Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?

My job can be pretty awesome. Today was one of those really special days. I visited the Air Force Research Laboratory's Shiva Star. It is the Air Force’s largest pulsed power system. Shiva Star will store nearly 10 million joules of energy (equal to 5 pounds of TNT). It produces a pulse of 120,000 volts and 10 million …

Unless you just stick to playing Super Nintendo ROMs on your laptop like I do, you know that video gaming isn't a cheap hobby. The system, the games, the peripherals, the downloadable content... it all adds up quickly. Take Grid 2: Mono Edition. It will put you out a whopping $190,000!

The Clash was on a downward spiral in 1984/5 and Joe Strummer went to Spain to get away for a while. During that time he acquired a Dodge 3700 GT, which he later lost in a parking garage in Madrid.

BMW Design and Pininfarina have teamed up to make this striking-looking one-off, the Gran Lusso Coupé. Revealed today at the Concorso D'Eleganza Villa D'Este, the apostrophe-laden fancy car show by Lake Como in Italy, the gran Lusso may hint at future BMW design directions.

Today, Attila Nagy of Gizmodo and I drove for ten hours through sunshine and rain to get to Lake Como in time. The Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este starts tomorrow morning, and you will see everything that matters. We have plenty of cameras to make sure of that.

I can personally attest that our pals at the Classic Car Club Manhattan have a wildly eclectic collection that includes old and new exotics, classic American iron, and tons of racing cars. But what about their counterparts in London?

What happens when pro drifters Ryan Tuerck and Chris Forsberg attempt a coordinated car crash? They crash out both cars, just not in the way that they'd planned.