Race Track

When I received an invitation from Lexus to take a road trip down the Northern California coast to watch the 2019 U.S. Open, the golf geek in me was truly excited. But then came the icing on the cake – about halfway through the trip, I was going to spend a day at Laguna Seca – one of the nation’s greatest racing circuits; and I’d get to learn the course in Lexus’ most powerful and impressive performance cars, the GS F, the LC 500, and the RC F Track Edition.

Pulled straight from the purpose-built performance pages at Honda, the Civic Type R emerges onto the scene amidst great fanfare. It’s the first time in history that America has been offered the Civic with a factory R-rating, and although the PG-13 enthusiasm I felt for the all-new Si was indeed genuine, my thirst for more adult material remained unsatiated. 

If you’re a regular viewer of car shows and videos, chances are you’ve seen one—or dozens—that took place at Willow Springs, a racetrack about 90 minutes outside of Los Angeles. Tucked in the high desert near Rosamond, California, Willow Springs is the oldest permanent road course in the United States.

Dodge has unleashed the Viper ACR on racetracks around the country with one goal: steal all the track records it can. The Viper ACR has now racked up more track records than any other production car in the world.

I decided long ago that if I ever won the lottery, I would buy a bunch of awesome old racecars and build my own track to terrorize with them. One of the cars I definitely have to own in my lotto winning future is the Porsche 904 GTS.