50 Year Honda Motorcycle Racing Join the World Class!

50 Year Honda Motorcycle Racing Join the World Class!May 2nd, 2009by Stephen Langitan.
honda-50th-anniversaryTahun this 2009 Honda is celebrating its 50th anniversary in the world of motor racing. Half a century of Honda name is known as a world-class motor racing. This history becomes special when the world race series held at Motegi Japan last week. Whose name motorcycle racing, Honda always come since 1959, the last,
Looking at the history of Honda racing, beginning with the figure of Soichiro Honda was born on November 17, 1906 in the village Komyo (now Tenryu City), Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Japan. He is an industrial engineer in October 1948 where he had established the "Honda Technical Reserach Institute" in Hamamatsu, Japan to develop and produce motorcycles in their entirety.
Two years later, in 1950 he formally established the "Honda Motor Company." In 1959 he had opened the dealers and the market in the United States through his office in Los Angeles.

 

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Since Honda circulating in the U.S. in 1959, the name of Honda's rapidly becoming more and more flying time, and in the same year Honda used on racing event around the UK, precisely in the islands of The Isle of Man, with the race name of "The Isle of Man TT (Tourist Trophy) Race. "
At that time Honda riders who descended is Naomi Taniguchi denggan Honda RC124 type 125cc class.
Motor Racing The Isle of Man TT motorcycle races are held on a small island named "Isle of Man" that has been going on since 1907.
Racing is using public roads are good enough to be used as a racing event, this race even already have a new law approved by parliament Isle of Man. Isle of Man's first race was held on May 28, 1907 with the title "International Auto-Cycle Tourist Trophy."

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Photo ancient recorded when it is the Honda team that competed in 1959 following the event the Isle of Man TT. Honda racing team consists of five riders (four Japanese driver, and one racer United States) followed by team leader and two mechanics.
As the sweet memories of the history that took place between the Isle of Man and Honda, the post office of The Isle of Man will publish some special stamps to celebrate the "50th Anniversary of the Honda Racing Championship.". Stamps are brought into circulation on 11 May 2009.
Each stamp will be issued which will feature the legendary Honda drivers throughout the decade following the race the TT (Tourist Trophy), among others racer Naomi Taniguchi (1950s), Mike Hailwood (1960's), Alex George (1970s), Joey Dunlop (1980s), Steve Hislop (1990s) and McGuinness (2000's).
Similarly, the Isle of Man Treasury has approved and will issue coins worth 50 pence (British currency) in order to celebrate the same event "50th Anniversary of the Honda Racing Championship" in particular to the Isle of Man race. The new coins will be produced by factories in Europe's largest coin, Pobjoy Mint, which will display images on the coin's face racer John McGuinness at the top motor mounts Fireblade Honda CBR 1000RR.

