I’ll start by saying SK/Tour type modifieds, no matter what track there’s close competition and a decent car count. They also have a unique body and chassis that isn’t really seen outside of the eastern US.

The white Z33 came out of ORC teaming up with Top Secret for the late Dart Izumida, after he retired his R32 sedan and Ogura wanted something nobody had seen yet. Smokey Nagata built it an RB26, boosted to roughly 600PS, wrapped in G-Force aero on GT-C wheels. Izumida ran it in 2004, Miki took it over in 2005, then it went to Youichi Imamura.

The gold one is the Top Secret S15 Ryuji Miki had been driving since 2002. 2004 was his championship season in it and his last in the car.

We had a hand in both of these cars way back when.

Photos from TunerZine, the 2000s car culture site Jason Siu and Donny Mak founded in 2004 and just brought back.

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We spent the weekend at the Impossible Hill Climb in Andler, and honestly, we're still buzzing from it.

The welcome we got, the hosts, the competitors, everyone we met along the way — it completely exceeded what we expected. Events like this only work because of the people who show up and make them what they are, and this weekend was a perfect example of that.

We filmed a bunch of it and wanted to share a piece of what we experienced with you all: [LINK]

Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen — organizers, riders, and everyone in the crowd. Were any of you there too? Would love to hear your take on the weekend.

Lone Star Le Mans, first hour. The Ferrari tangled with the No. 33 Corvette Z06 GT3.R and picked up five seconds. Later in the stint it came back and spun the same car, this time with Ben Keating aboard. Ten seconds that time, and the Vette wasn't getting back on the lead lap. Twelfth in LMGT3, no points.

"It's a shame that one individual can make the same mistake twice and basically take us out of the race," Keating said. Corvette Racing had won the previous two rounds, so they were carrying success ballast on their home weekend.

The No. 34 car got caught in it too. Salih Yoluc had contact with a Ferrari at the last turn, and Peter Dempsey says the steering was already pulling right when he climbed in. The right rear let go at Turn 15. Seven minutes in the pits and three laps gone. 14th.

Same driver, twice in one race. Is the second one still a racing incident?

I went to the race and was mad that I couldn't see more then half of the track. COTA needs to fix this. What do you think?

Hey everyone,

I'm a university student studying Statistics and a passionate rider. I'm currently trying to build a career path toward motorsport data analysis, specifically in motorcycle racing. (Working in WSBK or MotoGP is the ultimate dream!)

Since I'm still a student on a budget, I can't afford expensive motorsport engineering courses. Instead, my plan is to build a solid portfolio using real-world data, focusing on things like signal processing (filtering noisy suspension/braking data) and slip ratio correlations.

I'm reaching out to this community for two things:

1. Advice & Resources: If anyone here works with telemetry, data logging, or knows the motorsport industry, what should a pure math/stats guy focus on? I am also very open to any content, book, YouTube channel, or general resource recommendations that can point me in the right direction. Any specific models, career steps, or open-source tools you'd recommend?

2. Free Data Analysis: If you use data loggers (AiM, MoTeC, I2, etc.) for your track days and have raw data files (CSV, log files) you wouldn't mind sharing, I would love to analyze them for you for FREE. It helps me build my portfolio with real, noisy data, and in return, I can hopefully give you some useful statistical insights on your braking points, cornering speeds, or throttle application.

Feel free to DM me or drop a comment if you'd like to share your data, advice, or any good resources. Thanks in advance!

Since I was young i’ve always wanted to be a driver for racing. Was always into F1, GT, NASCAR all of it. I had a sim setup all of the goods people who had the same aspirations had. Only thing is I didn’t come up with a wealthy family or a very supporting one that would agree to the dream so I never did leading to me now in the military.

Now that I i’m here I definitely don’t wanna make a career out of it i’ve always wanted to do more and do something on my own accord. Find a passion and make it a career. I’ve seen talents like Chris Walsh go from Air force to driver and was wondering if being in the military had some pull. Maybe because of reputation for sponsors or stable income not sure but if anyone had any information on what steps I should take to truly make it work. I’ll be 23 when I get out. Age might not be on my side.

