The McLaren driver and two time Nascar champion Tony Stewart swap cars for a drive around the Watkins Glen track in New York.
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Fort Worth, Texas – Screeching tires, billowing white smoke and the smell of burning rubber serve as Michael Essa’s calling card, one that likely would drive his authorized BMW dealer to tears.
Essa is a third-season competitor with Formula DRIFT, an “extreme motorsport†that made its debut at Texas Motor Speedway in a non-points competition last Saturday evening. Eight series regulars competed in a traditional bracket elimination tournament as lead-in to  … More
Seven-time Pikes Peak Hillclimb champion Jeff Zwart, from Woody Creek, Colo., will not only take Porsche’s fastest road car ever up the mountain next week at the world’s most famous hillclimb, but he will drive the street-legal, 620hp 911 GT2 RS the 1,100 miles from Porsche Motorsports North America in Santa Ana, Calif., to the event.
Zwart, a commercial film director, will defend his 2WD Time Attack class championship from last year, when he  … More
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10 fastest American cars
They’ve never had much practical use for anything besides bragging rights, but they were as American as a quarter pounder with cheese. Now they ought to be listed with other endangered species like the Eastern cougar and Kemp’s Ridley turtle.
I’m talking about fast high-horsepower cars. Really fast cars, like in three times the legal speed limit. The kind you loved in Smokey and the Bandit and Two-Lane Blacktop. Traditional Detroit iron  … More