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The name "Honda Racing Championship" is very strong with the title "HRC" then no doubt a variety of special logo was created, among others, the logo of The Isle of Man TT, and also the Honda Wing logo which will lift the close relationship between these two great organizations, especially in stage races world.
Well, for those who liked to collect a wide variety of brands Honda, should you have to hunt to get stamps, coins, special logos to celebrate 50 years of Honda Racing Championship. All items will be circulated in May to July 2009 in very limited quantities (limited edition). Not only that, there is a writer Mick Duckworth will write a special book about the history of the race with Honda in the Isle of Man TT.
Racing series the Isle of Man TT Motorcycle Racing will begin on May 30, 2009.
What the drivers said the world today?
Valentino Rossi:
He is known as the world for the series MotoGP racer who also had fetched the history with Honda a few years ago before he moved to Yamaha team. Rossi before coming to Jerez, could come to the Isle of Man for just a demo with Yamaha R1 along a lap around the 37.73 miles.
"I am impressed with all the activities of motor sport and also a visit to the Isle of Man race, I would have valuable experience to be a long memory," said Rossi.
"It's always very busy schedule of races in MotoGP for the current time, but this year the TT (Tourist Trophy ed =) has been sliding a little and there is distance between the races at Mugello and Catalunya, and now at least I got a chance. I have seen many pictures of famous racers from this the TT races and have certainly heard many stories as well as from Giacomo [Agostini], "said Rossi told reporters.
Actually, the TT races have been used as a place for the British Grand Prix racing event from 1949 until 1976, but after that race the TT to be especially dangerous for the next grand prix racing and the British GP to move to England. Note the fastest race is still held by John McGuinness with a speed of 130,354 mph.
Dani Pedrosa:
He was the Repsol Honda RC212V rider also celebrate 50 years of Honda's success in motor racing world called World Championships. Although he has not shown a very satisfactory performance, but at least he has been at the level of MotoGP, as evidenced at Twin Ring Motegi race as Honda headquarters in Japan, when he start of the sequence of eleven but was finally able to finish a champion- three. In fact, he could scare Rossi's position in the second sequence.
Andrea Dovizioso
He also is a Honda rider. As with teammate Dani Pedrosa Repsol Honda team entered the RC212V. He may be proud to finish ranked fifth even though he had been overtaken by Casey Stoner of Ducati Marlboro.
Randy De Puniet
LCR Honda team with Playboy, Randy De Puniet also be impressed with Honda. He was lucky this year to be with Honda, because Honda provides the best bike for MotoGP racing event, although he was not lucky like a racer Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso.
There are still other Honda riders who competed in the MotoGP series, among others, of Team San Carlo Honda Gresini, namely De Angelis and Toni Elias. Then the Scot Racing Team Honda, a Japanese rider Yuki Takahashi.

"I am impressed with all the activities of motor sport and also a visit to the Isle of Man race, I would have valuable experience to be a long memory," said Rossi.
"It's always very busy schedule of races in MotoGP for the current time, but this year the TT (Tourist Trophy ed =) has been sliding a little and there is distance between the races at Mugello and Catalunya, and now at least I got a chance. I have seen many pictures of famous racers from this the TT races and have certainly heard many stories as well as from Giacomo [Agostini], "said Rossi told reporters.
Actually, the TT races have been used as a place for the British Grand Prix racing event from 1949 until 1976, but after that race the TT to be especially dangerous for the next grand prix racing and the British GP to move to England. Note the fastest race is still held by John McGuinness with a speed of 130,354 mph.
Dani Pedrosa:
He was the Repsol Honda RC212V rider also celebrate 50 years of Honda's success in motor racing world called World Championships. Although he has not shown a very satisfactory performance, but at least he has been at the level of MotoGP, as evidenced at Twin Ring Motegi race as Honda headquarters in Japan, when he start of the sequence of eleven but was finally able to finish a champion- three. In fact, he could scare Rossi's position in the second sequence.
Andrea Dovizioso
He also is a Honda rider. As with teammate Dani Pedrosa Repsol Honda team entered the RC212V. He may be proud to finish ranked fifth even though he had been overtaken by Casey Stoner of Ducati Marlboro.
Randy De Puniet
LCR Honda team with Playboy, Randy De Puniet also be impressed with Honda. He was lucky this year to be with Honda, because Honda provides the best bike for MotoGP racing event, although he was not lucky like a racer Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso.
There are still other Honda riders who competed in the MotoGP series, among others, of Team San Carlo Honda Gresini, namely De Angelis and Toni Elias. Then the Scot Racing Team Honda, a Japanese rider Yuki Takahashi.

In June 1959, exactly 50 years ago have been chalked Naomi Taniguchi Honda victory in the World Championship racing event which takes place in an island The Isle of Man. Until now, Honda can be proud of his career, arena racing Grand Prix, Honda have won 59 constructors' title. Seventeen of them are first class.
Towards the MotoGP race at Motegi event last week, the celebration event held in sederhanan. Naomi Taniguchi, who is still living in the age of 73 years, climbed the Honda RC142 replica 125cc motorcycles. He was joined by former racing driver Kunimitsu Takahashi (69), he used a Japanese Honda rider who first competed in the class World Championship Grand Prix. It was Takahashi riding where the rider Jim Redman RC164 disposable 250cc motorcycle in 1963.
Another legendary racer, Freddie Spencer, a winner three times world champion with a Honda motorcycle were present, past history that he was incised with a fragrant Honda NSR500 bike which is famous for the future of motor racing has designed "upside-down".

