Author Archive: Eric Rood
Check Out This Huge Compilation of V8 Supercars Incidents From the Series’ Endurance Races
Australia’s Virgin (formerly V8) Supercars Championship is just about to head into its annual three-race Pirtek Endurance Cup, a trio of races that tests the patience of not just the regular...
We Can’t Get Enough Of The Twin-Turbo Allison V12 In This Hydroplane
While the majority of the hydroplanes in H1 Unlimited have installed helicopter turbines to propel their boats more than 200 mph, a few hold-outs have hung onto piston engines. Go 3 Racing from...
This Airliner Takeoff From the 1990s Teeters On the Brink of Disaster
For an airline pilot, most days see at least a couple of a takeoff and landing cycles. Nearly all of them are routine and fade to memory, but we’re guessing the pilots on this Continental Airlines...
Thrash Video: Watch This Touring Car Crew Rebuild Their Beat-Up Car Through a Sleepless Night
Overnight rebuilds are nothing new in any form of racing, but the usual mention of it is a single sentence in a race broadcast. Rarely does anyone see what goes into mending a smashed-up car...
Watch USAC’s Moving ‘Bryan Clauson Forever’ Tribute to the Late Racer
Bryan Clauson made his name as a race-anything oval driver in United States Auto Club (USAC) competition before his shocking death at USAC’s Midget Nationals in Kansas earlier this month. He was...
This Hill Climb Champion Demonstrates What Flat-Out looks Like
Simone Faggioli is probably one of the best race car drivers you’ve never heard of. The Italian has racked up seven consecutive championships in the FIA European Hill Climb Championship to add to...
Jamie Whincup Becomes Second V8 Supercars Driver to Reach 100 Race Wins
The Virgin Supercars Championship—formerly the V8 Supercars Championship—in Australia currently has one of the true motorsports dynasties in place at the moment with Triple Eight Racing and never...
This Czech Rally Driver Closes the Gate When He Leaves
Rally drivers are known for their precision driving, knifing across deeply rutted roads with inch-perfection and skirting disaster around every bend of a given stage. We’ve seen similarly...
Graham Rahal Wins IndyCar Race By a Wing in Texas After Totally Insane Closing Laps
Earlier this year, IndyCar’s Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway was interrupted by Josef Newgarden’s horrific cockpit-first crash into the wall. Newgarden suffered a broken clavicle...
It’s Udder Insanity When Cows Interrupt This 2014 Canadian Rally Stage
Rally drivers compete with a lot of obstacles while pushing their cars hard on some of the world’s most challenging racing conditions. Road conditions vary greatly across the miles of a given stage...
Endurance Racing At Brooklands in 1931 Makes the Daytona 500 Look Like a Picnic
Long before the first 24 Hours of Le Mans, the first 24-hour race was held at Brooklands in England in 1907. The famous almost-oval hosted several more full-day races, though later iterations were...
Even In a Commercial, A Running Diesel Oldsmobile Is Kind Of Amazing
As its name suggests, the Malaise Era was a truly miserable period of American car manufacturing. The last 1970s and early 1980s found carmakers struggling to produce fuel economy in line with...
The Spirit of Sunshine Belly Tanker Is a Real Australian Beast: Listen to the Sweet Holden V6’s Howl!
In case you’d been living under a rock, or perhaps a sun-baked clump of Utah salt, Brian Lohnes has covered every nook and cranny of Bonneville Speed Week this year. It’s awesome and you need to...
Major Style Points: This 1959 Cadillac DeVille Owner Took the Car Autocrossing in Dubai
Autocross. The word conveys an image of auto enthusiasts pitching Miatas and CRXs and BMWs and Porsches around a cone-sea in an open parking lot. The nimble little cars squeak through slaloms and...