Racing is expensive. Endurance racing, like the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona that happened this past weekend, is really expensive. There are more tires, more fuel, more crew, more wear and tear on the...
FCP Euro Adds Corteco as a Premier Partner For The 2019 TC America Championship For Immediate Release - January 28, 2019, Milford, CT -- After a successful inaugural season finishing third overall in the TCR class of the Pirelli World Challenge, FCP Euro is partnering with Corteco for the...
Every year, the Nürburgring-Nordschleife closes for the typically formidable German winter. During this time, the track undergoes its usual rehabilitation. This winter though, the track undergoes its most extensive overhaul in forty years, and it may effect the characteristics of the track going...
Last night's opening ceremonies kicked off the 41st Dakar Rally in Lima, Peru. Among much controversy, 2019 is the first year that the Dakar Rally is to remain inside the borders of a single country. This year, the rally begins and ends in the Peruvian capital - between which the competitors will...
FCP Euro Takes Aim At 2019 TC America TCR Class Championship For Immediate Release - December 24, 2018, Milford, CT -- After a successful inaugural season finishing third overall in the TCR class of Pirelli World Challenge, FCP Euro is setting its sights on vying for the re-branded TC America...
The BMW M3 is an icon in the world of performance cars. Its perfect balance of power and precision has made it a track darling for the better part of three decades. When the F80 was introduced, there was no doubt the lineage would carry on. Purists, however, were troubled knowing the...
The video footage just doesn't do the run justice. We knew several weeks ago, the Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak had smashed the previous year's record of the world famous "race to the clouds" by a full 16 seconds. We also knew that Volkswagen had onboard footage of the run, but didn't know when...
We ran our completely stock, project MK7 GTI around Lime Rock Park for a timed lap. Here's how it did. The MK7 GTI is one of the most fun, capable platforms we've tested in a while. It has the simple essence of a Mark 1 GTI, with all the performance and modern creature comforts you'd expect from...
Last week, we installed a passenger seat in our Volkswagen GTI TCRs and gave hot laps at Lime Rock Park to our VIP guests. Here are their reactions: "One hot hatch on a hazy day." "Oh, it was fun." "Every single time, I thought 'We're gonna crash, we're gonna crash, this is it, it's been...
Trial, error. Trial, error. Trial, SUCCESS! In the latest episode of Dapper Drift, our developer, Denis Ivanov, links Summer Jam at Sonoma Raceway in California. If you don't know what that means, or why you should care, allow me to explain: Drifting is, in essence, the ability to control a...