Very cool – Hand Made Mini V12 Engine.  You can skip to 8:30 to see it running.
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Tony Stewart simply wouldn’t be denied.
Rain delays, damage to the grill of his car, pit problems — all of that was no problem for NASCAR’s newest three-time points king. Stewart ran past all those challenges, then tracked down and ran past Carl Edwards to capture both the Ford 400 and NASCAR’s Sprint Cup championship with a thrilling performance at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Stewart and Edwards finished tied in the points standings with 2,403 points but  … More
Last week, a group of Boise State University students set a new land-speed record for a vehicle powered by vegetable oil: 155.331mph. How’d they get a diesel-swapped, 1998 Chevy S-10 to unleash such fury from mere vegetables? Read on.
The team, made up of undergraduates from Boise State’s College of Engineering, set the veggie-fuel speed record last week at El Mirage Dry Lake, Calif, at  … More
Tandems and tantrums, secret fines and public posturing have given Nascar’s Chase for the Sprint Cup playoff its share of drama, culminating on Sunday with two drivers competing for the championship.
The only certainty going into the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway is that Jimmie Johnson will not raise the silver checkered-flag trophy this time. Johnson, the five-time defending champion, finally fell back this year, with the back-flipping Carl Edwards and the bellicose Tony Stewart emerging  … More