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Although it’s been out of production for near on three years, Honda’s legendary NSX still does battle on the circuits of Japans Super GT touring car series. Racing in the GT500 category, the Super GT NSX’s aren’t exactly what you’d call factory-issue. Nearly everything is changed. The V6 engine sits longitudinally rather [...]
Okay folks, here’s a curly one for you all. As its submission to this year’s LA Auto Show design challenge, Mitsubishi has entered this, the MMR25 concept race car. Looking more arachnid than automobile, the MMR25 boasts a number of ‘innovations’ that Mitsubishi claim will be all the rage on the rally [...]
Yep, you heard me. I used "Civic Hybrid" and "Race Car" in the same sentence. British firm Oaktec has decided to see if the granny-spec Civic has any potential as a racecar and has contracted performance car specialists Lotus Engineering to help transform the humble Honda hybrid into a fire-breathing, electron-guzzling motorsports [...]
Last week we told you about Mitsubishi UK’s Evo X-based touring car contender that was being prepped for the Britcar Championship. Well, it made its racing debut at the Silverstone 24-hour enduro over the weekend, and by all accounts it survived its baptism of fire with flying colours. Final standings put the [...]
In extremely belated news (sorry guys, I’ve been a busy boy lately), Subaru is apparently considering fielding a works team in the FIA World Touring Car Championship. While Subaru’s motorsport roots lie firmly in the innumerable gravel-strewn rally stages that snake their way around the globe, recent moves to homogenise rules and regulations between [...]
Mitsubishi Motors UK has announced that it is in the process of developing a track-ready version of the Lancer Evolution X for entry into the Britcar Championship, with a view to establishing a one-make series for the Evo X in the near future. “We are pleased to be introducing a race-car programme for [...]
After a lacklustre road rally debut at this year’s Targa Tasmania, the R35 GT-R has finally scored its first ever outright win in a tarmac rally - and on standard-issue street tyres, no less. 24-year-old Steven Jones was the man behind the tiller of the Fabcar R35 throughout the Quit Targa West, which [...]
In a touching display for the man who almost single-handedly created one of Subaru’s largest foreign markets for the rally-bred Impreza WRX, almost 1100 Subaru Impreza owners converged on Prodrive’s Banbury headquarters to form an enormous tribute for Colin McRae, who sadly perished in a helicopter accident late last year which also claimed the [...]
Japanese aftermarket parts powerhouse Blitz has apparently transplanted the RWD drivetrain from a Z33 Fairlady Z into a near-new R35 GT-R, which suggests only one thing: there are plans afoot to enter a back-wheel burnin’ GT-R into the sideways circus that is the D1 Grand Prix.
While I personally frown upon such mechanical mutilation of a [...]
While its torsion beam rear suspension may lack the outright handling potential of the multi-link rear found in the Japanese Market FD2 Civic Type R, there’s no denying that the European (and Australian) spec FN2 CTR is one beautiful beast. In racing guise it’s even more handsome, and the JAS Motorsport-built Civic Type RR (not [...]
