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Top 10 Engines of All Time (#3): General Motors LS1

Editor’s Note: This series counts down the Top 10 engines of all time—see how the voting was done by reading our initial post.   The LS engine family made up a huge number of votes for your 10 favorite engines of all time, but the LS1 proved to be the most popular. The 5.7-liter, 346 cubic-inch LS1

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Drag Radials 101: What You Need to Know About Drag Radials

[portfolio_slideshow id=27694] Back in the early 1960s, the best tire you could get for a street/strip car was the Atlas Bucron. The Bucron was basically a retread bias-ply tire with a stickier tread compound. A fast street machine was hard pressed to break into the fifteens with a set of Bucrons, but they were the

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NASCAR Changes Qualifying to Knock-Out Format

NASCAR qualifying may never be the same. The world’s premier stock car racing series will switch to “knock-out” qualifying for the 2014 Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Camping World Truck Series. Single-car qualifying is no more. The new qualifying format will be similar to what you see in the IndyCar Series and Formula One. This new

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