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Nerd's Eye View: Science of Speed S2000
By: Sarah Forst
Images by Sarah Forst and Wes Dumalski
Back in March while covering the Modified Streetcar Shootout, this S2000 was tearing up the track. The car was clean but sounded dirty and upon inspection under the hood, the engine looked like it was put together by techs in white lab coats. What struck us about this car was the very exotic appearance! Surely this one off piece of art must cost a bajillion dollars and be impossible to re-create! As we looked closer we were absolutely shocked by what we found within this build.
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Motegi Racing Introduces Technomesh To The Street
Industry Press Release
Motegi Racing is proud to introduce track-proven performance for the street with the launch of its one-piece, forged Technomesh wheel in fitments suitable for high-performance sports cars.
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Motovicity's Ticket To Ride Scion FR-S Update- AEM Electronics Gauges, AQ-1 Datalogger and High Performance Fuel Pump!
by Mike Kojima
In our last update for the Motovicity Ticket To Ride Scion FR-S project, we discussed the attributes of the HKS Legamax Exhaust. Now we will be adding another bunch of cool parts from AEM Electronics to both monitor performance and to supply fuel for our engine.
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Global Time Attack - Round 1 - Road Atlanta
By Wes Dumalski
Quality images by Sarah Forst and mediocre shots by Wes Dumalski
Attacking time is a funny thing… All sorts of things happen during these 2 day race weekends and no one knows what mother nature or Newton has in store for us. This past weekend at Road Atlanta both of these personas had a chance to show us who's boss and utterly prove that we are in control of very little. In this case the Saturday forecast brought likely promises of rain and when the teams hit the track to sunny skies they were in a fury to set down fast laps as no one knew (not even the weather people; do they ever?) what would unfold. As luck would have it the rain held off and as teams pushed ever further it was Newton who would prevail on this day. Through 11 wins in a row and numerous track records the Professional Awesome EVO VII would turn its last laps in anger, its life cut short by Road Atlanta.
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MotoIQ Radio: Wes Dumalski GTA Review, Professional Awesome, Brad Lim and Jonathan Bradford of Falken Tire, and Bryan Bridges of Bridges Racing
By Justin Banner and Kerryann De La Cruz
MotoIQ's own Wes Dumalski will join us first for our all Road Atlanta, all the time show. Well, actually, not everything happened at Road Atlanta. Oh, well, we're trying to be more Professional and awesome, but we'll bring on Professional Awesome instead to talk about their plans for the rest of 2013 after that bad crash at RA. Then Brad Lim and Jonathan Bradford break up the mononitny of Road Atlanta with talks about their ALMS weekend and their Formula Drift weekend at... Road Atlanta. So much for that! Finally, Bryan Bridges will come on to talk about Daigo Saito's win at Round 2 for the Formula Drift 2013 Championship. Hah! Bet you thought I was going to say Road Atlanta again before the end of this, didn't you?! Oops. Got questions? Type them in the comments or on the MotoIQ Facebook Page!
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Formula Drift 2013: Round 2 - Road Atlanta
By Justin Banner
Daijiro Yoshihara was in the catbird seat after taking home the win at Round 1 of the Formula Drift Pro Championship presented by Go Pro at Long Beach. Hot on his heels are Vaughn Gittin, Jr, Chris Forsberg, and Chelsea Denofa who were all looking for that weak spot in Dai's armor. With Round 2 at Road Atlanta, Dai was also looking like the favorite, but he's been the favorite before and it's bitten him hard. Would Dai make it out of Hotlanta with the points lead or would someone take a shortcut on the "Road to the Championship" and take the number one spot?
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The Rest of the Story: Tony Angelo's Scion FR-S Feature
By Justin Banner
You've followed along with the build and now it's time to see what came out of the Sandy Salvage FR-S! We dive into the details of the US Air Force Scion FR-S that Tony Angelo will be piloting for the 2013 Formula Drift Season. We'll look a bit further than the build up articles were able to and show you the parts that make this FR-S the beast that it will be this season!
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A Dummy's Guide to MotoGP in Austin
By Khiem Dinh
"If you build it, they will come." What applied to a baseball field in the middle of a corn field also applies to one of the finest race tracks in the world located in the middle of the Austin hill country. Since the Formula 1 race last November where the asphalt had barely cured before the cars hit the surface, many changes have occurred at the track. This time around, it was the MotoGP rodeo putting on the show. In my opinion, nothing is a more pure expression of the synergy between man and high-powered machine. Along with this event being the first MotoGP race at the track, more history was made at this race with maybe the most disruptive rider to join MotoGP since Valentino Rossi.
