Racing is a sport where preparation is as important as performace. That is why it’s essential that drivers maintain their vehicles as much as possible. In today’s issue, we’ll be delving on the importance of maintaining (and replacing) your cabin air filter. Now you might not have a racer in your garage, but nevertheless, this clip would surely be helpful for your vehicle’s maintenance. Check it out.

Check out this really exciting video of the new, remodeled Cadillac CTS Coupe. The Cadillac CTS Coupe video shows a CTS zooming through the desert at full speed, and at designated periods, morphs into a different version of the CTS–an excellent way to demonstrate the model’s evolution. This Cadillac CTS video is a good way to get prospective car buyers pumped up for its release in 2010.

Bike lovers will surely get their adrenaline pumpin’ when they hear this news: AMA Tornado Nationals will be held in Heartland Park Topeka in July 31 to August 2. The world’s best bikers will zoom on the 2.5-mile course, and doubleheader racing on Saturday and Sunday.

It’s your chance to get a signature of your favorite bike racer–there will be a fan party and autograph session on Friday. Speed TV’s Jason Britton and Team No Limit will definitely wow the audience with awesome stunts on the weekend.

Grab your tickets now! Only $50 for adults and $5 (per day) for kids.

The number six holds a lot of meaning for team founder Michael Jordan: he currently has six NBA championships, and 2009 is the sixth year of his motorsports team. To celebrate these milestones, Michael Jordan Motorsports is giving away six amazing prize packages that any motoring enthusiast will salivate over. Well, I know I would.

Michael Jordan Motorsports team

The Super Six Sweepstakes prizes include gear from #23 Jordan Suzuki and #54 National Guard Jordan Suzuki team sponsors, “The Ultimate Track Day Package,” a truck suspension package, Star Motorcycle School lessons, and for the Grand Prize, a custom MJM-themed 2009 GSXR 1000 motorcycle.

Visit the Super Six Sweepstakes page at http://www.23race.com/win to register. Winners will announced in November of this year.

Step out, fellas, it’s the ladies’ time to shine! As we speak, the “For Women Only” motorbike test-ride event with BMW Motorrad Canada is going on Vancouver.

BMW is going to offer test ride sessions with their new bikes–females only!–at three locations across Canada. It starts today in Vancouver.

BMW's All-Women Test Ride Session

So if you lady riders out there missed this, you still have time for the next two For Women Only test ride sessions! The next BMW test ride program will be held on May 16 in Toronto, (please email Liz Jansen liz@trilliumtours.com) and on June 20 in Montreal (contact Stephanie Chagnon stephanie@teamtumbleweed.com).

The event aims to let women experience the bikes and the line of clothing, both of which can be adjusted to fit women properly, BMW says.

But go getting jealous, fellas. On Sunday, the Greater Vancouver Motorcycle Club will hold its third annual Spring Fun Ride and Social, and anyone is invited! Visit the GVMC website for info and sign-up.

Silas Lamons of Bull Gap, Tennessee and bagged the “overall winner” title in the Open C class at Round 1 of the 2009 AMA-ATV Motocross National Championship in Pell City, Alabama. He scored a total of 2-1 in the moto tallies.

Lamons accepting his award

Brett Cason of Louisiana and Nacy Stone of Kentucky finished 2nd and 3rd overall, respectively.

Why just watch, if you can be a part of the action and the excitement? If you’ve always wondered about the going-ons behind motorsport events, this is your chance to get in.

Canadian Race Communications Association (CRCA) is currently looking for action-hungry individuals who they can train as volunteers for racing events. The organization is currently accepting registrations for this year’s season. The first New Marshals’ School will be on Saturday, April 18, and the 2nd is on June 6 (tentative). All training sessions are held at Shannonville Motorsport Park.

Exciting events await new marshals

Classroom sessions begin at 8:45 a.m. with a break for lunch (provided at no cost, courtesy of Shannonville Motorsport Park). There is a fire-fighting demo/practical session and a trip trackside in the afternoon, weather permitting.

Visit CRCA’s site to register.

As most of us are aware, the Budweiser-Bernstein is the longest running in the motorsports industry, so it is certainly came as a shock to many when Anheuser-Busch said last Monday that this year’s season will be Budweiser’s last as official beer sponsor of the NHRA and as primary sponsor of Kenny Bernstein Racing and the Budweiser Top Fuel dragster.

Kenny and Brandon Bernstein guests in Full Throttle TV

Still, Kenny Bernstein Racing will continue racing if new sponsorship is secured for 2010.

“We’re passionate about the sport of NHRA drag racing and plan to continue if we can secure sponsorship,” Bernstein said. He won six NHRA championships with Budweiser as his sponsor, and his son, Brandon, took over in 2003. “We are moving forward with the search for a replacement so that we can field an NHRA team in 2010 with Brandon as the driver,” he said.

The team pulled in second in the Full Throttle Drag Racing Series after their first three races, which tells us that if they will certainly be a loss if they can’t find a sponsor in time. Let’s keep our fingers crossed, folks.

A lot of people see motorcycles as rumbling, roaring killing machines, and I can’t say that their fear are unfounded. Because of the number of accidents that motorbikes get into, the two-wheeled vehicle now has a rock-solid reputation of being nothing but bad news–something that AMA wants to break.

AMA will conduct the annual Ride to Work (RTW) Day on June 15, and urges motorbike lovers to go to work using their motorcycles on that day. AMA wants the public to see the positive side of driving a motorbike. “Motorcycles and scooters consume less resources per mile than automobiles, and they take up less space in parking areas and on roads. Rider’s seek employer support for this efficient form of transportation, and more government and public awareness about riding’s many benefits,” program organizer Andy Goldfine says.

2008 Ride to Work Day

Apparently, RTW Day is a bit earlier this year for the following reasons:

1. It won’t be as hot in most northern hemisphere areas, and not as cold in most southern hemisphere areas. June is has a more favorable weather worldwide.
2. More riders can participate. Many workplaces close for summer holiday in July (i.e., Europe).
3. A Monday event might encourage motorcycle and scooter owner to continue using their bikes during the entire week.
4. Increased positive media exposure. Since Sundays are slower “news days,” there will be more coverages like this: “Look for more motorcycles on your commute tomorrow, as Monday is the annual Ride to Work day…”
5. The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) has endorsed this day, and is promoting the ‘Third Monday in June’ worldwide as the annual Ride to Work Day.

So bikers out there, get your motorcycles ready for June 15. And don’t forget to wear your helmets!!

For more info, go to www.ridetowork.org.

Two words, fellas: KEYLESS IGNITION.

That’s really all it takes to make most car enthusiasts’ heads turn. But the 2009 Nissan 370Z is so much more than that. It uses a 3.7L VQ37VHR V6, which has a more subdued growl than that of the 350’s. But it has an additional 26hp, so your total output would be at 332 horses at 7K rpm. Makes up for more than a quieter rumble, doesn’t it?

2009 Nissan 370Z

All right, maybe it’s too flashy for a race car, but it would have been cool to drive this baby on the track just the same. Read more about it here, and tell us what you think.