The J-Turn

- Season 2

(2013)

Jessi Lang loads up the 2014 Nissan GT-R Track Edition and heads up the California coast with a few of her colleagues from Bike Magazine. Starting in Los Angeles, Jessi road trips more than 400 miles north to Sonoma Raceway to drive a full bore V8 stock car and attempt to master its 4-speed Jericho dog box transmission. Her stock car instructor for the day at Simraceway Performance Driving Center is Tyler McQuarrie, a professional race car driver known for competing in a diverse array of motor sports events, from NASCAR to Formula Drift to The American Le Mans Series....

Jessi Lang takes you behind the scenes of Motor Trend's 2013 Best Driver's Car Powered by Mobil 1 to show you all of the preparation this event demands and the many challenges it poses. Giving you a glimpse of the contenders- like the Aston Martin Vanquish, the Audi R8, the BMW M6, the Mercedes Benz SLS AMG Black Series, the Jaguar F-Type, the SRT Viper, and the Nissan GT-R Track Edition- and shows you the madness that inevitably ensues each year.

Jessi Lang heads to Monterey, California, to check out the culture surrounding the Moto Grand Prix, the premier class in motorcycle racing in which some of the most sophisticated and intriguing technology is found. But Moto GP is about much more than chasing the adrenaline rush; it's a mass moto pilgrimage, in which fans from all over the world come together. Each year, more than 2,000 motorcycles head to Cannery Row on Saturday night for "Race Nights on the Row," where you're likely to see swarms of Ducatis, Harleys, and exotic bikes, not to mention a lively crowd of...

Jessi Lang heads to K&N with the all-new 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Z51 to run it on the dyno and see just how much horsepower the C7's V-8 produces at the wheels. She also gets a tour of K&N's multi-million dollar facility where they create every type of air filter under the sun. K&N is eager to get their hands on the C7 as they've already been hard at work creating a prototype air filter for the car. How much extra power will K&N be able to extract from the all-new Corvette?

Jessi Lang catches up with Travis Pastrana, who has won championships and X Games gold medals in several events, including super-cross, motocross, freestyle motocross, and rally racing. The famed action sports star takes Jessi on a hot lap, and they discuss his transition to the stock cars of NASCAR's Nationwide Series and the X Games in Los Angeles.