ARSE-FREEZE-APALOOZA 2009
The last time some of the Autosport Labs’ team members headed to Thunderhill Raceway our reverie of racing was impinged by the news that the car we had helped to prepare and planned to compete would not be joining us. Since then the Autosport Labs’-sponsored, Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey’s, $500 Crapcan, Peugeot 505 Turbo S…
Memories of ChumpCar: Becoming a Racer’s Wife
When trying new things, friends are always armed with advice on whether you should go for it or not. There are also situations when people advise you when to be strong and when to be afraid. When to jump and when to stay on the ledge. And most often such advice are reflections of the…
A 24 hour LabRat!
We Finished! After months of preparation we completed the inaugural ChumpCar Halloween 24 hour endurance race at Portland International Raceway! A fast and durable little LabRat was assembled by our crack team of Miata-owning autocrossers. In the weeks leading up to the race we were faced with the disappointment of having one of our drivers…
Welcome to ChumpCar!
Friday After months of blood, sweat, tears, and plenty of rivets, one tech inspection could make or break our weekend. Would they declare that the LabRat is a cheater car and give us 500 penalty laps? Would we have spent all this time building a car just for a “nice” weekend at the raceway, watching?…
Dome, NACA intake, lights and a billion rivets
We love rivets. Rivets are fun. We don’t know when to stop using them- so we usually add 2-3x more rivets than necessary. Really, is there such a thing as too many rivets? Clearly, we will claiming rivets in our race car budget. Brain Dome When you put tall people into little cars you have…
LabRat tarted up!
Our talented artist and driver John Kimball recently invested in his own vinyl printer and used our LabRat as his blank slate. We are loving the results! We’ll let the graphics speak for themselves.