Insane Semi-Truck Racing Event Has Trailer-On Time Attack

Semi-truck racing has been a thing for decades, and rightfully so. There’s just something extra entertaining about watching vehicles not built to go fast hit the track. It’s definitely a niche within the niche that is motorsports, but nonetheless there are semi-truck racing series all around the world. And this might be the craziest of them all. Held in Colombia every year since 1988, the Gran Premio Mobil Delvac isn’t just a race for semi trucks. It’s a test of skills the drivers also use on the road. Drivers lap the Autodromo de Tocancipa road course with trailers attached. They also have to negotiate slaloms and stop boxes like you…

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