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Grassroots Motorsports online forum is a section of the magazine's official website. Discussion is allowed on almost any topic, automotive or not. Forum members use the boards to ask car-related questions, post build threads to track their progress on a project car, organize user gatherings, and
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Challenge event was held in 1999, before the staff instituted the "year as the budget" naming convention; the budget cap for cars in that event was $ 1500. According to the magazine's longtime art director, J.G. Pasterjak, the $ 1500 Challenge was intended to feature staff-built cars as a
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The magazine holds an annual competition referred to generally as the
Grassroots Motorsports $ 2000 Challenge. When referring to a specific running of the event, the name changes to reflect the year it was held (i.e., $ 2015 Challenge in 2015). The main goal of the Challenge is to demonstrate that
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Spectacular Failure," "Challengers' Choice," and
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Marketing is also an event company, hosting or sponsoring large annual events under the banner of one or both magazines. Some of its past and present Grassroots-centric events include the Tire Rack Ultimate Track Car Challenge presented by Grassroots Motorsports, GRM Speedfest at the
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Two of the most popular threads in the history of the forum have unlikely titles: "Ignore" and "Can we please stop hotlinking pics?" They have reached 300+ pages of posts by regular and new users alike. As of March 2016, the "hotlinking" thread had 76527 posts spanning 3062 pages.
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