FOR THOSE 10 SECS OR LESS: FAMOSO SPEED SHOP

  If you are interested in cars there’s a good chance you’ve dreamed about this scenario. You wake up in the morning, have a cup a coffee and walk out into your backyard. Of course it’s not really a backyard but a giant workshop and a big storage yard loaded up with race cars, stacks [...]

A MORE AMERICAN TAKE: THE STREET CAR NATS

If you missed a certain American flair in the previous Spotlight-O-Rama from the Mooneyes Street Car Nationals, then this selection I’ve put together should balance things out quite nicely. What better way to get things pointing in the right direction than by taking a look at a couple of traditional hot rods – the rawest [...]

#IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER: THE VAG THEME

Towards the end of next week we’re going to be running a VAG mini-theme here on Speedhunters.com. As seems to be tradition now, we’re going to ask for your VW Audi Group-related photographs so we can include your views and interpretations on one of the most popular scenes in car culture. I’ve personally always felt [...]

SPOTLIGHTING CUSTOMS AT THE STREET CAR NATS

Vintage USA tin and the Mooneyes Street Car Nationals might go hand-in-hand, but you won’t find one single American-made machine in this first Spotlight-O-Rama from the annual Tokyo event. I’m doing this to emphasize just how diversified Mooneyes events are in Japan, and – where you will at times – come across the most curious [...]

CHOCOLATE NISSANS & MORE: JAPAN HOBBYHUNTING

What you are looking at right here is an S30 Nissan Fairlady Z432 – one of the most sought after Japanese classic cars of all time, powered by Nissan’s race-bred S20 engine. What sets this particular Z432 apart is that it happens to be made of delicious milk chocolate. It’s also a tasty way to [...]

IN THE MOMENT: MERC POWER TO VICTORY AT THE N24

88 laps and 15 hours might not sound right for a 24-hour race, but combine the Nordschliefe and the horrific conditions we’ve had this weekend and it’s a miracle that many were completed… The #9 Black Falcon Mecedes-Benz SLS AMG crossed the line at 5pm to take the three-pointed star’s first win at the Nürburgring [...]

CUSTOMS INVADE TOKYO: THE STREET CAR NATIONALS

No matter how many times I attend the Mooneyes Street Car Nationals, I never quite get over the visual impact the event creates on the streets of Tokyo’s Odaiba neighborhood. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t into customs or hot rods, the sight that these cars collectively create is simply breathtaking. Throw in an ever-expanding [...]

RAW & RELENTLESS: COOKING UP THE N24 RECIPE

Darkness fell at the Nürburgring – and so did the rain. Rain so hard that even this race – the toughest of the tough – had to be called to a temporary halt because of the absolutely appalling conditions. Driving on the Nordschleife in the dry is hard enough, but with a track better described [...]

IN THE MOMENT: REFLECTING ON RED AT THE N24

We’re eight hours into the ADAC Zurich Nürburgring 24 Hours and the rain is relentlessly lashing down. The race has been stopped for almost two hours now, neutralised under red flag conditions. The cars have been parked up in the pit-lane, whilst the crews go into hibernation awaiting announcement of a possible restart. The conditions [...]

ON MY COMMAND: UNLEASH ON GREEN HELL

This was the scene with just 10 minutes to go before the start of the 2013 Nürburgring 24 Hours, as the leading GT3s headed the huge field on their slow formation lap. Ahead of them, a hard day of racing around the most fearsome track in the world. Ominous spots of rain began to fall [...]

IN THE MOMENT: RIDING THE RING AT T-1

There’s less than one hour to go before the 2013 Nürburgring 24 Hours, and Speedhunters have just had the ride of a lifetime. We’ve been riding the Nordschleife in a Bilstein-liveried Vantage following no less than James Bond himself, Daniel Craig, as part of a 100 car parade around the Nordschleife to celebrate the centenary [...]

THE WORLD’S QUICKEST GT-R GOES QUICKER

Heat Treatments Limited Racing – the New Zealand team behind the world’s quickest Skyline GT-R – have rewritten the record books once again. At Willowbank Raceway in Queensland, Australia on Saturday, driver Reece McGregor pointed the HTL Racing BNR32 to a 7.455 at 193.27mph (311km/h) pass before going 7.412 at the same trap speed. It’s been exactly a year since the legendary GT-R set its last PB – that run was a 7.531 at 185.26mph (298.14km/h) at the very same Willowbank Sportsman pre-FUCHS Winternationals meet – so cracking into the 7.40s (and very nearly the 7.30s!) is a great accomplishment. We can’t wait to see what the team can do at the 2013 Winternats in a few weeks time! In the meantime, check out some video of the 7.45 and 7.41 passes from the guys at DragImportMedia.

- Brad

IN THE MOMENT: AUDI ON POLE AT THE NURBURGRING

Frank Stippler has put the Phoenix Racing Audi R8 LMS ultra on pole for the 2013 ADAC Zurich Nürburgring 24 Hours race. The running order for the Top 40 qualifying session was drawn by lottery after the combined field of 176 cars had completed six hours out on track. The cars were sent out at short intervals to make their two qualifying runs. Stippler crossed the line to post a lap time of 8m17.212s to blitz pole, while the second placed Aston Martin Vantage GT3 was over a second back in the hands of ex-F1 driver Pedro Lamy. The 24-hour-long race is due to begin at 5.00pm Sunday Nürburg time (Sunday 11.00am PST).

- Jonathan

DREAM WALKING: THE JOURNEY TO THE KARUSSELL

Two guys. Four boots. Four cameras. Four miles. No car. It’s a slightly different premise from the regular Dream Drive features that we have here on Speedhunters, but for the opening story of our coverage from the 2013 Nürburgring 24 Hours we decided that it deserved something different – and special. A trek out to [...]

ROBBY GORDON’S STADIUM SUPER TRUCKS

As a first generation Chinese American, I grew up in a household where my parents listened to classical music and opera. I played the piano and of course I hated it. I did not get to watch movies in theatres until I was twelve years of age. My parents were not square, they were just adapting slowly [...]