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  • Motorsports Weekend Guide: August 28 to August 30

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    Welcome to your Thursday look ahead to the weekend in racing. It’s a big weekend, as usual. IndyCar wraps up their season in California with heavy hearts while Europe hosts two raging championships. It’s also the weekend where American stock cars go completely bonkers on road courses for the final time this season. Follow the…

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  • CraigsList: Buy this GM Value Van for just 33 million Vietnamese Dong!

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    That converts to $1,500 U.S., by the way, and I doubt the seller accepts dong. You can pick the 350-powered 1967 GM Value Van up in Ottawa, Illinois, just a couple hundred feet from the local adult bookstore and gentleman’s club. Click here if/when the ad disappears; here’s the full ad text: “It used to be a…

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  • Bulgarian 'racetrack' was FIA safety apoplexy version of 'Where's Waldo?'

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    The Bulgarian Touring Car Championship was a short-lived race series in, as you may guess, the country of Bulgaria. As you may also guess, Bulgaria is a country that is a bit short on racetracks, having only Race Track Dracon, a fittingly austere circuit. So how does a race series exist in a country with…

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  • Motorsports Weekend Guide: August 21 to August 23

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    It’s Thursday and that means a look ahead to the weekend in racing all around the world here on Hooniverse. One of my absolute favorite races is this weekend at a tiny, oft-forgotten Welsh racing circuit while the big-dollar series both here in the U.S. and abroad will be racing (much, much) faster cars at…

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  • Motorsports Weekend Guide: August 14 to August 16

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    Welcome to the opening paragraph of this weekly post, which I’m trying to cut as short as possible so I can go outside to see what little I can of the Perseids meteor shower from my light-polluted suburban abode. This weekend: About $800 Bajillion in racecars make people wince a lot, two wheels still good,…

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  • Project Regretmobile Dodge Magnum, Part 1: An elegy for sensibility

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    I am not a smart man. We must get that out of the way here because it will make understanding the rest of this story so much easier. This is going to be a long build story about me, Eric Rood—a complete idiot whose mushy brain is filled almost entirely with Bad Ideas—and my struggles…

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  • Corvette Racing looks back at their Le Mans triumph

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    Shortly after the conclusion of this year’s typically insane 24 Hours of Le Mans, we brought you a nerdy look at how the race played out in the four classes, mentioning Corvette Racing’s blow-for-blow battle with the AF Corse Ferrari 458 in the GTE-Pro class. It was a gusty performance for the Corvette crew, ending…

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  • Motorsports Weekend Guide: August 7 to August 9

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    Hey kids, it’s time for your favorite drunk puppet cooking and interview show weekly racing preview here on the Hooniverse, where a muppet knocks back straight gin and calls his guests ****s we tell you who’s racing and where they’re racing this weekend. It’s a good one with a big international championship headed to Indy,…

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  • 24 Hours of LeMons: 'There Goes the Neighborhood' preview from Thompson Speedway

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    Every year, the 24 Hours of LeMons adds a new venue or two to its schedule. The hope is to include new hooptie haunts to the annual LeMons calendar and results have been mixed. This weekend brings the only new venue on the 2015 calendar, Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park in Connecticut for “There Goes the Neighborhood.”…

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  • 24 Hours of LeMons: 'Doin' Time in Joliet 24 Hours' recap

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    A bit more than a week ago, I brought Hooniverse some live blogging from the 24 Hours of LeMons at Autobahn Country Club near Chicago. It was a full 24-hour race and I managed to make it to the end on something like 2-1/2 hours of sleep and a couple of lengthy breaks. As it…

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