At Straight4, we don’t just simulate racing, we get down and—in Game Design Director Austin Ogonoski’s case—dirty … Here’s Austin having some fun last weekend at Fire & Flood Emergency Services Speedway. Hey, he’s North American, they get a bit rough out there.

Austin is the reigning champ in the Mini-Stock Division/Northern Alberta Mini-Stocks series, running his souped-up Chevy Cavalier with its Vauxhall VX220/Opel Speedster engine. He’s off to a searing start to the season again, winning 3 of the 5 races this year.

Here’s some action from one of the races (Austin’s in the silver dream machine!). And for those of you who like to connect weird dots, Silver Dream Machine was a movie with David Essex, and Essex was a title sponsor of Lotus that built the GM Open Speedster. I’ll see myself out …

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