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I thought the Ampudia Brothers won the Baja 1000 last year? Unless you meant the Boot won its class, that it certainly did.

The best YouTube channel ever, Project Farm, did this almost two years ago:

Is paragraph #4 half-finished? Ends mid-sentence and the following snippet has no context behind what it’s talking about.

• Rear or mid-engine

Flexvolt 60v system

Incorrect. The current Williams Grand Prix Engineering was founded in 1977. The team founded in 1966, Frank Williams Racing Cars, had a controlling stake bought by Walter Wolf in 1975 and a couple years later renamed Walter Wolf Racing after Williams was removed from management and left to start WGPE. This team later… Read more

The ACME Special, the fastest SCCA A-Mod autocross car in the world.

Indy Aluminum 401, because power and weight savings.

It was on Dumb People Town the other week, neat story.

No, we all remember it’s because of new nose regulations Read more

Wait Porsche makes mid-engined cars? Guess that shows how little I follow road cars, they do look nice though.

Agreed so much on this. Saw a C8 the other day and didn’t like it ‘cause the front looks too short, then realized there’s not many mid-engine road cars I like the look of for that reason. Read more

Two things to note: Read more

How is that a NASCAR issue? My own section of Motorsports has also postponed all events through a similar date, there’s so much uncertainty right now posting new event dates may not work in your favor if they too have to be cancelled. Especially since we’re only one week out from the mass postponement of events, keep… Read more

Those were added later on, the Dunlop Bridge was part of the track in both above maps.

Forgetting about the Maison Blanche kink, are we? Introducing the Porsche Curves bypassed a very fast section of track with a more complex turning section and added an additional Ford chicane, just look at the comparison from 1971 to 1972 below and see how drastically it changed the track.

This seems a little bit like Lewis Hamilton spending the weekend racing a Super Modified at a dirt oval in Indiana

Not really secret as it makes the rounds in FSAE circles, but Rb Racing’s guide to wiring harness design is very in-depth and useful for anyone wanting to do wiring correctly.

This is why Dirt guys are awesome, they can win with wheels hanging off the car. Another example is Scott Bloomquist winning the B-Main at last year’s Show Me 100 with the left-front turned entirely the wrong direction.

Like all monster trucks in the 80s there’s a step underneath the door, use a tire as a ladder then use the step to get into the vehicle.