Tag: Motorsports
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Top Ten Ideas for an Aspiring FSAE Team
Like many engineers in the automotive world, lots of us here at MSIMA undertook the time-sink gauntlet that is being a part of a Formula SAE (FSAE) team. Hell, some of us even drove the little scamp. Not me though. But I got something better out of it… carbon splinters. With the wealth of personal…
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2024 Toyota GR86 and Subaru BRZ: And Subaru took it personally
Do you have 30k and want to feel enough g-force to liquefy your brain? Well it turns out Miata might not always be the answer. And somehow, we haven’t reviewed one of these yet. It might still technically be slower than a Miata, but it is still unreasonably fast.
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Vittori Motors Announces GT2 Program
Tighten your assholes, cause we’ve violated SEVERAL NDA’s and are now banned from traveling through EU nations just to give YOU the best god-damn news we can. Eat it up, you worthless consumers, like the cattle in a feedlot that you are. Anyways. Start up AI-POWERED hypercar company, Vittori Motors, has announced big motorsports ambitions…
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THE Panoz Esperante, America’s TVR
Let’s start with a short introduction to this car. 302-400 horsepower. An all Aluminum frame. 2600 lbs (1200kg). A tiny steering wheel, no ABS, no stability control. Fully independent suspension. The front is bespoke, design by the company themselves, while the rear is dropped right out of the terminator cobra. And it raced in GT1…
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The ZR1X Might Be Fast, But MSIMA *Will* Be FASTER
May of you “so called loyal consumers of content” may have heard from more “reputable” and “intellectual” sources that the new 1200 hp awd hybrid Corvette ZR1X posted a sub 2 second 0-60 time on both a prepped and unprepared surface. This bit of news, after further examination (reading it on Hagerty’s Instagram account) turns…
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2025 Vinfast VF8 Plus – The Tragedy of the Mediocre
Man this was a depressing experience. The car was ok though. We had originally tried to get our cynical grubs on the newer 3-row VF9. But apparently the last one was sold a month ago, so instead we clambered into the infamous VF8 excitingly anticipating the worst. If you know anything about the “upstart” (in…
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MSIMA “The Cars” of 2025 Awards
Yet another year of driving garbage. And occasionally something nice. Welcome ya fucks, to the “The Cars” of 2025! A time for us to look back and reflect on all the four wheeled abominations we’ve driven and reviewed this year. Except for me, as I am both above and incapable of self reflection. Hope y’all…
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Williams F1 to use Real Racing 3 for DIL Simulator.
In a MSIMA EXCLUSIVE ARTICLE, we talk to Williams F1’s head of vehicle simulations about changes to their driver-in-loop (DIL) simulator. While on a visitors tour of Williams facilities, we “accidentally got lost” and wound up talking to their vehicle simulation team! And after a lengthy conversation, we learned that Williams has been struggling as…
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Roger Penske Goes to Space
Drop WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING and get ready to mis-shift into YOUR asshole motherfucker! We have news! The American race team founder, Roger Penske, has announced today that his motorsports conglomerate will be embarking on a new challenge: manned lunar exploration. And yes, we are just as lost. So, lets turn straight to the horse’s…
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2019 Honda Civic Type R, wide load comin’ through
Transit races are great, but the Type R deserves a fair shake to show what it really can do. So this time we autocrossed it and drove the resident GTI owner (more) insane.