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Good morning beautiful sunny California! Today is day practice day before 2 days of races at the Laguna Seca 2011 Ferrari Racing Days at the Mazda Raceway in Monterey. I arrived in San Francisco yesterday and warmed up my 5DMKII by visiting Lamborghini San Francisco and Bentley San Francisco.

Among the Ferrari Racing events I am most excited to see the hardcore track only versions of the Ferrari 458, Ferrari FXX and Ferrari 599XX screaming around the track! Stay tuned for full video and photo coverage!

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This upcoming Saturday February 26, 2011, Auto.ca is giving away 7000 FREE parking spaces at 7 Parking Green P’s Downtown Toronto! The following lots will be FREE PARKING from 7am to Midnight: 37 Queen Street (Queen & Victoria), 40 York Street (York & University), 323 Richmond (Richmond & Sherbourne), 37 Yorkville (Yorkville & Bay), 20 St. Andrews (Kensington Garage), 110 Queen Street (Nathan Phillips Square) and 2 Church Street (St. Lawrence Garage).

The Free Parking Day initiative coincides with the final weekend of the 2011 Canadian International AutoShow taking place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

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Here’s the post most of you have been waiting for. The 2011 Tokyo Auto Salon Girls. Cheers.

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Happy New Year everyone! 2011 is looking to be quite an interesting year with several awesome car shows on my calendar this year! I am starting off 2011 by heading out to Japan at noon today to visit one of my oldest and best friends Adrian Grey co-founder of SET JAPAN for yet another amazing 2 week Japanese adventure!

In addition to soaking up more Japanese culture, eating and drinking the best Sushi and Sake in the world and snowboarding in the mountains, I will be once again attending and covering the 2011 Tokyo Auto Salon!! Starting Friday, stay Tuned to CarZi.com and MadWhips.com for full event coverage like no one else on the web! Some of the coolest cars at the show were daily drivers parked in the Tokyo Auto Salon Makuhari Messe parking lot!

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Congrats to Andrew Romanowski on his recent LCA appointment to be the President of the Lamborghini Club of America!! The LCA also recently launched a new campaign (that focuses on the heritage of the brand built by founder, Ferruccio Lamborghini) as well as a new website!

Seeing that I have been to the Ferrari Club of America’s annual meets for the last couple years, I figure this year I should make it to my first Lamborghini Club of America annual meet!

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What would any car show be without the Show Girls, Bikini Models & Booth Babes? Well it just wouldn’t be a car show worth attending now would it? Even though I was unable to attend the 2010 SEMA Show this year (thanks to a friends stag a couple weeks ago), my friend and rockstar photographer Mr. Richard Owen of Supercars.net who is in attendance was nice enough to provide me with a plethora of photos to try and cheer me (and you) up. Thanks Richard

Now will you all please stop sending me emails requesting SEMA Show GIRLS and just enjoy this years new crew!!!

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The brand new McLaren MP4-12C made it’s public world debut last week (July 2-4, 2010) at the 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Jenson Button (current F1 World Champion) and Lewis Hamilton (2008 F1 World Champion) entertained the crowds by driving an Orange McLaren Validation Prototype MP4-12C up the Goodwood Hill. In addition to the Validation Prototype on hand, it was also complimented by a MP4-12C rolling chassis which exposes the car’s frame and beautifully crafted carbon fiber tub. McLaren will start to ship out their new supercar from their factory in Woking, England next summer!

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RIP “Alexander Djordjevic. Famously known online as ‘VRAlexander’, Alex was a true motorsport enthousiast and a rockstar entrepreneur.

VRAlexander had a tragic accident at the 1st Annual Spectre 341 Challenge hill climb road race event this past weekend (June 26, 2010) in his Porsche 996TT. Very few facts are available at this time, however speculation and rumors suggest there might have been an engine fire failure coupled with a accident involving the non guardrail cliff.

VRAlexander Pictures and Video Links
MadWhips CGT Pictures – VRAlexander
PhotoBucket Photos – VRAlexander
YouTube Videos VRAlexander

UPDATE (6-29-2010): Associated Press

VIRGINA CITY, Nev. — A Las Vegas race car driver was killed when his Porsche slid off a curvy, mountain highway that had been closed to traffic for a sanctioned against-the-clock race.

Alexander Djordjevic, 37, died Saturday afternoon while competing in the Speed by Spectre 341 Challenge near the historic mining town of Virginia City, Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Chuck Allen said Monday.

Djordjevic was wearing a seat belt and helmet. But Allen said his silver 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo was traveling at an “extremely high rate of speed” before it rolled down the embankment off state Highway 341, known as Geiger Grade, which connects Reno to Virginia City, around 4:50 p.m.

The sponsor, Spectre Performance, billed the race as pitting “the world’s fastest street cars against the clock in a full throttle blast up a mountain road.”

Djordjevic told KTVN-TV of Reno before the race that it was a “challenge to yourself and your street car to do well.”

The 5.2-mile stretch of highway was closed during the race, Allen said. The company secured the necessary state permit along with approval from Lyon and Storey counties, he said.

UPDATE (6-28-2010): Spectre Performance – Official statement

“After two days of fun and excitement, the 341 Challenge suffered a tragedy when VRAlexander was killed in an accident when he went off course.”

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I can’t think of a better way to kick the February winter blues than to hop on a plane this afternoon and head down to Miami for the weekend to take part and cover the 2010 Supercar Experience (SCX)! We were present last year and you can checkout our Supercar Weekend 2009 Review as well as all the photos 2009 Supercar Weekend Pictures to get an idea of what this event is all about. Among all the sick cars and the sunshine we get to bask in, we are also super excited to visit with Brett David and Felicia Vaccaro at Lamborghini Miami, after the red carpet treatment they provided us last year during our visit at Lamborghini Palm Beach Supercar Weekend! Check back Sunday for the pictures, exclusive coverage and naturally more Supercar Weekend 2009 Girls

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