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Nov 15 2011, 04:40 PM
by
Charles Kha
with 62 comment(s)
Need for Speed The Run starts hitting shelves today - the European launch is this Friday - and there's some aspects to the game that we thought you'd find interesting. The Run features actors Sean Faris and Christina Hendricks (yes, of Mad Men fame), so it made sense for actual cars to be included too. Rod, Carl, Andy and I were entrusted with coming up with a short list of real-world cars that would gel with The Run's cross-crountry street racing theme. And I think we came up with a...
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Oct 31 2011, 11:40 PM
by
Larry Chen
with 118 comment(s)
There was only one car that was fitting enough to end this month's Street Cars & Sleepers theme. And this is it. For the past couple of years, the maniac known as Chris Rado has been devising plans to build his ultimate street car. Of course, for someone who pilots a 2000hp drag car and the Team NFS time attack car, his interpretation of 'ultimate' is somewhat more extreme than what you or I might come up with. For Chris Rado, his ultimate street car is this Toyota Supra. Metal wide-body, custom wheels, custom brakes. And a twin turbo V8 producing 2500hp....
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Aug 10 2011, 07:00 PM
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Larry Chen
with 59 comment(s)
This is the brand new time attack creation from the nutty minds of the World Racing laboratory. It still has a long ways to go before it can set some lap records but it is starting to look the part quite nicely. Everything is designed from the ground up for ease of use and reliability. It looks mean as hell under the hood but car still needs a transmission and the wiring needs to be finished. The team works on it when they have the chance in between running the TC1 at events. The car is lighter and...
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Oct 24 2010, 08:00 PM
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Rod Chong
with 10 comment(s)
Ok let's get back to my LA Speedhunting adventures from a couple of weeks ago. As previously mentioned, I was in possession of a German Hot Rod for the week: a 500bhp V10 Powered, BMW M5. You know, this car had an odd effect on me. I kept wanting to talk about it and weave it into conversations. ...
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Sep 06 2010, 11:30 AM
by
Linhbergh
with 23 comment(s)
It seems that each racing series has its era of craziness. Rally had Group B, Formula 1 had the crazy turbocharged era of 80s, and now, the realm of time attack is the place to be if you're a nutter. These unlimited class time attack cars are getting more insane looking as each season passes and as very team wants to one up all the others. Photographer, Chris Harrington , sent us this photo of the Team Need for Speed/World Racing Scion TC while it was at Buttonwillow Raceway testing, this past...
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Aug 11 2010, 03:03 PM
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Mike Garrett
with 10 comment(s)
Here's a quick little video clip of the World Racing/Team NFS AWD tC undergoing some testing at Road Atlanta.
What a beast. Can't wait to see it in person again.
-Mike Garrett
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Aug 05 2010, 12:23 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 115 comment(s)
Unlimited Class Racing ... what image springs to mind when I mention these words? Older people in the Speedhunters audience will likely think back to the glorious Can Am era; a fearsome class of racing cars from the 60s and early 70s which saw the fastest race cars on the planet governed by next-to-no rules. Can Am has long since been regulated to history, and it's rather unlikely that a race series of the sort will ever surface again. Economic, health and safety considerations have put a halt...
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Posted
Mar 15 2010, 01:12 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 32 comment(s)
Last week I headed over to the World Racing shop in Torrance to check with in the guys as they readied Chris Rado's time attack Scion tC for the upcoming season. It turned out the car would actually be seeing some dyno time that day, so the scheduling had worked out perfectly....
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Posted
Nov 26 2009, 12:00 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 6 comment(s)
Those of you who followed our coverage of the Superlap Battle will recall the AMS team had a little bit of an issue with fire at the event. They've now just released this video where you can see what happened for yourself. The piece also documents the team's attempts to get the car fixed in time for the Red Line Time Attack event at Fontana a few days later. Check the video to see the dramas unfold!
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Posted
Nov 17 2009, 06:42 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 36 comment(s)
Over the weekend we heard unconfirmed rumors that Chris Rado had driven his Scion tC into the 6's at Pomona, making it the first front-drive drag car ever to do so. There has been a little discrepancy regarding the time, but I just got off the phone with Chris who gave me the the quick rundown of what happened. With the car running faster than ever, and a solid coating of rubber on the track Chris laid down an astonishing 6.97 second ET during eliminations.
Unfortunately the incredible traction that the car had off the line caused the timing beams to misread the 60-foot time, technically making the ET "unofficial". Nonetheless, the complete 1/4 mile time is still legit by all accounts.