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2009 Bugatti Sports Cars Veyron Type 35 Grand Prix Edition

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The blue racers made their first appearance on the race track at the Grand Prix held by Automobil Club de France in Lyon in 1924. In the decade that followed, they remained practically unchallenged thanks to sophisticated manufacturing efforts, their lightweight design and easy handling. During that ten-year era, they won almost 2000 races – more than any other model ever has.

Grand Prix races were highly fashionable events in those days, and Bugatti was not the only brand with considerable interest in substantiating the reputation of its products by winning races. In fact, in the 1920s, Europe was regularly host to a number of different races in different countries on a single weekend. The teams set up by different automobile manufacturers competed at popular race circuits such as Targa Florio, Le Mans, Monza and Spa as well as in Rome, Nice, Antibes and even a village in Alsace.

The main reason Bugatti won such an enormous number of races – on the back of which successes the brand was also able to forge its image – was the fact that Bugatti sold not only its normal sports and touring cars to private buyers, but its racing cars too. Thus it was that its automobiles took part in such a large number of Grand Prix events.

Tradition being what it is, the Bugatti Veyron Specials built to mark the 100th anniversary of the brand feature the racing colors of the respective countries: blue for France, red for Italy, green for England and white for Germany. Each of the four new Veyrons has a specific “predecessor” in the form of an original Grand Prix Bugatti on which it was modelled.

These four historic race cars represent the generation of legendary Bugatti Grand Prix racers which were piloted by world-famous race-car drivers and which scored countless racing victories in the 1920s and ‘30s. Each of the four Veyron Specials is named after a Bugatti race-car driver of the 1920s and 30s. Jean-Pierre Wimille has given the blue Veyron its name, Achille Varzi the red one, Malcolm Campbell the green one and Hermann zu Leiningen the white Veyron.

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On Sunday, the four historic racing Type 35s and the four modern-day Centenaire Edition Veyrons will be exhibited alongside each other in the park of Villa Erba for the first and only time.

Ahead of that presentation, Bugatti will on Saturday be prominently represented in the park of Villa d’Este by a special-display-class exhibition of models, which will serve to portray the 100-year history of the brand. Bugatti’s participation in the classic Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este at Lake Como will be the second highlight event to mark the carmaker’s centennial celebrations after it took part in the International Geneva Motor Show in early March.

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2009 Bugatti Sports Cars Veyron Type 35 Grand Prix Edition

The Bugatti brand is almost inextricably linked to the Type 35. The Type 35 Grand Prix was by far the most successful racing model. The unmistakable radiator grille and eight-spoke aluminum wheels of the Type 35 have become defining features of the Bugatti automobile. In its day, the Grand Prix was also well ahead of its time in terms of engineering ingenuity.

The front axle design of this vehicle, which, for reasons of weight minimization, is hollow, is a true masterpiece of workmanship and was deemed nothing less than revolutionary. Its springs were passed through the axle to produce a high level of stability. The Grand Prix’s brake drums were integrally fitted into its lightweight aluminum wheels. Unfastening the central wheel nut allowed the wheel to be easily removed within a matter of seconds and the brake to be exposed. This was a crucial advantage at the pit stop.

The blue racers made their first appearance on the race track at the Grand Prix held by Automobil Club de France in Lyon in 1924. In the decade that followed, they remained practically unchallenged thanks to sophisticated manufacturing efforts, their lightweight design and easy handling. During that ten-year era, they won almost 2000 races – more than any other model ever has.

