I'm friends with a guy on iRacing who lives in Japan and is a HUGE fan of American stockcar racing. Last time I talked to him about Twin Ring, he told me that Honda had no plans to repair the oval track. IIRC Twin Ring was the only purpose-built paved oval in all of Japan?

Yeah, vast majority of Trophy Trucks are scratchbuilt. But then Trophy Truck is just one of several classes that operate in North American desert racing (SCORE has something like 30+), and many others require that the truck be based around some combination of stock chassis, bodywork, and/or suspension. Class 1400 is a…

Try to think of what the dictionary definition of "car porn" would read as and you'll answer your own question. Just enough of a plot to carry the thing along, but the other 90% is just gratuitous pleasure.

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That's kinda what Polyphony Digital (the makers of Gran Turismo) did with Vettel and RedBull in creating the X1, even if it was only a video game concept.

Desert racing never really gets televised, at least not live. If you think about it, there's no way any single operation could manage enough logistics to cover the race live and get anything other than a 36-hour long stream of various vehicles tooling along the course all by themselves (the fact that Dust to Glory got…

Put me down as being "notably interested" in how this does. Honestly I could never really figure out why the market for light pickups in America fazed out, other than the Colorado/Canyon couldn't hold a candle to the S10/Sonoma they replaced (which doesn't explain why the Ranger went away, or what the situation was…

Christini AWD. Google it. That is all.

We have one where I work that gets used as a parts runner in the summer and our parking lot snowplow in the Wisconsin winter. Not quite 90K miles and the thing oozes death from every corner; I genuinely can't believe the thing is still alive.

Matter of fact I'm about to use it to deliver some raw motorcycle parts to…

Has anybody mentioned the Brinn Pro2.0 gearbox for short track cars? They're two-speeds (three if you count the reverse), but you can't really think of them as "gears". First is strictly for getting the car rolling, only good for about 10mph tops. Once the car's underway, shifting into "second" creates a direct drive…

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Red Rock kicked azz...it was like a road course that had been designed by stockcar people, high banked turns everywhere and long straights with a great flow. Loved that track

Mehhh...that just means people would start figuring stuff out, the trucks would start to evolve to favor pavement...

I called the ticket office at Soldier Field after getting an email that the Chicago race had been cancelled, and what I got out of it was that the crew was having a hard time getting the trucks turned around between each event. 'Course, the guy on the phone also told me he'd just read the news that morning and wasn't…

Saw your post and thought to myself, "hmm...no, I'd better check". DVR is now set, thank you sir!

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Trucks that are part of a spec-racing series and aren't owned by the drivers themselves? BIG CHECK.

That's right. Bin it and everybody laughs at the carnage while a group of Robby's guys slap it all back together & hand the truck right back to you

I think Robby has a fleet of 30 trucks at SST home base (or at least that was the plan when all this started) and the driver's roster is sort-of invitation only. The Toronto round was laid out in the middle of the season at the last minute, so that's why I think there were only 7 drivers. Earlier races this season had…

I can say with a totally straight face that seeing D2G has set the course for my life. I was a motorhead kid growing up through the end of Wisconsin's short-track racing heyday of the '90s & wanted a form of racing I could get behind and learn about, but everywhere I looked everything was (and to this day continues)…

Honorable mention: the Trophy Truck/Class 1500 scene from Dana Brown's Dust to Glory.