Ride a Honda Motocompacto and You, Too, Can Be Queen of the Paddock
It is with the utmost sincerity that I urge you to get your butt on a Honda Motocompacto ASAP. There is an incredible amount of joy that comes from riding … Read more
Road Racing
Wrapping Up My Second Year of Spec3 Racing: A Mixed Bag of Reliability, Plenty of Fun
I’m home from three days at Virginia International Raceway, the weekend in October that always marks the end of my National Auto Sport Association chapter’s racing season. 2023 marked my … Read more
Super Towing With a Super-SUV: 2024 Mercedes-AMG GLE 63S Review
“Guess Jake’s tow vehicle” has become a game in the NASA paddocks over the last few years. In my quest to test as many vehicles with trailer hitch receivers as … Read more
Driving the Prodrive P25 Is So Much More Than Meeting a Hero
Photos: Michael Shaffer / Subaru You learn a lot riding shotgun with a pro. And what I’m learning from the passenger seat of the Prodrive P25 with rally legend David … Read more
It Wasn’t Supposed to End This Way
I almost had them. It was a hot, sunny day at Summit Point and I’d taken the green flag about fifteen minutes prior. Starting toward the back of my German … Read more
After Taking an Integra to the Driver’s Side, My Racecar is More Broken Than We Thought
Last month, my friend Taylor was working his way through competition school at Virginia International Raceway. His green BMW 325i was suffering from severe power loss, and to finish out … Read more
How to Go Racing: Taylor’s Competition School with the National Auto Sport Association
The idea of “going racing” as a regular human with a regular job making regular money can seem daunting at best and impossible at worst. While we’ve shared snippets of … Read more
Telekinesis Can Make You Faster: Playing Mind Games with Jordan and Ricky Taylor
Author’s note: This article was originally written in 2016. Here, it has been reworked for the Out Motorsports community in 2020. Since many members of this community are grassroots racers … Read more
My 2020 Racing Season Was Short, but Ended in a Championship Win
The last time I wrote about a race weekend, I’d returned home from Virginia International Raceway with a broken car that had questionable stopping power. Even though my mechanic was … Read more
Here’s The Damage from Last Month’s Braking Incident at VIR
“On our way home that afternoon, we stopped at my mechanic’s shop to hand over the #404. I rolled the car out of my trailer and pulled the Aerocatch hood latches open. … Read more