All Blog Posts Tagged 'Racing' (10)

The New Formula E Racing Series Starts in China in 8 days!

INSIGHT: China Racing – the hometown heroes

BEIJING|01 SEP 14

When the 10 teams roll their cars out onto the purpose-built Beijing street track for the inaugural Formula E race, there is one outfit…

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Added by Michael Thies on September 4, 2014 at 2:17am — No Comments

This Twin Buick was built in Kent Fuller's Shop in 1959 in Sherman Oaks, CA -Courtesy of Standard 1320 Drag Racing

The Twin Buick was built in Kent Fuller's Shop in 1959
on Woodman Avenue in Sherman Oaks, CA

Construction begins in the Summer of 1959 in Kent Fuller's Chassis Shop…
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Added by Michael Thies on May 21, 2013 at 1:16am — No Comments

United SportsCar Racing To Debut In 2014 -by Road Atlanta

United SportsCar Racing To Debut In 2014

  • Organization Brings Together GRAND-AM, ALMS
  • IMSA Retained As Sanctioning Body
  • 2014 Class Names Announced

With uniqueness and modernity at the forefront, the new United SportsCar Racing platform was revealed (#TheReveal) today at Sebring International Raceway,…

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Added by Michael Thies on March 29, 2013 at 8:40pm — No Comments

Dream Cars Welcomes Racing Legends Don Garlits & Geoff Bodine by Tara Bush



  • Meet & Greet the legends during the Friday night Green Light Kickoff Party
  • Autograph signing with Don Garlits Saturday and Sunday inside the Dream Builders Marketplace…
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Added by Michael Thies on March 28, 2013 at 8:38am — No Comments

Georgia Beginnings of NASCAR

Georgia Beginnings of NASCAR

by Mike Thies www.SouthEastWheelsEvents.com

Free Calendar for Car and Motorcycle Events

Get a glimpse of what it was like being a “Moon Runner” driver in the heyday of moonshine and prohibition by visiting a true Georgia treasure; the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame! It is located in Dawsonville, GA, a town that makes a serious bid for the right to be considered the primary birthplace of NASCAR…

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Added by Michael Thies on August 15, 2012 at 8:05am — No Comments

Drift Racing Is More Than Just The Finish Line



     Road Atlanta has hosted drift racing events for several years. While Drift Racing has grown in popularity in the last decade or more, drifting is really nothing new. If your car's rear end has ever swung around on a wet road, and you've struggled for 50 feet to get control, you've drifted. Even in car racing drifting is pretty much old school.…

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Added by Michael Thies on June 13, 2012 at 4:58pm — 1 Comment

A 1951 Ford, Racing Maserati, Oldsmobile Ralley, The Busiest Time For Car Shows



By Miguel Caparros. 1951 Ford Convertible                     Click For Video Here

In early in 1951 my father bought a 51 Ford Convertible. His plan was to exploit a hole in the Over The…

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Added by Miguel Caparros on October 19, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

A car show where the cars also go fast!

If you have never been to a Vintage event you are in for a pleasant surprise. You will see one of a kind museum cars that come out and race hard. This LeMans Rothmans Porsche was wrecked after I shot this photo. The car is so valuable it will be rebuilt.


The cars that the owners and crews bring in as support vehicles are a show onto themselves. This cadillac drove down from Virginia.…

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Added by Doctor Stig on October 14, 2010 at 2:24am — 1 Comment

Street Racing in New York City

I was discussing this with some of you guys and girls out there. I was a spectator in the early 60's and then a competitor in the late 60's early 70's. I actually raced my 55 Chevy 210 for pinks at the connecting.

Joe Oldham published this in 2007 get his book if you like stories like this. Between Google Earth and Google sreet level you can really get a street level view of stories.

Plug this coordinates to Google earth or Maps and it will take you to the spot.… Continue

Added by Miguel Caparros on April 27, 2010 at 2:38pm — No Comments

Confessions of a Motor Head. Racing on the streets of Boston.

by Miguel Caparros

1969 was the beginning of my senior year of high school in Plymouth New Hampshire. By November it seemed it would be the mildest and least snowfall in a long time. I knew this…

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Added by Miguel Caparros on April 20, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

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