which was a highly stylized version of something that happens at local racetracks across the US and Europe for many, many years

Just make it three short sprint races spread over the whole day, with the Busch series cars running two short sprint races in between. Kinda like how ROW Touring Car events are held. Each race being worth normal points.

I know you probably know this, but a LF tire failure would result in a very hard meeting with the wall on the drivers side in that case. It’s why all LHD cars run ovals in CCW direction, and all RHD cars(AUS/UK - yes they do have oval racing categories there) run them in CW direction.

Rent a Kia from Enterprise for like $20/day?

The one picture is also a Baja Group 6 car.

However, they’ve also had maintenance done on them all the time.

The last NASCAR cup car that started as a trulyy production car was in 1972. Most went to purpose built cars in the mid to late 60's

Covered rear wheels - that’s an R89.

There were two generations of Z4. It makes sense to continue with the name. Now if they called the second gen Z4 the Z5 we’d have precedence to call it the Z6, but they didn’t.

Safety tips from David Tracy.....rich.

He’s gonna quit after this weekend and finish the year in Indycar.

You need to get with David Tracy and show him how to do things correctly.

goddammit

It’s good for the sport as a whole for the top two guys in it to hate each other to the point where they’re doing that. It gets people watching more and more to see how their next encounter is gonna go.

No, that was better.

Plenty of people.

This article title is e v e r y t h i n g.

Toyota Aristo 3.0V (which we in the states know as the Lexus GS) to homologate the sedan for the Japanese Grand Touring Car Championship. 

An oval that would be drying, but not dry enough for slicks would chew up a set of inters/wets every 5 laps as well. It’s not worth it.

Coolbear, without a doubt.