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But in its heyday, Thompson Raceway was as vital to sports car racing as Lime Rock.

With over 2,300 Cup Cars built by Porsche since the car's introduction in 1993, our Porsche 911 GT Race Car proves that Porsche is as serious about sports car racing as it ever was.

One year ago, the landmark 4.048 - mile, 14 - turn track served as the site of a coming together of U.S. sports car racing as the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and GRAND - AM Rolex Sports Car Series competed on the same weekend.

DETROIT (Jan. 19, 2018)-- It's time for Corvette Racing's return to the biggest stage in North American sports car racing as it kicks off its 20th season of competition.

Our friends at Mobil 1 The Grid are as excited about the return of sports car racing as the fans, and they created a special video with Corvette Racing's Oliver Gavin to preview this weekend's 2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona.

It was an unfortunate weekend for all the American Le Mans Series entrants who had made the journey to France for the world's greatest sports car race as all of them experienced misfortune in some form or other, with many failing to see the chequered flag.

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If the track magnate who hosts five of the Indy Racing League's 11 events gets his way, Indy cars could be sporting fenders as early as next year.

But what really makes Busch so formidable on flat tracks such as New Hampshire (those with little or no banking in the corners) is that he can control a loose race car (meaning the rear end slides up the track through the corners) as expertly as anyone in the sport.

A vintage - car race served up many of the sport's best surviving drivers as happy participants.

He later went on to race in the British Touring Car Championship and sports car championships, as well as Grand Prix MasteCar Championship and sports car championships, as well as Grand Prix Mastecar championships, as well as Grand Prix Masters.

Stock - car racing may not have caught on as big nationally as country music, but through the South it enjoys a more devoted grassroots following than any other sport except football.

As designer and builder — and occasional driver — of the marvelous winged Chaparral sports car, Jim Hall of Texas dares to defy Ford and Ferrari in the classic endurance races

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Beginning in 1965, Shelby and Ford led an all - out American assault on European sports car racing with the Daytona Coupe and GT - 40, culminating in the GT - 40's historic 1 -2-3 finish at the 1966 Le Mans 24 Hour, humbling the mighty Ferrari juggernaut as Henry Ford II proudly looked on.

Once dismissed as a regional peculiarity, stock car racing was being touted as a sport for the new millennium, and the term «NASCAR dads» entered the national lexicon.

Alpine started off as a small French automaker specializing in the production of racing and sports cars powered solely by Renault Engines.

This is the English automobile that invented the sports car in America, as many examples found a home with former World War II servicemen on both coasts of the U.S.. By the 1950s everyone had to have one, including Automobile's David E. Davis Jr., who drove an MG TF 1500 with a 1.75 - inch straight - pipe exhaust to California right after he got married in June 1955 and then raced it that October with disastrous consequences.

Raced by a French hero, gifted to a car - mad Belgian royal and now preserved in remarkably original condition, the Bugatti known as Grand - Mère is one of the greatest sports cars from Molsheim.

This U.S. debut also marks the first time we've seen the Project 7 in white, which will be one of two standard colors offered for this limited - run sports car along with French Racing Blue — British Racing Green, Ultimate Black, and Caldera Red colors are also offered as optional upgrades.

Stefan Bellof did indeed drive a Porsche 956 to the fastest ever lap of 6:11:13 for a motorised vehicle in 1983... but it was for qualifying for the 1000 km Sports Car race, so technically it was never a production car... Admittedly some of the cars near the top of this list blur the definition of production car... if you was to go by the list above, then it should be the Porsche 918 that takes the mantle for fastest production car as the others at the top are thinly veiled track - only specials for someone with deep pockeCar race, so technically it was never a production car... Admittedly some of the cars near the top of this list blur the definition of production car... if you was to go by the list above, then it should be the Porsche 918 that takes the mantle for fastest production car as the others at the top are thinly veiled track - only specials for someone with deep pockecar... Admittedly some of the cars near the top of this list blur the definition of production car... if you was to go by the list above, then it should be the Porsche 918 that takes the mantle for fastest production car as the others at the top are thinly veiled track - only specials for someone with deep pockecar... if you was to go by the list above, then it should be the Porsche 918 that takes the mantle for fastest production car as the others at the top are thinly veiled track - only specials for someone with deep pockecar as the others at the top are thinly veiled track - only specials for someone with deep pockets.

But as Manuel Lage has discovered the first car to bear the name was an Alfonso Hispano - Suiza / Americans to the Rear — Rear engined designs — Part Three / Americans to the Rear — Concluding his series on American rear engined cars Karl Ludvigsen examines the role played by General Motors / Epicyclic Gearing — Workshop — Part Two / Settlers Special — A cut - down 1933 Riley Monaco shipped to Vancouver by an ex-pat in the»50s formed the basis for Miles Fenton's ideal supercharged special / Racing in the Rain — Alan Smith has been using his camera to good effect at motor sporting events for over 50 years / Ards TT 75th Anniversary — John Payne reports on the 75th Anniversary of the Ards TT / The Little Engine that could — Gavin Farmer celebrates the Jowett Bradford / It's quicker by Rail — Brian Heath's subject this month is a 1939 Railton long chassis special limousine.

Finally for 1988 Pontiac bolted up a new multilink rear suspension derived from lessons learned from GM's part ownership of Lotus Engineering as well as the Fiero's successful foray into IMSA sports car racing.

The Orange Edition is the first in a line of new «Club Series» models in the GT86 range, which Toyota is using to celebrate the company's motorsport heritage both old and new - the latter comprising R3 rally and CS - Cup race versions of the compact sports car, among other efforts such as the Yaris WRC.

