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Ferrari-Badged, Chrysler-Powered Open Wheeled "Indy Ferrari"

Once again, a tenuous grasp of the English language, a complete lack of shame, and a bitchin' custom car have led us to eBay awesomeness. Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on a genuine Eagle Roadster. Built around a 3.5 liter Chrysler V6 from the "Cab-Forward" era, this open-wheeled, tandem-seat automobile is street legal and available for you to buy. The fun in this ad comes from the half-truths and gross overstatements of fact. For instance:

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6:00 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
4,254 views, 78 comments

Latest by NovaloadMissesPolar: "Zero maintance!" FTW! I assume he means he has DONE zero "maintance" but it would be cool if he thought that could ever be true! I say we add that right up there to "cotomer sevice." more »

jalopnik automotive amerigasm

Top Ten American Automotive Pilgrimages

It wouldn't be a Jalopnik Automotive Amerigasm without a nod to the places that make American automotive history so great. Eddie Izzard may joke that he's from "Europe, where the history comes from," but the relative young age of the auto industry means our automotive history is as old and rich as anyone's...and of course, more American. Whether you have plans for the Fourth of July weekend or not, there's no better way to celebrate our country's freedom than by enjoying the freedom to drive somewhere and overspend at the gift shop. Below is our list of ten great American automotive pilgrimages for those that worship at the altar of wheeled transportation. More »

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2:00 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Matt Hardigree
3,980 views, 67 comments

Latest by M0L0TOV: I think it's funny how Sebring, Florida doesn't have some sort of automotive museum. I really hope in my heart of all hearts I get to see Jay Leno's garage someday. more »

racing news

Scott Dixon Wins Indianapolis 500 By Huge Margin

Despite a history of being rained out or generally unexciting, this years Indianapolis 500 offered everything a fan of the series could ask for — accidents, fire, three wide racing, and a Kiwi taking the checkered flag. After 500 miles of lapping a big oval, Scott Dixon took home $2,988,065 for winning the 92nd running of the famed race. The good folks at Indycar.com condensed the entire race down to seven minutes of off-key national anthem singing, crash highlights, and podium time. Don't say they never did anything for you. [IndyCar.com]

12:30 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
1,252 views, 38 comments

Latest by turbo zero: @muhnkee_2: Well you need something to go your way after the wonderful performance Daniel Vettori's boys put on at Old Trafford. And you left Ivan Mauger off your list of NZ motorsport heroes, the six time world champion in speedway more »

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Scott Dixon Takes Pole For 2008 Indy 500

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Danica Patrick Runs Into Crewman At Indy, We're Checking To See If That's A First For A Woman

Danica Patrick, the current headline maker of the IndyCar Series has made yet another headline, this time it's not so much of the rah-rah-go-women type. In a practice round for the upcoming Indianapolis 500, she managed to run into Charles Buckman, the chief mechanic for Mario Moraes' Dale Coyne Racing team. Buckman suffered scalp and facial cuts as well as a concussion. We're not going to make stereotypical comments about women drivers, but we can't imagine what is going to happen when the Goodyear ad people find out, they're going to have a field day. [ESPN] (Images via AP; Video via ESPN)

6:00 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Travis Hudson
8,965 views, 60 comments

Latest by mikedrawcar: @tigeraid: and i don't know if you noticed, but everyone agrees w/ you. (albeit w/ out the need to call anyone a moron) more »

racing news

NY Times Calls Hillary-Endorsing Sarah Fisher IRL's "Top Woman"

In a long article about the Indiana Democratic Primary, there's a picture of Hillary Clinton getting the endorsement of IRL racer and team-owner Sarah Fisher, with the caption "Hillary Rodham Clinton paid an election-day visit to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday to appear with race car driver Sarah Fisher, a top woman on the Indy car circuit, who endorsed her this week." This is true in the same way that Hillary Clinton is the top performer in the Democratic race for the White House in that "top" here means "supreme but for those other people with superior records." Technicalities. More »

4:40 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Matt Hardigree
1,634 views, 31 comments

Latest by Hyman Decent: @ViergangFuchs: Wow, did Danica Patrick kick your dog or something? I will say that I caught Patrick's appearance on The Late Show following her win and it was almost painful to watch. more »

retro

Federal Engineering #4 Racer Found In North Texas

Reader Jeff emailed us yesterday after our post about the very cool collection of the starting grid of the 1952 Indianapolis 500. As a paid "can you hear me now" guy, he roamed huge swaths of North Texas and one day managed to see the tail end of this beauty poking out the back of a garage. Despite our laziest best efforts to figure out the history on the car, we couldn't find anything on this particular Federal Engineering car. More pictures, and Jeff's story about it below.

