Folllowing our exclusive last month of the ALMS Falken Ford GT, we have another American Le Mans Series scoop! Thanks to our association with Marshall Pruett at SpeedTV.com, we can bring you breaking news that the Mazda powered, BK Motorsports, will be running the first Lola Coupe (aka closed cockpit) LMP2 race car in ALMS. [...]
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One of the world's greatest racing tracks… and we have this machine with us….. Went out today to shoot a story about this new car at the remains of the fearsome old Spa track… Check the vintage guardrails left over from the 1970s…. I think I must be a bit of a wimpy driver in [...]
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The World Rally Championship is a shadow of its former self, not helped by constant changes to rules, regulations, calendar changes and classic events. Sadly, this weekends 'Rally of 1000 Lakes (I refuse to call it by its new name, Rally Finland!) has lost one of Rallying's most distinctive stages. The Ouninpohja stages are legendary [...]
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(yawn)…. I just dragged my self out of my hotel bed…. It's six in the morning and we are going to be leaving Germany after breakfast for the quick sprint across the border to Belgium, and the town of Spa-Francorchamps. We'll be there for around four days in the run up to the FIA GT [...]
Right now it's about 6:00am in the quiet town of Nurburg, Germany. The sun is just rising right now, and the sky is filled with spectacular deep red and deep blue hues, which contrast to the lush green grassy fields right outside my window. I left my big windows open all night because it was [...]
It's about 10pm in Germany right now. As I write this, I'm sitting inside Pistenklause, a legendary restaurant in the quaint-yet-amazing town of Nurburg, Germany. The restaurant itself, and the hotel we're staying at, Hotel Am Tiergarten, sits within the actual Nurburgring Nordschleife course. The hotel is owned by the Schmitz family of Nurburg – [...]
I'm having a real moment here……. a moment where I feel EXTREMELY thankful to be able to see and experience some amazing European automotive cultures and meet the inspiring people who have devoted themselves to designing, engineering, promoting and driving these moving pieces of art. Wow….. Anyway… I have to start packing up my [...]
This last saturday I once again volunteered with the SCCA to work as a corner worker when the Redline Time Attack visited Nashville Superspeedway's road course trying to break the record for fastest time.Also at the Nashville Superspeedway that weekend was the annual Import Alliance Meet that draws the best imports in Nashville and the [...]
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As some of you may or may not know, certain members of our international Speedhunters team are currently traveling through Europe. While we have been keeping ourselves extremely busy tailgating people around the Autobahn, meeting new friends, eating at new places, visiting legendary race tracks, driving cool cars, and searching for drinks that actually have [...]
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The Nissan Skyline R32 is a car that has a large following from car enthusiasts around the world. It was the first Skyline that had the iconic RB26 engine fitted. In no time all the major tuners in Japan jumped on this car and started making aftermarket parts for it. The R32 started its life [...]
Everyone who is a frequent visitor has seen the new Scirocco pictures on Speedhunters. But like every car that is released nowadays, it has a predecessor. The car wasn't as successful as the Golf Type 1 but it sure had a strong following. Lennart Dijkstra has captured this 80's symbol in this picture. -Jeroen Willemsen [...]
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My father was a bit of a car nut. He introduced me to the term "kicking the tires" at the local dealerships. We weren't a particularly brand loyal family either. Dad cycled through Chevy V8's and even an '86 Corolla (At the time this was the new hotness!).(The image is from a Toyota brochure circa [...]
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Manabu "Max" Orido has to be one of the most active pro drivers in the world. He competes in Super GT, Super Taikyu, Formula D, he judges for MSC, tests cars for magazines, and now he has announced that he is returning to the D1 Grand Prix after a three-year hiatus. I originally saw a [...]
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After last month's race in the blazing hot tropical weather at Sepang, the Super GT Series was back in its homeland of Japan this weekend for round 5 of the season at Sportsland Sugo in northern Japan's Miyagi Prefecture. The race was held under cloudy but mostly dry conditions and it proved to be full [...]
The Mazda Furai (pronounced 'foo-rye') concept has already graced the pages of Speedhunters a couple of times, but I thought this stunning concept deserved its own feature. The Furai is a concept car, designed by Mazda's Californian Design studio and Swift Engineering. It is built on an old Courage C65 LMP2 race-car chassis. The concept [...]
