Video: What you missed at the Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge

https://www.youtube.com/embed/BVcY9z2WiC4?si=DccGJ6xmYycLckep

$2000 isn’t nearly enough to make a competitive race car, right? Wrong.

How do we know? Just look at our annual Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge Presented by Tire Rack and powered by AutoBidMaster, which seeks to find out if a car built for less than $2000 beats one built for far more.

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Great video! VERY well produced and edited, thank you.

How about a dozen or so more, please? 

Big thank yous to everyone and congratulations to all the participants.

In reply to BoulderG :

Glad you liked it!

And yes, we have lots of content in the works from this year's $2000 Challenge.

Stay tuned!

So many great builds this year, I wish I could have fit them all into this video. 

Thanks to everyone who joined us this year for the $2000 Challenge. 

Chris, great video. It was cool meeting you this weekend too 

Thanks 

Thank you!

In reply to Indy - Guy :

Thanks, it was great meeting you too.

In reply to Chris Tropea :

This is fantastic for all of us who couldn't be there, thank you!

I would love to learn more about the different builds besides the Bug/Miata. I look through the threads, but I must be missing a bunch. Specifically I'm intrigued by what the heck was going on with the #7 that made it so fast in drag. Did it have any EV parts like the pictures suggest? Will there be more coverage about all the builds forthcoming? Thanks again!

In reply to bbbbRASS :

More on the event is in the works but you can check out the build thread for that car here on the forum: Night Owl Racing - 2025 $2000 Challenge

bbbbRASS said:

In reply to Chris Tropea :

This is fantastic for all of us who couldn't be there, thank you!

I would love to learn more about the different builds besides the Bug/Miata. I look through the threads, but I must be missing a bunch. Specifically I'm intrigued by what the heck was going on with the #7 that made it so fast in drag. Did it have any EV parts like the pictures suggest? Will there be more coverage about all the builds forthcoming? Thanks again!

Rear engine rear drive.  Good for getting grip!

I forget which engine is in it.  Iirc, it is a v6.

Chris Tropea said:

In reply to bbbbRASS :

More on the event is in the works but you can check out the build thread for that car here on the forum: Night Owl Racing - 2025 $2000 Challenge

 

I knew I had missed it somewhere. Thanks!

bbbbRASS said:

In reply to Chris Tropea :

This is fantastic for all of us who couldn't be there, thank you!

I would love to learn more about the different builds besides the Bug/Miata. I look through the threads, but I must be missing a bunch. Specifically I'm intrigued by what the heck was going on with the #7 that made it so fast in drag. Did it have any EV parts like the pictures suggest? Will there be more coverage about all the builds forthcoming? Thanks again!

Sharp-looking livery.