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12:40 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
2,407 views, 35 comments

Latest by n/a: My grandfather worked for Federal Engineering for a number of years as Chief Engineer. Family talk has it that he pushed racing at Federal Engineering. I remember him going to Indy (by train) and I dimly remember the crash mentioned more »

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Pictures of Entire 1952 Indianapolis 500 Starting Grid Found

As much as we like open wheel racing and modern car designs, there's something far more awesome about vintage racing cars. This is undoubtedly the opinion of one Jim Rogacki, an engineer from Buffalo, who, while digging around for vintage car parts, managed to run into an amateur Indianapolis 500 historian. After shooting the breeze for a while, Jim convinced the man to let him scan his fantastic collection of photos for all 33 cars in the 1952 starting grid. We swiped a couple, but go take a look at the very neat complete collection and the story behind it over at Jalopy Journal.

10:40 AM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
2,068 views, 23 comments

Latest by joneez: @SundaySundayFnC: Indy roadsters were featured at Laguna Seca last year. To hear one run much less see a bunch under power is fantastic! They weren't run hard and they weren't meant to turn right but still very, very cool.+ Watch more »

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Wife Busts Tony Kanaan's Balls After Qualifying Behind Danica Patrick

She's everywhere these days - Danica Patrick is the Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova of open wheel racing and everyone wants a piece of the moment. Well, maybe except teammate Tony Kanaan and his wife. A quick item at Automobile relays a phone call from Kanaan's pregnant wife after he qualified third and behind Patrick at the last Mid-Ohio IRL race. When she heard about the result, she had a question for him: More »

4:40 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
5,767 views, 28 comments

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CBS' Doyel Rules IRL Isn't Real Racing, Danica Is "Junior Varsity"

We all know what Pedro de la Rosa thinks about women in motorsport. Now, we've got CBS Sports' Gregg Doyel weighing in on Danica Patrick's win, proclaiming the Indy Racing League to be an inferior racing series. Most people will agree the IRL isn't the highest pinnacle of motorsports, but Doyel thinks
"the IRL is not real racing. Not real good racing, anyway. It's not the best car circuit in this country — that would be NASCAR ... what is the IRL? It's a training ground for decent drivers who hope to be good enough to race somewhere important some day ... Winning in the IRL isn't a matter of talent..."
" Wait, what? He thinks NASCAR takes more skill? Hmm. Certainly there are some very skilled NASCAR drivers, and sure, there is competition, but it seems to us like Doyel is just shooting his mouth off. Suggesting the IRL isn't real racing, given the timing, comes across like Gregg is trying to deny Danica's skills. Which he then proceeds to do: More »

4:20 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Mark Arnold
5,572 views, 92 comments

Latest by n/a: Ijust found this site, and was really wondering how many of you actually get behind a wheel of any type of race car. I so happen race a 1934 Ford Truck Dwarf Car. On the tracks that I run on more »

danica patrick

McLaren's Pedro de la Rosa Thinks Women Are Too Weak To Race In F1

With all the buzz over Danica Patrick wiping the floor at Twin Ring Motegi in Japan last weekend, it's easy to forget there's other talented females engaged in various forms of motorsport across the world. Just look at Michèle Mouton's rally career — multiple wins in her Audi Quattro and finishing a close second place in the 1982 WRC championship. So you know that the girls can go just as fast as the boys — and as we saw this past weekend, sometimes faster. So this ultimately leads to the question, "Can a women be successful in Formula One?" Well, veteran McLaren test driver Pedro de la Rosa seems to think women might just not be strong enough to deal with the rigors of the track. More »

9:20 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Mark Arnold
6,796 views, 148 comments

Latest by GrimaceXL: The only problem with women in motor sports is that bears are attracted to menstruation. You don't want bears on suzuka do you!? more »

racing news

IndyCar League Makes Play for Relevance With F1-Style Qualification

Indy Racing League plans on rolling out a new gridification system during the upcoming St. Petersberg race and it will look a lot like the street racing version of things done over at Formula 1. Instead of being a one man one track run against the clock, cars will be slotted on the grid by way of elimination rounds. The cars will be split into even fields and race for twenty minutes, the leaders go on and the trailers fill up position thirteen and back. The top twelve will run in another heat lasting fifteen minutes from which the bottom six will be slotted in spot twelve through seven. More »

