Well we all know who has won the F1 World Championship and the last race at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix doesn’t really matter because of it, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t tune it, or even better get flights to Dubai and go and watch the amazing spectacle!

The Yas Marina circuit is brand new (in fact there was speculation The Abu Dhabi circuit wouldn’t be finished in time earlier on in the season!) And looks like it is going to be one hell of a race/show. They really know how to go all out and splash the cash there so expect even more extravagance than usual. One thing though, for a very religious place will pit babes be made to cover up the lovely sponsor laden lingerie?

We have had night time races before but Yas Marina is promising something different with a race that starts in the light and gradually ends up being finished at night time! The race starts at 5pm on Sunday (01 November) so make sure you set aside the time to watch it and then crack open the champers (nick it from one of the Christmas hampers you got for the mother in law…) So you can toast the official crowning of Jenson Button as World Champion!

According to a trial in Utah where speed limits were raised to 80 mph the new higher limit brings drivers within the law and has no negative saftey impact at all!

Beginning in 2008, The Utah Department Of Transportation has been allowed to raise speed limits and they say that because drivers were already driving at the faster speeds anyway, they have managed to bring drivers within the law without having any effect on safety.

They said

“One of the concerns when we presented this bill a couple of sessions ago was that people would increase speeds to 90 or 95 and there would be tremendous carnage on the road,”

“Even though it has only been a year, that has not happened. And all that’s happened is that people haven’t changed their speed much — a little bit — but they’re doing so legally. So by increasing the speed limit to 80, we just made them legal.”

Seems like that is one good point for modernising speed limits for an ever more modern array of cars on the road. The speed limits we have now came in when normal cars could barely reach 50mph and took from Liverpool to London to stop, things have significantly changed now but we are still lumbered with pre historic speed limit laws!

I have just watched two amazing videos for two different cars one for the new upcoming Lexus sports car the LFA with presumabely a big budget and another one by a media company called Bandito Bros who say they made a little film about their own car, a BMW M3. I know which one I like best, but the quality on both of them is awesome and it just goes to show how far technology has come and how relatively cheap the equipment is that we can watch footage like this!

First off the Lexus advert. The noise is amazing!

And this is the quick effort by Bandito Bros

It has be confirmed by George Miller himself that there will be a new Mad Max film hoping for a 2011 release. Excited? Just a little bit! The original Mad Max is one of the best films ever made and I can’t wait to see the Rat Rod’s that get made for this film. In this video George Miller talks a little bit about the cars and i’m p retty sure I can see something model A shaped with a massive charger on it…

He also says they will be working cars that are very fast and also very safe, with a year being allowed to build all the cars! I’m going to start a savings account now and try and buy one of the cars after they have finished filming it…

Give it a few more years and Mad Max might be a bit more of a reality that a film because with the oil disappearing and global warming being so bad, it might not be long before we have our very own post apocalyptic world, I have the right kind of car for it according to the films, all I need is a supercharger hanging out of my bonnet and I’m all good.

To celebrate this I think everyone should watch the first ten minutes of the original film, which is one of the best car chases ever!