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BMW Performance Driving School instructor car

BMW Performance Driving School Experience: Fun for the Whole Family

Recently I signed myself, my 60 year old parents, and my brother up for the BMW Performance Driving School at their 137 acre test track near Spartanburg, South Carolina. I wanted to get more comfortable on the track without risking my daily driver, and didn’t want to go solo. There are many class options, but we …

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May’s ‘Rainbow Road’ Trackcross Brought 65 LGBTQ and Allied Drivers Together to Compete on Track

This article’s been a long time coming, and I finally have a few minutes to pull it together. Following the success of last year’s Rainbow Road Trackcross, we booked Summit Point Motorsports Park not once, but twice for events this year. Our first trackcross weekend of 2022 took place over Mothers’ Day weekend in May …

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2022 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing Review: Making Our Spring Trackcross Weekend Even More Special

Being able to sample handfuls of new cars is fun on its own, but the real joy in this now-weekly exercise is, for me, being able to share them with others. Some cars are more special than others for whatever reason – and when the 2022 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing was added to my review schedule, I …

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Maintenance Matters: Acura Vigor Wheel Bearing Replacement, and Lessons Learned

“It’s such a good vibration! It’s such a sweeeeeet sensation!” sang Loletta Holloway with thrill. Not as enthused as she was about my steering wheel vibration that began around fifty miles an hour and went away above eighty, I decided an inspection was due. After all, it has started to get worse since my outing …

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A Vigorous Evening: Track Night in America in a 1993 Acura Vigor

Ever since my first Holiday Lap at Virginia International Raceway I have wanted to come back and go flat out through the Climbing Esses, scream down Roller Coaster, bust through Hog Pen, and apex NASCAR perfectly, all without being blocked by Mustangs and Corvettes trying to make it a drag race. So when I found …

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Acura Vigor track day NCCAR

Five Cylinders of Fury: 1993 Acura Vigor on Track at NCCAR

How often have you witnessed a longitudinally mounted Japanese five-cylinder scream to its redline while the fully-independent double-wishbone-suspended chassis carves through hairpins and strikes down apexes?  You haven’t?  I didn’t think so.  You probably aren’t alone save for the handful of Honda engineers who built the Acura Vigor. To help spread some awareness of Honda’s …

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