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A Quick Chat With…Nicky Hayden. Dubai, UAE
It’s not often crankandpiston gets a media invite to cover a café opening. Throttle response and suspension settings rarely meld seamlessly with…
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The Middle East region is home to a number of world-class motorsport facilities. crankandpiston.com endeavours to cover the very best and brightest from both national and international racing series, from the hugely popular underground drifting events to star-studded global meetings that attract the creme-de-la-creme of the motorsport scene.
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Hill Climb Falougha. The True Test
There’s something about a hill climb in Lebanon. Competitors swarm in their droves to take part, bringing with them a certainly cheeky…
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Rush. The F1 Film We’ve All Been Waiting For?
We've waited a long time for a film to do Formula 1 justice. In fact, the last decent F1 movie we can…
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F1 Preview. Monaco Grand Prix. 1992 – The Run To The Flag
The majority of you presumably will have seen the movie Senna, a documentary both sublime in execution and gripplingly emotive within which…
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Nurburgring 24hrs. Twenty-Four Hours With Nissan
You may have seen our post on the Nurburgring 24hrs, ably won – spoiler alert – by Audi for the first time…
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Nurburgring 24hrs 2012. 40th Anniversary
Over 600 drivers – in 170 different cars – took the green flag for the 40th running of the Nurburgring 24hrs last…
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Drift UAE. Dubai Autodrome. The Finale
Since the weekend just past brought the 2012 Drift UAE season to a close at the Dubai Autodrome, we figured we’d Canon…
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Artega GT. How Awesome…?
How awesome has a car got to be for a circuit to be built especifically for it? We’ll say ‘quite’. The Artega…
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Qatar National Road Racing. Guest Blog. My Year With A Porsche 911S
Recently crankandpiston asked me to write a few words about my year competing in the Qatar National Road Racing Championship Open Class…
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King Of The Hammers. Mike Klesin. Shake, Rattle And Roll…And Roll, And Roll
Motorsport is littered with examples of unique ways to cross the finish line.Carl Edwards, after an enormous accident destroys his Rousch Fenway…
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Toyota 86. Nurburgring 24hrs. Leading The Charge
Interest ahead of the Nurburgring 24hrs is really starting to hot up. Fresh off the news that Aston Martin will once again…
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Keep Drifting Fun. Will Roegge
American Will Roegge has been following the drifting scene for many years now, and being a bit handy with a camera, he's…