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We went, we broke it, we raced it, we returned

Thursday, May 5th: On this occasion the Autosport Labs team headed to Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows, CA to attend “Goin’ for Broken 2010”. That’s a 24 Hours of LeMons event for those of you not knowing. We suffered the minor inconvenience of an overheated wheel bearing near Tangent, OR and fixed it hoping that…

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Make mine a Merkur… A crapcan, that is

A new year inspires bold ideas and uncovers new challenges. It seeds the dreamer’s thoughts and creates opportunity. Sometimes the challenge of a new years’ opportunity is so compelling, so inspirational that no amount of pain reliever, water or sleep will make it go away. When the dream is to field your very own creation…

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Chasing in the dark

Doubt, the cold Halloween night air, and my balaclava diffusing every exhalation were resulting in the persistent fogging of my glasses (why hadn’t I thought of this?). I’m the second driver of the Autosport Lab Rats Team that’s about to be sacrificed to the night during the inaugural Chumpcar race at Portland International Raceway. The…

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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. Ice is slippery The Peugeot 505 Turbo survives by breaking free of its restraints! Since…

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