Since the advent of time, man has always had a certain fascination with speed. Maybe it all started when ancient man and his buddies were running for their lives while being chased by a saber tooth tiger and the fastest one could live to tell about it, while the slower ones would have been the subjects of the sorry tale. Then man started to show off whose horse was faster, then whose chariot was faster until we reach the modern age of man when seeing who gets the around a circuit the fastest with the best car wins.
And modifying racing cars went with it, by loading only the finest parts that money could buy like HRE rims, K&N Intakes, Kelford camshafts, Larini strut braces, Techart wheels, and Tein coilovers. So people not only race cars, bikes, trucks, lawnmowers but lately someone has cooked up something new. Motor home racing.
Yes, a motor home. The kind that is either a truck or bus or minibus that has a kitchen, bed and bath on it which people with their families take to camps and wild life parks on weekends to enjoy a nice, quite evening in the wild. Where on earth would people race their motor homes? Not on a public highway, where even a Fiat Panda can outrun and outgun them. A proper racetrack would be just the place. There are rules and regulations, just like any other recognized and homologated racing event.
The first rule is one night to prep the racing motor home. Then, drive it to the designated racetrack and race a couple of laps. Finally, go home with the motor home in one piece. Is this race for real? Has anyone actually participated in this race? The answer is yes, on both counts. A fellow by the name of Richard Hammond (yes, one of the Top Gear trio) started it and the contestants were race car drivers in real motor homes, and was witnessed by about half a million people streaming it on YouTube. Will this race catch on? Well, in a world where people race almost about anything, this will definitely make it to the top with F1. Maybe, anyway. But it will definitely catch on.
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