While all of this has been going on, the DeltaWing still has a slower lap record around Road America than a D-Sports Racer.

That diffuser looks smaller than the road-car version, it’s weird. Also, that gap betwee diffuser and bodywork, what’s up with that?

Travis, bravo for a great article. Don’t pay attention to 90% of the comments on here, judging by their comments it’s clear they read the headline and maybe the first sentence, and definitely didn’t get to the last few paragraphs. Great article that’s supported well without going too technical, wish there was more…

I posted tongue-in-cheek about fiberglass rusting, you’re the one who pulled out the dictionary in response.

Dirty (from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dirty)

Fiberglass is gel coat, glass fibers, and resin. Nothing metallic in it to corrode.

Yup.

Fiberglass rusts?

Aside from the truck rolling over, how is this any different than the guy who drove out onto Brands Hatch during a race last year?

Best advice? Go to a real bike shop and get a proper fitting. Spend a few dollars in advance to save a lot of pain later.

While I no longer drink alcohol, the taste of Aprihop will remain forever. Such a good tasting drink.

Considering the Prototypes of the time looked more like modern Radicals, it’s not that surprising the F1 dominated LeMans.

Personally, I find it more impressive when a Naturally Aspirated engine shoots large quantities of fire out of the exhaust, especially when spinning around 10k RPM. Ohhh sweet jesus does it sound good.

A Viper is considered Exotic?

Many of us never hear about the really early events, most of the history I’ve seen agrees that Short Course came after the Baja 1000 was established, and that Crandon was a big factor in Short Course’s growth, nothing I’ve seen really talks about the really early events. Learning about the history early history is…

Funny thing bringing up CORR, considering that series folded in 2008.

Right, off-road started in the desert. True, though, that Short Course developed at Crandon in Wisconsin, though around the same time Mickey Thompson did do the same in Southern California, so it really developed in both places around the same time.

Um, what? Desert racing pretty much started in Baja California, Mexico back in the ‘60s, and Short Course off-road started in Wisconsin in the ‘70s (I think? Maybe late-’60s?”), and the Mickey Thompson Stadium Trucks, the spiritual father of the SST series, started in Los Angeles in the mid-’80s.

If you look at tracks used in the World RallyCross championship, many are more pavement-biased yet they use grooved tires.