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Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos

Gear Banging Insanty in a 1980s Era Turbocharged F1 Car – Amazing Footage

Today’s F1 drivers use paddle shifters and have steering wheels in their cars with more buttons and functions than a lap top. Back in the 1980s though, things were different. The driver still...

Morning Symphony: Hill Climb Close Range Fly-by Footage Courtesy Of The Hardest-Working HDD Cam Out There!

You know those awesome, close-up fly-by racing shots that make television shows like TopGear and racing footage look amazing? You like seeing a car bearing down on you on video just before it rips...

Movie Night at Finnegan’s! Check Out Some Of His Old Drag-Boat Racing Footage!

It’s no secret that Mike Finnegan’s first love is drag boat racing, and it runs deep…it has to, for someone who was living in Southern California and racing on the water in Arizona....

Let It All Hang Out: The Top Ten Burnouts From the Blown Class At Gazzanats!

I’m a basic human, what can I say? Some days all I want is a loud, screaming engine in full use, two burning tires out back, and enough fuel to keep the fun going until the tires are gone. Hey,...

Flyin’ Brick: Watch This Jeep SRT-8 Show Supercars How It’s Done In The Half-Mile!

The only thing I wanted to see more than this Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8 punching through the air at 180 miles an hour was to have a microphone hidden inside of the Porsche 918 that was trailing along...

Roadkill! The Guys Celebrate The 50th Episode With Another Comparison: Every (running) Roadkill Car Against A Kia!

It’s amazing how far these two have come. From the first episode, where they road-tripped a Pontiac land yacht to picking up one of my favorite online finds of all time and confusing it with an...

Burnout Fix: Footage From The Race 4 Real Event At Sydney Dragway

Race fuel, fried rubber, heated metal and the sound of an engine at full song…it’s what dreams are made of. How do you get your fix? Do you like the slow and methodical methods, such as...

Track Time For Hot Rod Garage’s “Bonemaro” Budget Turbo LS Build! Will The Ragged F-body Run 10s?

Take a $10,000 budget, buy one royally clapped out $800 1979 Chevrolet Camaro, one junkyard 5.3L LS V8, an eBay turbo kit meant for a Chevrolet Silverado, and then proceed to hack, weld, bodge and...

Playing In The Mud With UTVs At The Southern Rock Racing Series Stop At Bikini Bottoms Off-Road Park!

The more we see of the Northern and Southern Rock Racing Series, the more we like it. These guys are drivers who have all of the courage and flamboyant driving style of a Group B driver crossed with...

Watch This Turbocharged Boss 302 Mustang Get On It A Little Too Much At A Half-Mile Run!

A straight-line, half-mile run should be extremely simple to do, right? Point the car toward the finish line, plant your foot to the floor, and once you pass the timing beams, get off of the gas and...

Rock Racing At Bikini Bottoms: Nasty Hillclimbs And Drivers Fighting Their Way To The Top!

If there is any great equalizer for a rock bouncer on a hill climb, it’s mud. Not the chunky, sticks to everything mud, but that slimy layer that really screws up traction and turns an...

On The 30th Anniversary Of The Accident That Ended Group B Rally, A Retrospect On Henri Toivonen

Auto racing is a dangerous sport. That hasn’t been contested since the automobile appeared, and certainly not after the first auto racing fatality. The addiction to speed, the desire to succeed...

Morning Symphony: The World’s Only Street-Legal Ferrari FXX Running At VMax200!

The Ferrari FXX exists because the Ferrari Enzo wasn’t enough of a beast for the company. Think about that for a second. A Ferrari Enzo wasn’t enough. We all tend to write off anything...

Unhinged: Living In The Times Of The Nine-Second Four-Door Sedan

From the moment I made my first move to get a car of my own onwards, I was told that four-doors weren’t worth the time or effort. They were engine donors. They were derby cars. But I...