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Car manufacturer Audi has announced that it will leave the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) at the end of the season. As a side-effect of the corona crisis, a lot of car manufacturers are questioning their motorsport engagements. “Audi has shaped […]
With the COVID-19 health crisis, the Formula One season has been suspended. In theory, it should get back on the tracks in June with the French Grand Prix at the Castellet, and the championship should be reduced from 16 to […]
The Formula 1 circuit is considering seriously to restart the competition without any public in July or August in Silverstone (UK), where seven of the ten F1 teams are headquartered nearby. That was announced by the BBC after a videoconference […]
In 2021 a new touring car championship will start with strictly electric cars. This year the Pure ETCR championship will be presented during promo events and in the context of existing WTCR races. This was officially presented in Paris last […]
Formula 1 aims to be completely carbon-neutral by 2030, with green electricity, more efficient logistics, and cleaner fuel. The organization will start by making its events more respectful of the environment by 2025. According to F1 boss, Chase Carey, the […]
At the IAA Motorshow in Frankfurt, Mercedes has presented on Wednesday the team to make its entrance in the Formula E: former Belgian Formula 1 driver Stoffel Vandoorne (27) and Dutch Formula 2 driver Nyck De Vries (24). It will […]
Geely-owned English car manufacturer Lotus has launched a new hypercar, the Evija. It’s electric, has 2.000 horsepower and will cost 1,9 million euros. The plan is to make 130 units. Four engines The Evija (meaning ‘the living one’) has four […]
The Umicore Eclipse, an electric racecar built by KU Leuven and Thomas More College students, debuts in the Formula Student championship today. Formula Electric Belgium, as the team is called, will compete against other student teams. The first race takes […]
On Wednesday, Ferrari presented its new SF90 Stradale hypercar. Celebrating the company’s 90th anniversary, the 1.000hp machine is their first plug-in hybrid vehicle. Equipped with four-wheel drive, it can do 0 to 100 kph in 2,5 seconds and drive in […]
American e-truck manufacturer, Nikola, the alter ego of Tesla in the field of electric semi-trucks, has presented an all electric jet-ski-like watercraft, called WAV, and an electric off-roader, NZT, as part of its Powersports division. Both were presented at a […]
Marc Doutreluingne, the liberal mayor of West-Flemish Zwevegem, wants to ban the popular ‘6 hours from Courtrai’ rally of the territory of its municipality. The city council has been providing logistical support for the event for years, but the Open […]
With seven out of ten Formula One teams based in the UK, experts are wondering what effect Brexit will have on their performance. Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolf, worries about longer customs clearances that could affect the logistics. Others worry […]
Eric Goris, a former geographer and IT manager from Louvain (Belgium), is launching an online platform for sharing snow chains. SnowXchains aims at bringing snow chain owners in contact with people wanting to rent them. People leaving for winter holidays […]
Belgian pilot, Stoffel Vandoorne, exchanges Formula 1 where he was driving for McLaren as a teammate of Fernando Alonso, for the electric Formula E championship. Formula E is not a classic motor sport and it is meant to ‘reinvent motor […]
A student team of the Dutch Technical University of Delft has set a new record with its hydrogen racing car, Forze VIII, on the Zandvoort circuit in the Netherlands. Last weekend, it was also the first hydrogen racing car competing […]
The first half of the year, Porsche progressed with 6% in Belgium. Selling 3.500 sports cars a year, D’Ieteren is the biggest independent Porsche importer in volume in the world. CEO, Didier t’Serstevens, wants to improve these figures further and […]
According to a survey of Sport Vlaanderen among 18.257 employees of 162 participating companies, about 60% of employees is commuting by car, even when they live less than ten kilometres from their work. Still, half of them say they’re willing […]
Maybe Elon Musk is a fervent fan of The Beach Boys’ hit Surfin’, maybe not, but in any case, he is unstoppable. After his 500-dollar flame thrower, sold at 20.000 copies at the end of January – all of which […]
On Monday Porsche’s three times Le Mans winning 919 Hybrid Evo has broken the fastest track record set ever on the F1 circuit in Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium). Swiss driver Neel Jani did the 7,004 km technically demanding track in 1.41.770 minutes, […]
Organizing the Belgian Grand Prix Formula 1 in Spa-Francorchamps brought in 20,5 million euro in economic revenue for the Walloon Region in 2017, a 21% rise and a ‘return on investment’ (ROI) n of 315%. These figures come from a […]
Until now you had art, jewels, boats or planes as symbols of power, wealth and status. Old timers are nestling themselves in these category now, they are becoming a new status symbol with a cherished added value: driving pleasure. Prices […]
Former Belgian Formula 1 pilot Jérôme d’Ambrosio jumps onto the Swiss electric folding bike Voltitude by investing in the startup and become ‘global brand ambassador’ for the company. He will also reside within the advice committee. “Electric bicycles will play […]
Indian Formula-E Mahindra Racing has announced a three-year partnership with Belgian companies Umicore and Voxdale. They will develop a new racing car for next seasons’ E-circuit formula, the electrical variant of Formula 1. Battery components and recycling specialist Umicore will […]
The Electric GT championship, an European series for race prepared Tesla’s, is in the air again. Initially planned to start this month in the Marseille region, the start of the championship is postponed until at least mid-2018. The race in […]
France, where 11 years ago the now popular car sharing app BlaBlaCar was launched, now has a maritime equivalent. No ‘covoiturage’ but ‘cobaturage’. Cost sharing Since 2015 the website cobaturage.fr applies the same principle to vessels. Who doesn’t own a […]
For this year’s edition of the IAA Frankfurt motor show starting September 12, ten car makers representing 20% of Europe’s car market, will not be present on the stands. Though the climate is still optimistic in terms of sales, car […]
From Paris to New York, every big city in the world seems to want to host a Formula E race. The single-seater electric car race launched in 2014, has been ever-growing in popularity with brands like Audi, BMW, Mercedes and […]
With intelligent planning software to reduce travel distances, Belgian startup Movetex from Herzele saves millions of driving kilometres, like in the Flemish football competition. “It won’t save the planet”, founders Dieter De Naeyer and Ken De Norre says, “but it […]
Of all the bikes that are sold in Belgium, almost one third is an e-bike. Belgium is the European front runner when it comes to e-bikes because the market is even more important than the one in the Netherlands. The […]
Former Minister Melchior Wathelet (cdH) is coming out of the shades again after he left politics and takes the helm at Spa-Francorchamps, being chairman of the two public companies running the race circuit. Wathelet, a car passionate, takes the presidency […]
In the margin of the yearly Omloop van Vlaanderen rally, in September, the first official eco-friendly rally for energy neutral cars like electric cars, fuel cell cars and plug-in hybrids will be driven in the same location. Organizer KAMV (Koninklijke […]
