The Ferrari 288GTO is the predecessor to the Ferrari F40!! With circa 270 made 1984 was probably not ready for a twin Turbo… Wolf of Wall Street style! Stay Sideways, gymkhana esq, supercarkhana
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Mitsubishi Rally driver, Gilles Panizzi goes head to head with Best Motoring’s Evo Master and Super Taikyu enduro Champ, Takayuki Kinoshita on a Time Attack Battle!
The final round of the 2013 Global Rallycross season took place against the stunning backdrop of the Las Vegas Strip, with the Mandalay Bay, Luxor, and Excalibur hotels overlooking a dynamic course. After months of quick lap times but frustrating results in 2013, Ken Block finally broke through to score his first GRC victory over Tanner Foust and Travis Pastrana. GRC TV’s Kate Osborne was on site with all of the major players in the end-of-season extravaganza.
On one side, you have a 2013 Cobra Jet — a 5.0L V8 powerplant with a Ford Racing-built Whipple 2.9L Supercharger driven by Drag racing star Roy Hill.
On the other is a Ford Fiesta ST Competition Car — a 2.0L, 550+ horsepower engine with an OlsbergsMSE gearbox with custom ratios driven by Tanner Foust.
For fun, we took one of each to zMAX Dragway in Charlotte…just to see how the two would compare on the quartermile.