2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship - Michelin GT Challenge at VIR

With three races left this season, the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship continues with the Michelin GT Challenge at VIR, a race reserved for GT cars going all-out as the climax draws near.

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The #1 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 of Bryan Sellers and Madison Snow has dominated the GTD PRO class of this race while the #32 Korthoff/Preston Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Mikael Grenier and Kenton Koch wins the GTD class.

The 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship continues with the penultimate race of the season, the Tirerack.com Battle of the Bricks, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from September 19 to 22, 2024.

F1 2024: Heineken Dutch Grand Prix

The F1 2024 season resumes after the summer break with the Heineken Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. Will there be any unexpected moments for fans to savor? Let's find out.

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Max Verstappen's home turf, Zandvoort, saw his homecoming race spoiled by McLaren's Lando Norris, who took the pole and went on to win the race. Ferrari's Charles Leclerc finished third to round out the podium.

After the Heineken Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, Max Verstappen leads the F1 2024 season with 295 points. Lando Norris is in second place with 225 points, and Charles Leclerc is in third with 192 points.

The next race is at Monza for the Pirelli Gran Premio D'Italia this September 1st, 2024.

F1 Academy 2024 - Zandvoort

After a long summer break, the second F1 Academy season continues in Zandvoort, just moments before the F1 2024's Dutch Grand Prix.

For this season's Dutch campaign, they've selected Nina Gademan as their wild card entry representing this race's sponsor; The Female Quotient. The Female Quotient is the first female-founded media and experimental brand featuring the largest community of women in business.

Race 1 of the F1 Academy season was rescheduled to the same day as the Dutch Grand Prix due to bad weather. This is the first time in the history of the F1 Academy that a race has been rescheduled for this reason. The drivers will now have to face two races in one day.

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Following Doriane Pin's penalization due to a false start, Race 1 saw Abbi Pulling net another win followed by Nerea Marti and Maya Weug. Amazingly, the Wild Card Entry for Zandvoort finished 4th. In the final race, meanwhile, following Gademan's penalization for collision with another driver, Doriane Pin delivered a revengeful pole-to-win result, beating the likes of Weug and Pulling.

The next race is in Singapore from September 20-22, 2024.

2024 NASCAR Cup Series - Coke Zero Sugar 400

It's the penultimate race of the regular season as the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series returns to Daytona for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 where chaotic moments led to the unexpected ending no one saw it coming.

Shortly before the race began, it was announced that Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen, who made his name in NASCAR by winning the Chicago street race last season, is now officially on the roster for the 2025 season, representing the Trackhouse team.

Long story short but anyway, the race. As Josh Berry won Stage 1, Stage 2 witnessed The Big One on Lap 61 when Ross Chastain got turned in front of the field in 8th and triggered a multi-car mishap followed by Austin Cindric sent Kyle Larson spinning on Lap 78. As Joey Logano won Stage 2, the finale saw John Hunter Nemechek spinning, another Big One on Lap 153, and the red flag-triggering incident where Josh Berry flipped his car. As the overtime triggered, the unexpected happened.

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Harrison Burton wins the Coke Zero Sugar 400 of the NASCAR Cup Series for the first time ever! You never saw it coming, didn't you?

Only one race before the playoffs and the next one is the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington this September 1st. Who will be playoffs-bound? Watch for it!

2024 O-NE SUPERRACE CHAMPIONSHIP - Inje Night Race

The Summer Racing Season trilogy of the 2024 O-NE SUPERRACE CHAMPIONSHIP concludes with the Inje Night Race. Drivers are wrapping up the summer season with intense night-racing action that fans watch all night.

Fans who visited Inje for the last night race of the season are treated to pre-race events such as the Prius PHEV Cup, the Korea Trofeo, the second round of Superrace's first Alpine Class, the mixed GT and GT4 Class race, and musical performances by Han Yohan and BBGirls. As night falls, the Super 6000 fighters came out for one last Saturday drive fever of the season.

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Although the last night race of the season witnessed three drivers throwing in the towel due to mechanical issues, Choi Kwang Bin of One Racing edged O-NE RACING's Kim Dong Eun and Seohan GP's Jang Hyun Jin to win the Inje Night Race.

Summer Racing Season's finished but there are three races left this season and the next one will be at Korea International Circuit this October 12-13, the Jeonnam GP.

Let's Do The News! (August 24, 2024)

     

Your daily round-up of today's news...

- The spokesperson of Police Regional Office 11 confirmed that there's one man died due to cardiac arrest when the police served an arrest warrant on Pastor Apollo Quiboloy at the KOJC compound. The police stormed the KOJC compound in Davao City to serve the arrest warrant against the fugitive.

- As of yesterday, over 178K liters of oil have been collected from the MTKR Terranova in the sea of Bataan.

- The body of the late tech tycoon Mike Lynch's daughter, Hannah, was found in the Sicily shipwreck, completing the search.

- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his presidential campaign and pledged support to Donald Trump.

- Several were reported killed in a knife attack in the western German city of Solingen.

- Uralkali has made a bid in the Dutch courts to seize the Haas F1 team's assets over an outstanding payment.

- Jack Doohan will now race with the Alpine F1 team this F1 '25 season alongside Pierre Gasly.

- The Uma Musume Cinderella Gray TV anime will air this 2025. Tomoyo Takayanagi will reprise the role of Oguri Cap.

- The ONE PIECE Netflix show casts Charithra Chandran as Vivi.

- Colorado has banned Denver Post columnist Sean Keeler from asking questions of football coach Deion Sanders or other members of the football program.

- Jermaine Jenas apologizes after he was fired by the BBC over "inappropriate messages".

TTFN.

My Top 10 Favorite Grand Tour Episodes

Popped up from the time Trump won the presidency, The Grand Tour welcomed back the infamous Clarkson Hammond and May trio for more exciting motoring mayhem since leaving Top Gear in 2015. For eight years, fans have witnessed their globe-trotting motoring mischief from Portimao to Sahara, but sadly, the time has come to say goodbye as The Grand Tour's series finale is coming next month.

The Grand Tour Episode 1

As the world prepares for The Grand Tour's final road trip, it's time for me to jot down my top ten favorite episodes from the hit Prime Video TV series.

10) Season 3 Finale - Season 3 finale not only marked a fitting tribute to Ford saloons but it also marked the final time the show featured the tent full of audience and the Eboladrome.

9) Season 2 Episode 3 - The third episode of The Grand Tour Season 2 featured James May driving a Kia Stinger against skateboarders. Hammond and May turned a business park into a racetrack for salarymen to enjoy. And Clarkson took a trip from Monaco to Italy in the Bugatti Chiron. The Chiron segment is my favorite in terms of mindfulness.

8) Mongolia Special - The penultimate episode of The Grand Tour Season 3 saw the boys explore the Mongolian wilderness using their DIY off-roader. With scarce supplies at their arsenal, the trip became a struggle for survival. The epic struggle of survival comes with massive twists even at the end of their Mongolian adventure.

7) Season 1 Episode 11 - This episode of The Grand Tour features the trio driving second-hand Maseratis in the north of France. The climax is truly a thriller and comedy gold, and I couldn't stop laughing at the "Deshabille" sign on James' Zagato Spider.

6) Season 1 Episode 2 - The second episode of the first season saw the boys in a military training ground in Jordan which involves rescuing a VIP from a hijacked plane and escorting the VIP to safety while being pursued by terrorists. After several attempts later, the boys cleared the exercise...only if they didn't count Jeremy Clarkson as a casualty at the end of the exercise. On the plus note, we get to see the Audi S8 Plus in action.

5) Seamen - After the end of Season 3, The Grand Tour moved on to focus on cross-country adventures, and one such is Seamen; where the boys are on an aquatic adventure from Cambodia to Vietnam. The watery hijinks and some history lessons from Clarkson made this adventure one of my favorite Grand Tour episodes to watch over and over.

4) Season 1 Episode 9 - This episode features one of Clarkson's craziest inventions: a Mercedes SL rigged with monster off-road wheels called "The Excellent." It also showcases post-apocalyptic vehicles that are not immune to attacks from military vehicles such as tanks and battleships.

3) Season 1 Episode 3 - This episode of The Grand Tour features the trio on an epic Italian road trip. They drive an Aston Martin DB11, a Rolls Royce Dawn, and a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. While in Venice, Hammond's American habits ruin the rest and relaxation of the other presenters. Even after they reach the end of the trip, no one is safe from Hammond's American antics. In the segment following the road trip, Hammond and May destroy Clarkson's home after losing a bet from the pilot episode.

2) Season 2 Episode 5 - This episode of The Grand Tour features one of my favorite moments. Jeremy Clarkson stages his own Gymkhana-style video using a Subaru Impreza WRX. In true Clarkson fashion, some sheep are killed in the making of that clip.

1) Eurocrash - Of all the Grand Tour episodes I've watched, this ended up being my favorite. In Eurocrash, the boys set off on a road trip no one tried; from Gdansk, Poland, to Lake Bled, Slovenia. A cheeky-named backup car, Formula Easter, the second-largest Jesus statue in the world, an old WW2 POW camp, a stolen Nigel Mansell wax statue, a Praga Bohema hypercar, archers, and a climactic race to the airplane, this is The Grand Tour like no other.

The Grand Tour presents One For The Road premieres this September 13, 2024, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. Before the tearful finale, be sure to binge-watch the entire series!