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Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Automotive
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS Driver in horror Eastern Creek motorsport crash is identified as medical executive and president of national car racing club
A race car driver who died in a single-vehicle crash during a state championship event at a motorsport park in Sydney 's west has been identified as a medical executive and a passionate race car driver. Emergency services were called to Sydney Motorsport Park at Eastern creek after the incident at around 8pm on Saturday night during the NSW Motor Race Championship. Paramedics treated Darren Barlow, 53, but he tragically died at the scene. Police have established a crime scene and will investigate the crash. 'About 8.10pm today (Saturday 26 July 2025), emergency services were called to a motorsports park on Ferrers Road, Eastern Creek, following reports of a single-vehicle crash during a sanctioned race event,' NSW Police said in a statement. 'Officers attached to Blacktown Police Area Command have established a crime scene and commenced an investigation into the crash.' Officers will prepare a report for the coroner and Motorsport Australia has been notified, police said. The crash occurred during the third race of the NSW Supersports category, which was red-flagged, with the remainder of the meeting cancelled, according to the motorsport news website Speedcafe. 'We extend our condolences to the family and friends of the competitor, and to the officials and first responders at the scene,' Motorsport Australia said in a statement. 'Motorsport Australia's critical incident plan is in action, and staff are working with NSW Police and the venue following this incident.'
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Yahoo
3 Spectators, Including 2 Brothers, Killed After Race Car Veers Off Course
Two brothers, ages 60 and 70, and a 44-year-old father died after they were struck by a car racing in the Rallye de la Fourme d'Ambert Three people in France have died after they were struck by a race car, authorities say. According to the French news outlet La Montagne, two brothers, ages 60 and 70, and a 44-year-old father died on the morning of Saturday, July 26, in Ambert, in the Puy-de-Dôme region located in central France. The outlet reported that the driver, a 22-year-old woman and her co-driver, a 51-year-old man, were taken to a local hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The pair were driving a modified Peugeot 208, a European subcompact car, as a part of the Rallye de la Fourme d'Ambert. The outlet reported that around 30 firefighters and several police officers were called to the scene. The 44-year-old man who died was transported to a local hospital, where he was then pronounced dead. La Montagne reported that the three spectators were seemingly positioned near red tape in a prohibited area, but investigators, including the local prosecutor, said they haven't determined exactly where the victims were standing. A colonel who spoke with the outlet said that the accident took place during a segment of the race that was "almost in a straight line, not on a tight bend." The local prosecutor's office has also opened an investigation, and the driver and co-driver will take toxicology tests, per the outlet. Race officials canceled the rally soon afterwards. "Following the serious accident in the special N1, the organization and the race management decide to permanently stop the rally at 10:49," the race's management team stated on Facebook. "Flat rate times apply to competitors who are parked closed and haven't made the specials. There will be no awards." In a post shared to X, the Puy-de-Dôme prefecture account wrote that several local and national police organizations would be taking part in the investigation. "This morning, a tragic accident occurred during the Rallye de la Fourme d'Ambert. Following a vehicle in the race going off the road, several spectators were struck," the post stated. "The prefect of Puy-de-Dôme is on the scene to monitor the situation alongside the emergency services and mobilized authorities." "Our thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones, and all those affected by this tragedy," the account added. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. According to France Bleu, a race steward helping to manage the same race was killed last year on July 27. The 42-year-old man was attending to a car that had rolled off the road when he was struck by a second car. François Chautard, the mayor of Saint-Just — the community where the race took place — told La Montagne that he's had "a great deal of emotion and sadness" following the incident. "My thoughts are especially with the families," Chautard added. "The rally has been running for 30 years, and the last two years have seen one disaster after another." Read the original article on People
New York Times
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Ty Dillon on NASCAR's In-Season Challenge, focusing on mid-field drivers and more: 12 Questions
