Every day we walk the streets, most of the time little realizing how closely we might be dicing with death. The Grim Reaper is nothing if not unpredictable. Cars speed past in a seemingly parallel world, but the sidewalk would provide no protection if one were to come careering out of control, its...
Those of us old enough to have owned rear wheel drive cars as our first rides are WELL acquainted with oversteer. For those of you weaned on VW Golfs and Honda Civics, oversteer may not be familiar to you. Oversteer (or "loose" in racing terms) refers to the back end of a car coming loose, which...
The crazy world of monster trucks – those strange vehicles featuring large wheels and suspensions placed underneath traditional pick-up bodies - is sometimes referred to as a mechanized version of professional wrestling. Certainly the two forms of all-American entertainment inspire larger-than-life...
Riots display human beings acting at their worst. Usually the result of political or social turmoil, most riots rely on killing, raping, looting and widespread destruction to get their point across. After examining the tolls that riots take on society, we have to wonder whether this is an effective...
Understeer, or "push" in racing lingo, refers to the tendency of a vehicle to continue in a straight line when the wheels are turned. Understeer is the natural handling characteristic of front wheel drive and most AWD cars, for several reasons: • The majority of vehicle weight is carried over the...
Danica Patrick wrecked her car on lap 67 at the Daytona 500. The race car driver who is better known for her sexualized GoDaddy commercials, wrecked her car and got knocked out of the race. The Daytona 500 was Danica Patrick's NASCAR Nationwide Series debut. Thankfully Patrick was not injured...
The National Hot Road Association, also known as NHRA, is "deeply saddened" by the death of a female spectator in Chandler, Arizona. A tire flew off of Antron Brown's Matco Tools/U.S. Army Dragster after the driver lost control. The tire hit and critically injured the woman during the first round...
Car and Driver magazine published an article on April 1 claiming that the White House ordered Chrysler and GM to end all participation in NASCAR races. If they quit participating, the article said that they would be eligible to get additional federal loans. Luckily for NASCAR fans, this was just...
Team Penske's Helio Castroneves has put his car on the pole postion for this year's 94th running of the Indianapolis 500 race. Castroneve sits alongside his Penske teammate, Will Power, who qualified in the second spot. Completing the front row is Dario Franchitti, driving for Target Chip Ganassi...
At the turn of the 20th century, a few intrepid drivers attempted to prove the viability of the automobile by racing around the globe from New York to Paris. Some 102 years later, a group calling themselves "Project Evie" look to do a very similar thing to prove the viability of electric cars:...