Grand Prix races were highly fashionable events in those days, and Bugatti was not the only brand with considerable interest in substantiating the reputation of its products by winning races. In fact, in the 1920s, Europe was regularly host to a number of different races in different countries on a single weekend. The teams set up by different automobile manufacturers competed at popular race circuits such as Targa Florio, Le Mans, Monza and Spa as well as in Rome, Nice, Antibes and even a village in Alsace.

The main reason Bugatti won such an enormous number of races – on the back of which successes the brand was also able to forge its image – was the fact that Bugatti sold not only its normal sports and touring cars to private buyers, but its racing cars too. Thus it was that its automobiles took part in such a large number of Grand Prix events.

Tradition being what it is, the Bugatti Veyron Specials built to mark the 100th anniversary of the brand feature the racing colors of the respective countries: blue for France, red for Italy, green for England and white for Germany. Each of the four new Veyrons has a specific “predecessor” in the form of an original Grand Prix Bugatti on which it was modelled.

These four historic race cars represent the generation of legendary Bugatti Grand Prix racers which were piloted by world-famous race-car drivers and which scored countless racing victories in the 1920s and ‘30s. Each of the four Veyron Specials is named after a Bugatti race-car driver of the 1920s and 30s. Jean-Pierre Wimille has given the blue Veyron its name, Achille Varzi the red one, Malcolm Campbell the green one and Hermann zu Leiningen the white Veyron.

“We have put a lot of effort into translating colour and material, the defining characteristics of our historic role models, into the designs of the modern-day Veyrons,” explains Alasdair Stewart, Director Sales & Marketing at Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. “We have taken extreme care to match the original colours of the original race cars, exterior and interior”

On Sunday, the four historic racing Type 35s and the four modern-day Centenaire Edition Veyrons will be exhibited alongside each other in the park of Villa Erba for the first and only time.

Ahead of that presentation, Bugatti will on Saturday be prominently represented in the park of Villa d’Este by a special-display-class exhibition of models, which will serve to portray the 100-year history of the brand. Bugatti’s participation in the classic Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este at Lake Como will be the second highlight event to mark the carmaker’s centennial celebrations after it took part in the International Geneva Motor Show in early March.

This latest event will be followed by the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California in mid-August and the main celebratory event on 12 September in Molsheim (Alsace), which has been the home of this unparalleled automobile brand for 100 years.

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2009 Bugatti Sports Cars Veyron Type 35 Grand Prix Edition

The Bugatti brand is almost inextricably linked to the Type 35. The Type 35 Grand Prix was by far the most successful racing model. The unmistakable radiator grille and eight-spoke aluminum wheels of the Type 35 have become defining features of the Bugatti automobile. In its day, the Grand Prix was also well ahead of its time in terms of engineering ingenuity.

The front axle design of this vehicle, which, for reasons of weight minimization, is hollow, is a true masterpiece of workmanship and was deemed nothing less than revolutionary. Its springs were passed through the axle to produce a high level of stability. The Grand Prix’s brake drums were integrally fitted into its lightweight aluminum wheels. Unfastening the central wheel nut allowed the wheel to be easily removed within a matter of seconds and the brake to be exposed. This was a crucial advantage at the pit stop.

The blue racers made their first appearance on the race track at the Grand Prix held by Automobil Club de France in Lyon in 1924. In the decade that followed, they remained practically unchallenged thanks to sophisticated manufacturing efforts, their lightweight design and easy handling. During that ten-year era, they won almost 2000 races – more than any other model ever has.

Grand Prix races were highly fashionable events in those days, and Bugatti was not the only brand with considerable interest in substantiating the reputation of its products by winning races. In fact, in the 1920s, Europe was regularly host to a number of different races in different countries on a single weekend. The teams set up by different automobile manufacturers competed at popular race circuits such as Targa Florio, Le Mans, Monza and Spa as well as in Rome, Nice, Antibes and even a village in Alsace.

The main reason Bugatti won such an enormous number of races – on the back of which successes the brand was also able to forge its image – was the fact that Bugatti sold not only its normal sports and touring cars to private buyers, but its racing cars too. Thus it was that its automobiles took part in such a large number of Grand Prix events.