Each week, The Athletic asks the same 12 questions to a different race car driver. Up next: Ty Dillon of Kaulig Racing, who this week faces off with Ty Gibbs in the championship round of the NASCAR In-Season Challenge. This interview has been lightly edited and condensed, but the full version is available on the 12 Questions Podcast. 1. What was one of the first autographs you got as a kid, and what do you remember about that moment? We went to a bull riding event: PBR (Professional Bull Riders) in Greensboro (N.C.). Ty Murray, the famous bull rider, shared my name. He was married to Jewel, the famous singer, and I remember seeing them sitting there. My grandfather (Richard Childress) walked us over there, and we got his autograph at the PBR. Advertisement In your brother Austin's 12 Questions interview, he said he got Hank Aaron's autograph with you outside the old Braves stadium. Do you remember that at all? I was probably 4 or 5, so I was a little too young to actually remember meeting Hank. But I still have the ball. 2. What is the most miserable you've ever been inside of a race car? This year in Mexico City. I did it in reverse order — I had the stomach flu Wednesday night, the night before we flew out. I actually got sick in the airport while we were all sitting at the terminal at Charlotte Douglas. I was still going through the full motions of the stomach bug — coming out both ends. So that whole 14 hours of travel was very miserable for me getting there. I slept most of the night, and then the next day in practice I was finally hungry and made a really bad decision: I had the tacos they had made for everybody in the garage (from local restaurant Tacos Atarantados). The tacos were amazing, but my stomach was still messed up. So I was in the car, and that was the first time I felt like, 'I'm gonna make a mess inside the car.' I just didn't know what side it was going to come out of. Those were the best tacos I've ever had. I agree. So were the tacos worth it, even though you got sick? Well, I went back the next day and got them. And I got them Sunday, too. So I would not pass on those tacos again. It wasn't worth the feeling I had inside the race car (on Friday), but the tacos were worth it. They did not deter me after that. 3. Outside of racing, what is your most recent memory of something you got way too competitive about? Probably something to do with my brother, I'm sure — competing in golf or anything. We've always competed in everything. I've backed it down a little bit now since I've had kids. I leave it all for the racetrack. But man, when we were younger, Austin and I would fight and carry on about competing. It didn't matter what it was — paintball, hunting, or any sport we played like basketball, football, golf. We're going to compete and probably get way too overboard, and everybody around us is going to be embarrassed by the way we're acting. Advertisement 4. What do people get wrong about you? People tell me, 'You're different than what I thought you would be' when they get to know me. A lot of people, especially early in my career, thought my brother and I were just … we were very blessed to have a grandfather that owned a race team. But I don't think they realized that we really appreciated the opportunity, and that we learned a lot of the hard work behind it. People don't realize the gratitude that we do have — or at least for myself, speaking for myself. So a lot of people say, 'You're different than I thought,' and I think most of the time it's in a good way. 5. What kind of Uber passenger are you, and how much do you care about your Uber rating? I prefer, as an Uber passenger, to not talk — but I will start a conversation every once in a while. I like to talk on my terms, when I'm in the mood. I don't want someone who's just immediately going to start talking and keep going. I'd rather it start with no talking, and then let me bring up the conversation. I know that's very picky. Uber rating — it's not something I really think about much. I feel like it's got to be good. If my Uber rating is bad, then the person just didn't like me from the jump, and there's nothing I could have controlled. 6. I'm asking each person a wild-card question: The In-Season Challenge has drawn attention to your team lately, but I feel like it's overshadowed how well you've actually been running all year compared to the preseason expectations. What's your view on the season you've had? I'm grateful you see that, because I feel the same way. … We've run really well. We've had some bad results based off late-race mistakes, but before that, we were running top 15 or top 18. That's kind of where we've been living — and beating a lot of these top teams. It's not all of them in a Hendrick organization, but we usually beat one or two a week. And that's a pretty solid deal for Kaulig Racing. Our points position doesn't really show what we've done. Advertisement What this in-season tournament has done — usually all the focus is on who's going to make the last spot in the (playoffs) and who's winning the race. That's all the TV shows and media usually talk about. But now that the focus has shifted — racing Atlanta (in Round 1) gave us an opportunity to get this far — people are seeing that there are more interesting things going on in the sport. Our team has been really solid the last three weeks: Eighth, 20th, and 17th (and then 20th at Dover, after this interview was