Showing posts with label track. Show all posts
Showing posts with label track. Show all posts

2.4.10

switzer porsches blitz yas marina




ORANGE CRUSH OR COCAINE AND CHERRIES ... TOUGH CHOICE


Top Performance is the MidEast's leading automotive magazine, and they have just released images of next month's cover cars ... a pair of wicked-fast Switzer Turbo Porsches at Yas Marina circuit!

AWESOME!!



READY TO RUMBLE


I couldn't be more excited, and want to thank everyone involved for their help in making it happen.

Thanks, everyone! I can't wait to read the review ... which, I hope, is in English.

13.4.09

the beaver says 6 more weeks of winter






Last week, on the drive home from seeing Hobbes and Yuly in Chicago, I was caught in my very first honest-to-goodness crazy snowfall somewhere near Notagaoddamnthing, Indiana. The mighty Routan and I pushed through the weather, barely in time to meet up with Andy and Kyle and deliver them to Beaverun Motorsports Park, where they would be driving Tym Switzer's latest.

After a few dozen "beaver" jokes (Ha! Beaver!), it was time to get down to business and drive the Cars.

Just then: snow. The stuff had followed me all the way from Lake Forest, IL and would not quit - but, did that stop the Jalopniks from storming down the front straight like a million-pound shithammer?

No. No, it did not.

Hats off to JR (aka "JTR") for being such a good sport and letting us drive his P800 in such rotten luck weather. Nerves of Steel, that one.

In the end, we had a good time hanging out with those guys, and don't want to take any more away from them (even if they won't let me drown them in a Fiesta), so click on one of the pics, or just CLICK HERE for the original article and hi-res photo gallery.





NOTE:

There were other cars at "the Beave" that day - oh, yes! You'll have to wait until May to find out what it were.

Also, I pilfered the latest Sunshine banner (above) from Andy's EXCELLENT in-car photo gallery. Great shots, man. Really.

22.10.08

zomgitsanorangeslr722gt!!








ZOMG! A bright, SCREAMING orange Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722GT track car!!

I have never wanted to be Bruno Senna more in my life ... or at all, actually.

Not the point.

Anyway, the "see it from space" SLR appears about halfway in, wearing a NASCAR-friendly no. 3. Enjoy!

27.8.08

::needs more money::






I always fall for the Expensive ones, so (as you might guess) this little photo is enough to give me heart palpitations.

What you see above is roughly a million USD being thrown around the track by the same kind of crazy Brits and Germans that do this with SLR McLarens. The difference, of course, is that THESE million-dollar Mercs have skinny tires and absolutely garbage brakes ... if you can even call them brakes. "impact softeners", maybe - but in this era of 16" Brooklyn style rotors, certainly not "brakes".

Anyway - it's not Florida, but the cars certainly is super. CLICK HERE for the original article, and click on my Google ads like madness so I can buy one of these things!!