Want to visit a world where two-strokes still dominate? Go kart racing with MXA and MRC; Plus, a Chad Reed interview.
The average U.S. highway speed is 70 miles per hour. A 450 four-stroke can reach upwards of 65 mph on a motocross track. Aside from speed, these transportation devices have little in common. A father of four, toting his precious cargo inside a minivan bound for grandma’s house, is more worried about getting to his destination on time than beating the other drivers to the inside line on the next bend on Interstate 5. Yet in driving, as well as riding a dirt bike, the mind must properly judge distance and speed. This commonality is true in all sports—from NASCAR to baseball to curling. However … More
My wife had her first ride along today in an autocross race. Her expressions are priceless! Usually, videos of autocross never give justice to the intensity and acceleration. This one… the eyes tell it all.
Car: Stock 2011 Subaru WRX wagon with muffler delete racing in RTA-DS.
What those eyes saw… – This is a forward facing view of what she saw from the previous run. Virtually the same time, about a second slower. Doesn’t give the same sense of terror…
Hello. My name is Fred. I write about motor racing on Jalopnik all the time and have done live blogs for the three largest endurance races in the world (Le Mans, Sebring and Daytona) for them over the past seven months. I know a little bit about sports car racing.
With all due respect, if you think that Le Mans isn’t the most important thing to a car of that era, you do not understand motorsport. In the 1960s (and every year before about 1985 when the two biggest racing series in the world, F1 and NASCAR, really went mainstream), the Indianapolis 500 and 24 Hours of Le Mans were the two most important events in the racing world bar none, to the point that they were the only two mainstream racing events on earth. One is a test of a driver more than anything, that being the Indianapolis 500, and the other is a test of a car … More
While cruising around Monaco, I’ve stumbled upon by chance into a convoy of several Porsche 918 Spyders! First we followed the 3 918s, then they stopped to the gas station and to make this moment even more special, we saw 3 more 918s coming!
Engine: two electric engines and a 4.6L petrol V8 with a total of 875hp / 750nm
Performance: 0-100 kph (0-60 mph) sprint in 2.8s and a top speed of 340kph (211 mph)
Curb Weight: 1675kg
Price: 781.000€ and limited to 918 units