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  • Stillborn Supercar: 1934 Auto Union Type 52
    In love and cars, it's bittersweet to wonder what might have been. Add nearly 80 years to an element of mystery, and you'll get something like the Auto Union Type 52. If ever the words "ancestral supercar" belonged together, this is it. Recent features on Jalopnik and IEDEI got us thinking about the project. We know how it came about and we know...


  • New NASCAR Rules Intended To Inhibit Tandem Drafts
    NASCAR doesn't want to see repeats of 2011's tandem running on the two restrictor plate racetracks it uses--Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway, both long tracks built for high speeds. Those generated high speeds have forced NASCAR to impose restrictor plates on the engines to slow them down below the 200-mph mark and have...


  • Matt Hagan's Championship Year In NHRA Funny Car
    Matt Hagan, the 28-year-old cattle farmer from Christiansburg, VA is the second youngest NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Funny Car champion in the series' 60-year history. After losing a heartbreaking title fight to 15-time champion John Force in his second, 2010 season, Hagan returned to shine in the Countdown to the Championship six-race...


  • Barrett-Jackson To Offer 1954 DeSoto Adventurer II Concept
    Concept cars are generally not built as daily drivers. Like supermodels, their purpose is to outshine all others in the spotlight for a brief period of time, not to shuttle kids back and forth to soccer practice before hauling groceries home from the local WalMart. When their moment in the sun is over, most concept cars go the crusher...


  • Zipadelli Joins Stewart-Haas Racing As Competition Director
    Zippy and Smoke are together again. From 1999 through 2008, Greg Zipadelli was Tony Stewart's crew chief at Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR). Together the duo won two Sprint Cup championships in 2002 and 2005, amassing 33 victories and 10 poles. When Stewart left JGR after the 2008 season to form Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), Zipadelli remained with that team...


 
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