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These four historic race cars represent the generation of legendary Bugatti Grand Prix racers which were piloted by world-famous race-car drivers and which scored countless racing victories in the 1920s and ‘30s. Each of the four Veyron Specials is named after a Bugatti race-car driver of the 1920s and 30s. Jean-Pierre Wimille has given the blue Veyron its name, Achille Varzi the red one, Malcolm Campbell the green one and Hermann zu Leiningen the white Veyron.

“We have put a lot of effort into translating colour and material, the defining characteristics of our historic role models, into the designs of the modern-day Veyrons,” explains Alasdair Stewart, Director Sales & Marketing at Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. “We have taken extreme care to match the original colours of the original race cars, exterior and interior”

On Sunday, the four historic racing Type 35s and the four modern-day Centenaire Edition Veyrons will be exhibited alongside each other in the park of Villa Erba for the first and only time.

Ahead of that presentation, Bugatti will on Saturday be prominently represented in the park of Villa d’Este by a special-display-class exhibition of models, which will serve to portray the 100-year history of the brand. Bugatti’s participation in the classic Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este at Lake Como will be the second highlight event to mark the carmaker’s centennial celebrations after it took part in the International Geneva Motor Show in early March.

This latest event will be followed by the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California in mid-August and the main celebratory event on 12 September in Molsheim (Alsace), which has been the home of this unparalleled automobile brand for 100 years.

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Audi is once again producing a five-cylinder engine – and a very special one at that. Arriving at dealerships this summer, the TT RS has a turbocharged 2.5-liter engine with direct gasoline injection; it produces 250 kW (340 bhp) and 450 Nm (331.90 lb.-ft.) of torque. The blazing five-cylinder engine enables the TT RS to perform extraordinary feats. In conjunction with quattro permanent all-wheel drive and a high-performance chassis, the engine makes the compact Audi TT RS a top-notch sports car – available as a coupé or roadster.

Sporty five-cylinder gasoline engines have a long legacy at Audi. The most famous is arguably the turbocharged 2.1-liter engine in the Audi quattro. The first version, which was launched in 1980, offered an impressive 147 kW (200 bhp). And the Sport quattro from 1984, directly inspired by motorsport, delivered a whopping 225 kW (306 bhp). For 25 years, turbochargers and quattro have been a dynamic formula for success.

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The power-to-weight ratio is also outstanding. In the case of the Coupé, which weighs in at a mere 1,450 kilograms (3,196.70 pounds), the power-to-weight ratio is just 4.3 kilograms per bhp.

The TT RS Coupé rockets from 0 to 100 km/h (0 to 62.14 mph) in 4.6 seconds; the Roadster needs just a tenth of a second longer. The limited top speed of 250 km/h (155.34 mph) is merely the official figure for both versions; as an option, Audi can increase it to 280 km/h (173.98 mph).

Almost even more impressive is the aggressive pulling power. The maximum torque of 450 Nm (331.90 lb.-ft.) is always available between 1,600 and 5,300 rpm. In addition, the TT RS overtakes without the slightest effort. Last but not least, its engine makes passengers’ skin tingle time and again thanks to its speedy and powerful response, its inspiring free-revving character, and its unmistakably guttural tailpipes: five-cylinder classical music by Audi!

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The ultra-powerful five-cylinder engine is extremely fuel-efficient, requiring an average of just 9.2 liters/100 km [25.57 mpg] as regards the Coupé (Roadster: 9.5 l/100 km [24.76 mpg]). Switchable flaps in the intake manifold mix the incoming air in a calculated configuration. Injected at a pressure as high as 120 bar by the common-rail system, the gasoline swirls intensely in the combustion chamber – which in turn cools the walls. This subsequently facilitates a compression ratio of 10.0:1, which is very high for a turbocharged engine. Both of the adjustable camshafts, controlled via chains, also enhance charging efficiency with respect to the air-fuel mixture.

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