conducted). That's not a bad average finish. We've just executed races better at the end. 7. This is my 16th year doing these 12 Questions interviews, and I'm going back to the first 12 Questions we did together in 2016. Back then, I asked: 'What's a chore you do in your daily life?' And you said, 'I love vacuuming. It's very satisfying. Once I start cleaning something, I can't stop.' You have three kids now; can this still be true? Actually, I vacuum less but I sweep more. We have three kids and our littlest, Bear, likes to throw all his food on the ground — but it's all in one isolated spot, and you don't want to vacuum a bunch of food and leave it in the vacuum, because I don't dump it every time. So I've become more of a sweeper. But I'd say my most consistent chore is every Sunday night when I get home from the race, I'm taking the trash and recycling to the road. It's my humbling moment as a dad and a husband. Doesn't matter what I just did in the race three hours ago — I come home and I still have to take out the stinky, overflowing trash and recycling. Even though most people do that, it's kind of like my funny reminder: 'The trash still has to be to the road by the end of the night.' 8. Other than one of your teammates, name a driver who you would be one of the first people to congratulate in victory lane if they won a race. My brother, for sure. And Kyle Busch (Kaulig has an alliance with Richard Childress Racing). There are a lot of good guys out there. I wish no ill success on anybody, but I'm probably not going to celebrate with too many of them. 9. How much do you use AI technology, whether for your job or your daily life? Man, I use ChatGPT a lot for questions. A lot of finance questions, a lot of math questions. I try to incorporate it as much as possible just to learn it, because obviously, it's a wave of technology that's coming. Hopefully, I race for another 10 years, but there's going to be another part of life that incorporates business and running stuff. So I want to learn that for the next life — how to utilize it best as this wave comes — and be ahead of it. 10. What is a time in your life that you felt was really challenging, but you're proud of the way you responded to it? Last year, being out of the sport for the second time and running Trucks again, and then just having four or five opportunities (for Cup races) with Kaulig Racing. Even in that moment, I didn't know what was next in my life or career. It felt like maybe that would be the last year of racing for me. But I never panicked. I never let it affect my personal life. … Sometimes you can put so much pressure on yourself in those situations to perform and try to earn something back. But I felt very at peace throughout that whole year. I remember telling my wife, 'I want to carry the way I feel at the racetrack now when I have less opportunities into when I'm full-time again.' And I've tried to do that. Advertisement 11. What needs to happen in NASCAR to take the sport to the next level of popularity? We're doing some good stuff as far as going to new places. I think there should be a raised stake for tracks; they should be competing just as much as teams and drivers. Especially this year — we've had so many great attendance numbers and people showing up. But when a track doesn't, now there's something wrong. There should be competition there. If your track doesn't hit a certain attendance threshold, you should lose the race — maybe next year, or in two years, depending on your contract. The tracks should be working just as hard to get fans there and create fun, creative weekends. Also, we need to do a better job of telling the stories of the teams who aren't at the top right now. I've probably been the direct beneficiary of the in-season tournament. We're not a 'key partner team,' but we're beating some of them — teams that have twice the money, twice the people and sometimes five times as many people. … We have to not focus so much on the top guys. We've worn those stories to death, and those drivers and teams aren't really producing much more energy toward the sport. Maybe they're exhausted from being up there, I don't know. But there's a lot of people throughout the field who have stories to tell, and they should get more opportunities to show their personality. 12. Each week, I ask a driver to give me a question for the next person. Last week's question came from Alex Bowman. He asked: What's the worst interview you've ever done, and why was it with Jeff Gluck? I've been pretty genuine in all my interviews. And even if I make mistakes, I'll make fun of myself. So it's hard to have a bad interview if you're not afraid to make fun of yourself in the middle of it. OK, but have you ever had a bad interviewer? Yeah, but you know — a lot of times you can recognize they're new to it, and they're nervous. It gets rough at times, but I try to encourage them to get through it. I'll try to help them out, walk them through it, give them something. But everybody's on a different path. Do you have a question for the next person? What would 10-years-ago-you be proud of you for doing now? If you look back 10 years and look at yourself now, what would you be proud you accomplished? That was a dinner table question my wife and I had.