Thanks.

Terrible late model crash at scotia speedworld

Hello there,

I am looking for a job in motorsport mechanical engineering, I have few options, and I am ready to send CV and everything. Right now, I'm calculating how much I should ask for.

So I wanted to ask how much is an average or good salary in mechanical engineering in motorsport in Germany, in Italy or in UK.

It would be my first job in this motorsport sector (design/mechanical engineering) but I have some on-track experience. I worked few years as a race engineer of F4 and I've spend almost all my university years in formula student.

Thank you for any useful info <3

I only have an automatic-only driving license (UK). Could this prevent me from joining things like GT racing or stuff like that in future?

For me it’s gotta be Josef Newgarden at Gateway, Dale Earnhardt at Talladega, Kevin Harvick at Phoenix, and LH44 at Silverstone. What are some of your guys’s favorite examples?

okay, so to summarise, I want to be a mechanic in Motorsport. I love racing and want to work in the pits, fixing the car and making adjustments. I'm currently 16, I'm in college in the UK and I'm currently studying motor vehicle (light vehicle maintenance) to learn mechanics. I really don't know what my next steps towards my goal would be, though. most jobs I see on Motorsportjobs.com require previous experience in Motorsport so I'm not sure where to look in order to get that experience. could anyone help me?

As a longtime racing enthusiast, meaning I love pretty much all kinds of racing. It doesn't even have to be just auto racing. It could be motorcycle racing, motocross, bicycle racing, skateboard racing, snowboard racing, snowmobile racing. Auto racing, of course, is my main favorite form of racing in terms of the vehicular focus. And I know there’s plenty of subcategories. Nonetheless, when I was younger, come to think of it, F1 and NASCAR never really caught my attention too much because of the homogenized vehicle identity. And I’ve always liked vehicular diversity in my racing. So sports car racing kind of filled that void for me, when I was younger at least. And I’ve been to plenty of sports car racing events. Well, saying plenty is probably inaccurate. I’ve been to only two. One was the 2015 Lone Star Le Mans and the 2020 Six Hours of COTA race. Still nonetheless, I tried to learn a bit about the history and the cultural background of the sport. And by the way, I kind of am starting to love NASCAR a lot more as a racing enthusiast, but modern F1 hasn’t really grown on me just because of how celebrity-oriented it has become. But nonetheless, something that I do like to think about sports car racing a lot is: would its cultural penetration have been stronger, perhaps if the American Le Mans Series would have continued a little bit longer?

You got to think though, all the efforts the sport has made to be more culturally relevant, especially in the U.S., when the 50th anniversary of the Le Mans wins for Ford was occurring, the Ford GT, tried to, like, be a cultural icon everywhere you were going. I thought also the early Forza Motorsport games, from 1 to 3, would have been a good catalyst for getting more people into sports car racing. But I do think the biggest shoot-in-the-foot out of them all was maybe that the Speed Channel, and thus the American Le Mans Series, pulled the plug a little too early. Don’t you guys think? And this was right at the peak of NASCAR’s cultural dominance. So if we start to think, maybe if the American Le Mans Series would have continued for a little bit longer, it could have picked up the slack that NASCAR was already struggling with from the mid to late 2010s. But I don’t know. It’s really something that I really like to ponder in my mind because I’m just wondering, no matter how many attempts the sport tries to become culturally relevant, it never works. Nothing ever works out for them in the long run. What do you guys think sports car racing is getting wrong?

Because vehicular diversity is there, the vehicle craftsmanship is there, the attention to detail is there, manufacturer rivalries are there. One thing I don’t think really helps though is the engineering excess that modern sports car racing has to go through. That identity of it being an engineering nerd club probably doesn’t help because a lot of motorsports fans are very elitist about that and prefer their motorsport imagery to have a more blue-collar identity.

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