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Speed Secrets: Race Car Drivers are Human
When I competed against other race car drivers, I didn’t like many of them, but as I got to know them, I had a big Aha! moment: they’re human.
BaT Find: Unbelievable Porsche Race Car Collection
Now live on Bring a Trailer is a collection of not only one Porsche race car, but nine race-ready cars spanning three decades Porsche history.
BaT Find: BMW 3.5 CSL Batmobile Tribute Race Car
A BMW E9 coupe, chassis number 2275994, styled after the 3.5 CSL Batmobile, is currently up for auction on Bring a Trailer.
Want to be a Professional Race Car Driver?
The fact is, today sports car racing offers far more opportunities to land a paid ride and build a career as a professional race car driver.
Who Insures Race Car Drivers and Their Cars?
Most people are familiar with insurance for their daily drivers, but what about insurance for race car drivers and their cars?
2020 McLaren 620R: A Race Car With A Dash Of Road Legality
McLaren has debuted a car that seems to start out life as a race car, and then has a few bits thrown on to make it street-legal. Its price is somewhere in the sea of figures between a Cayman GT4 and Ford RS200 (or possibly more). Following in the footsteps of the 600LT, 570GT, and 570S: the 620R.
The Four Fundamentals of Driving a Race Car Fast
After spending a lifetime driving as fast as possible for a living, as well as operating a racing school for the past several years, I guess I am qualified to provide my opinion on the basics of driving fast!
Saleen Unveils GT4 Concept Race Car
Saleen’s GT4 offering was offically unvelied as a concept in Las Vegas last Friday. Based on their new Saleen 1 which competes in their own dedicated Saleen Cup Series, the specs point to it being quite a formidable chassis in world challenge next year. It’s also quite a beautiful machine in GT4 trim as well.
Mazda Returning To IMSA In 2020 With New Mazda3 TCR Race Car!
Excellent news: the new Mazda3 will do its FWD Mazda forefathers proud by running in TCR in 2020!
Video: Hyundai Veloster N TCR Race Car – POV Ride Along
In the United States, Bryan Herta Autosport is the designated sales agent for Hyundai TCR customer race cars. The Veloster N TCR can be ordered for €135,000* plus shipping, with customer deliveries set to begin in March 2019.
Nissan Shows Potent Leaf Nismo EV Race Car
Nissan has shown a new Leaf Nismo RC pure EV race car. The dual 120 kW motors can deliver 478 lb-ft of torque through an AWD system. But the big thing is that the extensive use of carbon fiber reduces the weight of the Leaf RC to 2690 lb. That torque:weight combo allows a 3.3 sec 0-60 time and the low CG should help with handling. We think it looks better than the street car version, too.
Viva La Revolucion: EV Race Cars Are Coming
EV racers are on the way. You may end up driving one. Chances are you hate this idea. But, we want to suggest, don’t be so quick to judge.
WRR Interview: Secrets Of Making The Transition From Simulator To “Real” Race Car
John Allen is a Spec Miata and, in 2018, a Spec MX-5 Challenge pro driver. In Spec MX-5, he has been on pole twice in six races, demonstrating the skills he built on iRacing. He got his start in simulators and his quick transition from sims to the front of the pack in road racing caught our attention. This is a scenario we’ve seen before (e.g. with Mark Drennan and Glenn McGee), so we interviewed John to get his thoughts on making the transition from sims to “real” cars.
Best Race Cars: Spec MX-5
There are many ways to assess road racing cars. The obvious way is sheer pace, where lap times, ideally across a range of tracks, are used to determine merit.
Survey: Your Preferred Ways To Reduce Race Car Cost
Just about everyone who races will acknowledge that racing is an expensive sport. Realistically, even if you do all your own mechanical work, when you race multiple times per year you end up spending thousands of dollars on tires and fuel and entry fees.
It’s Back! Toyota Reveals Supra Race Car Concept
While the new Mk 5 Supra street car hasn’t been revealed, Toyota did something arguably better by showing the new car in racing form at the Geneva Motor Show.
Best Value Race Cars: Elan DP02
Race cars are expensive by some measures, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a value equation at work. By some measures, value in a race car comes down to speed/cost.
Electric Race Cars Are Coming — Like It Or Not
The development and funding of top-level, and now mid-level, race car development and racing series are heavily influenced by car manufacturers. Racing is expensive, so support is needed from companies that benefit from the exposure racing provides.
Would You Lease Or Rent A Race Car?
The team at Winding Road Racing is always interested in ways to improve the racing experience. Today, we’re interested in getting your feedback on leasing and renting racing cars.
Unusual Flip In Closed-Wheel Race Car
At the recent Battery Tender Global MX-5 Cup race at Barber Motorsports Park, we saw an unusual crash on the start that involved contact between cars with fenders that resulted in a flip (fast forward to about 3:00 to see the pace lap and start).
10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Upgrade Your Street Car To A Race Car
Almost every week we have a customer stop by one of our shops to ask us about a project he or she has in mind: “can you upgrade my current street car in phases to be a faster track day car and then a better HPDE car and then a wheel-to-wheel race car?”
