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Adopting Blooper: Bringing Home My 2004 Nissan 350Z Drift Car

March 15, 2023 by Marissa Berresford
2004 Nissan 350Z drift car "Blooper" - Photo Credit Burress Photography

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 … Read more

Categories Humans of Out Motorsports, Track Cars Tags Motorsports, Nissan, Nissan Z, Road Trip Leave a comment

BMW Performance Driving School Experience: Fun for the Whole Family

March 13, 2023 by Josh Reynolds
BMW Performance Driving School instructor car

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 … Read more

Categories HPDE Tags BMW, BMW Performance Driving School, HPDE, Motorsports, performance driving school Leave a comment

First Drive: Chevy’s C8 Corvette Z06 is a Phenomenal Track-Oriented Street Car

October 3, 2022 by Jake Thiewes
C8 Corvette Z06 Z07 on Track

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 … Read more

Categories Street Cars, Track Cars Tags Chevrolet, Chevrolet Corvette, Motorsports, New Car & Truck Reviews Leave a comment

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

July 29, 2022 by Jake Thiewes
Rainbow Road Trackcross Lexus GS-F

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 … Read more

Categories HPDE, Humans of Out Motorsports Tags Motorsports, Rainbow Road, Summit Point Motorsports Park, trackcross Leave a comment

Winter ‘Ice Racing’ Autocross Is A Hilarious, Fun Way to Prevent Off-Season Blues

February 15, 2022 by Patrick Morgan
winter snow autocross

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 … Read more

Categories Autocross Tags Autocross, ice racing, Motorsports 1 Comment

Autocross 101 – How to Get Started in Low-Cost Motorsport with Minimal Risk

February 8, 2022 by William Byrd
Subaru WRX autocross

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 … Read more

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We Got 48 Mostly-LGBTQ People Competing on a Racetrack in 23 Orphaned Cars

December 7, 2021 by Jake Thiewes
Out Motorsports Eagle Vision track day

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 … Read more

Categories HPDE, Humans of Out Motorsports Tags Motorsports, Summit Point Motorsports Park, trackcross Leave a comment

It Wasn’t Supposed to End This Way

November 2, 2021June 30, 2021 by Jake Thiewes
BMW E36 M3 racecar crashed

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

Categories Road Racing, Track Cars Tags BMW, BMW E36, BMW E36 M3, BMW M3, Motorsports, NASA Mid-Atlantic, Summit Point Motorsports Park Leave a comment

After Taking an Integra to the Driver’s Side, My Racecar is More Broken Than We Thought

November 2, 2021April 16, 2021 by Jake Thiewes
integra m3 impact

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

Categories Road Racing Tags E36, Jake's E36 M3, Motorsports, NASA Mid-Atlantic, VIR 2 Comments

How to Go Racing: Taylor’s Competition School with the National Auto Sport Association

November 2, 2021March 25, 2021 by Jake Thiewes
green flag VIR

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

Categories Road Racing, Humans of Out Motorsports Tags BMW, BMW E36, Motorsports, NASA Mid-Atlantic, VIR Leave a comment
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