By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

And now, for your Friday afternoon viewing pleasure…

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

This looks like fun.  It also looks like a great way to get your legs broken. But what’s life without a little—or a lot—of risk?

Motorcycle Soccer

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Luke just created this ’69 Dodge Charger ride page today. I’m generally not a huge fan of stuffed animals at car shows but thought this was pretty hilarious.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

We shot a bunch of video over at Group 2 Motorsports yesterday. I’m guessing half of Seattle’s Alfa population is parked at that shop. Thanks again to Joe and the rest of the crew, and you can expect to see more on Group 2 in this blog in the near future. Tons more pics after the jump, including a bunch of 2CVs (yes, the French theme continues…).

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By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

Of the half-dozen or so drag cars recently uploaded to the Hemmings.com classifieds, all by the same seller in Minnesota, we dig this 1961 Pontiac the most. It may not have the best racing history of the bunch, may not be as valuable as the rest, but how can you go wrong with a draggin’ wagon? Plus, as longtime Hemmings Muscle Machines readers know, we’re big fans of the work that Scott Tiemann does with Pontiacs. From the seller’s description:

Historically Significant Vintage Super Stock car with great paperwork and history, Set and Held 5 National NHRA Records, Built 455 by Pontiac Guru Scott Tiemann, Magazine feature from 1969, Time Slips, Owner History, Street Legal, Show or Nostalgia Race ready.

See more pics at Hemmings

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

Circle and dirt track racing is something that I had never experienced until the end of last year – when USAC had me come out to a Sprint Car race. The action is crazy: 800 horsepower, fire breathing, dirt ripping machines bombing around a dirt oval – that feels inadequate to contain such speed and power. The cars were three wheeling through the corners, pulling wheelies down the straights, and kicking up so much dirt that the walls had to be scraped clean between heats. Insane.

By Will Roegge

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

We’re going to get Friday off to a smashing start, literally. One of our European forum members tipped us off to video clips of a wheel-stander, The Little Green Wagon, drilling the guardrail and rolling during a run at a strip across the pond. If there’s one thing that wheel-stander drivers and gymnasts have in common it is the need to stick their landings. This one, not so much.

We cannot tell if the wheels were turned when the truck touched down or if something went away in the front end due to the impact of coming back to Earth, but the results were super un-good for the driver. He climbs out of the truck eventually, which is good, but the ol’ Dodge is way wrecked.

This video is a good illustration of why many strips have abandoned the linked Jersey-barrier style walls. You can pretty clearly see here how they get compromised during a big impact.

Thanks to BangShift.com forum member Gerrit for the tip!

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By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

You know the drill: Come up with a caption for the picture below by noon PST next Thursday. If you submit the funniest one, we’ll send you some CarDomain swag. Three entries per member max. Good luck!

By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

Special thanks to Ignite Racing Fuel, Verdier Racing, and Itzen Media for giving me the opportunity to get a camera inside of a Formula D Subaru Impreza WRX STi. While I was there, I also got interviews with the crew chief and driver Stephan Verdier. Read more about my scooby coverage at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.

Ride inside Formula D Subaru WRX STi

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Thanks to our buddies at Valvoline, I’m going to be bringing you live coverage of this weekend’s NASCAR action from Dover International Speedway! I’ve been to this crusher of a track once before, and the speed and brutality of this one-mile concrete oval just blew me away. Stay tuned to the blog all weekend long for news from the track, and don’t forget to watch this weekend’s races–the Nationwide Series race is on Saturday at 2pm Eastern on abc, and the Sprint Cup run will be Sunday at 1 on Fox.

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