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Mazda MX-5 Takes Consecutive Endurance Race Wins

  The Mazda MX-5 proved to be a quick and reliable racing platform by dominating the 2024 Petron Makabayan Endurance Cup opener last April 14. The #55 Team MSCC Mazda Miata race car completed 114 laps in four hours, a new lap record.  The same car also won the two-hour Endurance Cup, lapping the 3.7-kilometer Batangas Racing Circuit 60 times. ...

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Racing Culture, Performance Cars Celebrated at TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Festival

Over 180 members of Toyota Dealer Network and motoring media recently gathered at the Clark International Speedway (CIS) in Pampanga to participate in the first ever Philippine TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (GR) Festival 2022, a unique car show and driving event hosted by Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP). Driven by the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing global brand’s goal of pushing the limits for ...

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Yamaha Philippines Shows All-Out Support for Filipino Riders in International Competition

A day before the highly-anticipated and polarizing May 9th national elections, Yamaha Motor Philippines (YMPH) held a media watch party at the Brick & Mortar bar and restaurant in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) to view the first round of the FIM CEV Moto2 European Championship in Estoril, Portugal, where Filipino rider McKinley Kyle Paz will be competing under the Yamaha ...

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Audi Victorious in the 10 Hours of Suzuka 2019 Endurance Race

Audi Sport Team WRT claimed the podium finish on the recently concluded 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge at the 10 Hours of Suzuka in Japan, which makes for high suspense in the title race of the world’s only GT3 racing series before the finale in November. With drivers Kelvin van der Linde, Dries Vanthoor and FrédéricVervisch, the #25 Audi R8 LMS ...

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My Wonderful Waku-Doki Weekend at the Vios Racing Festival

The last weekend of August 2019 proved to be my most exciting weekend yet. On the early morning of Friday the 30th, my wife Shawie and I pointed our borrowed TRD-accessorized 2019 Toyota Hilux Conquest pickup truck north to the Clark International Speedway (CIS) in Pampanga for the 3rd leg of the 2019 Vios Racing Festival, that covers the 2nd ...

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One-Two Finish for Porsche at the 24 Hours of Spa

The GPX Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R (#20) driven by the current FIA World Endurance Car (WEC) Sportscar World Champions KévinEstre, Michael Christensen, and Austria’s Richard Lietz finished first at the 24 Hours of Spa 2019, the Belgian long-distance endurance race classic, securing for Porsche the seventh overall success in the most important GT3 event of the FIA calendar. The German ...

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Cleanfuel-Motul Racing Team Wins Anew In Round 2 Of The Formula V1 Series

The intermittent weather during the weekend failed to whet the eagerness of the drivers of Cleanfuel-Motul Racing Team. This after Japanese ace driver Ryo Yamada and Dominic Roque bagged their respective trophies at the second round of 2019 Formula V1 Challenge. Pro Class driver Yamada—a constant podium finisher—took second in the division, split second distance from Stefan Ramirez. During Race 4, ...

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Ferrari Triumphs in the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans

Ferrari has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the 36th time. The win was taken by the 488 GTE fielded by AF Corse and driven by Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Daniel Serra. The victory is the 27th class win for the Prancing Horse, in addition to nine outright wins, the first one clinched 70 years ago ...

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2019 Auto Rally Corporate Challenge: On Time, All The Time

It was our third or fourth time to join the Auto Rally Corporate Challenge (ARCC) organized by Sunshine Television (STV), which is headed by the “dean” of Philippine motoring journalism, Ray Butch Gamboa. On an early Saturday morning (June 15, 2019), my wife Shawie and I found ourselves steering our assigned 2019 GAC Motor GS4 compact sport utility vehicle (SUV) ...

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5 Lucky Toyota Owners Will Race The Toyota Vios At Clark On Saturday June 8, 2019

Share your thoughts online and get a chance to drive a race-ready all-new Toyota Vios during the Toyota Vios Racing Festival this weekend. Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) continues to promote waku-doki by taking the races back to the Clark International Speedway. Catch the action this weekend as celebrities, car club members, Toyota owners, and motoring media personalities take it pedal-to-the-metal in two exciting formats: the ...

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