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eBay: Buy a four-car IMSA team for under $1 million
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The Automobile Club de l’Ouest announced its 2015 entry lists for the Le Mans 24 Hours, the World Endurance Championship, and the European Le Mans Series. Missing from that list and also missing from the recent Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona was a team whose name and bright-orange racecars seemed everywhere only a few months…
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Motorsports Weekend Guide: February 6 to February 8
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February’s beginning brings the end of football and the start of racing season in earnest. This week’s racing is a huge variety with racing from short-and-fast to long-and-grueling and everything in between. Actually, there’s a lot of long and grueling. Anyway, follow the jump for the scoop on this weekend’s racing around the world.
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24 Hours of LeMons: 'Shine Country Classic' preview at Barber
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The 24 Hours of LeMons has developed an image as a greasy racing series—mostly based on its never-fear-grime contingent of diehards—but several times a year, the series sneaks a date at a beautiful racing facility or two. This weekend’s “Shine Country Classic” is one such weekend, taking place on the pristine, manicured grounds of Barber Motorsports Park…
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Motorsports Weekend Guide: January 30 to February 1
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Welcome to Hooniverse’s guide to who is racing what and where they’re racing. Football takes precedence this weekend so if you’re watching the Super Bowl, keep your eyes peeled for Nissan unveiling their new LMP1 racecar during an ad break. Sure, the car has already been spotted Hooniverse friend Stef Schrader (aka ninjacoco around these parts),…
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Video: Watch touring car pro Rob Huff flog a classic British Touring Car
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On my way to work last week, I happened to spot a rare-in-the-Midwest clean, stock Infinti G20 in write-me-a-ticket red. I’ve always liked the car’s clean lines and after my mind and my Internet browser wandered a bit, I came across this video of modern touring car legend and current Lada factory driver (No, really!)…
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24 Hours of LeMons: 'Good Effort Grand Prix' wrap-up
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The 24 Hours of LeMons, better known as one of Hooniverse’s motorsports spirit animals, opened its 2015 season with at Sonoma Raceway a week ago for the “Good Effort Grand Prix.” LeMons held a race at Sonoma a month prior, but since several teams had to be cut from the entry list to accommodate limited…
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eBay: The marvelous 'Launcha Splatos' crapcan racer is for sale
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It’s not every day that I see two cars listed for sale that make your heart skip a beat, but today has been a remarkable day. Bringatrailer.com already beat me to writing up the lurid Panhard project for sale in Los Angeles and this evening I discovered that one of my absolute favorite 24…
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Motorsports Weekend Guide: January 23 to January 25
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The racing season begins in earnest now with two world-famous races of very different character taking place this weekend. In addition, you can find some of the big guns from Baja staying sharp south of the border this weekend over a shorter distance than the usual 1,000-mile trek. You can find out more after the…
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24 Hours of LeMons: 'Good Effort Grand Prix' at Sonoma Raceway preview
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This weekend marks the start of the 2015 24 Hours of LeMons season at Sonoma Raceway with the “Good Effort Grand Prix,” a late addition to the 2015 calendar as a means of accommodating those who were bumped from other Sonoma races due to entry-number restrictions at the popular Bay Area track. As we covered…
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Ride along with J.J. Yeley in a Midget racecar at this year's Chili Bowl
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In last week’s Motorsports Weekend Guide, we mentioned that the annual short-track racing pilgrimage to Tulsa for the Chili Bowl Nationals was imminent. Now, in the middle of the week, the Chili Bowl is in full swing and Hooniverse reader Rich Chesavage is there helping crew for USAC Triple Crown winner and NASCAR driver J.J.…
