The voyaging canoe Hokule’a is scheduled to leave Hawaiian waters tomorrow for Palmyra Atoll, a preliminary step in an ambitious plan to circumnavigate the planet and train the next generation of captains and crews in the ancient ways of Polynesian navigation…. Details
If you want to see how the mid-cruiser market came to its recent prominence, you need to step back to 2002.
Jesse James and the Teutuls ruled the airwaves with tales of big inch custom motorcycles. They become the next pet rock, or Rubic’s Cube, just with a much higher price tag. Between 2001 and 2005, manufacturers like Harley-Davidson, Big Dog, and American Ironhorse cranked out record production to meet demand.
That was then…Â Details
For all he’s accomplished behind a steering wheel, Kyle Busch has a rather limited open-wheel resume. Dwarf cars out at old Pahrump Valley Speedway. Legends cars at the Bullring, the .375-mile facility on the grounds of Las Vegas Motor Speedway. A few modified events. A handful of laps in a sprint car as a 14-year-old, as part of an exhibition to promote an event coming to town.
But that wouldn’t stop him from listening should the organizers of a planned American-based Formula One team call…Â Details
Although a number of IRL drivers have jumped over to NASCAR in recent years, there have been no NASCAR drivers making the jump to that open-wheel series. It would be interesting to see — if …Â Details