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Hooniverse Goes To Bugorama 76 At Sacramento Raceway
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Late last week while cruising around the internet, I found mention of the 76th Bugorama event (obviously there are a few of them per year). Being a part of the aircooled Porsche community, I’m almost obligated to be a fan of the old aircooled Volkswagens, and this show was pretty darn cool, I must say.…
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Monterey Car Week Photo Dump: Art on the Track
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I’d be willing to argue that the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is the best event in the magnificent Monterey Car Week. Just imagine the kind of legendary cars you grew up hearing about, watching race, and lusting over being in your face and on the track in their natural habitat.…
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Monterey Car Week Photo Dump: Art in the Paddock
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I’d be willing to argue that the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is the best event in the magnificent Monterey Car Week. Just imagine the kind of legendary cars you grew up hearing about, watching race, and lusting over being in your face and on the track in their natural habitat.…
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Monterey Car Week Photo Dump: Dad's Best
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As something of an experiment, before we departed for Monterey, I gave my father one of my spare cameras and told him to take pictures of the stuff he found interesting. He’s not exactly a photographer, and he’s mostly a domestic car guy, so this has potential to be interesting. It’s an insight into the…
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Monterey Car Week Photo Dump: Vintage Racing Is Best Racing
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The Monterey Motorsport Reunion, colloquially known as “The Historics”, was celebrating Ford’s glorious GT350 this year. Not the new one, though there were a bunch of those floating around because, you know, cross promotion and corporate synergy and all that jazz. Anyway, the OG GT350 has always been my favorite mustang, because it was the…
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When in Doubt, Camp Out: A First-Timer's View of the 12 Hours of Sebring
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The folks who were there just to cover the final race were probably there and gone within 24 hours, but we camped out early to check out the full experience and to place ourselves within the non-stop 24-hour party that is the 12 Hours of Sebring. For me, it would be a first; three days of wonderful…
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Forgotten Racetracks: The Eloy Grand Prix
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Hooniverse has written about several old temporary racetracks used by club racers when prepared racetracks were somewhat scarce: Brynfan Tyddyn, Las Ochas Millas, Callender Field, and Lake Garnett. Nearly all of those had gone away by the early 1970s, when liability concerns crept up and willingness among chambers of commerce dropped down. Street circuits became…
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Minardi Madness, I Must Have It
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Let’s examine the numbers for a moment, shall we? Minardi F1 Team participated in the highest echelon of motorsport for an amazing 21 seasons between 1985 and 2005. The team entered 345 Grands Prix, attempting to qualify 674 times (one driver in their premier season, two drivers from then onward). 32 separate instances, the team…
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Video: '49 Shoebox Ford sneaks out onto the Circuit of the Americas
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“49 Shoebox, Circuit of the Americas, let’s take a lap – first time ever.” So goes the declaration in the beginning, and then it’s pedal to the metal as the scalloped, pinstriped, cream white cruiser tours the track in a rascally fashion. According to the videographers, it’s the first custom car ever to get on…
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Draggin’ Isetta!
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What’s the one thing your parents, teachers, guidance counselors, parole officers or Tony Robbins motivational cassettes told you when you were growing up? “If you set your mind to it, you can do anything.” (Also: “don’t use a spork as a knife.”) That’s certainly the mentality that applies to this little guy. Aw, lookit the…
