If you thought Danica Patrick was the hottest racing driver…

Good lord. This is Christina Surer, the former wife of swiss Formula One star Marc Surer, and driver in the Seat Leon Supercopa. She recently posed for Playboy magazine, and as you can see, the results are astounding.

See more NSFW-ish pictures and incredibly interesting information about Christina after the jump…

Viper lowers Corvette ZR1 mark by four seconds

The fastest lap by a road car at the perilous Nurburgring has become one of the most coveted benchmarks in the automotive world.

In April 2008, Nissan set a lap record when its 2009 GT-R posted a time of 7mins 29secs. Then in June, the new Corvette ZR1 recorded a time of 7:26.4 (watch the lap).

At the end of August, a 2009 Dodge Viper ACR smashed the record with a time of 7:22. Watch the lap above.

Schumi didn’t write off prototype, say Ferrari

We told you yesterday that Michael Schumacher crashed a 430 Scuderia proto (not pictured above) whilst testing at the Nurburgring. Looks like we were wrong.

Ferrari has come out and denied Schumi’s involvement in the incident. Ferrari spokesman Luca Colajanni claimed that Schumi was in the passenger seat, and that it was test driver Raffaele de Simone at the wheel.

However, Bild newspaper reports that eyewitnesses saw Schumacher in the driving seat. Could this be a Ferrari cover-up, with de Simone cast as the fall guy? Unless de Simone or Schumi tells the truth, we may never know who was at the wheel.

Either way, we’ve tracked down a video of Schumacher testing the 430 Scud. You can watch it after the jump…

Schumi bins it again

News has reached us that Herr Schumi crashed a prototype Ferrari road car last week while testing at the Nurburgring. What’s the German for oops?

The F1 legend was not injured when his 430 Scuderia hit a guardrail doing 250kph (about 160mph), but the car was written off. In Schumi’s defence, the notoriously tricky circuit was damp, making track conditions even more difficult than usual. He’s not the first professional racing driver to fall foul of the Nordschleife’s quirks, and he won’t be the last.

How come he never crashed this much in F1? If you include bike dumps, that’s about the fourth crash he’s had this year.

[Schumi’s bike woes]

America’s hottest new supercar sets production-car lap record

After the jump, we ask that you relax, press play, and enjoy in-car footage of Corvette’s awesome new supercar, the ZR1 (pictured), setting a new lap record for production cars at the Nurburgring. The ZR1 set a time of 7:26.4, faster than both the Pagani Zonda F and the Porsche Carrera GT.

The car set the lap time with a bog-standard set-up, aside from necessary alterations to comms and safety equipment. It used the same Michelin Pilot tyres that the car will sport when it goes on sale later this year, and its suspension, including ride height and damping, was not altered.

It’s a remarkable performance, and one that sends out a defiant message to European and Japanese manufacturers - after a long time in the doldrums, the USA is back, baby!

Watch the record-breaking video below:

Nurburgring 24-hour race: a high-class joint, thanks to Live-Strip.com

Meet the skanky charming grid girls of the Live-Strip.com racing team. The team took part in last weekend’s 24-hour endurance race at Germany’s famous Nurburgring. Their girls, who strip for cash on the internet, really raised the tone of the whole event - because there’s nothing like giving your team’s drivers an impromptu lapdance just before the lights turn green.

Geek behind GT driving game can handle a real car

Gran Turismo (GT) is the most realistic driving game series ever. The latest version, GT5, is set to be released for PlayStation3 in glorious High-Definition… well, no one knows when it’s going to be released, although Sony has brought out GT5 Prologue to satisfy fans who can’t cope with the long wait.

The man behind GT is Japanese super geek Kazunori Yamauchi. He can handle a real car on a real track too, as the video below proves: