Driving a Mongoose Motorsports Gran Sport in Germany

The guy who's driving the Grand Sport is a buddy of mine.

Well, finally, it's out...

As some of you know, and many of you probably don't, I spent the better part of 2007 and 2008 driving for Mongoose Motorsports - builders of a couple of Corvette replicas.

In April, I went to Germany to drive the Mongoose Grand Sport for the German show, "DMotor" - think Top Gear, but without funny phrases like "rubbish" and without the silly British accent..

DMotor has two hosts, one of them being Sabine Schmidt. She is known as the "Queen of the Ring" for her prowess on the Nurburgring - she does occasional appearences on Top Gear - if you remember the woman who lapped the ring in 10 minutes in the panel van, that's her...

For this episode, she would be in a 600-horsepower Cobra replica, and I would be in the 400-horespower Grand Sport Replica - to even things up, I was allowed DOT-R tires (Kumho V700s) and she had to run on Michelin Pilot Sports.

So without furthur banter, here we go: (sorry about the German, I will work on producing a subtitled version)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6quxEL8ioA

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phGwbbyEHMo

I was driving through Akron a couple of months ago and saw the Mogoose Motorsports logo on the side of a building. I was with a buddy and we had some time to kill so we stopped in. It was a Saturday and they were closed, but the two guys that were there gave us a tour of the facility and showed us several cars in various stages of completion. Great guys and some very cool cars!! They build their own bodies and chassis, and they can put just about any engine in one that you might want. I think that they went everywhere from carbed big blocks to LSX motors.