Jeg Coughlin Jr. won’t have to rely on slipping into a bobsled to satiate his need for speed this weekend.
Motor Sports
SPRINT CUP
Proof of a sports car’s validity is sometimes seen when its successor is highly refined as opposed to heavily made over.
Laughlin is a short drive from B.J. Baldwin’s home in Las Vegas, but the 29-year-old has traveled many miles of dusty, rock-strewn roads to reach the pinnacle of off-road racing.
Listen and you can hear the building rumble of high-horsepower engines.
If there was a Hemi-powered Chrysler on the drag strip in the mid-to-late 1960s, you had better pray to the heavens that you wouldn’t have to square off against it at the starting line.
With the eyes of a nation on the auto industry, the North American International Auto Show (Jan. 17-25) in Detroit is an indicator of what’s to come.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway opens the drag-racing season this weekend with its annual Blast-Off Testing session.
The start of the motor sports season is on the horizon, and the outlook is bleak.
In 1962, Carroll Shelby envisioned building a lightweight roadster with a powerful American V-8 under the hood. That vision became the Cobra sports car.
In town for a limited 72-hour engagement, the 2010 Lotus Evora was unveiled in December at Norm Baker Motor Co.
They gathered to say goodbye and good riddance to 2008, to consign a gloomy year to drunken oblivion and stumble into 2009 with hope for better times ahead.