Tag: race car
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Devel Sixteen Announces Entree for 2025 WEC Season
The UAE based manufacture has finally finished contemplating their own relevancy and has made a special announcement today at le sarthe ahead of this years 24 Hours of Le Mans. The hyper car marque is planning to enter their “production ready” hypercar, the Devel Sixteen, into the top prototype class as an LMH car. Little…
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Top Ten Cars that I Wanna See as Race Cars
We cannot be satiated. Our lust for the batshit and idiotic will not be contained or filled. You ever have a dumb idea for a race car? Me too. Quite often actually. Apparently so have some of the MSIMA staff. Here’s what lingers in our minds, the intrusive thoughts held back by our current Finacial…
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IMSA Mandates Flags on All Cars Whenever LMP3’s are on Track
After recent events from the 6 hours of Watkins Gen, IMSA has decided on roll out a new set of regulations as a test before LMP3 is removed from the Weathertech championship: “After noticing a lack of driver visibility from the LMP3 field, we’ve decided on a new course of action to try and fix…
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A Melkus RS1000 Is The Best Kind Of Terrible
From the desk of Daniel “Pinecone” Verona. In the past I have written of cars so underwhelming that they end up being great fun to drive. Some others follow this path with no positive impressions at all, and a certain, rare group have so many kinds of negative qualities that they are immensely hard to…
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Spec Altima vs Spec Land Yacht – Which is the Series for You?
There are a surprising amount of options out there if you want to dive into competitive racing. SCCA and NASA, the two largest motorsports organizations in the US of A, offer us two unique classes to look at, and help you decide which is right for the aspiring racing driver inside all of us. Spec…
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Mercedes F1 Shaving Drivers Before Race To Save Weight
Soon after revealing their livery, Mercedes has decided that the weight savings has not gone far enough. “We’ve run countless simulations around our virtual test track, and found that we have yet to notice a significant enough lap time delta after shedding 5 grams off from not having a full livery.”, one engineer stated. The…
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Toyota Developed GT3 Car Looking for Parents
Toyota stunned the world last year revealing the GR GT3, a brand new platform designed specifically for GT3 regulations. However, Toyota is still figuring out it’s hardest detail: “Developing a race car was the easy part,” a Toyota representative told us, “however figuring out what exactly we’ve created has been fairly difficult”. A team of…
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FSAE Team Ignored for 24 hours
During the biggest IMSA race in history, one formula SAE team found itself relegated to a forgotten corner of Daytona International Speedway. Hoping to secure valuable technical and financial support from the more affluent RaceFan®️ or race team, a local formula SAE team (a university student run automotive engineering competition) secured prime real estate at…
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Man Wins LeMons Race, Angry at Lack of Edible Fruit
Rodney Stolto, of team Rusty Bucket Racing, was thrilled to compete in the budget racing “LeMons” series. However, after forming a team of a NASA propulsion scientist, Lincoln dealership general manager, and Formula Dodge championship podium finisher of 1998, entering a car at Road America, and winning Class B, he and his team where severely…
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Infinity J30 – Group Whore for a Night
Your friend group is made up of more or less like minded Adrenalin junkies who all take enjoyment in going fast and being idiots. They all talk about one day having a group dick around car. Some turd y’all can beat on and share, maybe one day take to lemons. One night, such an opportunity…