Author Archive: Eric Rood
Watch the Goodwood Festival of Speed LIVE for Free
We know there’s lots to stream this weekend, but if you want to get some good, free racing in over coffee and before racing is on stateside, the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed streams live for...
Six things to look for from the 100th Anniversary running of the Pikes Peak hill climb
The 100th Anniversary of the Broadmoor Pikes Peak Hill Climb is already underway with a week of practice and qualifying sessions. The entry list is packed this year for the monumental...
Watch the official highlights from the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans here
Toyota’s heartbreak at te 24 Hours of Le Mans has left many nonplussed and even in complete disbelief as the their TS050 ground to a halt at the beginning of the race’s final lap. It was a...
24 Hours of Le Mans: Ford GT wins class, Toyota loses overall in completely unbelievable heartbreaker
We talked about the bevy of Americans racing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans last week and several Americans took home class wins in the French classic. Not only was that part of the story, but the finish...
Safety Car driver pulls off ridiculous drift during Le Mans rain delay
Rain interrupted the second and final day of qualifying this year, turning the four hours of Thursday running into a battle against the elements. During the night session, a deluge descended on the...
Call the accountant: This Porsche Cup pile-up from Australia surely racked up a hefty auto body bill
Winton Motor Raceway in Australia has a reputation as one of the country’s more challenging and technical road courses with a number of “You screwed up there? Get out the checkbook.” corners....
This pint-sized streamliner coaxed 150 mph from a miniscule 50cc engine
Lou Fischer’s Bonneville Stories series on YouTube has a lot of good stuff in it, but we’re partial to the tiny terror that John Buddenbaum and Eric Noyes built to tackle the salt several years...
Ford GT takes pole for the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, starts in four of first five spots
In the lead-up to the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, the new Ford GT program has secured the GTE-PRO class pole 50 years after winning at Le Mans with the venerable GT40. German driver Dirk Muller logged...
BangShift’s 24 Hours of Le Mans Preview and Resource Guide for AMERICA
The 84th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans runs this weekend in France and, perhaps more than any other year, this one features America and Americans prominently. The race takes place, as the name...
This 12-hour motorcycle race came down to less than a tenth of a second
Endurance racing fans—especially sports car racing fans—are used to the closer finishes in long races than in the past, but the finish to the FIM Endurance World Championship’s 12 Hours of...
Watch a gaggle of European rigs pile into the very first corner of a race
Road-racing five-ton trucks sounds like a distinctly American endeavor, but it curiously has been the Europeans who have embraced the sport of truck racing. The European Truck Racing Championship...
Rally driver goes for a wild ride down a 20-foot drop in Italy
Hyundai factory rally driver Hayden Paddon has had a rough month in the FIA World Rally Championship. At Rally Portugal three weeks ago, the New Zealand native careened off a forest road in his...
Take a cool cutaway view of a 10,000 horsepower turbine’s compressor stages
If you’ve ever wondered how a jet engine works, this is a pretty great video by YouTuber AgentJayZ (Likely unrelated to the hip-hop artist) on what an axial compressor looks like. Modern airliner...
Take a Saturday stroll through the junkyard and appreciate the finer things in automobilia
I’ve been mired a bit on my project car and while there are some updates to come for that soon over on Roadkill, I decided last weekend to take a trip up to the junkyard for some easily gotten...