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Hooniverse Friend Duncan Ende to Run a TCR International Series Team
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Our good pal, regular podcat guest, and occasional tame racing driver Duncan Ende has cofounded Icarus Racing to fly the American flag in the TCR International Series in 2017. I’ve mentioned the TCR series before here since you can watch all of it for free on the web and I’m pretty excited to see Duncan…
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For Sale: The Original DeltaWing Race Car
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The original DeltaWing is for sale. That weirdest and most-phallic of all race cars is posted on WireWheel.com with an unlisted price. Few cars have been so divisive in the racing world, since the DeltaWing existed largely outside normal sports car regulations, was the centerpiece of legal battles, and suffered very public teething troubles. But…
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Year of Endurance 2017: Bathurst 12 Hours Preview
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This is Hooniverse and we owe a huge debt to Australia for the word that forms the basis of the site’s name. And we love our Australians, especially The DFL Show’s Joel Strickland. Joel shoots awesome photos and will be attending the LiquiMoly Bathurst 12 Hours this weekend, an endurance race that has grown immensely…
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24 Hours of LeMons: Barber 2017 Preview
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After another fantastic 24 Hours of LeMons season in 2016 with twin-engined Cadillacs, mid-century cars, and an amphibious road-racing helicopter, the series launches a new campaign of crappy cars and silly themes. As it has for three of the last four years, LeMons starts at the obscenely beautiful facility at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama,…
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Total Insanity: Here's Still Another Renault Medallion For Sale and It's Beautiful
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Since I work on the internet for a living now, I can say without doubt that I always feel like the world is trolling me. As Slartibartfast would have it, this is probably “perfectly normal paranoia.” However, after searching for Renault Medallions—inarguably one of the least-reliable cars ever sold stateside—for a full year and coming…
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Year of Endurance 2017: A 24 Hours of Daytona Preview
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To continue my quest to keep track of all the huge endurance races this year and preach that gospel to the 11 people who actually care, here’s another huge, burdensome look ahead at this weekend’s Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. The IMSA race has an insanely deep field and plenty of new cars about which…
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Spotted in the wild: 1990 Lancia Delta Integrale HF 16V
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One of the great fringe benefits of hanging out at racetracks is that many people who turn up to races bring interesting road cars to the track. While on assignment for JP Magazine recently at the Lucky Dog Racing League weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, I came across this Lancia Delta Integrale HF. Those…
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Still Rarer Than a LaFerrari: Another CraigsList Renault/Eagle Medallion
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In the Universe’s grand schematic, there’s probably a proof that says “You shouldn’t have been looking for crap in the first place” “What you seek only turns up after you have given up looking.” For more than a year, I was obsessed with finding a Renault or Eagle Medallion because it was surely one of…
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Hoonivercinema: Tour Iceland's 'Route One' in Real Time with Sigur Rós
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In my younger days when I was in bands and followed music more closely, it wouldn’t have taken me six months to notice that Icelandic ambient band Sigur Rós had released a concept recording of sorts. Ever the proponents of their volcanic home island, Sigur Rós teamed up with the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service to tour the…
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Year of Endurance 2017: A Last-Minute Preview of the 24 Hours of Dubai
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Endurance racing has grown immensely in recent years. In addition to the “big” races like the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 12 Hours of Sebring, I have counted no fewer than 30 long (more than six hours) professional endurance races and, being the jerk that I am, I plan to preview all of…
