Grassroots Upset At The 2011 RallyCar Sno*Drift Rally

Grassroots Upset At The 2011 RallyCar Sno*Drift Rally »

More than living up to its name, Sno*Drift Rally is the only winter rally on ...
Inside The New 2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC [Specs]

Inside The New 2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC [Specs] »

Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team recently debuted the Fiesta RS World Rally Car. The ...
Inside The Mini Countryman WRC [SPECS]

Inside The Mini Countryman WRC [SPECS] »

Based on the production Mini Countryman, the MINI WRC is a 1.6-liter turbocharged, all-wheel drive ...
Inside The Borg Warner EFR Turbocharger

Inside The Borg Warner EFR Turbocharger »

Borg Warner fashions the EFR turbine housing out of cast stainless steel, a material that ...
Dyno Test – 13whp In A Bottle – RSR RAN UP Oil Additive

Dyno Test – 13whp In A Bottle – RSR RAN UP Oil Additive »

As RSR tells it, nano technology is basically a dispersion of certain elements to a ...
Porsche Debuts 563hp 918 RSR Concept

Porsche Debuts 563hp 918 RSR Concept »

Powering the 918 RSR Concept is an “updated” 563hp, 10,300RPM V8 engine, based on the ...
Entries posted on “July, 2010”
In-Car 2010 X-Games 16 Lancer Evo 9 Rally Car Practice

In-Car 2010 X-Games 16 Lancer Evo 9 Rally Car Practice

Prior to X-Games 16 in Los Angeles, we caught up with Team BF Goodrich. Here we go on board with Andrew Comrie Picard and his 600hp Lancer Evolution 9 rally car.

July 30th, 2010 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

Feature – Inside The 2006 Super GT GT500 Nissan 350Z

Feature – Inside The 2006 Super GT GT500 Nissan 350Z

The 2,425lb 350Z uses a double-wishbone setup front and rear with inboard bellcrank actuated dampers, similar to a formula racing car. Note also how highly mounted the steering rack is in proportion to the engine…

July 29th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

Red Bull F1 Simulator In Action [VIDEO]

Red Bull F1 Simulator In Action [VIDEO]

We all know that budget and rule constraints have limited Formula One teams in their insanely expensive test sessions at the track. The only logical solution? Build an insanely expensive electronic simulator for the drivers.

July 28th, 2010 | Filed under Blogs | Read More »

X-Games 16 Rally Practice With Hubinette And ACP

X-Games 16 Rally Practice With Hubinette And ACP

With larger air intake restrictors allowed, ACP’s Evo IX generated almost 600hp with a built engine and 114-octane equivalent ethanol racing fuel. ACP doesn’t make use of the special ethanol fuel during regular rally events

July 28th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

X-Games 16 Lancer Evo Rally Practice With ACP

X-Games 16 Lancer Evo Rally Practice With ACP

We speak with Andrew Comrie-Picard “ACP” about his Rally America championship efforts and then go on board with ACP’s 600hp Evo 9 in a dirt course outside Irwindale Speedway.

July 28th, 2010 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

X-Games Can Save American Rally Racing

X-Games Can Save American Rally Racing

Mother Nature is actually out to puncture and flip your rally car but that’s just part of the fun. So, how come rally racing isn’t as big as NASCAR in the US?

July 27th, 2010 | Filed under Blogs | Read More »

Mini To Enter 2011 World Rally Championship With Countryman WRC

Mini To Enter 2011 World Rally Championship With Countryman WRC

Mini will be using the longer Countryman model to build the Mini Countryman WRC. Famed racing engineering house Prodrive will handle the program, now left twiddling their thumbs with no factory Subaru WRC program to manage.

July 27th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

A Lap Of Buttonwillow With The N1 Concepts Honda S2000 [VIDEO]

A Lap Of Buttonwillow With The N1 Concepts Honda S2000 [VIDEO]

With a 12.0:1 compression ratio, naturally aspirated 2.3-liter engine making about 305hp, this Honda has to regularly take on competition with hundreds more horses.

