Class Warfare: We go to Sebring for a 154-mph blast in a big-winged BMW M3 GTIn these dark economic times, the number of automakers willing to throw vast sums of money at auto racing has dwindled. Honda, Toyota, BMW, and Renault have either walked away from Formula 1 or reduced their financial commitment. Automakers have cut back the cash they have been spending in NASCAR. And in sports-car racing, only Audi and Peugeot are running fully funded programs in the fastest prototype classes, with more prudent efforts coming from Aston Martin and Honda Performance Development, which uses the Acura badge
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2010 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR-X – First Drive Review
June 9, 2010 at 9:12 pm by Mike Sutton
Chrysler’s sports car finishes its run in top form as a race car
The Dodge Viper has been with us for nearly 20 years and will go out of production—at least for now—this summer. We’ve driven almost every variant of the car in that time, our reports often contributing to its reputation as a hairy-chested, have-your-affairs-in-order road weapon. Pity the fool that doesn’t respect 511 cubic inches of V-10 and rear-wheel drive without any electronic oversight save ABS
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That’s a Hyundai? Red Bull Racing and Hyundai Reveal PM580 Pikes Peak Race Car – Car News
April 19, 2010 at 12:47 pm by David Gluckman
Rhys Millen’s Pikes Peak racer looks more like a Daytona prototype
Rhys Millen wants to break the Pikes Peak hill-climb record, and he’s partnering with Hyundai to build the unique weapon you see here. The current record holder, Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima, set his time of 10:01.408 in a purpose-built Suzuki Sport “XL7” that had about as much to do with a real Suzuki as Millen’s does with any Genesis
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