MotorEthos

Well, to start off, how many car shows have you gone to that are serving fresh oysters on a half shell and free flowing champagne? Exactly.

Sports car racing... it's a sport held close to my heart. And when the Tudor United Sports Car Championship is in Monterey my happy place is a quick drive to the California coast. This year the series is in year two of a marriage between ALMS and Grand-Am and by my track side observation there's no annulment in sight. Teams, drivers and fans all seem to be benefiting from the merger.

It's a rare thing that we've been blessed to have auto enthusiast film directors to bring us remarkable films such as Senna , 1, and Rush . And now we can add a fourth to the racing documentary genre, Adrenalin - The BMW Touring Car Story produced by Stereoscreen.

Lately, I've been dreaming about owning a 370z. With it's new styling and throwback looks to the original 240z, it's quite the good looking, over all driver's car that I'm looking for. Here's a video featuring Formula Drift driver Chris Forsberg, which mirrors exactly what I've been going through every time I see one of these pass me on the 5.

It's not just the drivers that go through rigorous training to compete in racing. Here, Ferrari shows us how they train their pit crew and engineers to execute one of the fastest pit stops in Formula 1.

Race season is in full swing and being race fans we took the opportunity to soak in the Tudor United Sports Car Championship at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. If you've been stuck under a rock we'll forgive you for not knowing this is the inaugural race season for the new series that was conceived by the merger of the American LeMans and Grand-Am Series. We can tell you that the marriage, arguably in the honeymoon stage, looks to be off to a great start and we're looking forward to following the races for the continuation of the series. But this post isn't going to recount the blow-by-blow track action and pour stats into your inner monologue. There are dedication professional sports journalists for that. No, instead we're going to tell you the story of taking a sports car fan to their first race and watching that excitement evolve into racing's newest fan.

1./spôrt/ noun an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. As car aficionados you can probably guess where we stand with this question. Yes. Racing is a sport. There, we said it (let the debate begin). But don’t be so quick to parse words or negate the effort involved in producing effective results when you compare racing to the school yard games and organized leagues you played growing up. They all require an inner drive to fuel the compulsion to beat the opponent.