Jim Pace is a guy whose talents we have showcased on BangShift before. Pace is a super talented road racer and we’ve showed him driving vintage Can-Am cars, historic road racing iron, and other far out equipment. This is the coolest video of yet featuring Pace. In this film, we see Pace at the controls of a late model stock car on the famous Virginia International Raceway road course. While he’s working for a living keeping the car headed in a straight line and on the course, he is also bad ass fast. Near the start of the video he swallows a road racing Dodge Viper whole and later on he blows off a full tilt racing Porsche like it is tied to a stump. All the while the small block in the stock car is making the sweetest noise known to man.
Pace has won Sebring, Daytona, a host of other races and has been a driving instructor for the Skip Barber school for like 20 years. Long story short, he could probably kick your ass on a road course in a rickshaw. It is really fun to watch him heel-toe and work the car in and out of the corners. It likes to light the back tires up and dirt track some as Pace is constantly working the throttle and wheel to make the best time around VIR. We’re thinking that this car in the hands of someone else would either spend a lot of time facing in the wrong direction or it would spend a lot of time mowing the grass next to the VIR course with the air dam on the front end.
As far as road racing videos go, this one is tops! Hey, they even threw in a thank you plug for BangShift that you’ll see pop up. They did that because of the previous Jim Pace Motorsports videos we have highlighted here. Hey, as long as Jim is doing cool stuff like this and capturing it on video, we’ll be here to showcase it!
PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE JIM PACE HAUL ASS AROUND VIR IN A LATE MODEL STOCK CAR!
Cool but he isn’t the first one. Plus I don’t see anyone on the track really trying to keep up with this guy. I wonder what was under the hood.
….SBC was under the hood, car was a Chev. Monte Carlo SS
Awesome sound.
I figured that. Who built the motor?
Does anyone here remember the Jerry Titus/Jon Ward Firebird that dominated the 1969 24 Hours of Daytona? Which ended up finishing 3rd place overall after spending 1 1/2 hours in the garage with Jon Ward repairing a broken rear end.
Just an open track day. Still he was turning 56’s and 57’s on last years tires! Not too shabby. Car sounds great. Cool that a community college has a program where kids can sign up to learn how to work on race cars. Glad everyone likes it. I remember the Firebird. It was for sale not too long ago, if I am not confusing it with another car. Love a small block!
looks like the other cars were either bedding brakes in or just scrubbing tyres
Solid axle, trailing arms, and 15″s absolutely blistering everything out there! Great video. I went to TNCC for a few semesters after high school. They didn’t offer anything automotive back then.
Kevin
Disregard college comment. I hung out at Patrick Henry Mall, flew out of Patrick Henry Airport went to Thomas Nelson.