Author Archive: Eric Rood
Badass Aviator Bob Hoover Has Passed Away at 94
Bob Hoover might not be a household name in the way that Charles Lindbergh or Chuck Yeager has become in the world of aviation, but many will tell you that Hoover was the greatest who ever lived. And...
Race Everything! The Street Eliminator UK Has Some Quality Oddballs
The biggest place to go drag racing in the United Kingdom is the old air base-turned drag strip at Santa Pod Raceway. With a fairly bustling racing scene, that makes for a fairly packed schedule...
This V8 Utes Pile-up Bent Lots of Sheet Metal and Blocked the Entire Track
We showed you a spectacular Stadium Super Trucks crash from Surfers Paradise last weekend, but the V8 Utes Series was not content to be upstaged by Robby Gordon’s big trucks. In the weekend’s...
Your Vintage Party Bus Project Awaits on CraigsList: A 1962 Checker Aerobus
California’s Inland Empire CraigsList is always chock full of desert-preserved classics. The Inland Empire is basically the eastern edge of the Los Angeles metro area and if you’re from the...
Watch This Ferrari’s Championship Hopes Turn Into a Pile of Broken Carbon Fiber
It’s been an up-and-down year for JMW Motorsports. The British sports car team have regularly competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for several years but were denied an entry to Le Mans this year....
Watch These Down Under Stadium Super Trucks Drivers End Up Upside-Down
Robby Gordon’s Stadium Super Trucks series has found a home away from home with several races in Australia. The brutish off-road trucks look positively absurd navigating any temporary street...
Paralympic Gold Medalist Alex Zanardi Takes Victory in His Return to Racing
Just a bit more than 15 years ago, Alex Zanardi’s open-wheel racing career ended at the Lausitzring in Germany in one of racing’s most horrifying crashes. That 2001 wreck took Zanardi’s legs...
Cortina Driver Gives a Quick Lesson On How to Avoid a Costly Vintage Racing Accident
In the 1960s, Lotus Cortinas were racing everywhere. In the early years of the British Saloon Car Championships, the lythe little Lotus-tuned Fords diced with classic Minis and hulking American Ford...
Catch a Glimpse Under the Skin of the Railton Special Land-Speed-Record Setter in 1947
In the mid-20th Century, the easiest way to make big horsepower for land-speed attempts was to build a wheeled vehicle around an airplane engine. The post-war era found powerplants like the Allison...
BangShift Question of the Day: What Are Your Weird Daily Classifieds Searches?
“M-e-d-a-l-l-i-o-n” [Enter] That’s how I spent the first seconds of every day when I was working in an office. I was looking for the near-extinct Renault/Eagle Medallion for reasons I’m still...
Supercars Series Announces New Diesel-Pickup ‘SuperUtes’ Category for 2017
In case you’d missed the news, both Ford Australia and Holden ended production of Utes in 2016. That means that, as Chevy pitches a new El Camino for the United States, Australian dealerships in...
Watch Tim Slade Obliterate the World Time Attack Challenge Record in the Nutso Hammerhead S13
Time trial racing is nothing particularly new in the world of road racing, but the growth of that motorsport area has found people building some incredible purpose-built race cars in recent years....
Hilarious Video: Marshal Spaz-Dances Before WEC Race in Japan
Sometimes, you just have to bust a move. This marshal at the FIA World Endurance Championship’s 6 Hours of Fuji race broke out literally every dance move in the book before the race’s start....
This RallyCross Driver Made the Pass of the Year Look Insanely Easy
We’ve seen some crazy passes in road racing and short-track off-road racing, but Kevin Eriksson’s first-corner move at the FIA World RallyCross Championship round last weekend in Germany might be...