17 Oct

Long Nights, Speedhunters and Ken Block

Long Nights, Speedhunters and Ken Block.  Or as I like to call him, “The Famous Ken”. In that order… I thought I would be fresh and ready to go Friday morning at Formula Drift, after a short flight from San Francisco to LAX Thursday evening.  That’s what I thought, anyway.  Instead, I had an eight-hour stint

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17 Oct

Racing Bonneville On a $300 Craigslist Motorcycle

“You don’t have to spend a million bucks to fulfill your dreams. I bought a bike for $300, got it running and entered it in a race I’d always dreamt about.  Bonneville is an epic thing that brings out all kinds of speed contraptions and it was an honor to ride an old 1986 Honda

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15 Oct

“Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are.” — Felix Baumgartner

Felix Baumgartner broke the record for highest and fastest freefall from space – Mission Accomplished. “Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are.” – Felix Baumgartner Preliminary Figures: Altitude: 128,097 ft Duration of freefall: 4:19 Total jump time: 9:03 Speed: 1137 kmh (Mach 1.24) 833 mph

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13 Oct

Isachsen Reaches Podium GRC RD.5

Subaru PUMA Rallycross Team Claims Podium Position at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Round of 2012 Global RallyCross Championship. Subaru PUMA RallyCross Team driver Sverre Isachsen powered his 2012 Subaru WRX STI to a season best third Overall, at this past weekend’s Global RallyCross Championship (GRC) event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The team celebrated the

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