'In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Super Bowl, the Kentucky Derby and the Lower Oakland Roller Derby Finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a special breed…' so wrote Hunter S. Thompson in the Gonzo classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The Mint 400 is a desert race from the golden age. HST wrote his legendary tale of drugs and wolverines of trapezes after being sent to cover the event for Sports Illustrated magazine in 1971, but don

Last weekend was the first DirtQuake at Eastbourne, the 8th Dirt Quake in the UK, the 12th in total (not including the three Snow Quakes). The DTRA Hooligan class played a big part of the Dirt Quake day and it was bossed by Leah Tokelove on her S&S-spec Indian FTR 1200. The race win came off the back of her recent Hooligan class win at Krowd Race in Germany, and was her first ever DTRA final win. Leah not only took the win from the hard-charging current Hooligan champ Gary Bi

‘I’ve been to enough American Flat Track races at the Daytona International Speedway to know my way around the place pretty well, but I’ve never felt comfortable there. It’s NASCAR’s premiere venue. A billionaire’s four-wheel thunder palace that just got a $400m makeover to increase spectator capacity to 110,000. The last Daytona 500 purse was $19m. They don’t give two shits about two wheels. When you have that kind of money, what’s to give a shit about? Probably getting more

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