Nurburgring 24 Hours Race

Developing a world-class supercar like the Lexus LFA from a clean sheet of paper is no easy task, and turning that supercar (or supercar prototype) into a competitive endurance racer is an order of magnitude more difficult. Taking that race car to compete with long-dominant German automakers, in...

Since its unveiling in 2007, Nissan’s GT-R supercar has continued to evolve, with engineers putting it through some of the harshest conditions in order to help them fine tune the car over the remainder of its life. One such test was the Nürburgring 24 Hours held earlier this year...

Ferdinand and Johannes Stuck aren't household names, but they race great cars at legendary tracks like the Nürburgring and they make impressive video. And among race fans, their father, Hans-Joachim Stuck, is very much a household name. Follow the Stuck brothers as they document the whole race...

The Lexus IS F race car takes on the trials of the Nürburgring 24-hour endurance race.

Driving a racetrack you know intimately in the dark is a very humbling experience. Even in an endurance race car, there’s barely enough lighting to cope with the kind of speeds typically encountered on a track. Putting together a fast lap, then, requires more than vision. It’s as much...

A 2013 Nissan GT-R Club Track Edition was driven to victory in the SP8T class in the 2012 Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance race.

Prior to the 2012 Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance race that took place over the weekend, the fastest lap time for a Ferrari over the 13-odd miles of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife was the 6:58.16 figure set by Ferrari and its 599XX experimental car back in April of 2010. However, Ferrari...

An Audi R8 LMS ultra was driven to overall victory at the 2012 Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance race.

When the green flag waves at the start of this weekend’s Nürburgring 24 Hour race, the field will include four race-prepped Toyota GT86 models (the Scion FR-S, in the United States), as well as a Lexus LFA. We already told you about two of the GT86s and the LFA, all of which will be...

For its seventh successive year, Aston Martin will be competing at the grueling Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance race which is taking place this weekend. There will be four factory-backed cars, two of which will be high-performance V12 Vantage GT3 racers. Designed to FIA regulations, the Vantage...

Aston Martin and Ferrari may commonly mingle with Lexus next to the greens at your local country club, but in May they’ll compete together and with others at “The Green Hell,” Germany’s Nürburgring race track. It may be easy to first associate the Japanese luxury...

A mysterious GT-R prototype fitted with a number of performance modifications has been spotted at Nissan’s test facility just outside the Nürburgring race track in Germany, suggesting that the automaker is hard at work developing a new performance variant of the iconic Japanese supercar...

Years in the making, long spied at test tracks around the world, and often displayed at auto shows, Scion’s new 2013 FR-S is now just weeks away from hitting showrooms along with being just a few weeks away from making its international racing debut. The Scion FR-S, or more accurately, its...

Nissan will compete in the 2012 Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance race using one of its stock 2013 GT-R supercars, albeit a race-ready Club Track Edition. The team fielding the car will be the GT-R’s own development team, headed by none other than the car’s chief engineer Kazutoshi...

YouTube's new home for gear heads, called Drive, has launched with an episode of Shakedown covering the 24 Hours of Nürburgring

You may recall that last month the CEO of Aston Martin, Dr. Ulrich Bez, auctioned off his Rapide company car in order to raise funds for the Japan earthquake relief effort. Bez, and his counterpart at Toyota, Akio Toyoda, are at the Nurburgring 24 Hours race taking place in Germany this weekend...

Porsche will be bringing hybrid racing back to Germany's famed Nurburgring at this weekend's 24 Hours of Nurburgring.

Joining the assortment of fully fledged race cars and hyper-expensive supercars at this weekend’s grueling Nurburgring 24 Hours endurance race will be this very cute 2012 MINI John Cooper Works Coupe race car. Based on the recently revealed 2012 MINI Coupe, this racing version picks up an...

We are just days away now from the 2011 Nurburgring 24 Hours endurance race taking place at the famous Nurburgring-Nordschleife circuit in Germany. Each year the race sees literally hundreds of drivers compete, with participants ranging from amateurs in small road legal cars with roll-cages and...

Just two weeks after his thrilling win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the number 2 Audi R18 TDI, German driver André Lotterer will take to the notorious Nurburgring-Nordschleife for the equally arduous Nurburgring 24 Hours endurance race. Lotterer will pilot one of two Lexus LFAs that will...