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The genius of IMSA GTP

March 10, 2022 fittiLotus72 783 Views acura, audi, bmw, cadillac, Don Panoz, ferrari, imsa, imsa dpi, imsa gtp, john doonan, ligier, lmdh, lmh, multimatic, oreca lmp2, Penske Racing, Porsche, scott atherton

The genius of IMSA GTP is that it nods to IMSA history and IMSA teams go back to LeMans. Prototype teams can race worldwide. Thanks NASCAR!

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Bring back Indycar to Watkins Glen

September 16, 2021 fittiLotus72 1138 Views Chip Ganassi, Colton Herta, Dallara, F1, Formula One, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, indy 500, Josef Newgarden, Lewis Hamilton, Long Beach GP, Max Verstappen, Michael Andretti, Pato O'Ward, Roger Penske, Romain Grosjean, Scott Dixon, takuma sato, Texas Motor Speedway, the racerhead, watkins glen

Dear Roger Penske: Thanks for buying Indycar. I want to see one but there’s no race in the Northeast. Bring back Indycar to Watkins Glen.

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F1 versus Indycar — Which is better?

April 29, 2021 fittiLotus72 1055 Views Chip Ganassi, Colton Herta, Dallara, F1, Formula One, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, indy 500, Josef Newgarden, Lewis Hamilton, Long Beach GP, Max Verstappen, Michael Andretti, Pato O'Ward, Roger Penske, Romain Grosjean, Scott Dixon, takuma sato, Texas Motor Speedway

I can hear it now. In the battle of F1 versus Indycar, obviously F1 is better. Or is it all boring smoke, mirrors and bad TV announcing?

scott tucker, level 5 racing criminals and auto racing

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Crime and lap times

April 19, 2018January 10, 2019 fittiLotus72 3796 Views Auto racing and fraud, criminals and auto racing, David Thiemme, Drug smuggling, Essex Overseas Petrolium, Essex Team Lotus, F1, Formula 1, Formula One, Illegal payday loans, imsa, indy 500, indy car, indycar, Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, John Paul Jr., John Paul Sr., LeMans, Level 5 racing team, Moneytron, Onyx Ore-1, Porsche 935, Race cars and drugs, racerhead, Randy Lanier, Scott Tucker, the racerhead, theracerhead.com, Whittington Brothers

The recent conviction of Scott Tucker on numerous federal charges of fraud is not surprising. Auto racing at any level is a great way to blow through copious amounts of money. The old expression holds true: How fast do you want to go? How much money do you have? The desire to go very fast is what drives criminals and auto racing to occasionally get together.

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Blame it on Steve McQueen

December 1, 2017January 10, 2019 fittiLotus72 2661 Views auto racing movie, enduro karts, imsa, LeMans, LeMans start, racerhead, racing movie, roadracing karts, sam posey, Steve McQueen, Steve McQueen LeMans movie, The LeMans Movie, the racerhead, theracerhead.com

I was already addicted to auto racing by the time the LeMans movie premiered. An image in a magazine ad I’d seen showed the 1-2-3 finish by Ford at LeMans in 1966. The romance and already legend of that particular race were now etched in my mind forever.

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Liberty Media: Fix Formula One. Please.

April 28, 2017September 12, 2018 fittiLotus72 2150 Views F1, Formula 1, Formula One, racerhead, the racerhead, theracerhead.com

Thank you, Liberty Media, for purchasing the rights to Formula One. Bernie has needed to go for some years now.

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Clag

April 25, 2017September 12, 2018 fittiLotus72 4222 Views David Hobbs, Drivers, racerhead, sam posey, the racerhead, theracerhead.com

There are many great drivers that had diverse racing careers, but few can say they topped the sheer diversity and consistent excellence of David Hobbs.