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Monster bike versus monstrous car. The bike has 192hp, the car 620. The venue was Santa Pod drag strip.

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Ever ask yourself what race cars would look like if there weren’t any rules? Porsche did. Then they answered their own question with the 917-10.

By 1971, Porsche had won just about every major event in which the venerable 917 was eligible to compete and the company needed a new challenge. It didn’t take long for Porsche to set it sights on the North American Can Am series where the competition was fierce and the rules were almost non-existent. With the help of Penske Racing and Mark Donohue, the company set about transforming their long distance coupe into the open top monster seen here   …  More

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Next to drinking a beer in the Talladega grandstands, autocrossing has the lowest physical risk in motorsports. If you go off, you’ll just squash a few orange cones. But the lower risk can actually make winning an autocross harder.

Yes, the biggest risk in autocrossing isn’t hitting a wall. It’s overdriving.

If you’ve mastered the column in which I proclaimed, “To drive fast, you must   …  More

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