Adopting a drift car into the family can be a difficult process. They’re often turned loose on the market in less-than-ideal condition with questionable histories and poor maintenance. A drift car can be a fantastic addition to the family if you keep up with the destructive maintenance needs and have local track space to let …
Adopting Blooper: Bringing Home My 2004 Nissan 350Z Drift Car Read More »
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 …
BMW Performance Driving School Experience: Fun for the Whole Family Read More »
IYKYK. Motorsports and driving enthusiasts can hear “Z06” on its own and know immediately that whoever said it is referring to the most track-oriented variant of Corvette sold by Chevrolet in a given generation. We see a decent number of them as NASA race cars and time trial cars, and we’re starting to see more …
First Drive: Chevy’s C8 Corvette Z06 is a Phenomenal Track-Oriented Street Car Read More »
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 …
Every now and then, I’m reminded of the perspective of a first-timer in motorsport. Most often it comes from soothing the tense nerves of a student’s first time on course while I’m instructing them. This time, it came from being parked with some other autocrossers on a snow-covered Road America straightaway. And I was the …
Winter ‘Ice Racing’ Autocross Is A Hilarious, Fun Way to Prevent Off-Season Blues Read More »
It was the year 2000, the new millennium, and we were all super excited that the world didn’t end because of “Y2K.” I was still driving a fairly new 1999 Honda Civic EX, but my roommate had upgraded to a brand-new 2000 Accord EX. Yep, the one with the 200 horsepower V6. I was on …
Autocross 101 – How to Get Started in Low-Cost Motorsport with Minimal Risk Read More »
This one’s been a long time coming, and I hate that it took me roughly three months to pull a post together about the event we hosted at the end of August. Life’s been busy but as the final weeks of the year pass rapidly by, it’s finally time to talk about the Rainbow Road …
We Got 48 Mostly-LGBTQ People Competing on a Racetrack in 23 Orphaned Cars Read More »
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 Touring Series pack, I had a decent start and was chasing the field, battling it out with a black Porsche Boxster, chasing down a brown …
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 his day and pass the school, I tossed him the keys to my purple E36 BMW M3. He took the M3 out for the final …
After Taking an Integra to the Driver’s Side, My Racecar is More Broken Than We Thought Read More »
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 competitive efforts from people who already have racing licenses and some experience, we also wanted to show the process of graduating from someone who does …
How to Go Racing: Taylor’s Competition School with the National Auto Sport Association Read More »
