There are a lot of things in the world of motorsports that people look at and say “you’d have to be crazy to do that.” Figure 8 racing is right up at the top of that list, and figure 8 endurance racing is practically
in its own category altogether. It’s barely even a motorsport, more of a daredevil stunt but with a lot more participants. If you’re unfamiliar with this particular brand of wheeled lunacy, it’s actually just exactly what the name implies, a race on a figure 8-shaped track, with cars crossing right in front of one another in the center.
This isn’t an endurance race in the way that Le Mans is an endurance race, this kind of racing is so prone to accidents that it’s unlikely any cars would be there at the end of 24 hours. So the world championship of this sort of thing, seen here at the Indianapolis Speedrome, is only three hours long, although that is plenty for figure 8 racing.
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