David S. Wallens

By Colin Wood Jun 4, 2026 | gridlife, Tom O'Gorman, Gridlife Midwest Festival, Vitour P1 The mission is simple: Bolt a set of Vitour P1 P-01R tires onto a C8 Corvette ZR1 and set the fastest lap time possible around GingerMan Raceway during Gridlife’s upcoming Midwest Festival. Joining Dallas Reed, Managing Director at Vitour Performance Tires, in achieving that goal? Tom O’Gorman, autocross, road racing and One Lap of America champion. Is a sub-1:30 lap time possible?

Ever have one of those years? When everything goes wrong, your living situation is unstable and life is chaos? Then you know what it’s like to be our V6-swapped Miata. After a burst oil line caused a fire on track, the Miata hopscotched over to our new shop to have its rear subframe and fuel tank ripped out for the entire summer.

How much for a time machine back to the ’80s? Because that’s what we have here–and soon it’ll be for sale. When it comes to the original Z-car, the 1970-’72 Datsun 240Z has long been the one to get: less weight, less bumpers, less complexity. It was pretty much perfect. The later Z got a little heavier, a little bigger, a little more complicated. But at the same time, it’s a machine that perfectly sums up the times, as we were elbow deep in the malaise era by this point in history.