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KW Variant 3 coilovers for 2013 Ford Focus ST
Industry Press Release
Race technology for the road, with adjustable compression and rebound dampening. State of the art motorsport technology enables better performance on the streets. The independently adjustable compression and rebound dampening allows for cutom driving setups. The exclusive KW patented system has dual level valves that allow for adjustment of the rebound dampening for your road comfort and the compression dampening that controls the driving dynamics.
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Fast Lap with Billy Johnson - Circuit Of The Americas
By Billy Johnson
Circuit Of The Americas (COTA for short) is America's first purpose-built Formula 1 track which stands at 3.427 miles long. The track is characterized by a lot of elevation change and with 20 diverse and technical turns, it's a formula for great racing and a really difficult but fun track to drive.
Located in Austin, TX the track was designed with the assistance of Hermann Tilke, who is responsible for designing most of the modern F1 circuits. Proposed in the middle of 2010, COTA was completed in time for the November 18, 2012 Formula 1 race which I was fortunate enough to attend. The track will host everything from MotoGP to Australian V8 Supercars and the world's top Road Racing series. It's exciting to finally have a modern European-style circuit here in the States with a similar track specification, layout, curbing, and run-offs. Rather than the tight, narrow, and bumpy tracks that characterize North American racing circuits.
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Project Honda Civic EJ: Building the B18C1 Part V
By Chuck Johnson
In our last installment of Project Honda Civic EJ, we thoroughly explored the Harlem Shake phenomenon and also partially completed the assembly of our B18C1’s valvetrain. Now equipped with Skunk2 valve springs and titanium retainers; the cylinder head of our B18C1 engine is ready for completion. Next on this list? A set of Pro1+ camshafts, Skunk2 adjustable cam gears, and an ARP stud kit.
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MPTCC Round 2: Willow Springs International Raceway
By Martin Gonzales
Only two races into the 2013 MPTCC season and we already had a close battle for championship positions. No doubt Edik Stepanyan in the M-Factory Acura Integra had a solid grasp on first place after winning both races at Autoclub Speedway, but there was a fight for third place going on between Michele Abbate in the Scion Racing Scion tC and Steve Rockwood in the MotoIQ Project Infiniti G20 Racecar! Justin Taylor was only six points behind first and after watching Edik's taillights the first two rounds, he was ready to put the Rockstar Garage Honda S2000 in the top podium spot.
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By Mike Kojima
I am old enough to have been around during what I consider to be the golden era of American road racing in the 80's. In this time we saw the rise of IMSA with the outrageous GTP prototypes and the exotic sort of production based GTO and GTU cars. SCCA had Trans Am and even CART Open wheelers were sporting awesome technology rivaling Formula One but with closer more exciting racing. I was lucky enough to have been a fan during this time and later on in the decade a participant.
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Nerd's Eye View: UMS Time Attack Evo
By Wes Dumalski
Like all car stories this one starts as a tale of insanity… The 2003 Mistubishi Lancer Evolution VIII you see before you was one of the first Evos to hit the States and ever since it landed it has been within the sites of Tony Szirka. While he did not own the car when it arrived, his hands have been on it ever since several Arizona based shops were unable to deliver on the previous owner's requests. Like many cars despite the fact that the title is held in someone else's name the car belongs to the one that works on it, slaves over it, and pours their heart and soul in to making it all that it can be, and in this case that person is NOT the owner.
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By Mike Kojima
As we collect parts for our Ticket To Ride 2013 Ford Mustang, our focus has turned to the suspension. In our last segment of Ticket To Ride, we looked at some sway bars, braces, 4 link geometry correcting links and a Watts link from Whiteline to make sure that the Motivicity machine is well on its way towards world class cornering performance.
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Robby Gordon’s Stadium Super Trucks – Round 3 at LA Coliseum
By Justin Banner
What do you get when you mix a short course style trucks, a legendary stadium, rallycross like track, and drivers who push no matter what position they are in? You get Stadium Super Trucks! Stadium Truck Racing is back and you could feel the spirit of Mickey Thompson at LA Coliseum in every heat. It was Monster Trucks, Super Buggies, and the top class of Stadium Super Trucks that night for round 3 and we’re going to take you there and show you why you can’t miss the next round at San Diego.
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