This is Monster Energy’s recap of how their off-road team did at the Crandon round of this year’s Traxxas TORC series. They had guys do well in the Pro-4, Pro-2 and Pro-Lite classes at what is regarded as the biggest event of the season. The track in Crandon Wisconsin is both the largest and fastest track that the series visits. The video talks about the event festivities, changes made to the track and ends with some action shots of the trucks racing.
Motor Trend’s Carlos Lago takes the funky Morgan 3 Wheeler out for a spin. It’s essentially a giant torpedo body powered by a big Harley Davidson style motor. You get the openness of a motorcycle with a bit of vintage fighter plane swag. Carlos says he adores the car because it makes everybody happy. I don’t know. I can think of a lot of better ways to spend $45,000 on cars/motorcycles that actually handle well. Like it or hate it, the 3 Wheeler still makes for a fascinating review.
Indy drive Alex Lloyd is given the opportunity to take the Brock Racing Enterprise Datsun 510 out for a spin. He goes into the historical significance of the car and it’s victories in its class of Trans-Am racing. He then goes onto highlight the car’s quirks and how they relate to the romanticism of vintage race cars.
Jay Leno lets us in on some of his VIP treatment by bringing his camera crew along with him on his recent trip to Nissan’s Technical Center in Japan to film these two videos. In the first video he gets to tour all of Nissan’s zero emissions and fuel cell vehicles. Jay checks out some of the electric vehicle concepts and then he gets a pleasant surprise from Nissan’s Chief Creative Officer, Shiro Nakamura, who gives him a sneak peek of the Terra fuel cell compact SUV that was debuted last week at the Paris Auto Show. Unlike some of the quirkier cars in the room, the Terra actually looks like it could go into production. I’m glad to see zero emissions vehicles starting to branch out into markets beyond funny looking compact cars.
Here’s some footage of a few of the classes at last year’s European Tractor Pulling Championship. I’m wondering if this is a different sanctioning body from the people who run the European Superpull Ahoy which is still top on my list of ridiculously awesome motorsports event names.