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Hoonivercinema- Understanding traffic in LeMons
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The opening hour or two of most 24 Hours of LeMons races are exercises in traffic management. Before attrition can set in and the jankiest heaps in the field succumb to their fates, packs of cars slow and fast litter the racing surface. For experienced LeMons drivers in quick cars, working through this kind of…
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Crapcan weekend wrap: ChumpCar VIR 24 and LeMons NJMP
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Another crapcan weekend has come and gone, taking with it a few thousand racing miles. Both ChumpCar World Series and the 24 Hours of LeMons ran on the East Coast last weekend, so let’s take a brief look at some of the winners and losers. ChumpCar World Series Class 24 at VIRginia International Raceway BMW…
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ChumpCar VIR Classic 24 Preview
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ChumpCar World Series heads to VIRginia International Raceway this weekend for one of the series’ marquee events, the VIR Classic 24. This race draws fierce competition from East Coast low-buck racers and also attracts teams from as far away as Minnesota, Texas, and Ontario (That’s in Canada). The Classic is no mere crapcan race, after…
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Video: Night and day and repeat with ChumpCar
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I’ve written about Spokane County Raceway before because I find the circuit alluring for its intimidating demeanor. Ominous black smudges dot the front straight’s concrete barriers where previous drivers have “kissed” it, while much of the track’s remaining boundaries are lined with berms that can seriously rearrange a racecar’s body panels. After the sun sets,…
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A Texan Hoon Goes to GRAND-AM, and other Texans Win! We Talk to One Winning Driver.
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The Circuit of the America’s, Austin’s new road course, opens up 2013’s wicked year of racing with GRAND-AM. GRAND-AM comprises of a mixture of production-based road cars and purpose-built race cars, known as the Daytona Prototypes (Which still used production-based motors). For the production cars, GRAND-AM gives us the GT and GX classes, where an…
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The Killer ZomBee – A Season Ender to One HELL of a Season.
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It’s 10am, Saturday morning at Buttonwillow Raceway in central California, and the sun is finally starting to take the bone-aching cold out of our toes. Around one hundred thirty crappy old hoopties and ultimate driving machines circle the track in a motorized spectacle that can only be described as part Burning Man, part mid-20th century…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: It's Not LeMans or ALMS
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Dateline Denver, Colorado Over the past couple days we here in the Hooniverse have been blessed with two really fantastic posts about automobile racing. One an excellent Bucketlist Post about the 24 Hours of LeMans and the other about a sneak into Lime Rock Park for an ALMS race. And while those posts were excellent…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Let's Go Racing
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As I sit here in the living room of my beachside (not beachfront mind you) condo, three miles as the seagull flies from the Daytona International Speedway, I can hear the sound of the cars from the Richard Petty Experience taking some touristas on a few laps out there and I figured, What the Hell?…
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Even More Exciting Than the I Love Lucy
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While Formula One has Monaco, and NASCAR has Daytona, the Tourist Trophy has the Isle of Man. Possibly the most prestigious motorcycle races in the world, the Isle of Man TT takes place every Spring on the British Crown Self Dependency that rests in the Irish Sea, and is in its 104th year. Each of…
