NMS North Readies for Round 2

This coming weekend will be competition number 2 for this year in the NMS FIAT 500 Abarth, so we're pretty sure it will NOT be rain-snow-sleeting like last time! Sunday will be the first event of the year for the Old Dominion Region of the Sports Car Club of America, so we're...

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Take the 2017 Formula 1 Fan Survey!

World Champion Drivers: Senna, Prost, Mansel, PiquetYou know that life's not fair, and we don't always get a vote on everything we'd like to vote on, but right now you can take a survey about Formula 1 racing. Like any other business, the owners of F1 are probably interested...

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GET YER INDY CARS HERE!

(Congrats to Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel for winning the first Formula 1 race of the year a few  hours ago in Australia! We now take you back to the heartland of the USA, somewhere in Indianapolis Indiana...)We'll Take Two!We're talking about "Get Yer Indy Cars" as...

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South Carolina Region Announces RallyCross Season 2017

"Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads"Ok Rally-Crossers, get your calendars out and grab a big red marker! The official 2017 season calendar is ready to go. Thanks to the hard work by Melanie Epps Murray and the folks up at Midway Motorsports Park we have...

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Formula 1 Predictions 2017

"You Can't Read My Mind" Magneto HelmetAs an introduction to making predictions for this season, let me first say, TOLD YOU SO! about my CORRECT prediction of Nico Rosberg winning it all last year! 16 Blog PredictionBefore digging into predictions, I'll just be honest up...

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BEST FINISH EVER!

7th out of 43 drivers, we'll take it!Following the first autoX of the year, NMS is proud to report that the official results have the NMS Abarth in 7th place overall on PAX time, which would be the best place ever for driver Bob Nixon. While he was only 3rd in the H Street class,...

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HOW COLD WAS IT?

Gore-Tex by gollyBack in the Johnny Carson days on the Tonight Show, Johnny would often throw a line in his opening monologue like "boy it was cold today!" The audience would shout "HOW COLD WAS IT?" and then Johnny would deliver the punch line to a joke about it being cold....

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NMS-North Kicks Off This Sunday

77 GS in 2013, Darlington SCI started autocrossing with the 2013 FIAT 500 Abarth in 2013 in South Carolina, which was kind of handy since I lived there then. For that season, the SCCA had placed the Abarth in G Stock class, so I splurged on some cool magnets from Panic Motorsports...

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NMS Talks Tires

Way up here in NMS-North, we have one week before the first autocross of the season, so on Monday I ordered two new tires for the FIAT, and they were delivered 2 days later thanks to Tire Rack and their quick service. A few days after that, the tires were mounted thanks to Charles...

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Old Dominion Region SCCA Announces Autocross Schedule

NMS at Pungo!Here in the Virginia Beach area (includes Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Hampton, etc.), our Sports Car Club of America Old Dominion Region has posted their autocross schedule for 2017. You will find their events are the first Sunday of every month, April thru...

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Auto Auction Results

Auction Time!I'm Ready to Bid!There was another big crowd at the latest auction, and all the vehicles available were sold. Some of them sold with multiple bidders fighting for a bargain, while others sold at low low prices! That's part of what makes auctions fun, even if you...

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