Chevrolet Corvettes took the green flag on Saturday, January 25 for the 52nd Rolex 24 at Daytona in the newly formed TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. The Corvette C7.R made its track debut in the GT Le Mans class while Corvette DPs took part in the Prototype class.
Autocross: is it just an excuse to talk about buying swaybars? No! It’s an extremely cheap way to do excitingly stupid things in your car, even if your car is a hunk of crap like mine.
There are two problems with autocross: it’s not sexy and it’s intimidating for everyone who isn’t driving a tuned BMW E36 M3 or a lowered ’90s Civic hatchback.
There are good reasons why you should ignore those problems … More
The Stoked News Porsche 356 at a N. Calif PCA Autocross
Perhaps no other race car claims the outright success that is boasted by Porsche’s 917/30, a purpose-built spyder that dominated its only season of competition and went on to set a still respectable closed-course speed record. Rooted in roughly four years of development of similar racing spyders, the 917/30’s beginnings initially arose from two goals.
With a new American retail relationship between Porsche and Audi forming in 1969, VW of America executive Josef Hoppen sought to publicise the development with a racing campaign. This suggestion nicely melded with Porsche’s plans for entry into the Can-Am Challenge Cup, the unlimited regulation Canadian-American series that featured racing’s most powerful cars … More
Henry Catchpole recently drove the road-going Porsche 911 GT1 straßenversion at the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone.