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  • Dakar: Carlos Sainz Crash & Peugeot Dominance

    Dakar: Carlos Sainz Crash & Peugeot Dominance

    The ‘ol tuck n’ roll can be useful in things like skateboarding or judo, but in motorsports it usually means a yard sale of expensive parts. Carlos Sainz knows that better than any of us, but just the same he crashed out of the 2017 Dakar Rally in spectacular fashion. Fan footage appears to show his Peugeot 3008 hitting a…

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  • Dakar 2017: Stage 03

    Dakar 2017: Stage 03

    What a mess up front. If you want those details though you can certainly find them in a lot of places. I can give you the cliff notes though. For the cars, Toyota just went face-first into the mud. Nasser Al-Attiyah was reported to have “lost a wheel on course.” When pictures came in that actually seemed to be the…

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  • Dakar 2017: Lyndon Legend Status

    Dakar 2017: Lyndon Legend Status

    Stage 02, 2017 will probably be my favorite of all time in Dakar history. Not because of the main story, but because of the story behind the story. In fact, the main story was right on script. The cars gave us what we expect, with Sebastian Loeb and Peugeot gaining ground, clawing a small overall lead (38 seconds) away from…

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  • Dakar 2017 Stage One: Cars & Bikes

    Dakar 2017 Stage One: Cars & Bikes

    #Dakar2017 Stage 01 is always a little odd because of how short it is. The big names are still up front but seeing a Ford up front is likely not going to happen again, so enjoy that. Without Robby Gordon, we at least have Ricky Brabec if you want to cheer for the home-country. Dakar is strange enough that Ricky…

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  • The Year In Review: Looking Back & Forward

    The Year In Review: Looking Back & Forward

    Joyous new year to you all! The coffee is on for some, and the Bloody Mary mix is out for others. Some are looking on with apprehension, some with excitement; others just see another day. Whatever floats your goat. New years are a time to get your bearings, but I do not like to use them for much more than…

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  • Before It Was Cool

    The Wright Brothers may have been pretty hipster, rolling around building wing-warping biplanes and beach racing, but they weren’t hipster enough to build a fixie cafe racer bicycle. Maybe, at the turn of the century, it was avant garde to embrace technology instead of pay too much for “authentic vintage?”

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  • Just Add Power: Aviation Was Born Today

    Just Add Power: Aviation Was Born Today

    December 17, 1903. With names like Wilbur and Orville, they knew they’d have to do something big to impress the ladies. Out in Kill Devil Hills, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, they waddled their powered glider into the air for that briefest of moments. With decades of glider pilots making some impressive hops already, reaction to the Wright…

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  • Porsche Gets Misty-Eyed After Audi’s LeMans Departure

    Porsche Gets Misty-Eyed After Audi’s LeMans Departure

    The marketing department at Porsche seems to be getting a bit more hip these days. Perhaps it is allowed only because of the inter-company rivalry between Audi and Porsche at LeMans, but when their four-ring sister announced their departure from WEC competition after 18 years of excitement and development, the Stuttgart boys took note. They made a cheeky, yet poignant,…

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  • Huge Shake Up At Motorcyclist Magazine

    Huge Shake Up At Motorcyclist Magazine

    The world of print journalism is definitely changing. Much of it is in decline, but new segments are appearing because of it. Those who do want print (about motorcycling at least) seem to want an experience more than they want a cheap thrill. Flagging sales are hitting the entire industry in an increasingly online, bite-sized world of shallow-ish posts that…

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  • Flat Track In Photos

    Flat Track In Photos

    The Santa Rosa Mile was impossible to forget. The high point was certainly the battle royale between Jared Mees and Bryan Smith for the champion, with Smith nearly losing it all in the final feet, but holding off Mees to secure his first GNC1 title.  The low point was obviously the shocking death of both Charlotte Kainz and Kyle McGrane…

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