Sports prototypes

These Are The Wildest Cars Ever Produced For Can-Am Racing

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UNSUNG HEROES #48 – The Adams Escort ‘’Pontoon’’ Can Am car Maybe one of the coolest things about the Can-Am series is that it encouraged aspiring car builders, drivers, and team owners to dream up some frankly ridiculous shit and just see what happened. These one-offs are called “specials,” and they are absurd. Like Mac’s … Read more

Buy The Last Porsche 917 Built So I Can Dream About Something Else For A Change

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There aren’t many racing cars that are still relevant on track over a decade after their first outing. For Kremer Racing to enter a Porsche 917 in the 1981 running of the Le Mans 24, 12 years after it first raced there, was unusual at the time and unthinkable today. A regulations loophole allowed the … Read more

Porsche’s Taycan Turbo GT Is Basically An Electric 917/30

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Mark Donohue once famously said “If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.” He was talking about the all-conquering turbocharged Porsche 917s that he raced in the Can Am series, which were capable of over 1,000 horsepower in qualifying … Read more

Consumer Reports Says BMW Builds The Best Cars In The U.S.

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If there’s one thing that fans of ’80s and ’90s BMWs know is an irrefutable fact, it’s that ever since Chris Bangle got his grubby little paws on the German automaker’s designs, everything there is to love about BMW has been ruined. Ask the folks over at Consumer Reports, though, and they would beg to … Read more

How To Win The Rolex 24, From The Guy Who Just Vaporized The Daytona Track Record

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Cope harder, Formula 1 fan, because the world’s finest motorsport series – the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship – begins this weekend courtesy of the Rolex 24 at the Daytona International Speedway. I Need A Safe Car For My Niece To Take To College | WCSYB? The first leg of endurance racing’s unofficial Triple Crown (the … Read more

This 2,500 HP Audi R8 Proves The Turbos Are Bigger In Texas

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Screenshot: Top Gear There’s something in the water in Texas. That’s the only thing that can explain it. The gearheads down there in the section of America that used to be Mexico really know how to take fast shit and make it faster shit. Audi’s second-generation R8 is already impressive with a 533 horsepower V10 … Read more