Old Time Carnage Video: Ancient Stock Car Flies Off Track and Wipes Out Grandstand
All we really have to work with on this video is the date, which is 1960 and the place, which is Darlington Speedway. Let’s just say that it was a bad day to be sitting in the elevated...
NASCAR Scene Weekly Publication Bites the Dust
NASCAR Scene, which for nearly 30 years has been the weekly publication of record covering the world of stock car racing, is no more. The vast majority of the staff was laid off on Tuesday and word...
GM Chief On Saab: Pay Up, Sucka
We’re liking GM Chairman Ed Whitacre more and more. He’s been rip-roaring through the management ranks at the General, replacing the old guard with new people who want to light a fire...
War on Racetracks: Social Circle Residents Form Opposition Group to Proposed Drag Strip
Nattering nabobs in Social Circle, Georgia, trying to protect what must be the last utopian community in America, have formed an opposition group to lobby against a proposed drag strip project in the...
California Woman Left Marooned By NASCAR Reality Show
Reality television strikes again. The show NASCAR Angels has a crew running around the country repairing cars for people on a three-day deadline. But a woman in California who appealed to the...
We Tour DMC Racing: Turbocharged Gearhead Nirvana
DMC Racing is loacted in Halifax, Massachusetts, and has developed a reputation as one of the premier small-tire drag race car builders in the eastern half of the country. The spotless, humongo shop...
Killer Video: Russian Truck Racing
This is the total embodiment of the old adage, “people will race anything.” We’re taking you on a trip to the Russian countryside to check out some awesome racing action, complete...
Bad Idea: Student Driver Wrecks Car During Lesson In Snow Storm, Instructor in Critical Condition
Sometimes you just have to shake your head at the decisions people make. A Haverhill, Massachusetts driving instructor, has been hospitalized in critical condition after a student he was instructing...
Shocker: Ford Sales Up 30% in December
Good news for fans of the Ford brand. Sales jumped 30% in December and magically, incentive spending dropped. This is a suprisingly good sign and another tell tale that the company has a strong and...
Video: Drunk Driver Drags a Coke Machine Behind His Car
We’re guessing that this came from New Years Eve, the red-letter day for drunk driving. Maybe the guy was on his way to find a pallet full of rum to go with his Coke. Source: Failblog.org...
Will Schumacher Be An F1 Title Contender in 2010?
We’ve been keeping an eye on the press surrounding the return of Michael Schumacher to the Formula One mix in 2010. To say that this guy is treated like some sort of living god in the European...
Mustang Outsells Camaro for 2009
In the July 2009 issue, Car and Driver magazine announced that the Mustang had won the Pony Car wars in terms of performance, even with more than a hundred less horsepower then the Camaro. It looks...
Preview Video: Short Track Racing Reality Show Debuts on the History Channel This Sunday
Sunday night, January 10, the History Channel will debut “Madhouse,” a reality series based around the racing and personalities at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina....
Video: The Public Execution of a Detroit Diesel
This is a strange video, but one that’s morbidly entertaining. It shows a Detroit Diesel of unknown displacement on some sort of test stand in front of the crowd of people. Those people are...
