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CHIPPEWA FALLS — Millions of dollars’ worth of vintage cars are competing in a cross country race called the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club. They arrived in Chippewa Falls for a lunch stop on Friday. The Great Race is a time, speed and endurance rally for 1974 and older collector vehicles. It’s based on the famous 1908 race from Paris to New York and has taken place each summer since 1983. The basic idea of the time/speed/distance rally… Source link

With engines growling and exhaust spewing, Studebakers, Hudsons, Ford Model ‘A’s and more than 160 other vintage cars rolled into the parking lot of Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie Thursday as part of a 2,300-mile cross-country rally race. This year’s Hemmings Motor News Great Race began Saturday in Warwick, Rhode Island, and will finish in Fargo, North Dakota on Sunday. The race reached Sun Prairie on Thursday, with the cars enroute to Wisconsin Dells for the night after… Source link

“It’s a precision driving competition. So they give you a route to follow, instructions to follow and speeds to go on,” Reinan said. “Whoever follows the directions best that day gets the best score. So you start out at zero. For every second that you’re off at the checkpoint, you get a second penalty. The closest to zero is the winner each day, and then the closest to zero at the end of the competition is the (overall) winner.” The LaFrance’s wooden wheels and lack of front… Source link

The roar of the Motorcycle World Championship during this weekend. The fastest motorcycle riders on the planet will face each other in the Italian GP Oakley, which is held in the always spectacular circuit of Mugello. It is one of the tracks most loved by pilots. Located in Tuscany, Mugello hosted its first Grand Prix in 1976, being subsequently remodeled and remaining on the calendar of MotoGP since 1991. The Italian track has a distance of 5.2 kilometers, 6 left and 9 right… Source link

The action is back for lovers of Motorcycle World Championship. The world of MotoGP lands this weekend with him Shark Grand Prix de France, or what is the same, the French Grand Prix. It takes place on the legendary Le Mans circuit, the cradle of Motorsport and a special track loved by most drivers. The Le Mans circuit was visited by the Motorcycle World Championship for the first time in 1969, when the most successful rider of all time, Giacomo Agostini, took victory in the… Source link