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Enthusiast's Guide to The 2014 Bathurst 12-Hour Race
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We are living in a golden age of GT sports car racing. People may scoff at that sentence, saying that the IMSA GTO/GTU era was better, or perhaps the sixties with Ford vs. Ferrari, then Porsche vs. Ferrari at Le Mans, or some will even state that the golden era was inhabited by the silhouettes…
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Homebrew Toyota-Audi Mid-Engine V8 Hybrid Build Is 100% Canadian Crazy
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This has to be one of the coolest project builds I have ever seen in the history of all weirdo forum nut-job project car builds. This has got to be an exercise in masochism on an entirely new level. Some kid in the cold harsh north of Canada is putting together this complete custom build…
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Enthusiast's Guide To The 12 Hours Of Sebring
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The 12 hours of Sebring has been run in Sebring, Florida since 1950, and is among the crown jewels of the North American racing calendar. The 24 hours of Daytona is the official start to the racing season, but it feels like an outlier more than a month removed from any other major motorsport action…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Calling An Espada An Espada
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[Ed Note: I was recently given an amazing opportunity to go to France for a weekend to see a bunch of cars drive around in circles. REALLY big circles. An 8 and a half mile track in central France called La Sarthe. You may have heard of it. I was there at the behest of…
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Breakfast With a Gullwing
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Sometimes, it isn’t about what you know, but who you know. Nowhere is that more true than in the automotive community. You never really know what is hiding in some barns, garages, shops, and back yards. This weekend just passed, I spent the morning with the local Porsche 356 group. We gather every month for…
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Enthusiast's Guide To FIA Formula E
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Remember how excited people got about the Audi R10 TDi racers when they debuted? They were something completely new and different. They were the pinnacle of technology, they were fast, they were quiet, and they wiped the floor with their competition. Starting this weekend, the FIA is trying to capitalize on that alternative energy racing…
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The Hooniverse Dream Car Build Garage: Project Monster Miura SV-R Time Attack
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Welcome to the Dream Car Build Garage. Every so often, inspiration hits in a big way. I don’t know about you, but when I get inspiration for a car build, it’s all I can think about for weeks. I literally dream about driving my crazy mental build, and make up entire forum ‘build threads’ for…
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Final Seconds Saturday of 2014 At Hanzels Auto Body Works
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Now, Mr. Odell is usually the one to go to Hanzel’s for this event, but his series of posts convinced me that I needed to make the trek over to the bay area from my hideaway in the high deserts of Sparks, Nevada. Set the alarm clock for 4AM and hit the road. There’s nothing…
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Lime Rock Park – All is Not Lost!
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In the musical chairs shuffle that occurred in the aftermath of the ALMS and Grand-Am merger, there were three major tracks that were left without a dance partner [mixed metaphors…], one being the Baltimore Grand Prix, Mid Ohio Sportscar Course, and most tragically, Lime Rock Park. In 2013, the fan-favorite 1.53 mile circuit was on…
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12 Hours of Sebring: It's All Over
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After our last update, things looked pretty bleak with half of the race running under full-course yellow flag conditions. After the six hour mark, however, things started to settle into a rhythm and laps started ticking down. Once the racing started, things began to get pretty exciting. There are great class battles, and the overall…
