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The annual mecca for car guys is underway and we're running wild on the SEMA show floor bringing it all home. The Autoblog team on site is covering every one of the four major halls, the outdoor lot and even some hands-on driving adventures around Las Vegas. As announcements and unveilings ...

We've seen lots of camera angles from close to an Formula One driver's point of view, but we don't think we've ever seen the actual thing – a genuine driver's-eye view. Pirelli F1-tire test driver Lucas di Grassi has changed that, placing a camera on his helmet over one of his eyes while ...

That Michael Schumacher has been less than successful in his return from retirement is no great secret. The seven-time world champion – empirically demonstrable as the best driver in the history of motorsport – has yet to score a single podium finish in the past three seasons since ...

The K-Pax Volvo racing team will be at the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto on Monday, February 20th. Aaron Povoledo, driver of the #88 K-Pax Volvo C30 will be on hand to greet fans and hand out posters. A Toronto native, Povoledo drove the bright yellow Volvo race car in the Touring ...

Competition versions of the Ferrari 458 have already been prepared for the Ferrari Challenge, Grand Am, and the GT3 and GT2 classes at Le Mans and its various associated series around the world. Now you can add one more to the roster: the FIA GT1 World Championship. Ferrari had previously left ...

%Gallery-139790% Following two very successful seasons competing in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, Kia has decided to step things up a notch for the 2012 season. Moving to the Pirelli World Challenge Championship, Kia and partners Kinetic Motorsports will enter a pair of ...

Pirelli teamed up with tattoo artist Scott Campbell for a special project at the tire manufacturer's newest flagship store in Milan, Italy. Campbell turned his skill with a needle and ink to tire sculpting. Using a gouge, the artist inscribed images of an eye, a heart and a skull into the tread ...

We're used to hearing the word "Pirelli" outside the world of tires, but those mentions usually refer to 12 pages of nubile beauties wearing nail polish and a little bit of pasta. The Italian tire company plans to blow all that up with the opening of its Pirelli corso Venezia lifestyle boutique ...

Ken Block was prepared to suit up for some seat time in Pirelli's Toyota TF109 Formula One test car. Problem is, the car wasn't prepared to suit Block. The man is too large for the seat, which typically holds diminutive F1 pilots. No, he's not too fat, Block is just too tall to fit inside the ...

There are plenty of guilty pleasures when it comes to cars and motorcycles, but chief among them has to be the burnout. Sure, you might as well be lighting $100 bills on fire, and yes, you're not exactly doing the ...