Downhill extreme: Rollerman overtaking motocycle!

Extreme sports at its best: amazing "Rollerman" Jean Yves Blondeau blasting high speed on mountain roads! LINK: Youtube

Nitto Tire Drifts Downtown Long Beach!

Watch Nitto's sponsored teams drift in downtown Long Beach at the 2010 Formula Drift season opener. See Joon Maeng of Bergenholtz Racing and his Mazda RX-8; Michael Essa and his brand-new BMW 350R; grassroots racer, Matt Powers, and his Nissan S14, and Alex Pfeiffer of Tanaka Racing and his C5 Corvette. All four teams tear it up with Nitto's max-performance tire, the NT05. LINK: Youtube

Water buffalo race wows crowds in Thailand

The annual water buffalo race takes place in Chonburi, Thailand. LINK: Youtube

Smögen Offshore Race 2010

Offshore race in sweden 2010. LINK: Youtube

Top Gear - Peugeot 207 vs Parkour (Free-Runners) - BBC

James May, possibly the slowest driver in Britain, challenges two Free-Runners to a race in Liverpool City Centre. Who will get to the Liver Building first? From the BBC. LINK: Youtube

Shoebox Racecar

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Have you ever made a car out of a shoebox? Wilson Brothers Design created this model of a Formula 1 racecar out of many shoeboxes, flattened and cut and fitted together. See more pictures at their site. Link

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Roger Williamson and the Dutch Grand Prix Tragedy of 1973

Roger Williamson (February 2, 1948 - July 29, 1973) was a talented racing driver from England who was killed during the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix.

Williamson won the 1971 and 1972 British Formula Three Championship titles. In 1973, Formula One returned to the Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix, after an absence of a year due to extensive safety upgrades to the race track which amongst others included new asphalt, installation of barriers and building a new race control tower. This race was only the second Formula One start for the March team and the second Grand Prix race for the promising Williamson.

During the race, Williamson suffered a sudden tire deflation, which pitched him into the barriers at high speed and catapulted his car 300 yards (275 metres) across the track against the barriers on the other side. Williamson’s car came to a rest upside down and the driver was unable to extricate himself from the burning car. Fellow driver David Purley came to Williamson’s aid but he was unable to overturn the car. Initially some people, like the commentators on Dutch tv, race control and some of the other drivers participating in the race, thought that Purley was the driver that belonged to the burning car, and thus thought that the driver had gotten away safely. LINK, Via: Youtube

Extreme Mexican Mountain Biking

High-speed mountain biking down the narrow alleys of Taxco, Mexico - it's the 'Down The Hill' race 2005. LINK: Youtube