Brace yourselves, as you are about to enter into what can only be described as rotary heaven! This is a place where tiny little Wankel engines are made to do incredible things when bolted down into equally impressive, purposely built chassis. I am of course talking about PAC Performance, the next stop in our Australian [...]
The Essen Motorshow is fast approaching and this year it is going to be a bit different than previous years. I’ve already seen some stuff they have in store for us this year, so I’m real anxious to attend the show at the end of November. One of the cars that will be present is [...]
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I think it's fair to say that pretty much every form of motorsport can trace it's roots back to the street, but for some reason I always associate drag racing as having the strongest connection. During the economic boom, street racing in Ireland exploded. Young guys could import high powered Japanese cars and put them [...]
While Formula 1 isn't something that we cover regularly on Speedhunters, all of us follow it to some degree. As you might know, there's been quite a battle for the championship brewing with two events remaining this season. We thought it would be interesting to ask you guys which of the four main contenders you'd [...]
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Yo SpeedHunters! The year ended a lot better for me than it had started. Part of me wishes there were still more events and that the season wasn’t over. At the same time, I am ready and welcome for the break from Formula D and the “off-season.” Next year, I want more angle and more smoke! Everybody [...]
Looks pretty mean doesn't it? Speedhunters reader Jay Pearson shot this at a drag event in the UK. It might be a little like a scale Camaro, but it's not lacking any of the muscle. -Mike Garrett
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Day two of the Rockstar Energy Drink National Drifting Championship kicked off with a frantic morning practice session. With all of New Zealand's top drifters from around the country putting their game faces on, it was time to get down to business. During the morning drivers briefing the D1NZ officials explained the clipping points, judged [...]
As we start to wind down drag month (seriously, is it going to be November already?), there's still plenty of awesome retro material that we wanted to share with you guys. Ford operates a huge bank of historic racing images, and there are some cool shots of Blue Oval drag cars that we dug [...]
This BMW E46 M3 is one of the latest cars that GAS Motorsport put together and one that we were rather eager to shoot during our time at the workshop. The guys from GAS kindly pulled it out into the open and positioned it for a few quick shots before the threatening skies opened with [...]
Talk about a well-timed surprise! While the D1 guys were busy with the qualifying session for Sunday's exhibition round I made my way over to the Fuji Speedway main straight to check out a little drag meeting organized by HKS. Seeing our current drag theme, this really couldn't have worked out better. So in a [...]
The 2010 Rockstar Energy Drink D1NZ Championship has kicked off with the first round held at Ruapuna International Raceway. As this is New Zealand's premier drift series, Speedhunters was there from the first practice session. Local driver Aden Omnet's 2JZ-powered Altezza produced an unbelievable amount of smoke and dominated the D1 Rookie practice session. The course was quite [...]
The Speedhunters Facebook page has been taking a life of its own lately. Our readers have been posting up photos of their own cars or cool videos they've created or have come across on their internet journeys. Every so often, our readers post up photos of RC drift cars that they're building to look like the two Team Need for [...]
Last week, I took a look at one the most well known exhibition drag cars of the '60s, the Hurst Hairy Olds. To follow that up, I thought I'd look at another one of Hurst's wild exhibition machines – the Hemi Under Glass Barracuda. While the Olds was built to smoke its four tires down [...]
