Pretty sure this paint scheme was the Neon’s racing livery in Gran Turismo 2, also.

I’m always looking for any reason to post this video from one of the Sesame Street E30 drivers. #AftermarketExhaust

Because every sports car person has to be an anorak and split hairs: The original GT500 = 500 Horsepower/GT300 = 300 HP formula isn’t really the case anymore. Actual HP figure are hard to come by, but it’s been suggested the GT500 cars are well over 700 these days. And at Fuji, they’re actually not too far off from…

I went to bed a little before that pitlane pass, which I think was made under full-course caution? My memory gets a little blurry of it, but I know that as of about seven hours left, I’d back-timed the race and figured that the Ferrari might have been able to finish the race on one fewer fuel stop if there weren’t…

I talked to Doug Fehan and Olly Gavin before Le Mans this year and they both emphasized repeatedly how Corvette Racing is equal parts spread across all of Pratt & Miller, from the person changing the garbage to the driver clocking 300 kph on the run to Indianapolis at 3 o’clock on a cool June morning. It’s not lost on…

We’ll have to wait on some thorough testing results, but I would guess a fire-suppression bottle is most effective at mitigating fires when it’s inside the car that could potentially catch fire after rolling over.

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Bruni needs some kind of “Ferrari Hit Man” meme. Dude looks like a straight-up Cosa Nostra contract “worker.”

Corvette did this again in the GTS class from 2004-2006 with the same car and driver lineup: Oliver Gavin, Jan Magnussen, Olivier Beretta. Beretta, of course, was part of the legendary Oreca Viper driver lineup, too.

I would say the Panhards that ran Le Mans, but they were actually remarkably successful for what they were, which was a two-cylinder streamliner that could peg 140 mph in its final supercharged iteration. I’m pretty sure they were the last sub-1000cc entries in Le Mans history and they were banished in the mid-1960s…

Came here to say this. I even wrote about it a couple years ago. It’s a great shame it never came to fruition.

As opposed to the 2010s being Rebellion’s Toyota years.

Fair enough. I knew Rally America was stretched pretty thin, in terms of staffing. Wasn’t sure to what extent.

The world of motorsport TV contracts is boring and dizzying and tends not to make much sense. The networks seem to want exclusivity and nothing available on YouTube after airing the shows. It’s best for the network but not for the series, who would get more repeat viewings on YouTube with some promotion, probably,…

How is Rally America Radio working out? Is it already kaput?

Way to G-O.

I seem to recall a magazine trying this on their intern and the intern not getting run over. YMMV, I suppose.

Touring Car Masters in Australia was the correct answer. Classic American and Australian muscle cars duking it out like proper Trans Am Series racing in the late ‘60s. If you don’t love this, you’re probably dead.

I always put how to watch the races in my Thursday Hooniverse guides and Stef does the same with hers on Black Flag every Friday.

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