The Race of Champions saw more action than usual this past weekend. In the very first round, Heikki Kovalainen managed to stuff his Audi R8 GT into the wall while going head to head against Sebastien Loeb. Kovalainen clipped the inside barrier that separates the two tracks before spinning into a concrete wall, destroying his racer’s suspension and knocking himself unconscious in the process. Kovalainen said that a sticking throttle was the cause of the accident in his Twitter feed, though the video also looks like he simply got too close to the inside barrier.

Fortunately, Kovalainen was not seriously injured during the bang-up. Likewise, his girlfriend, who was riding in the vehicle at the time, walked away from the incident without so much as a scuff as well.

Audi achieves record lap at Road America

o First pole position for Lucas Luhr in an Audi i
o Fastest ever qualifying lap in the American Le Mans Series
o Both Audi R10 TDI sports cars on the first two rows

Ingolstadt/Elkhart Lake — Lucas Luhr has captured the pole position for Audi in the seventh round of the American Le Mans Series with a record lap at Road America. The German beat the previous track record held by Allan McNish by 0.730 seconds. With an average speed of 136.277 mph, the Audi “factory” driver also recorded the fastest ever qualifying lap in the history of the American Le Mans Series.

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First National show held in Canada will be held at the Ford of Canada Headquarters.

Is now taking place at the Ford plant in Oakville, Ontario Canada.

August 1,2,3 2008

Show Timetable

As of the 28th of July there were over 400 cars pre registered, this event is going to be nuts! I have heard there will be members from CMOC.ca attending and representing their mustang club, have a great event guys!

It also looks like one of the members of CMOC.ca has already dropped 2 pictures from the registration process, GT500 anyone?

A map to the event is here.

Enjoy the event and keep us posted!