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THIS STORY ORIGINALLY appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. Traditionally, the athletics track in an Olympic stadium is red. However, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, it's purple, to match the event colors chosen by the Paris organizing committee. But there's another difference: It's made with …

This isn’t your typical Nascar racing machine. For 75 years, American stock-car competitions unfolded to the star-spangled tune of roaring, gas-guzzling V8 engines. When this prototype took to the course at Nascar’s Chicago Street Race for demonstration laps, it left the starting line in a cloud of tire smoke, scrambling …