4:00 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
1,135 views, 22 comments

Latest by skyln95: no fittipaldi or mansell rivalry either. i miss the battle of penske and lola. more »

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Emerson Fittipaldi to Drive Corvette Z06 E85 Concept Pace Car at 2008 Indy 500

The General's bargain brand will again be running Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the official pace car for the Indy 500. This year — the 92nd running of the race — there'll be two Corvettes serving as the official pace cars. Pace car numero uno is a customized Chevrolet Corvette Z06 concept that runs on E85 ethanol and will be driven during the race's pace lap by two-time Indianapolis 500 champion Emerson Fittipaldi. The second pace car will be the Corvette 30th Anniversary Pace Car featuring a black exterior with silver graphics honoring the 1978 model - no word yet on who'll be driving that one. How do we put our hat in the ring? Full press release after the jump.

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10:45 AM on Thu Dec 27 2007
By Ray Wert
2,196 views, 15 comments

Latest by FЯeeMan: The Official Pace Car is supposed to be produced in Indiana, so that would include a bunch o' Subarus and the Camry (made in Lafayette), but not the 'vette, made in KY. We had about 30 of last year's pace cars more »

detroit grand prix

Helio's Still The Man, Snags The Big Pole For Detroit Grand Prix IndyCar Race

Yup, Helio's still the man — mostly because now he's sitting atop the pole for tomorrow's IndyCar race with a speed of 103.401 mph for Team Penske. That's almost as hot as the two lovely ladies he had with him last year at Indy. [Detroit News]

5:15 PM on Sat Sep 1 2007
By Ray Wert
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pebble beach concours

Torquing Offys Aplenty!

When Mickey Thompson was railing against the Offenhauser-powered establishment while building his Buick V8-powered Indy 500 car, he referred to the big four-bangers as "those torquing Offys," and the phrase just sticks in our minds. The Offy, like, totally pwned for decades, and we've seen a bunch of them all up close and personal here at Laguna Seca. They sound cool, and of course they go fast, but sometimes we just like to geek out on the metal of it all and stick our inquisitive snouts deep into some engine compartments. More »

7:45 PM on Sat Aug 18 2007
By Murilee Martin
1,374 views, 9 comments

Latest by n/a: The Cosworth V-8s didn't kill off the Offys at Indy, Penske and the rules committee did when they limited the fuel allowed when there was a gasoline shortage for PR reasons, even though gasoline wasn't even allowed. Foyt and Jones more »

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Vintage Indy Roadsters at Monterey Historics

The acrid odor of burning methanol filled the air at the 34th Monterey Historics during a practice session at the event, which this year celebrates the heritage of Indy's Roadster era. Also on deck for the weekend are IMSA and Can-Am monsters of history. The newest car in the entire group of 400 cars is 1981 Porsche 935K4, with a 1914 Mercer taking up the slack. Stick around as we turn on the racing way back machine over the next few days.

6:00 PM on Fri Aug 17 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
1,265 views, 8 comments

Latest by dorkusmaximus: @TomAnderson: I totally agree. While the modern day open wheel car is a tech marvel and a fine example of craftsmanship, it is just doesn't have the soul. Back in the day, cars weren't made with computers and composites. They were more »

i am indy

Dario Franchitti Doesn't Blame Dan Wheldon For This Scary IndyCar Crash At Michigan Speedway


Dario Franchitti went for what can only be described as a frightening ride flight at Michigan International Speedway yesterday as Franchitti's car got touched hard in the rear by Dan Wheldon on lap 143 of the rain-delayed Firestone Indy 400. We're told Tony Kanaan won the race — but the highlight's got to be Franchitti flying through the air with the greatest of ease, and landing top side down atop Scott Dixon's car. Although we're pretty sure he probably didn't enjoy the inappropriate touching of his rear end too much, Franchitti's not blaming Wheldon. He's a better man than us — we'd be pretty pissed if we got rear-ended on the track.

8:30 AM on Mon Aug 6 2007
By Ray Wert
5,494 views, 26 comments

Latest by 3304HL: Kentucky -- two weeks in a row!I can't believe the broadcasters tried to place blame on Matsuura. Dario should look for a new sponser. It appears he's getting too involved with the current one(canadian club)! more »

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