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Bullrun 2008 Route Map - Day 6 Update

bullrun 2008 route map

The current Bullrun 2008 route:
1. The Whiskey - Calgary, AB
2. Great Norther Bar & Grill - Whitefish, MT
3. Big Sky Resort - Big Sky, MT
4. Yellowstone National Park - Uninc Teton County, WY
5. Sky Hotel - Aspen, CO
6. Miller Motorsports Park - Tooele, UT
7. Stein Eriksen Lodge - Park City, UT
8. Wynn - Las Vegas, NV
9. Mountain Motorsports Ranch - Pahrump, NV
10. Sofitel - Los Angeles, CA
11. West Coast Customs - Corono, CA

Bullrun 2008 Cars

Bullrun 2008 in the News

Exotic cars congregated on downtown’s Stephen Avenue on Saturday for the start of the fifth Bullrun Road Rally. “Calgary was attractive for some logistical reasons, and the city has a very good developing downtown area,” Duncan says. “Calgary’s not a small city in terms of its population, but it has a small-city feel with a youthful nightlife.” The rally stopped in Big Sky, Mont., Saturday night, and carries on to Aspen, Colo., Park City, Utah, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Tucson, Ariz. before culminating June 27 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Full Article Here: Calgary Herald - June 22, 2008

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, with help from local sheriffs, put a damper on the annual Bullrun Road Rally this weekend by issuing speeding tickets to racers including the event’s safety car. Police nabbed a Lamborghini at 194 kilometers per hour (121 mph) — 94 kph over the limit — near the town of Black Diamond, southwest of Calgary, staff sergeant Mark Brown said. “They were running in a fairly tight bunch,” Brown, of the High River, Alberta, RCMP detachment, said. “If you stopped one, the others kept moving.”
Full Article Here: Sun Sentinel - June 25, 2008

A pair of Spyker C8 Spyders along with more than 70 other exclusive supercars will make their way through Tucson Thursday and Friday as part of the week-long seven-city Bullrun Road Rally. The cars are scheduled to arrive Thursday between 6 and 7 p.m. at Loews Ventana Canyon Resorts, 7000 N. Resort Drive. That will be followed by a party at the resort beginning at 10 p.m.
Full Article Here: Arizona Daily Star - June 25, 2008

[Source: Bullrun.com GTSpirit.com, CarDomain.com]

James Bond’s Aston Martin DBS arrives in Australia

aston martin dbs james bond
James Bond’s last ride has finally made it to Queensland. Described as a DB9 on steroids, the DBS was unveiled at the Sunshine Aston Martin dealership at Southport.

The DBS is the car which made a fleeting but record-breaking appearance in the past 007 film, Casino Royale in 2006. The production version made its global debut at the famed Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach in California last year.

Four DBS vehicles have been sold and the dealership’s next allocation is not expected until late next year.

In the movie the car made a cameo appearance – on screen for a matter of seconds – but it made an impact and entered The Guinness Book of World Records by rolling seven times in the air before it crashed. The road car is one rung down from the DBR9 sports car, a rocket ship which won the GT1 class at the Le Mans 24-hour last year at the hands of Australian David Brabham, Rickard Rydell and Darren Turner.

For $520,000 fully optioned including all on-road costs you get the most technological Aston ever built, full of space-age materials and lashings of carbon fibre. Under the V-shaped bonnet, which can be lifted with your little finger, hides a 6-litre V12 that screams to 6500rpm and maxes out at 380kW of power and 570Nm of torque. Acceleration is not for the weak-kneed as it tackles the 0-100km/h measurement in a supercar-qualifying 4.3 seconds.

There is carbon throughout the car, the front wing lip, the rear diffuser, the wing mirror joins, door opening surrounds, etc that amount to a considerable slimming of overall weight.

A complex Adaptive Damping System uses two valves to adjust the dampers to five different settings.
The DBS is shod with specially developed Pirelli P-Zero 20-inch rubber. Huge brakes made of a carbon/ceramic composite are 12.5kg lighter than conventional materials.

Sunshine Aston Martin sales manager Chris von Oppeln says the super sports coupe has attracted a wide demographic group. “The demographics on the Gold Coast vary from property developers, medical people, earth movers, horse breeders and those from the mining industry,” he said. The next challenge for the Southport Aston Martin dealership is the arrival, possibly in late 2009 or early 2010, of the Rapide four-door super saloon. “We have had an enormous amount of interest in the Rapide,” von Oppeln said. “It will bring in people who have not previously considered an Aston.”

A convertible version, the DBS Volante, was captured in development testing in Europe earlier this year.

Up to 300 have been earmarked for global production.

ASTON MARTIN DBS SPECS

POWER: 380kW @ 6500rpm
TORQUE: 570Nm @ 5750rpm
0-100km/h: 4.3secs
MAX SPEED: 302km/h

BODY: 2-seat coupe made from bonded aluminium VH structure
ENGINE: all-alloy quad overhead cam 48-valve 6-litre V12
TRANSMISSION: rear-mid mounted 6-speed manual
BRAKES: 398mm ventilated carbon ceramic discs with six-piston calipers (front), 360mm ventilated carbon ceramic discs with four-piston calipers (rear)

LAYOUT: front mid-mounted engine, rear-wheel-drive
WHEELS: 8.5×20-inch (front), 11×20-inch (rear)
TYRES: Pirelli P Zero 245/35 (front), 295/30 (rear)
STEERING: rack and pinion with servotronic speed-sensitive power assist, 3 turns lock-to-lock
SUSPENSION: independent double wishbone (front), independent double wishbone (rear)
DIMENSIONS (mm): 4721 (l), 1905 (w), 1280 (h), 2740 (wheelbase)

PRICE: $466,600 (list price), $520,000

[Source: Wippz.com]