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3 days ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Colin Wood |Tom Suddard |Austin Cannon |David S. Wallens
Update by Austin Cannon to the BMW 325i project car Jun 25, 2025 | $2000 Challenge, BMW Photography by Austin Cannon A Grand Marquis, a Crossfire, a Volvo P1800 older than my mom–all here to race. When I arrived at this spring’s $2000 Challenge Presented by Tire Rack, I had no idea what to expect from the competitors.
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1 week ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Tom Suddard
Like so many others during Covid, Mike Murphy started a project to keep himself occupied. While others may have taken up painting or building birdhouses, Mike instead built an LS-powered Porsche Cayman. “I built every nut and bolt of this car myself,” Mike explains.
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1 month ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Tom Suddard |Andy Hollis
By Tom Suddard and Andy HollisWe woke up in the middle of Michigan, where we’d found a fairly clean Super 8 motel and a medium-speed DC fast charger next to the truck stop that, as far as we could tell, served as the center of whatever city we were technically in. The time was 5:00 a.m. We’d arrived at 2:45 a.m. The same clerk who checked us in was still hanging out at the front desk when it was time to leave.
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1 month ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Chris Tropea |Tom Suddard |David S. Wallens |Keith Tanner
Eating quick, cheap food for a week straight doesn’t do your digestive system any favors. Call it an unexpected impact of competing in the Tire Rack One Lap of America Presented by Grassroots Motorsports. Despite that, our One Lap team, Tom Suddard and Andy Hollis, carry on the good fight from behind the wheel of their Hyundai Ioniq 5 N. For Day 6, participants had not one but two venues of competition: hot laps at Pitt Race followed by a drag racing session at Quaker City Motorsports Park.
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1 month ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Tom Suddard |Andy Hollis |Colin Wood |David S. Wallens
By Tom Suddard May 6, 2025 | Hyundai, One Lap of America, Hyundai Ioniq 5 N Photography by Tom Suddard and Andy Hollis By Tom Suddard and Andy HollisBy day three, the Tire Rack One Lap of America Presented by Grassroots Motorsports was in full swing. Proven when we woke up, stared at the ceiling for a few minutes, and honestly couldn’t remember what city we were in. Oh, right.
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1 month ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Tom Suddard |Andy Hollis
By Tom Suddard and Andy HollisAfter two days with our Hyundai Ioniq 5 N on the Tire Rack One Lap of America Presented by Grassroots Motorsports, we’d learned a lot about the car. We’d realized it wasn’t a big deal to road-trip an EV, and we’d put it shockingly high on the leaderboard: 12th overall! Spirits were high as we topped off our battery at a Tesla Supercharger. But now it was time to hit the track.
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1 month ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Tom Suddard |Andy Hollis
By Tom Suddard and Andy HollisWe had a busy registration day at the Tire Rack One Lap of America Presented by Grassroots Motorsports: Our car, a brand-new Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, needed brakes, camber and tires, so we crossed those off our list on a borrowed Tire Rack lift before grabbing our stickers and passing tech, parking our Hyundai in the lot with 80 other race cars. Now it was time for competition.
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1 month ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Tom Suddard |Andy Hollis
By Tom Suddard and Andy HollisHow much time does it take to prep for the Tire Rack One Lap of America Presented by Grassroots Motorsports? Months? Weeks? Days? How about hours? Yeah, seriously. After months of discussion, logistical challenges meant we finally met our entry for this year’s One Lap, an electric 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, in the parking lot of the event’s host hotel.
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2 months ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Colin Wood |Tom Suddard |David S. Wallens
Update by David S. Wallens to the Ford Mustang GT project car Apr 29, 2025 | Ford, Ford Mustang, SCCA Club Spec Tired shocks, squishy suspension, brakes of unknown origin. We’ve all been there. It’s like riding a snake. Will it turn? Will it brake? Will it put down power? Maybe, maybe not. It’s like a box of chocolates. This past weekend, I finally got to drive our Mustang project in anger.
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2 months ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Tom Suddard |Paris Van Gorder
Update by Tom Suddard to the Mazda Miata project car Apr 18, 2025 | Mazda, Endurance Racing, Mazda Miata, V6 Miata Photography by Tom Suddard It’s no secret that comfortable drivers are fast drivers, and minor quibbles in a sprint race can become arduous slogs in an endurance race–a fact we’ve learned all too well campaigning our V6-swapped NA Miata.
