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infineon-raceway

Wish Hershel luck at Infineon today

June 20, 2009

As regular readers know, Gary Faules has become quite close with Hershel McGriff these days and we are all pretty excited to follow this 81 year old legend as he plans to race in Nascar’s Camping World West Series race at Infineon today.
Be sure to head on over to McGriff’s blog and send him your [...]

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Herschel McGriff is getting back in the driver’s seat!

May 9, 2009

Riding a bike. Ice skating. Racing. Some talents just stick with you, if you had the talent to begin with. Herschel McGriff has talent.
4 NASCAR wins. 5 poles. 31 top tens. Winner of the first Carrera Panamericana. Oh yes, he started racing in September 1945. Yes, McGriff has been at this racing stuff for a [...]

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Worlds smallest F1 car laps Infineon with on board cam

March 26, 2009

At last weekend’s NASA race at Infineon Raceway, there was a bit of a record set. Ken Kurtz took a lap in the smallest car to ever go around the circuit. The car? A 1/5 scale R/C Formula 1 car! Things were going along just great until a 5 watt radio was keyed right next [...]

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Capn Will is crashing into stuff again!

February 17, 2009

Just a couple of weeks after taking a run at the tire wall on a bike, our man on the west coast, Will Faules, has once again felt the pain of a pile of used woodyears. Except this time, instead of on two wheels, he was rolling in a pumpkin!
To be fair here, Will is [...]

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Spec E30 from Infineon

December 5, 2008

Regular visitors to The Garage know that our own Will Faules has been helping some Spec E30 crews sort out their new race cars, while he preps his own car for next season. Will isn’t the only one around here that has been smitten by the Spec E30 bug however. Regular commenter Adam Lazur races [...]

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Thunderhill Pleased With Current Status of Track

November 3, 2008

11/3/08-Willows, Ca- This last weekend Thunderhill hosted The Classics Sports Racing Group for a weekend of great racing with some very beautiful historic, very expensive toys. It became very interesting when the black rain clouds were coming in on Thursday night. As you may know Thunderhill re-paved the entire 3-mile track a few months ago [...]

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Video: McLaren M6B lapping Infineon Raceway

July 31, 2008

Some time ago, Gary Faules took us on a tour of Infineon Raceway in Lucky, the GT350R. I just stumbled across this video that puts things into a completely different perspective. Vintage racer Gary Sheehan takes us for a few laps of the legendary Sears Point track in the McLaren M6B Can Am car originally [...]

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Video: In car at Infineon in Alfa Romeo Trans Am winner

June 8, 2008

If the other videos this morning haven’t woken you up yet, then turn the speakers up really loud and this one is sure to do the trick. Gary Sheehan takes us for a lap of Infineon Raceway in the 1966 Alfa Romeo GTA that Horst Kwech won the 66 Trans Am championship with.

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Video: In car at Infineon with Gary Faules

September 25, 2007

Hot on the heels of this morning’s videos of our west coast contributor, Gary Faules’ GT-350 lapping at Infineon Raceway, now we have some killer in car footage of the break in. Perhaps more important, Gary’s co-driver, Jon Emerson is finally allowed to spill the beans on the team’s big news.
I’m sure Gary will [...]

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Video: Lucky hits the track

September 25, 2007

Finally, after all these months, Gary Faules’ GT-350 clone, Lucky, has some laps under his belt. Last weekend, Team California’s Best took Lucky to Sears Point (ok, so it’s called Infineon now but this is a GT-350) for his first shakedown. Fortunately for us, they’ve got some rough video of the car on track for [...]

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