Archive for the ‘ The 24 Hours of LeMons ’ Category
We are excited to announce that Autosport Labs is the “Official Data Acquisition and Telemetry Partner” for the new BMW CCA Endurance Racing Series! Here is their Facebook post: “We are pleased to announce Autosport Labs as the “Data Acquisition and Telemetry Partner” for our series! Autosport Labs will be providing discounted [ READ MORE ]
Chapter 1 Once upon a time, an innocent little sports car discovered America. He could sense the open road and knew life was going to be totally sweet. “Bring on the curves baby–this kid was born to run!” It was 1990 and, alas, this fairytale life just wasn’t meant to be. His first owner was a 19-year-old beauty-school [ READ MORE ]
Thursday, May 5th: On this occasion the Autosport Labs team headed to Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows, CA to attend “Goin’ for Broken 2010″. That’s a 24 Hours of LeMons event for those of you not knowing. We suffered the minor inconvenience of an overheated wheel bearing near Tangent, OR and fixed it hoping that was [ READ MORE ]
Of all the things a race car does (accelerating, turing, braking, and combinations there of) it spends the smallest percentage of its time braking. Now, that’s not to imply that brakes are unimportant, quite the opposite. The most important skill a race car driver can have is good braking technique, and his most important [ READ MORE ]
As you can see, we’re hard at work making the Merkur safe. This is a topic that we take very seriously, especially in light of recent events. You may have seen footage of the crash at Sears Pointless, but we actually witnessed it. It’s given us a whole new perspective on what a “safe” race [ READ MORE ]
A new year inspires bold ideas and uncovers new challenges. It seeds the dreamer’s thoughts and creates opportunity. Sometimes the challenge of a new years’ opportunity is so compelling, so inspirational that no amount of pain reliever, water or sleep will make it go away. When the dream is to field your very own creation [ READ MORE ]
The last time some of the Autosport Labs’ team members headed to Thunderhill Raceway our reverie of racing was impinged by the news that the car we had helped to prepare and planned to compete would not be joining us. Since then the Autosport Labs’-sponsored, Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey’s, $500 Crapcan, Peugeot 505 Turbo S [ READ MORE ]