Motor 1
10-07-2025
- Automotive
- Motor 1
Volume Up, Please: Lexus LFR Supercar Sounds Glorious At Goodwood
When Toyota announced its lineup for the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed at the end of June, it didn't mention it would bring its new GT3 race car. The track-only machine made a surprise appearance earlier today by going up the famous hill. Better yet, it wasn't alone. A second, camouflaged prototype also appeared, believed to be its road-going counterpart with a different badge. The Lexus LFR has already been spotted at Fuji Speedway in Japan, Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, the Nürburgring in Germany , and more recently near Pikes Peak in the United States, where it is being benchmarked against the previous-generation AMG GT. Now it's in the UK, and we might see more of it before the Goodwood FoS ends on Sunday. It's easy to tell the road car apart from its track-only sibling thanks to the latter's far more aggressive aero, including a monstrous rear wing. The cars sound positively glorious, fueling rumors of a brawny V-8 engine under that long hood. Most of the sweet noise comes from the race car, as the street-legal version won't be nearly as loud due to emissions and noise regulations. The track car also features more aggressive cooling and appears to be wider. Other changes include lightweight side windows instead of traditional glass, side-exit exhausts, and a large front wiper positioned upright at the center of the windshield. The road-going version won't be a direct successor to the revered V-10-powered LFA. Instead, it's expected to be more of an RC F replacement, albeit a significantly more exotic one. Toyota has been teasing its new supercar and race car duo for about three and a half years. Back in January 2022, it surprised everyone at the Tokyo Auto Salon with the unveiling of the GR GT3 concept . While the show car wore a Toyota badge, we've since learned from our sister site that the road-legal version will carry a Lexus logo . Toyota and Lexus remain tight-lipped about both cars, but reports suggest the V-8 will feature a pair of turbochargers and possibly a hybrid setup. With forced induction and perhaps some form of electrification baked in, the LFR is likely to outpunch the naturally aspirated LFA's 553-hp output significantly. While we'll miss the Yamaha-co-developed V-10 soundtrack, this new engine doesn't sound half bad either. There are still many missing pieces to the puzzle. Heck, we don't even know if it'll officially be called LFR. Toyota is expected to race the GR GT3 in Europe next year, so we might not have to wait much longer for the camo to drop. Hopefully, the Lexus-badged variant will follow shortly, or, ideally, be revealed ahead of the race car. Catch Up With The Lexus LFR: 2027 Lexus LFR: Everything We Know Toyota Files For Lexus LFR Trademark In Europe Source: Goodwood Festival of Speed / YouTube Share this Story Facebook X LinkedIn Flipboard Reddit WhatsApp E-Mail Got a tip for us? Email: tips@ Join the conversation ( )
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'F1: The Movie' Star Damson Idris Recalls Witnessing Brad Pitt's 'Sexy Walk' on Set
Ahead of the highly anticipated release of F1: The Movie, the actors have raved about their experiences while at the track, the time they put in preparing for the movie and just how thrilling it was driving a racecar. Among the many Formula One circuits the cast and crew attended was the popular Silverstone in England, which British actor and one of the movie's stars, Damson Idris, called his "home turf" during an interview with Variety. While Idris called the experience of filming F1: The Movie at Silverstone "amazing," he also got a full-blown glimpse of what he describes as "the sexy Brad Pitt walk" in an incredible and hilarious breakdown of the moment. Idris said he and fellow star in F1: The Movie, Pitt, stood with the drivers for the national anthem before walking back to the scene, and he detailed the moment to Variety. 'That's my home turf,' he said. 'And we got to stand with all the Formula One drivers; we got to sing the national anthem — there were fireworks going over — and then we got to walk back to the scene that we were going to shoot while 'We Will Rock You' is playing. I looked to the right: it's Brad Pitt. He's doing the sexy Brad Pitt walk. And I'm like, I need to try and look sexy too. But the whole experience was amazing.' First off, the description of the scene from Idris sounds incredible. But credit to the 33-year-old actor for the shoutout to Pitt, who's been named People's Sexiest Man Alive on two occasions—in 1995 and 2000. The 61-year-old actor is on a short list of actors who have earned the honor twice, along with George Clooney, Johnny Depp and Richard Gere. Pitt's swagger obviously rubbed off on Idris, considering his statement that he needed to "try and look sexy too." The duo of Pitt and Idris lead the way in the new F1: The Movie, and the film's early reviews are impressive. It's earned an 87 percent critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes ahead of the official June 27 premiere date.'F1: The Movie' Star Damson Idris Recalls Witnessing Brad Pitt's 'Sexy Walk' on Set first appeared on Men's Journal on Jun 19, 2025
