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Would you be down to watch a race with only electric cars? Leonardo DiCaprio is hoping so, as he announced yesterday his partnership with Venturi Automobiles to create an electric car racing team. The Venturi Grand Prix Formula E Team will begin competing in September 2014 in the newly created FIA Formula E Championship. It’ll be the first race series exclusively featuring electric vehicles. DiCaprio has previously endorsed Tesla and owns a Fisker Karma. Venturi Grand Prix currently holds the land speed record for an electric vehicle (307 mph).

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Chris Labrooy’s series, called Auto Aerobics, are distorting American cars of the late ’60s which were full of wide expanses of metal, crisp creases, and acres of grille. We wish they become real soon, though, as for now they are only 3D images rendered with a very high degree of photorealism, making them look real.

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This book has been dubbed “The Bernie” after F1’s evil overlord and generally ostentatiously rich man, Bernie Ecclestone, and it costs $1,000,000. The book, which is intended to be the ultimate book on Formula One, is being billed as not a rip-off because it features never before seen photos which totally won’t be on the internet in a month or two, signatures from 22 F1 world champions and Ecclestone, and an open access red-pass to all 2014 F1 events for four people.

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The racing debut of the Bentley Continental GT3 is inching closer as David Appleby Engineering has announced they will become the first customer racing team to take delivery of the model. The Continental GT3 has a twin-turbo 4.0-liter V8 engine that develops 600 bhp (447 kW). It is connected to a six-speed Xtrac sequential transmission which should ensure the 1,300 kg (2,866 lbs) race car is significantly faster than its road-going counterpart.

Source: World Car Fans

Hyundai has launched a new sub-brand called “N.” The new brand will consist of high-performance road cars, as well as the ambitious rally car project. As we know, Hyundai will be a part of the 2014 World Rally Championship and its resident rally car, the i20 WRC, will be the first product built under this new N brand. Wondering where the letter “N” came from? Hyundai is based in Namyang, Korea, and that is where the “N” comes from — easy enough.

Source: Top Speed