SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Ahead of the 2024 season opener for South Korea’s largest single-make racing event, the Hyundai N Festival, Hyundai Motor Company unveiled its high-performance Ioniq 5 N eN1 Cup Car during an official practice round held on March 30 at the Inje Speedium racetrack in Inje County, Gangwon Province. The Ioniq [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent video depicting delivery trucks circling a race track has gone viral in South Korea The 2023 CJ Logistics Superrace Championship, backed by the logistics giant CJ Logistics Corp., stands as the nation’s premier racing competition. The fifth round of this year’s championship unfolded at Yongin’s Everland Speedway circuit [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Monday that the company’s Veloster N ETCR won the fifth round of the Pure ETCR, an all-electric multi-brand touring car championship. The series consists of four short-distance races and a final race. The ranking of the manufacturers and drivers is set by adding the [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Monday that the company’s Elantra N TCR was victorious in the 2022 World Touring Car Cup for the second race in a row. Mikel Azcona (BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse) in the Elantra N TCR competed at the Aragón Circuit in Alcañiz, Spain on Saturday [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Formula E Korea said Wednesday it will host the Seoul E-Prix in Seoul’s Jamsil neighborhood on August 13-14. The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, an annual motor racing championship for electrically powered vehicles, is hosted by the International Automobile Federation (FIA). The championship, dubbed “Formula E,” has been [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Bulls have replaced horses in an unusual racing event where the jockeys were farmers instead of professionals. The strange sight was observed during a ‘ride with a bull’ competition held recently in North Korea. The Chosun Sinbo, a pro-North Korea newspaper in Japan, reported that the state held the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. won the triple crown at the 2021 World Rally Championship held in Tarragona, Spain from October 14-17. The South Korean automaker’s world rally racers won first and third place with i20 Coupe WRC nabbing two spots on the podium. Hyundai has won three championship cups this [...]
CHUNCHEON, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Referred to as “Lake City” for its proximity to water, the city of Chuncheon in Gangwon Province is aiming to adopt a new moniker with its National Leisure Sports Festival to be held on August 25. Chuncheon’s road to becoming a domestic hub of leisure sports is a winding [...]
JEJU, South Korea, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean startup company, Monolith, is establishing a 140,000-square-meter theme park on Jeju Island, mainly comprising of race tracks for gravity racing. Gravity racing, which has been around for over a century, is when the racers drive down a slope using nothing but gravitational momentum. Despite [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – In one of Hyundai’s more ambitious efforts to develop its high-performance N models, the company has announced plans to compete in the 2016 Nürburgring 24. The Nürburgring 24, which will celebrate its 44th anniversary this year, is a race in which vehicles compete on the 25km circuit for 24 [...]