By Colin Wood
May 14, 2025
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Fiat,
Time Trials,
time attack,
Fiat 500 Abarth
You’ve heard of blowing the doors off of your competition, but have you ever driven so fast that you’ve blown your own doors off?
I guess that’s what happens when you turn a Fiat 500 Abarth into a 500-horsepower time attack race car.
5/14/25 11:48 a.m.
(FYI: The door comes off at around the 8:30 mark)
5/14/25 11:58 a.m.
Driver was remarkably calm!
5/14/25 12:33 p.m.
Initially I had a lot of interest in time attack events, thinking that maybe I could participate. After looking closer, it appeared that most (all?) of the cars are produced by shops, used as advertising/tax write offs. Building one as a private party would likely run $$,$$$, if not another "$." With that, any thoughts of entering evaporated.
5/14/25 1:26 p.m.
In reply to kb58 :
GTA (global time attack) and #GRIDLIFE are much more grassroots oriented. Don't let yourself get put off by the corporate teams.
I think both SCCA and NASA have a series as well.
5/14/25 1:48 p.m.
I would love something like this, minus the door ejection feature
5/14/25 3:11 p.m.
To be fair, the passenger door was seen fluttering quite a bit as well. He might have lost both of them for a true open-air motoring experience.
5/15/25 5:33 a.m.
In reply to kb58 :
SCCA TT/TTnats, NASA TT, Gridlife TA, various hill climb orgs, etc have tons of very "normal" cars and classes they slot in - they just don't make as good YouTubes so they might be not as visible, but we have as much fun driving.
5/15/25 7:22 a.m.
Remind me: The fiat 500 has suicide doors no?
5/15/25 8:30 a.m.
Those weird fenders look very familiar. When I had my Abarth, someone had made some kind of one-off super fast version, it was white, and had those slotted fenders. I wonder if I can find the info.
5/15/25 4:48 p.m.
How about both doors at 200 MPH
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