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Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta Should Become America’s New Lap Record Battleground
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The newly renamed Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta is starting to become a new battleground for production lap car records. As it should be. Cars like the Dodge Viper ACR, Corvette ZR1, and now the Porsche 911 GT3 RS and GT2 RS have traded punches there just in the last couple years. The Viper’s record was…
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The News for March 29th, 2019
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. This week: a gorgeous one-off Ferrari, more of the attractive 2020 Hyundai Sonata, lap records, and more. Ferrari P80/C Sometime back in 2015, a “great connoisseur of the Ferrari world” approached Ferrari…
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Last Call: Reinventing the U-Turn
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Picture this: you’re part of a large convoy driving through a remote area when you realize your newbie navigator thought you said west instead of east. Now you need to find a way to point all those vehicles in the opposite direction as quickly as possible. We’ve all been there, right? Fortunately the Chinese military has…
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The News for March 22nd, 2019
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. This week: another stupid “coupe” that’s actually an SUV, Cadillac’s CT5 revealed early, BMW teases 2 Series Gran Coupe, Fisker commits to a new SUV, plus your automotive news. Porsche Cayenne Not-A-Coupe…
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What It’s Like to Do the 12 Hours of Sebring in iRacing – Part 2
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Welcome to part 2 of this well-documented descent into madness as I run the iRacing 12 Hours of Sebring, the first true endurance race I’ve ever virtually taken part in. If you missed part 1, I strongly recommend reading that first to understand what led up to this point. Four weeks of preparation with several…
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What It’s Like to Do the 12 Hours of Sebring in iRacing – Part 1
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One of the biggest selling points of iRacing is its proper endurance racing that’s unmatched by other racing sims. Every year they run about a dozen special events which include most of the major endurance races found on the WEC, IMSA, or VLN calendar. Each one takes place on a laser-scanned adaptation of the track…
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What Was Your Automotive News for the Week?
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This seems to happen every year. A bunch of the year’s biggest new cars drop during the Geneva Motor Show and hardly anything happens in the week or two after it. The news out of the industry this week was all pretty minor and not all that interesting, or at least not interesting enough for…
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The Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series is Coming to iRacing
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It is a known fact that trophy trucks are awesome and make for some of the most exciting racing you can find. These wonderful machines have already been immortalized in a few racing games, but we’re about to have another option. iRacing has just announced a new alliance with the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series…
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The News for March 8th, 2019
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. This week: the all-new 2020 Hyundai Sonata and some other hypercar things with weird names. Plus your automotive news for the week. 2020 Hyundai Sonata The Geneva Motor Show was a platform…
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The News for March 1st, 2019
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. This week: there’s a new Ferrari and I make fun of its name again, Polestar reveals their first mainstream EV, Ginetta shows off a new track-ready supercar, and Lamborghini does the Spyder…
