This video supports my theory that putting any motorsport on dirt, or any other low traction surface, makes it more fun to watch. Check out this in-car footage of a Dirt Modified Race. Our driver says, “Started last and had a good run and won it.” Nice.
Big Muscle brings us an inside look at Ken Lingenfelter and his wonderful collection of cars. Lingenfelter Performance Engineering made it’s name in building high performance versions of the Chevrolet Corvettes and Camaros. Their success lies in their ability to create cars capable of delivering super car performance with daily car reliability. Ken Ligenfelter built this collection of cars to share with other car guys and to raise money for charity. The collection includes the Duntov Corvette, GM’s first V8 Corvette test mule that was reunited with it’s original engine after they were separated for 47 years. They also let the host of the show test drive the 610 hp 1993 Ligenfelter ZR-1 widebody.
Yokohama did this interview with Hirano-san, the owner of the Top Fuel Honda Tuning Workshop in Japan, as a promotion for this year’s World Time Attack Challenge. Top Fuel was invited to bring their turbo S2000 that held the Tsukuba RWD time attack record for 3 years to compete this year. Hirano-san decided to completely rebuild the car to bring it to the WTAC. The video isn’t so much about the details of the car, but Hirano-san’s philosophy towards running his shop. He explains what the difference between a race car and a tuning car. It’s pretty interesting to hear what he believes to be proper etiquette for how tuning shops should interact with their customers. Top Fuel’s successful 28 year history shows that it’s working.
You know drivers aren’t messing around when they’re vehicles have crazy names like Bigfoot, Mental Breakdown and Grave Digger. Meet Jordan Tanner’s rock crawler named Screamin’ 2. It’s built tough to match Jordan’s driving style. Lets just say he’s not a finesse driver.
This is footage of German rally legend, Walter Rohrl, driving the monstrous Audi S1 at some kind of historic rally event. The S1 was introduced in 1985 as an update to the original Audi Quattro rally car. It has a 2.1 liter turbo inline 5 that produces over 500 horsepower at 8,000 rpm. The engine produces a very unique exhaust note with some definite similarities to a high revving V10.