published:
April 25 2021
Jean-Eric Vergne has called for Fernando Alonso to race in Formula E, to prove he can live up to his tag as one of the world’s best drivers by winning in equal machinery.
The Frenchman, who celebrates his 31st birthday on Sunday, drove for Toro Rosso in Formula 1 for three seasons before moving to the electric championship in time for its inaugural outing in 2014.
He has since become a two-time champion in the category and hopes to add to his trophy cabinet by winning at Le Mans in the future.
Alonso needed time ‘to breathe’ away from F1
Date published:
April 23 2021
Fernando Alonso hopes he is a better person as well as a better driver in his return to Formula 1 after two years away.
The 39-year-old is two races into his comeback with Alpine and collected his first point since Singapore 2018 when he inherited 10th position in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix after a penalty was issued to Kimi Raikkonen afterwards.
Having clearly had enough of F1 at the end of that 2018 season following four unsuccessful years with McLaren, Alonso took a sabbatical of unspecified length to compete in other motorsport categories – and was lured back for 2021 when a vacancy emerged at Alpine.
Is Chevy Crazy Enough to Make the C8 Z06 Less Powerful Than the Old One?
A rumor suggests the C8 Z06 will have 617 hp 33 less than the C7 Z06. But the more we look at this idea, the more we like it.
: The C8 Corvette Z06 could hit the market making less horsepower than the C7 Z06. This seems crazy in age where every new model seems to have more power than its predecessors. But there s reason to believe that this rumor could be true. And the more we consider it, the more we like it. Related Stories
Wheels says the C8 Z06 will use a 617-hp naturally aspirated V-8 with dual overhead cams and a flat-plane crankshaft. For reference, the C7-generation Z06 made 650 hp from a supercharged 6.2-liter pushrod LT4 V-8. We know for certain that some variant of the C8 will use a flat-plane DOHC V-8, because that s the engine that powers the C8.R race cars running in the IMSA WeatherTech championship, as well as the World Endurance Championship which includes the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The C8.R
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Perodua, MARii to send apprentices to WEC 2021 in Technology Transfer Apprenticeship Programme
20 April 2021 7:44 pm / 0 comments
Four apprentice engineers will be participating in the 2021 season of the World Endurance Championship through the Technology Transfer Apprenticeship Programme (TTAP), a collaboration between the Malaysia Automotive, Robotics and IoT Institute (MARii), Perodua and Persona Energy, a management consultancy firm for motorsports development and renewable energy.
The four engineers, Anderson Kent Robert, Luqman Othman, Muhammad Amzar Danish Chairil and Muhammad Taufiq Mohd Zin will be placed with Jota Sport who will be contesting the LMP2 category, and they will join the race team at five races this season: Portimao in Portugal, Monza in Italy, Le Mans in France for the eponymous 24-hour race, Fuji in Japan and finally in Bahrain for the end-of-season eight-hour race.