July 27th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

BMW M3 Art Car Photo Contest Winner

BMW M3 Art Car Photo Contest Winner

So far, the BMW Motorsport Facebook gallery has been viewed by 1.8 million fans, and more than 8,000 users have “liked” it. As a reward for his photo, Dole will receive a check for 1,000 euros. Currency exchange, anyone?

July 26th, 2010 | Filed under Blogs | Read More »

Closest Finish Ever At Super GT 2010 Sugo

Closest Finish Ever At Super GT 2010 Sugo

In front of 27,000 spectators, the GT500 class put on an exciting race, with the top two cars separated by only 25/1000-second. With only eight laps left in the race, the Motul Autech GT-R developed an electrical problem that ground it down to a dead stop at the last corner.

July 26th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Motorsports | Read More »

N1 Concepts Honda S2000 Racecar Setup Lap

N1 Concepts Honda S2000 Racecar Setup Lap

On board with the N1 Concepts Honda S2000 Unlimited Class time attack racecar at Buttonwillow Raceway’s #13CW “time attack” configuration. This chassis was originally built by J’s Racing and has since been updated by N1 Concepts for time attack use.

July 26th, 2010 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

Friday Night Drifts

Friday Night Drifts

Great Local Drift Action at Toyota Speedway In Irwindale

July 26th, 2010 | Filed under Blogs | Read More »

Trackside With Grassroots Subaru Driver Thomas Smith [VIDEO]

Trackside With Grassroots Subaru Driver Thomas Smith [VIDEO]

At a bare minimum, you need talent and money to get noticed and climb the ranks. Thomas Smith, a Las Vegas, Nevada go-kart and autocross racer, has been paying his dues towards a road racing career by cutting his teeth at local time attack events.

July 23rd, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

Zenkai Crawford Subaru STI driver Thomas Smith

Zenkai Crawford Subaru STI driver Thomas Smith

We take a minute at Buttonwillow Raceway to have a quick chat with Thomas Smith, up and coming grassroots time attack and autocross driver for Crawford Performance / Zenkai Motorsports.

July 23rd, 2010 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

Flex Fuel Rally Nissan 350Z

Flex Fuel Rally Nissan 350Z

Here at OR, we’re suckers for rear-wheel drive rally cars. Especially naturally aspirated ones with wailing exhaust notes and the type of lurid, tail-out slides that would make any fan risk life and hand for a photo.

July 23rd, 2010 | Filed under Blogs | Read More »

Hasport V6 Honda Civic Spotted

Hasport V6 Honda Civic Spotted

If you’re looking to have at least some amount of torque with your Honda, this might be the trend for you. High-rpm VTEC? Try a low-buck Accord or3.2-liter Acura CL/TL Type-S engine.

July 22nd, 2010 | Filed under Blogs | Read More »

BMW Classic Center Opens With 3.0 CSi Restoration

BMW Classic Center Opens With 3.0 CSi Restoration

In this case, the customer wanted his BMW 3.0 CSi transformed into a perfect blank original slate. He also asked for its four-speed manual gearbox to be converted into an automatic, something that had previously been done only with two prototypes of the BMW 3.0 CSi.

July 20th, 2010 | Filed under New Cars | Read More »

The Greatest Rally Porsche GT3 Sounds Ever

The Greatest Rally Porsche GT3 Sounds Ever

The 911 GT3s in this video are doing things that you’d never see a housewife in Newport Beach attempt – slides and all. Turn up your speakers.

July 19th, 2010 | Filed under Blogs | Read More »

Australian Rally Driver Steve Glenney At WTAC

Australian Rally Driver Steve Glenney At WTAC

Glenney has just raced the Targa Tasmania in the Mazda RX-8 SP turbo rally car. Now he’s at Eastern Creek Raceway, driving the Pulse Racing Lancer Evo 8, Subaru Impreza WRX STI, and GT Auto Garage Mazda RX-7.

July 19th, 2010 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

World Time Attack Challenge 2010 – Behind The Scenes

World Time Attack Challenge 2010 – Behind The Scenes

Held at Eastern Creek Raceway, less than a half hour drive out of Sydney, the WTAC was one of the first international time attack events, drawing in competitors from the US, Australia, and Japan.

July 16th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »