Manual Swap Your Ferrari, You Cowards

Today’s high-end sports cars all use exquisite dual-clutch automatic gearboxes for super-quick shifts and better driver control than even a row-your-own manual gearbox can offer. But back in the heady days of the 1990s the technology just wasn’t there yet, and the best sports cars employed horribly unresponsive… Read more…

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2023 Photo Annual: Air Time

Newly crowned FuelTech Radial Outlaws Series Radial vs. the World champion Bryan Markiewicz nearly drags the rear bumper on his ProCharged ‘68 Camaro while competing at No Mercy 14 at South Georgia. Photograph by Chris Sears [Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in DI #186, the Photo Annual Issue, in Jan/Feb of 2024.] This story…

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2023 Photo Annual: Crowd Work

From western Canada’s Mission Raceway Park to the East Coast’s Maryland International Raceway, dragstrips all over North America saw huge crowds pile in to watch a wide variety of shows. Photographs by Matt Levonas and Jeff Kline Jeff Kline photo [Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in DI #186, the Photo Annual Issue, in Jan/Feb…

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2023 Photo Annual: Working the Stripe

Bracket racers Donny Burleson (near lane) and Kévin Poitras approach the finish line in unison while competing for big bucks and bragging rights at the Summer Fling at National Trail Raceway near Columbus, Ohio. Photograph by Matt Levonas [Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in DI #186, the Photo Annual Issue, in Jan/Feb of 2024.]…

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