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NASCAR Leadership Changes'a Little
4+ hour, 32+ min ago (310+ words) It was only last year, and it's already hard to remember how contentious the antitrust lawsuits between two NASCAR teams and NASCAR management got, now that both sides have settled into a comfortable, Kumbayah state of symbiosis. Uncle Jim looked…...
Camaro vs. World #4: A Gathering Parts Storm
16+ hour, 14+ min ago (1024+ words) The day was shot before it started. Exactly one hour and 12 minutes after leaving my house, here's what I'd accomplished: stopped for gas, reset the $10 Miata's odometer, merged on to I-5, and traveled eight miles. That's not hyperbole. Eight. A bow-legged…...
The Art of Racing: Helmets Lifts the Visor on Racing's Fastest Art Form
1+ week, 1+ day ago (486+ words) I think the fact that there was nothing out there that pre-existed," he said. It was something I wanted to exist that didn't, for my own interests." There are plenty of racing books, he said, on the cars, the drivers,…...
Funny Car Crew Chief Austin Coil: The Man Behind the Machines for 60 Years
1+ week, 2+ day ago (661+ words) That doesn't trouble Coil: "My life has been full," he said. "I had the fastest race cars, the prettiest wife, and enough fun for several lifetimes. I can't imagine that anything I might experience by hanging on much longer can…...
Kinardi Line #4: Every Pagani, Driven and Ranked
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1500+ words) It occurred to me, as I watched Artemis II break through a crystalline Florida sky, that very few men and women have been to space. As I viewed the spacecraft's flight through a desktop monitor's frame, my fingers turned over…...
Cleetus Conquers NASCAR! (Well, in the Sense That He Didn't Actually Crash. ..)
2+ week, 3+ day ago (782+ words) Saturday afternoon, to the surprise of many motorsports fans, the Earth was still rotating on its axis, despite the fact that NASCAR allowed a minimally-experienced but motorsports-minded driver named Cleetus Mc Farland to compete in the North Carolina Education Lottery…...
Did You Know an Italian Rally Racer Invented Ciabatta Bread in 1982?
3+ week, 14+ hour ago (311+ words) Contrary to what you might expect, ciabatta, the rustic loaf associated with Italy, was invented after the baguette. We promise this is relevant, because had rally-racer Arnaldo Cavallari not been frustrated with France's dominance of the sandwich business in his…...
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem Was One of F1s True Eccentrics
3+ week, 1+ day ago (999+ words) F1 has always had a rogue's gallery of owners and team principals, but it's hard to think of anyone who would pull this kind of stunt in the modern era. In the latest Drive To Survive season, only Flavio Briatore has…...
Never Stop Driving #179: Pick and Pull
4+ week, 19+ hour ago (240+ words) That was too easy. Those are four words I've never said to myself while wrenching on a car, so I was jealous when John Brito, cohost of the Hagerty You Tube series Driveway Finds, uttered them while dispensing with a…...
Camaro vs. World #3: Assembling a Beating Heart
1+ mon, 9+ hour ago (1580+ words) If a pulse is proof we're alive, an idling engine is no different for your car. Which means, for many, the only important question really worth asking about a project is, "which lump goes under the hood?" Everything else feels…...