Author: staff@jalopnik.com (Lalita Chemello)
Racing is alive and well, but not every facet of racing has benefited from the rise in its popularity and notoriety. Recently we have seen historic race tracks closing, being redeveloped or sold. But some are thriving, like Great Bend’s SRCA Dragstrip in Kansas, which happened just just a few weeks ago. SRCA is successful story for historic tracks and preservation, but it surely’s one in all few victories when there’s still numerous tracks closing throughout the country. Their endings were often shadowed by the cash needed to maintain them operating. SRCA was fortunate that its neighbors and town were…
The primary few seconds of this weekend’s GT World Challenge race at Monza would make for a pleasant instructional video for what to not do when merging onto a busy highway. It’d also make for a case of “what to not do” for drivers participating in a giant race as a complete. But these are the moves that make racing interesting, right? On this instance a Mercedes driver made a nasty move and ruined the day for a whole lot of people. For further entertainment, the events did eventually come back around on the instigating driver. And as race fans we’re…
Aliaksei Kaponia/Shutterstock In a surprising and ironic twist, essentially the most inexpensive vehicle option for cash-strapped Americans without delay, and possibly for the foreseeable future, is a used EV. Oddly, we owe a giant due to the Trump Administration for the valiant stupidity that got us here. Its effort to tear up clean energy incentives from the Biden era, plus the entanglement of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, have each worked the alternative way intended. The wonderful folks fighting so hard for coal and dinosaur fuels have one way or the other found themselves inadvertently forcing people towards the very…
A Reliant Robin doesn’t typically top anyone’s list of reliable vehicles for obvious reasons. Most of us have seen that infamous “Top Gear” episode where Jeremy Clarkson rolled the Reliant Robin several times, and if you happen to have not now’s the time. It takes a special sensible idiot, or possibly two on this case, to contemplate taking one on a 14,000 mile journey. That and a hankering for a world record. Introducing fellow automotive nerds and the protagonists of this insane story: Ollie Jenks and Seth Scott, the duo behind Hold My Gear. The entire thing was Scott’s hair-brained idea.…