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  • Hooniverse's Massively Oversized Guide to Motorsports, 2015

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    Every week, Hooniverse gives you a simple weekly guide to the looming weekend in motorsport. Racing in those previews runs the gamut from the unobtainium-grade engineering of Formula 1 to the duct-tape-and-beer-can-aluminum garage necesseering of the 24 Hours of LeMons. However, in a quest to simplify those previews and create less work for the person…

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  • Motorsports Weekend Guide: March 20 to March 22

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    Welcome to another 24-carrot edition of Hooniverse’s weekly guide to who is racing what and where this weekend. This weekend finds the oldest-running American sports car race holding its 63rd annual edition while California hosts a broad swath of racing on the country’s other side. There’s plenty of amateur racing of note and, if you live…

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  • 24 Hours of LeMons: 'Sears Pointless' preview from Sonoma Raceway

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    No, you’re not hallucinating; the 24 Hours of LeMons is once again at California’s Sonoma Raceway this weekend for packed track of wheel-to-wheel action and inaction. Well, maybe you’re hallucinating. But that doesn’t change the fact that LeMons holds its sixth annual “Sears Pointless” at the Track Formerly Known as Sears Point and Infineon Raceway.…

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  • Found on eBay: 1965 Bobsy Vanguard Formula Vee project

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    For a long time, the cheapest way to go wheel-to-wheel racing was simply to buy a Formula Vee, an extremely simple open-wheel racecar built almost entirely with stock Volkswagen Beetle mechanical components. With horsepower in the mid-double digits, Formula Vee was essentially a slightly bigger go-kart. Because of the cheap and plentiful nature of components, Formula Vees…

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  • 24 Hours of LeMons: Up-to-the-week-ish news!

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    The 24 Hours of LeMons season hasn’t picked up quite yet this season with just one race a month in the year’s early going, so we at Hooniverse thought we’d bridge the gap between races with a few general news items of interest. Let me shuffle my papers as, in the finest sense of Brian Williams-esque…

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  • Motorsports Weekend Guide: March 13 to March 15

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    Welcome to Hooniverse’s weekly guide to who is racing what and where this upcoming weekend. This weekend marks the “real start” of racing for the world’s biggest motorsports series while the first professional all-electric racing heads to the U.S. for the first time. The usual suspects are in play stateside, as well, oddly occupying most…

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  • Motorsports Weekend Guide: March 6 to March 8

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    Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse’s weekly look forward to the weekend ahead in racing. For this week, two FIA series go westward, NASCAR, and a huge field heads to Texas. Follow the jump for more.

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  • JuggaLambo: A short tribute to the Pontiac Grand Prix GTP

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      This is the 1997-2003 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP. It features a supercharged V6, a heads-up display, a gimmicky car information center, a CD player with seven-band equalizer, five-spoke alloy wheels, a trunklid spoiler, so much body cladding, weird lines, acceptable crash test ratings (Take that, Grand Am!), and probably water in the taillights. This…

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  • Forgotten Racetracks: The Eloy Grand Prix

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    Hooniverse has written about several old temporary racetracks used by club racers when prepared racetracks were somewhat scarce: Brynfan Tyddyn, Las Ochas Millas, Callender Field, and Lake Garnett. Nearly all of those had gone away by the early 1970s, when liability concerns crept up and willingness among chambers of commerce dropped down. Street circuits became…

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  • Motorsports Weekend Guide: February 27 to March 1

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    This week marks a not-really-major accomplishment for the Motorsports Weekend Guide: It’s the MWG’s first anniversary. So thanks to Hooniverse’s editors for letting this hack writer continue this weekly feature that probably doesn’t get a ton of traffic. Long may it live because I’ve already put a ton of work into it for the rest…

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