Couple years ago I was at an indoor track where the driver’s stand stood directly between the track itself and the pit benches. I was wrenching on my truck before the night’s races got going & watching other drivers come in & do their practice laps, typical pre-race night.

If you’re new to hobby grade R/C, Traxxas. Full stop. There’s your search, start and finish.

Somewhat unrelated but I’m genuinely starting to wonder if real estate agents here in the Midwest are purposely building & selling homes to Biff and Muffy on the principle that with something motorsports-related in the area keeping property values low, if they bitch up a storm about it (read: 1 phone call) it’s not…

OK armchair engineer, have at it. Current cars already have one huge triangulation directly in front of the driver from the dashboard forward, another huge triangulation from the seat back going rearward, a bisected rectangle directly below the seat, and what isn’t clearly shown in this view is another top-to-bottom…

Stop.

I always have a case of Little Hugs in my refrigerator. Sure they’re not the best tasting fruit juice drink out there, but for ~$3.50/20pk in 4 flavors, not bad, and they travel pretty well too.

Have to throw in my vote for the Chevrolet S10/GMC Sonoma.

Bowman-Gray is a cesspool, and the only people who’ll tell you otherwise are the ones who think bullshit like this is the best thing since sliced bread, or that the track’s star-studded history and ticket sales somehow make up for the disgrace that it is today.

Can all current and future Jalopnik articles about Bowman-Gray please come with a disclaimer just below the byline that BG in no way represents the nation’s short track racing community & fan experience whatsoever?

The fact that Bowman-Gray is still able to advertise that it’s NASCAR sanctioned says a lot about NASCAR’s true level of involvement in short track racing.

I’d agree with you, if only to ask that you not rope-in great tracks such as New Smyrna Speedway and Pensacola’s Five Flags alongside Bowman-Gray...

I’m leaving house for an R/C offroad race right after the 24h ends, and then going to my parents’ place for Father’s Day after that. Oof...

Agreed. This is the first year I spiffed my $12US for the FIA WEC stream and it’s already paid for itself in terms of coverage and quality. Fuck FOX Sports.

Eh, it’s as pricey as you want it to be. Basic subscription includes all the content you’ll need to compete in the Rookie Road and Rookie Oval series (SCCA Spec Mazda Miata and Frank Kimmel Street Stocks, respectively), plus some extras including older cars that’re no longer used in official events. Once you graduate…

Actually they have a ticker on the membersite showing the total number of people logged into the service for any particular chunk of time. Naturally it varies over the course of the day, but I always see it well up into the 1,000-4,000 vicinity (matter of fact there’s 3,078 people online right now). Granted, only some…

The Rookie license level races you run when you first join iRacing can often be more of the same gamer chaos (particularly on the Oval side), but if you focus all your effort on just avoiding everyone else’s bullshittery & bringing home a clean car...show the system that you are above all else a safe & capable…

Best bang for the buck by far is still the Logitech Driving Force GT (commonly referred to online as a “DFGT”). The 2-pedal pedalset is meh and the paddle shifters are kinda awkward, but the force feedback is pretty good, it has an attached sequential stick shifter, 900° (2 1/2 turns) rotation, and it is absolutely…

~psst~ iRacing’s been doing literally this exact same thing, word-for-word, since 2008...

There’s doomsday preppers, and then there’s doomsday preppers who’re Mad Max fans...

I want to show the clip of the 370Z decorating donuts to some of my California sandrail friends and let them figure out the rest.