In 1971, NASCAR banned Chrysler’s winged cars, forcing teams like Bobby Isaac’s K&K to park their fastest rides. K&K owner Nord Krauskopf decided to take the team’s Charger Daytona to Bonneville for one last romp. They’d end up setting 28 world records.
They arrived at the Flats on September 12th, with a few others in tow. An engineer from Chrysler, George Wallace, used vacation time to be there. There was also a USAC official named Joe Petrali.
The entourage spanned a tarp between their trucks for a makeshift garage on the Flats. They drilled holes in the salt with a power drill and stuck in doweled markers to lay out a course … Pictures and more
Formula One is irrelevant, uninteresting and too expensive—if we are to believe the bosses at Porsche and Audi as they justify why they don’t want to be part of the world’s most-watched motor sport.
On the other hand, those of us who love F1 smugly refer to it as the pinnacle of motorsports, the ultimate expression of automotive engineering, and its vehicles as the very best that  … More
Nissan is building two Juke-R concept cars. The tiny rocketships will be comprised of the all-wheel-drive drive-train and 480 bhp 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 engine from the Nissan GT-R supercar wedged into Nissan’s diminutive crossover city car. The cars are being built by RML for Nissan Technical Centre for Europe (NTC-E) with a view to testing the “public’s reaction to a seriously sporty Juke.”
The performance of the tiny super-city car is not yet known, but given the horsepower and dimensions of the vehicle, it will no doubt be one of the fastest accelerating roadcars in existence  … Pictures and more