By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

This new pony is fast. Ford just released this video showing the 2011 Ford GT500 lapping VIR a full 9 seconds faster than last year’s model. Wow.

By Robby DeGraff

RedMaro6

Team Camaro (Robby DegGraff as driver and John Jarzombek as co-driver/navigator) heads down to Joliet, Illinois for the 2010 Route 66 Rally starting line less than 24 hours! This past Saturday night, the weather was perfect to spend a few hours detailing and waxing the car we will be using for the rally: a 2001 Chevrolet Camaro. I went to work on washing, polishing and putting a few good coats of Mequiar’s wax on the bright red paint of my car. I had heard from past participants in road rallies that if your car isn’t caked in wax, and you go ahead and apply decals to it….have fun getting your car repainted (as the decals will eat the paint right off your unwaxed car!). With an old Sony boom-box playing some summertime rock in the background, I spent the next hour or so placing the necessary decals on the Camaro for the upcoming road rally.

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By Ben Schaffer

The Real JDM

Although it is not officially from ASI, perhaps this may represent a direction they are considering for a future Ferrari 458 Italia aerodynamics kit? I really like the winglets over the rear fenders in this kit. I’ve been waiting a while for someone to make a well integrated x wing type design into aftermarket aerodynamic tuning.

It’s fun to look at aerodynamic design! The 458 Italia in itself brings heaps of new inspiration courtesy of Pinninfarina so it’s quite fun to start to imagine tuner versions.

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By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

In one of the most tragic and freakish drag strip fatalities we have ever heard of, a spectator at Harrells Raceway in Harrells, North Carolina, was killed when a car crashed and its motor came loose, landing on said spectator. Another spectator was injured when the flaming fuel cell from the same car launched past them, causing burns.

Reportedly the car was traveling 130-135 mph down the humble eighth-mile strip. News reports state that the engine was thrown 100 feet and landed on top of spectator Terry McDougald of Lillington. The driver of the car was flown to the hospital in Wilmington, but refused care. Far less importantly, several vehicles, which we presume were parked track-side, suffered damage from flying parts and debris.

We’ve seen lots of wrecks but we have never seen an engine tear loose and travel the distances that this one did. We feel terrible for the family of the man killed by the engine. A simple trip to the drags ended up costing him his life.

Source — WWaytv3.com — Drag Strip Spectator Killed by Flying Engine

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Hilarious. Via Jalopnik

By Rob Krider

Racerboy

You read that correctly. Just like some CarDomain members when Tony Stewart doesn’t have his weekends filled with NASCAR he runs the ChumpCar World Series. Tony drove a beater Camaro in the ChumpCar 24 hour race at Virginia International Raceway (VIR) -you can catch all the details at Jalopnik.

ChumpCar also has a little more NASCAR flavor, their schedule has three major NASCAR venues: Texas Motor Speedway, Homestead-Miami and Auto Club Speedway in Southern California -more details at Speed:Sport:Life. The cool part is you don’t have to be a famous racecar driver like Tony Stewart to come out and play, this is an endurance racing series anyone can run with a $500 car, a few friends and a weekend and a set of tires to kill.

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

When I watched this, I was more than a little surprised that the Raging Bull gets its ass repeatedly handed to it. What’s the deal here? Every incarnation of the Gallardo has had over 500 horsepower, and the Audi “only” has 525. So why the hell is this such a lopsided match up? Maybe the Audi has a ton of mods? Maybe the Lambo driver just sucks?

Audi R8 V10 vs. Lamborghini Gallardo

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Today’s photo of the day is from Corey’s 1980 Chevy Malibu ride page. He shot this and a bunch more pics last month at an abandoned factory in Winston Salem, North Carolina.

By Ryan Porter

IN-N-OUT Editor

On Saturday I got out to Mini Cooper day at Exotics @ Redmond Town Center. Check out my pics! What did you do this weekend?

By Mike Musto

RideLust.com

Last week I posted a lead off article telling you guys about “The Best New Sports Cars for $25k or Less,” as they pertain to open road events such as the One Lap of America. We looked at such items as fuel economy as well as performance and storage capacity. It’s now time for part II, but this time we’ll be looking at the best new sports cars for $50k or less. Keep in mind that two things happen when the price goes up. First and foremost performance levels rise, and secondly you’ll notice that storage capacity and fuel mileage tend to go down. This is all fine and dandy, but understand that these cars need to be able to cover long distances, be reliable and also be able to handle some serious track duty. Now, with that being said, let’s continue.

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