The Under 8 Challenge is the best car video series you will see this year.

I don't know about you but I'm getting stale on videos of fancy journalists driving other people's supercars sideways for show.

The perfect antidote comes the way of two Italians and a hirsute Greek living and working at the Nürburgring (at RSR Nurburg).

Gabriele Piana, Andrea Cantono and Kosta Sidiras all own shitboxes they intend to flog to a sub 8 minute BTG lap.  That's the #teamshitbox challenge because anyone can drive fast cars fast on the straight bits!

OK,  Gabriele will argue his Lotus Elise S1 represents the finest of British engineering but anyone who's owned a Lotus knows they were all assembled by drunks in a shed.  As for the other two I'll let Gabriele do the trash talking.



The best part about this series and these clips is that the guys are doing precisely what so many tracktards like us do with the cars we love (and hate):  figure it out, make it work, have fun.

Good luck guys, I subscribed and we will publish every new episode.

In the meantime, be sure to check out the Ring Banana videos while you wait for updates.