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  • High Rock Raceway – North Carolina gets a road racing track

    Between Charlotte and Greensboro, off of I-85 in western North Carolina a new road racing track is being born.  It has been designed by no less than Elliot Forbes-Robinson and will be a 2.15 mile long road course that will… Continue reading

  • Danica Wins!

    This is great news for Danica and the IRL. Danica won the Japan Indy 300 and deserves it.  She is the first woman to win an IndyCar series race.  When she started in Indy racing back in 2005 she became… Continue reading

  • Let’s Rescue Danica from Herself

    CART and IRL have merged, or rather CART has tanked and IRL agreed to pick up the pieces: drivers, teams and all.  The IRL is now living by the golden rule – he that has the gold makes the rules. … Continue reading

  • This is one Splinter you will Like

    Just off a country road and tucked into the woods north of Durham, North Carolina, the spirit of the deHavilland Mosquito has been rekindled.  This time it will be taking to the roads and not the skies.  Prior to the… Continue reading

  • Does Speed Kill?

    A better way to put this situation is that it’s not how fast you are going as much as how fast are you stopping.  The human body can only take so much deceleration before it ends up injured.  In an… Continue reading

  • The Evolving Story of the Evolution MR

      The Evolution is going through more changes.  True to its name it is evolving into a car that capitalizes upon its starting point and is becoming more of what it is.  So what is the Mitsubishi Evolution?  Its heart… Continue reading

  • Speeders get Tasered

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  • NCSU Supercar – Wood You Believe

      A car is being designed and built by a group of NCSU (North Carolina State University) students lead by a 27 year old graduate student by the name of Joe Harmon.  But this is no ordinary car.  It is… Continue reading

  • In the Garage – an Evolution

      This time the project is my personal car.  It is a 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MR.  It is a long moniker that I usually just shorten to Evo or MR. This is a car I truly have enjoyed.  The… Continue reading

  • Car Movies – Paris 1976 in a Ferrari

    Decades prior to Getaway in Stockhom Claude Lelouch put a camera on the nose of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a Formula 1 driver take it at high speed through the morning streets of Paris.  At times reaching 140… Continue reading