Notable cars to not reach reserve included a 1960 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competizione, a model commonly referred to as not only one of the best - looking Ferraris but also the last of the true dual - purpose sports / racing cars that could be driven with equal aplomb in both competition and on the daily commute to the office.

Albrecht Goertz's gorgeous 503 could not have come at a worse time for BMW, as Douglas Blain explains in Drama Queen / In 1966 and All That, Steve Welsh reports from the unrivalled Goodwood Revival historic race meeting, which this year marked 50 years since Australian driver Jack Brabham won the Formula One World Championship in a car of his construction / Kit Foster tells the story of the American Underslung, the first American sports car, and examines one of the prized survivors of this pioneering but short - lived marque in Swing low, sweet chariot / In his article, Cross-Channel concours, Jörg Sierks chooses his favourites from two prestigious concours events, held on the same weekend on opposite sides of the English Channel / With the help of rarely seen archive photographs, D'Arcy Lever looks back at the highly effective trials specials built by Sydney Allard before World War Two.

Mick Walsh gets behind the wheel of an historic Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 and in, Potent Perfection, reveals what makes this famous model so special / Doug Nye shares some marvellous glass - plate negatives from the early days of motor sport in Europe and describes the men and machines shown in The motor racing photography of Maurice - Louis Branger / Famous furniture designer Ambrose Heal bought a Sunbeam Twenty new in 1930 and drove it extensively across Europe / This much - loved car is still in the family today, as Matthew Bell discovers in Family Business / Designed and built by Ken Delingpole and Ron Lowe, the Ford - powered Dellows were among the most successful postwar trials cars.

After years of brokering deals, from sports - car racing to NASCAR to IndyCar to F1, he sold JMI in 2013 but stayed onboard as CEO through late last year.

So we made it to Daytona Beach in the Camaro ZL1, if not quite to Daytona International Speedway, where — since the Daytona 500 is a restrictor - plate race — we would have arrived with more horsepower than any car NASCAR had at the track this weekend, and for that matter, at least as much horsepower as any entry in the Rolex 24 at Daytona sports - car endurance race a few weeks ago.

200,000 people line the streets of the town as Le Mans racing drivers are paraded and sports cars are blasted around the streets, crowds ten or more deep.

Before the roaring race cars took to the Circuit de la Sarthe for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, only the squeal of protesting tires could be heard as Audi's E-tron, clothed in an R8 skin, took to the track.Audi gave fans a demonstration of its electric sports car before the endurance race began as part o

Striking as it is, the 2015 Vantage GTE isn't the first racing car to sport artwork livery.

As you'd expect of a GT4 - spec race car, the McLaren 570S GT4 sports a laundry list of aerodynamic, safety, and lightweighting upgrades compared to the standard supercar.

As Mercedes - AMG chairman Moers notes, «We've evolved from a successful tuner of Mercedes racing cars to the sports and performance brand of Mercedes - Benz, producing some of the world's most exciting performance cars.»

For 2016, classes exist for selected Ferrari and Porsche models through 1989, as well as more general multi-marque classes broken down by category (hot rods, Italian race cars, British sporting cars, etc).

As soon as Anthony Davidson switched from F1 to sports cars, he knew the race he wanted to win was Le ManAs soon as Anthony Davidson switched from F1 to sports cars, he knew the race he wanted to win was Le Manas Anthony Davidson switched from F1 to sports cars, he knew the race he wanted to win was Le Mans.

No matter how you consider it — as a front - line competition car or a fabulous high - performance coupe — Ford's decision to return to serious international sports - car racing 50 years after GT40s first showed up at Le Mans was the biggest performance - car news of the year.

I tend to think of the Ford GT40 as the last of the dedicated racing sports cars that you could imagine taking on the road.

Cadillac has rapidly reinvented itself in the past few years, selling SUVs and crossovers that star in music videos, as well as sports cars that can keep up with the best from Europe on a race track.

And though there are some participants who want to press harder and some who do, I learned that the club's comparative paucity of maximum testosterone has led some to defect from the VSCCA to competing sanctioning bodies such as the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association or the Vintage Racing League or even the more well - known Sports Car Club of America.

With body - on - frame construction and a fairly agricultural 1.3 - liter overhead valve engine, the MG was far from modern or refined in post-war America, but it gave thousands of people their first taste of what a sports car should feel like and served as a gateway drug to both racing and more expensive, more powerful sports cars.

Ferrari retired as a driver to focus his energy on expanding his racing empire and manufacturing a few sports cars for wealthy patrons.

For nearly half of the 20th century, it saw some of the finest pilots and the finest races, in not only GP, but sports cars and bikes as well.

It is a long way from being a sports car, but it holds the line a driver sets for it as though pressed down by aerodynamics, as in a racing car rather than just by its own weight.

Referred to by Porsche as its first sports car for four, the Panamera is nothing short of a four - door race car.

He's a fixture at nearly fifty IndyCar, Sprint Cup, and prototype sports car races a year — a stocky, formidable figure exuding a sense of self - confidence so robust that critics perceive it as arrogance.

Combined with a track full of other cars sporting decent AI (or a track full of real players in the game's online modes) it gives you almost as much to think about as you would in a real race.

The race at New Jersey was held as an undercard to the Grand - Am Rolex Sports Car Series.

Here is a comprehensive list of links that will help you follow all the action as well as answer the most pressing question for sports car racing fans?

As with the legendary racing sports car from the 1952 season, the vehicle featured consistent lightweight design throughout and a spaceframe that supported the engine, transmission and axles and left no room for conventional doors.

Audi's first hard - core RS (RennSport: German for racing sport) model didn't appear until 1994 with the RS 2 Avant, which was developed with Porsche, and since then Audi Sport — as it was renamed in November 2016 — has churned out a series of stellar performance cars.