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  1. Steve

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    A lap around Mount Panorama, Bathurst, in a Porsche 997 GT3 Cup car. What a track!

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUxUaIthGyk]Competition Motorsports Bathurst In Car - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    BTW, the Bathurst 12H started about 15 min ago and can be both heard and seen live at radiolemans.com.
     
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    The sound of a prepared Porsche raises the hair up on the back of my neck....thanks Steve!
     
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    Watch the post-safety car, nail-biting final 12 minutes of the Bathurst 12H in the video below.

    You'd be excused for thinking the officials called the caution period to intentionally contrive a close finish (like the end of the recent Daytona 24H). In this case, the caution was called after a crash left fluids across the track.

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ2nnEE11UI]2014 Bathurst 12 Hour - Finish - Final 12 Minutes - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    Kimi loops a LaFerrari

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMDVMp3CbdY]LaFerrari SPIN OUT, Spitting Flames & Huge Sounds! - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    We're all affected differently. Some people fall in love because their dad or uncle had one. Others fall in love out of necessity, constant breakdowns requiring them to work on their car. For Mr. Frank Mandarano a tour through the Maserati factory in the '60s was enough for him to be smitten. He bought his first Maserati a few years later, a red 3500GT, which promptly broke the day after he bought it. A bearing let go and he had a tough time finding parts.

    So he started a Maserati club and began buying parts inventories around the US so that he and his fellow club members would have access when needed. Although he's sold the business, he never considered it work as it was born of his passion for the brand. Frank has a few other 3500s, this one though, he's nicknamed "La Latina" because it was one of five GTs sold new in Mexico City. And he loves driving it on lazy, desert roads calling the noise, "primal." He doesn't shift it too much opting instead to leave it in third gear and power out of turns enjoying the mighty aluminum straight-six and stainless steel exhaust.

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyueWPyQmMc]Maserati 3500GT Will Make You Fall in Love - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    The average American driver puts 13,500 miles per year on their car. Mr. Scott Fisher of Las Vegas, Nevada, added that many to the odometer of his 1967 Datsun Roadster in just the first three months of a recently-completed road trip that ultimately took him to forty-eight U.S. states and seven Canadian provinces. By the time Scott pulled into his garage in Las Vegas for the first time in eight months, he had covered 37,850 miles of the North American countryside.

    Deciding that an extended road trip was the best way to unwind after sixteen years of business stress, Scott briefly considered a modern ride but opted instead to entrust his travels to a 46 year-old Datsun that he would come to call "The Optimist."

    "What you're driving on your road trip will be a huge part of the experience," noted Scott in a January 2014 interview with Petrolicious, "so I decided that a less all-around and less capable vehicle that had considerably more character and exuberance would be a much better choice."

    Aside from a few mechanical hiccups, the Roadster gobbled up the miles like a champ, carrying Scott along rough logging roads, over mountain passes, and through Times Square -- all with the top down, of course.

    The car, says Scott, "feels more like a faithful dog that may raise an eyebrow to some of your more harebrained plans, but will totally give 100% to make it happen. I try not to anthropomorphize too much, but the car is an optimist, and it's the perfect companion for a trip like this."

    Even a run-in with a deer in Utah -- from which, Scott points out, the Datsun emerged bruised but victorious -- couldn't slow the Roadster as it barreled through the final miles of Scott's adventure. Now at home in Scott's garage, the little Optimist has certainly earned its upcoming restoration.

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWsakWm8eTo]This Datsun Traveled 37,000 miles on a North American Road Trip - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    [ame="http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Myu08C5PPIc"]Lotus Formula 1 Historic cars - Ayrton Senna's 97T onboard - YouTube[/ame]

    Ayerton Senna's benz 190e
     
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    Ooppss wrong one

    [ame="http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=664k0onPaVY"]Senna's Mercedes 190E race car | INSIDE evo - YouTube[/ame]

    Here it is
     
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    Awesome car and great story and video.
     
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    Always like Datsun roadsters. Nice video.
     
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    Fun lap of Brands Hatch......

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXUKQg3FnX4]Brands Hatch GP Circuit AC Cobra Qualifying with Oliver Bryant - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    Its a shame that the DTM doesn't use the full Brands circuit. Kind of like

    NASCRAP at the Glen.
     
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    I think I'll have the little MG LE50. :Thumbsup:

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKNFNLRoTsc]British Sports Cars, Japanese Smarts - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    I have the best British sports car...... :D

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-DAimDAOlg]Clarkson's Car Years Episode 3 - Why Do People Like British Sports Cars (Part 2) - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    From the Continental race at Sebring last weekend.

    Big balls + lots of luck + a hooked up car relegated to the back for the start = lots of passing...much fun!

    [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrJR81LB848"]RACER: How To Pass 15 Cars In One Lap At Sebring - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    I love this little car.

    [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wHKblZf3mg"]Saab Sonett is a Two-Stroke Heirloom - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    I always loved those early 2 stroke Sonnet's. They are just So Neat! I've only seen one in my entire life up close. It was at the vintage races at Mid-Ohio 10 years ago or so. We owned a 2 stroke SAAB 96, wish we'd have had a Sonett too.

    Did you notice the ground pownder V4 Sonett in his garage? :D
     
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    I did notice the other car and wished they would have at least mentioned it in the video.
     
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    I remember those old Sonnets. They're very cool! And'ta think he owns at least two of 'em. :Thumbsup:
     

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