FCP Euro Weekly Auto Digest

February 2/14 through 2/18 marked FCP Euro’s return to Road Atlanta for the first race of the 2018 season with American Endurance Racing. Road Atlanta is like a homecoming for our Mercedes C300. It’s where we debuted the Mercedes for the 2017 season and came away with overall wins for Saturday...

We're kicking off our 2018 motorsports season with a weekly vlog called Motorsport Monday.  There is a lot of work that goes into building, maintaining, and refreshing a racecar. Sleepless nights, late-night part runs, and skipped meals are just some of the pitfalls of having to do a lot of...

The idea behind the Winnebago Minnie Winnie RV is simple: it’s a toilet on wheels. Also a living room, bedroom(s), command center, party pad... OK, so it’s a whole house you can park wherever. It also makes car racing way more fun and easy. And no, that doesn’t involve setting lap times in the...

Simply put, Winter Jam is the biggest drift event on the west coast. How could we miss it? RWB Porsches, E30 BMWs with custom hand-made suspensions, and pit bikes riding wheelies—all of which have become the norm at Sonoma Raceways Winter Jam, held every year in sunny California.  This year, FCP...

The OM616, OM617, and OM617a inline diesel engines came equipped in a variety of Mercedes platforms starting in the mid-1970's on through the mid-1980's, at least in the U.S. marketplace. With over a decade of production you can imagine the sheer number of these engines that were produced, but...

Here's what to do if the air conditioning isn't working on your W124 Mercedes. Vacuum pods direct airflow through the HVAC system Not having A/C caused much frustration for me with the brutal heat of Texas summer. The a/c system on these cars is complex and requires a little bit of study to...

There is a lot of noise on the internet—fake news, people yelling into cameras making terrible videos, advertisements forcing us to buy something, etc etc. But every so often, there are pieces of content that force us to do nothing but sit back, relax, and enjoy the sights and sounds presented in...

I'm writing this blog post from inside the FCP Euro race team's pit garage at NCM Motorsports park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. What's more important than our location, though, is our standing—second place overall in the series for 2017. And this weekend is our last and final chance to clinch...

You know the feeling when your GTI engine blows and the hub on your motorcycle disintegrates while ripping down the highway, leaving your only choice of transportation as your Mercedes E55 AMG drift car? Denis Ivanov of our Dapper Drift series sure does.  In episode four, Denis shows the carnage...