Is your car’s underhood insulation falling down and looking all gross and grody? Well, your friends at GRM are here with a quick, effective solution. Our subject is our BMW 318is project.
Ed Malle is a former winner of the Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge, and in 2019 he brought the latest version of his 1995 Ford Mustang—a Chevy LS-powered turbo beast that ran low 11s in the 1/4 mile and finished top-5 in the autocross. Here Ed talks a little bit about what makes the car special.
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Our 2004 Corvette C5 Z06 project finished out another season at NCM Motorsports Park in Bowling Green, KY—right across the highway from the plant where it was built—with a strong performance at the Tire Race SCCA Time Trial Nationals.
Our best single lap of the weekend of 2:11.705 seconds was nearly four seconds faster than our 2018 best at the same track, and good enough to be the fourth fastest overall single lap of the event. That was good enough for a fifth place overall finish in the event of nearly 200 entrants.
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Michael Fassbender has played roles spanning from Macbeth to Magneto, but his latest screen project—Porsche’s reality documentary web series “Road to LeMans”—eschews scripting and special effects for a raw look at a guy trying to live his dream of racing on one of the largest stages in motorsport.
Far from a vanity project, the series follows Fassbender as he works through the German Porsche Cup series with the ultimate goal of running at the LeMans 24 hour. No effort is made to hide mistakes, or gloss over the fact that although he’s a guy with plenty of racing experience in high-end gentlemen’s series, he quickly realizes that moving to a true development series stocked with hungry young racers means this is going to be a steep climb. The lows feel honest, and the gains feel earned, and the picture it paints of sports car racing feels exceedingly real.
Fassbender has always been a compelling dude to watch when he’s playing a role, but he’s equally as compelling playing himself, which he does with a refreshing lack of ego and a solid dose of humility and willingness to listen to his coaches and co-drivers. In a year that’s given us an unusually high number of “realistic” motorsports films like “Art of Racing in the Rain” and “Ford vs. Ferrari,” Porsche’s 10-minute-at-a-time web series might be the most realistic, and the most compelling.
The six-episode first season is currently streaming on Porsche’s youtube channel. Season 2 is currently shooting as Fassbender continues his campaign, but a release date has not yet been announced.
Why is J.G. wearing a Batman sweatshirt? To scare his enemies into submission. Duh. And it kept him warm while checking out the Leroy Engineering Grid 325 tire trailer.
J.G. and David have been around the block a few times. Did you catch their live ask us anything? It’s an hour of GRM lore and stuff like that.
Race a Bentley SUV up Pikes Peak? Sure, why the heck not.
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Built for a penny-pinching time trial series based at NCM Motorsports Park, the Ford Probe of Cody Willet and Stephen Lee has progressed over the years into a fast, but still frugal, competition platform. Their Probe regularly outruns far more expensive and exotic machinery (which, when you’re talking about a Ford Probe is almost everything, but still…). Take an inside look at this quick machine that surprises its trackmates by filling their mirrors more often than they expect.
Jay Leno recently took Superfastmatt’s bike-powered Honda S600 for a spin. Here’s how Matt stitched together that creation. Have questions? Check out the car's build thread.
It’s no secret that BMW and Toyota worked closely to develop the platform-sharing BMW Z4 and Toyota GR Supra, but which brand’s version is best? Is the BMW just a Supra with no roof, or are the two cars less alike than they seem? Which is the better track car? Here’s our answer.
