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Daytona on the lawn

January 28, 2010
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Alex Job Racing Porsche GT3

January 28, 2010
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Shelby related quote of the day

January 27, 2010

“When you write the serial number in pencil you can do pretty much anything you want”
George Daszkowski on the provenance of some of the Shelby/Comstock race cars we’ve been discussing today.

Photo courtesy of Fotki user Kurzheck

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Doing homework

January 27, 2010

One rarely hops in a car and is fast right off the bat. Beyond the technical preparations, there are the mental ones and there are always coaching opportunities. Ross Bentley is known for his talent for mentoring younger drivers. Here, he watches video today’s practice sessions with Sean Mcintosh and Darryl O’Young.

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The Garage is following the 2010 Rolex 24 at Daytona live via Bullet Racing

January 27, 2010

While we’ve grown to cover cool automotive stuff here in The Garage, our roots are in Canadian motorsports. Lately we’ve been bring you a ton of historic content, but let’s not forget that time marches on and Canadians are still out there doing good things and going fast.
This weekend is the annual Rolex 24 hours [...]

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Comstock and the Shelby connection

January 27, 2010

As our regular readers know, there was a bit of a kaffuffle (is that a word?) raised when the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame announced that Carroll Shelby would be inducted into a new International category. Out of that induction has come some great conversations about the history of Shelby American and their involvement with [...]

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Saab is Saved!

January 26, 2010

Whew! When it seemed extremely unlikely that Saab had any chance of survival. Spyker and GM announced a binding agreement for Spyker to buy Saab from the General. The future of Saab has been in question ever since GM announced a formation of a new company with four core brands-Chevy, Buick, GMC and Cadillac. Saab [...]

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Ken Block busts out Monster World Rally Team Fiesta photos and video

January 26, 2010

We’ve had a bunch of Ken Block coverage this week, as the Monster World Rally Team prepares for the Sno*Drift rally this weekend. The photos were supposed to appear tomorrow morning but prep shop Olsbergs dropped a shot yesterday on their website. A couple of hours ago Ken Block (more likely one of his minions) [...]

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More historic racing mysteries

January 26, 2010

The Canadian Motorsport History Group on Yahoo keeps coming up with some pretty cool old racing photos and it has become a bit of a game for the crew to identify cars and drivers. You have to remember that many of these photos were taken from 40 to 50 years ago and some of the [...]

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Red Bull Racing plays pond hockey in Quebec

January 26, 2010

With Formula 1’s return to Canada coming up on June 13th, the folks at Red Bull Racing are doing a bit of their own promotion for the Canadian round. What better way to promote F1 in Canada than to mount up some studded tires and take a Grand Prix car out for some fun on [...]

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