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Meet Your Heroes: Audi Sport Quattro S1 E2 Edition
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Carfection’s Henry Catchpoole gets to drive a lot of great machines. And he’s really good at communicating what he’s experiencing with those vehicles. Today, Catchpoole jumps behind the wheel of something a bit more special than usual. Audi in the UK let Henry get in some laps in its Group B Quattro S1 E2 rally…
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Mitsubishi creates great livery for Rebelle Rally to honor Dakar history
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Mitsubishi will run its 2022 Outlander in the upcoming Rebelle Rally. The vehicle will be driven by military veterans and it’s wearing a livery that pays homage to its Dakar roots and one kick-ass driver. Jutta Kleinschmidt is a German racer who piloted a Mitsubishi Pajero Evolution in the 2001 Dakar Rally and won. She…
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Bowler wants you racing in the new Defender [Mega Gallery Inside]
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Back in 2019, Land Rover took a good look at Bowler and decided to bring the rally raid firm in-house. That’s very good news because it means we get a vehicle like the one you see here. This is the Bowler Defender. And it’s not just a vehicle being churned out for those with a…
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Jump start your LeMons goals with this Porsche 944
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Are you ready to jump into the high-revving world that is shit-box racing? I’ve got the perfect starting point for you and your team. There’s a 1985 Porsche 944 for sale on Facebook Marketplace, and it’s priced at that $500 magic point. The car is a former LeMons racer with what appears to be a…
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Enter the hypnotic world of Japanese Oval Super Battle racing
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That lead image says a lot. You have a handful of two-wheel race machines competing in some manner of motorsport. The course is an oval, and the playing field is far more level than you might think. Sure you can see what appear to be a pair of liter bikes in the shot, but you’ll…
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Watch Valtteri Bottas’ Monaco GP end in a confetti of metal
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The Monaco Grand Prix was this past Sunday. I watched it from an airplane seat during a morning flight between Boston and Denver. Being tired from such an early flight, the race provided a great chance for me to catch up on some sleep. Thankfully, I was awake for the flash of drama that was…
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Start your Friday with Senna’s lap of Donington Park from 1993
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I am sure the embedded video below will require you to click through and watch it on the F1 YouTube channel. They don’t really get how the Internet works, but that’s okay because the video IS up on their channel. This video is worth a watch every time I come across it, as it is…
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Here’s the view from an IndyCar running at Sebring
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Hop under the canopy of a MkIII Dallara DW12 IndyCar racecar. This one is piloted by Will Power, but pretend those hands are your hands for a moment. And yes, you can give the middle-finger salute later on too. Let’s go for a quick rip around Sebring. This is what that looks like: Cool view…
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Hooniverse Asks: Did you watch the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona this weekend?
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Daytona was roaring this past weekend. The sound of multi-class racing surged for a full 24 hours. At the end of it all, the winning team was helmed by Filipe Albuquerque, Ricky Taylor, Alexander Rossi, and Helio Castroneves. That’s one hell of a driver lineup and they pushed their Acura ARX-05 DPi car to the top…
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The 1986 Paris-Dakar rally is the one to remember
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The poster of the number 189 Mitsubishi Pajero racer proudly hangs in my father’s study. Being a geography professor, he loved all off-road vehicles as those were the only kind of vehicles that would allow him to travel to the remote places he wanted to see. He would spend a lot of time with me…
