The 100-km/h eSkootr Championship race series looks absolutely bonkers

Leather-clad riders eyeing each other off at the starting line. Fifteen-inch weeny tires chirping as the flag drops, silent electric kick scoots accelerating to a frenetic 100 km/h (62 mph) on the straights, then doing whatever the hell it takes to get… Continue reading The 100-km/h eSkootr Championship race series looks absolutely bonkers

Brass-era Renault Vanderbilt Grand Prix Racer for sale

This is the story of a car so lavish and extravagant that it was one of the most exclusive, fastest, most capable automobiles in the world when 11 were unleashed on American roads in 1907. In a deal brokered by William K Vanderbilt, a batch of 11 35/45… Continue reading Brass-era Renault Vanderbilt Grand Prix Racer for sale

Feel The Virtual Road With Force Feedback

When you’re driving your virtual supercar around the Italian countryside the last thing you want is an inauthentic steering wheel feel, that’s where Open FFBoard comes in. Racing game enthusiasts will go to impossible and sometimes incredibly expensive lengths to build extravagant simulators. [Yannick] feels many of these products are …read more

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Electric Vehicles on Ice

This winter, a group of electric vehicle enthusiasts, including [Dane Kouttron], raced their homemade electric go-karts on the semi-frozen tundra nearby as part of their annual winter tradition. These vehicles are appropriately named Atomic Thing and Doom Sled, and need perfect weather conditions to really put them to the test. …read more

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Volkswagen's barnstorming I.D. R to tackle China's most spectacular mountain road

The 99 curves of the Tianmen Shan Big Gate Road are shaping up as an iconic ...

Volkswagen’s barnstorming electric race car already holds records for Pikes Peak, Goodwood and the Nurburgring, and now it’s headed to China, where it will tear up the famous 99 turns up Tianmen Shan Big Gate Road, one of the most spectacular roads on God’s green Earth.

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Audi unleashes snarling R8 LMS GT2 customer race car at Goodwood

There’s no such thing as a GT2 championship, but Audi doesn’t think that situation will last, and it’s bringing out its most extreme customer race car yet in anticipation. The R8 LMS GT2 is a track-only, race-ready V10 beast making 640 hp and… Continue reading Audi unleashes snarling R8 LMS GT2 customer race car at Goodwood

The fastest production car ever up Pikes Peak is … the Bentley Continental GT?

Buried a little in yesterday’s timesheets from Pikes Peak was an eyebrow-raising record set for the fastest ever production car time up the mountain, which was set by Kiwi Rhys Millen driving Bentley’s luxury Continental GT…
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Group of friends working out of a home garage wins the 97th Pikes Peak International

This year’s overall Pikes Peak win was taken by a group of friends who found themselves short of a team when Faraday Future pulled out of competition last year. With no factory backing, they bought themselves a car, tuned it up and took an 11… Continue reading Group of friends working out of a home garage wins the 97th Pikes Peak International