The drag racing was just part of Rado's wild week, which included record breaking time attack runs at both Buttonwillow and Fontana. He'll be posting a blog here soon with the story in his own words.
-Mike Garrett...
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Posted
Oct 23 2009, 12:30 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 14 comment(s)
I'll finish up blogging about my recent trip to California with a quick story about the journey from the hotel to the airport this past Monday. The plan was to drop off the NFS Terlingua off at Shelby's LA HQ and take a cab to LAX, but this isn't exactly how things turned out. So here we are parking up the Mustang for another sad good bye. The giant SUV belongs to everyone's favourite Scion stalwart, Chris Rado. Some of you may remember we featured this supercharged 600 hp truck exactly...
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Posted
Aug 28 2009, 09:30 AM
by
Rod Chong
with 13 comment(s)
Chris Rado's Scion tC certainly has a lot of people talking this year... Whether it's discussions about the functionality and aesthetics of the fwing, or stories about him lighting up his front wheels in 6th gear on the straight at Nashville, this machine certainly has raised some eyebrows. It's also the most extreme and powerful front wheel drive time attack car on the planet. Chris seems rather happy to have gobs of power under his right foot... it's said that the Scion now has...
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Posted
Jun 02 2009, 01:20 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 20 comment(s)
Erg.... feeling a bit foggy today... I just had a pretty intense three days out in the desert shooting the final round of the NFS Drivers Films project with Chris Rado... it was also a great chance for me to see both Red Line Time Attack and Just Drift events up close and personal. Upon arriving at the track on Friday, the first item of business was to meet up with Chris, to check out our muse for the weekend: his updated Scion tC Time Attack monster. You'll recall that we featured the in-progress...
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Apr 22 2009, 11:49 AM
by
Rod Chong
with 15 comment(s)
April is themed Drift Month on Speedhunters, but it seems like we've been a little distracted with all the Long Beach GP coverage on the site... I probably should have also visited some Drift shops like Garage Boso while I was in LA last week, but didn't quite get around to that... oh well -- next time!... I did make it out to three shops though: Twins Turbo Motorsport, SOCAL Speed Shop and Chris Rado's World Racing. They aren't drift shops per se, but I think you'll be pleased...
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Posted
Dec 15 2008, 02:00 PM
by
Chris Rado
with 26 comment(s)
My final race of the 2008 season was the Super Street Super Lap Battle finale out at Buttonwillow. My team and I really wanted to finish the season off with a bang and do well in this last event. This event had a huge turnout and had drivers from all over the world there to compete. Our team knew that not only would our tC need to be on-point for this event, but that we needed to strategize a game plan because of some of the mechanical limitations of our car. We needed a plan that would allow us...
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Posted
Oct 31 2008, 07:01 PM
by
Antonio Alvendia
with no comments
Just before we head into the weekend, I thought I'd post this desktop of Chris Rado's Scion TC heading down the dragstrip... Pick it up on our desktops section ! -Antonio Alvendia
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Posted
Oct 01 2008, 11:58 AM
by
Chris Rado
with 25 comment(s)
Over the last month and a half over at WORLD Motorsports, we have been building all of Scion's display vehicles for the National Auto Shows across the USA. ...
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Posted
Aug 08 2008, 01:00 AM
by
Chris Rado
with 8 comment(s)
Even though I may or may not be known as Chris Rado the "drag racer", I'm going to shed a little light on another passion of mine - time attack. July 26th and 27th was the Redline Time Attack in Nashville, Tennessee at the Nashville Super Speedway. I was super excited as well along with the WORLD Racing team to be going to this event, especially since the at last two consecutive time attack events we had taken 1st place. I was ready to do it again, and I know the rest of my guys were too. Even though Nashville Super Speedway is a tighter and shorter track then I'm used to - meaning I'd be using a lot of second and third gear coming out of turns, which is typically more difficult in a high horsepowered, heavy, FWD car such as our tC - I was up for the challenge....
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Posted
Jun 30 2008, 04:15 AM
by
Chris Rado
with 5 comment(s)
A few weeks back, myself and the rest of the WORLD Racing team headed to Atco, New Jersey for the Battle of the Imports. This was our first Battle of the Imports event in almost three years. The team and I had high hopes for this event at our home track. We were going out with a new clutch in the PRO FWD NOS Energy Drink WORLD Racing Scion tC for the first time this year. We had been running a pro-stock style clutch for the last season and a half. As the engine program progressed and got more powerful...
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