Race Cars

  • 2012 Savage Rivale live photos

    Dutch firm Savage Rivale is working on a brand new supercar, but rather than going the traditional route of building a cramped two-seater and strapping a big engine to it the guys at Savage have managed to build something much more substantial. Their creation is the Roadyacht GTS, which made its official world debut in race trim today at the Top Marques Monaco 2012, the premier show for performance and luxury cars. This racing version is simply dubbed the “GTR” and only 69 examples are scheduled to be built. It eschews the innovative telescopic roof system that the road-going...

  • 2000 Ferrari F1-2000 - Image courtesy RM Auctions
    Amazing Collection Of Rare Ferraris Up For Auction In Monaco

    Next month RM Auctions’ eagerly-awaited biennial event in Monaco returns, and will see a number of high-profile Ferraris go under the hammer including a Formula 1 car raced by Michael Schumacher on his way to Formula 1 World Championship victory in 2000. Yes, one of the cars that helped...

  • Wreckage of a Gemballa Racing McLaren MP4-12C GT3
    Gemballa Racing McLaren MP4-12C GT3 Nürburgring Crash: Video

    One of two McLaren MP4-12C GT3 race cars being fielded by Gemballa Racing has suffered a violent crash during this past weekend’s VLN event at the Nürburgring race track in Germany. The Nürburgring race, which took place on Saturday, March 31, was the official competition debut for...

  • 2012 Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 race car
    2012 Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 Takes To The Track: Video

    Last summer Nissan unveiled a new racing version of its GT-R supercar designed to meet FIA-GT3 regulations. That race car has since gone on to compete in the Dubai 24 Hours endurance race and later in the year will see the Nissan GT-R nameplate enter the GT300 class in Japan’s Super GT series...

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    Chevy Ditching Impala In NASCAR Sprint Cup For New Nameplate

    With Ford and Dodge recently unveiling their respective race cars for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, all eyes now turn to Chevrolet to see what it has in store for the sport and all its fans. While many had been expecting a new version of the current Impala race car, Chevrolet has announced...

  • Toyota TS030 HYBRID Le Mans prototype
    Toyota Announces 2012 Goodwood Festival Of Speed Lineup

    Toyota is bringing its top performance machines from all across the globe to the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK this summer, announcing today that among the highlights will be the groundbreaking TS030 Hybrid Le Mans prototype, Lexus LFA Nurburgring endurance racer, and the GT 86 sports...

  • 2013 Dodge Charger NASCAR Sprint Cup race car

    SRT Motorsports, the official motorsports division of the Chrysler Group, has unveiled the 2013 Dodge Charger race car that will compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series next season. The new race car was unveiled at a special event hosted at Las Vegas Motor Speedway over the weekend. In keeping with the request from fans to keep the race cars looking similar to the production versions they’re - very loosely - based on, SRT Motorsports designers and engineers have managed to create a race car Dodge fans will have no problem identifying on the race track. In 2010, NASCAR held a summit with...

  • Gumpert Apollo R live photos
    Gumpert Apollo Enraged And Apollo R Debut In Geneva

    Germany’s Gumpert unveiled two new supercars at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, both of them based on the existing Apollo model though each designed for very a different type of customer. The exampled finished in black is the Gumpert Apollo Enraged, a limited edition model described as...

  • 2012 Audi A5 DTM finalized for homologation
    2012 Audi A5 DTM Design Finalized As Testing Ends

    Even though we saw the general outlines of Audi's upcoming 2012 A5 DTM race car at last fall's Frankfurt auto show, its final design, particularly in terms of aerodynamics, has been in constant flux since then, with on-track testing being done at increasing levels of secrecy. As of yesterday, the...

  • 2012 Audi R18 ultra and e-tron quattro LMP1 race car
    2012 Audi R18 e-tron quattro Hybrid Le Mans Prototype Debuts

    Testament to Audi’s commitment towards pioneering new technologies, the brand with the four rings has unveiled its new 2012 Le Mans racing prototypes, which combine highly-efficient TDI diesel engines with hybrid technology and quattro all-wheel-drive. Audi first saw Le Mans victory back in...

  • 2012 Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 race car
    Nissan GT-R To Enter GT300 Class In Japan’s Super GT Series

    The Nissan GT-R has proven itself time and time again, both on and off the race track, but nowhere has it been such a formidable force than in its domestic market’s Super GT race series. The iconic Japanese supercar has numerous Super GT and previous JGTC titles under its belt but all of...

  • Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg with the 2012 Mercedes AMG Petronas W03
    Mercedes Unveils Its W03 2012 Formula 1 Race Car

    Mercedes-Benz is one of the last teams to unveil its race car for the 2012 FIA Formula 1 season, with the new W03 finally making its debut today at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. On hand to present the car for the Mercedes AMG Petronas team were star drivers Michael Schumacher and...

  • 2012 Volvo S60 TTA race car

    Volvo announced last August that it was leaving the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship where it had semi-successfully raced its C30 hatchback, and instead would start competing in the rival Swedish Racing Elite League by TTA. Today, the automaker has unveiled its new race car for the 2012 TTA season, which is based on its popular S60 sedan. At the unveiling, Alexander Murdzevski, Volvo’s director of motorsport in Sweden, said, “We have had a big pressure on us from many curious Volvo enthusiasts as it is a new championship and a new racing car. That is why we chose to reveal...

  • Toro Rosso STR7 2012 Formula 1 race car
    Scuderia Toro Rosso Unveils STR7 2012 Formula 1 Car

    Scuderia Toro Rosso is fine-tuning the STR7, the team's new 2012 Formula 1 contender, through ongoing practice sessions in Jerez, Spain. V-8 power for the new car comes from a familiar source: Ferrari. Or, as the team describes, “that other Italian outfit which calls itself a Scuderia”...

  • The custom-molded driver's seat of the SLS AMG GT3
    Building The SLS AMG GT3, Part 3 - Seat Fitting: Video

    To ensure the best possible seating position, each SLS AMG GT3 is fitted with a seat molded to the driver's body.

  • A Silver Arrow Grand Prix car
    Silver Arrows To Run At The 2012 Goodwood Festival Of Speed

    Vintage Formula 1 racers from Audi and Mercedes-Benz, known as the "Silver Arrows," will be featured at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed.

  • Williams FW34 2012 Formula 1 race car
    Williams FW34 2012 Formula 1 Race Car Joins Rivals At Jerez

    This week most of the teams competing in the 2012 FIA Formula 1 World Championship are in Jerez, Spain, testing their latest race cars and further evaluating their drivers ahead of the season opener on March 18 in Australia. We now have the first details on the new FW34 racer from Williams, which...

  • Ferrari F2012 2012 Formula 1 race car
    Ferrari Unveils Its 2012 Formula 1 Race Car (F2012)

    Today it was Ferrari who unveiled its challenger for the 2012 Formula 1 season, the all-new F2012. The latest racer is the fifty eighth F1 car built by Ferrari and arguably its most advanced yet. The project, which goes by the internal code number of 663, constitutes the Scuderia’s...

  • The SLS AMG GT3, under construction.

    The second video in the "Building The SLS AMG GT3" series shows assembly after the engine and chassis come together.

  • McLaren MP4-27 2012 Formula 1 race car
    McLaren MP4-27 2012 Formula 1 Race Car Revealed

    McLaren is the first of the major teams to present its challenger for the 2012 Formula 1 season, with the team today unveiling the new MP4-27 race car at the McLaren Technology Center in Woking, UK. McLaren also took the opportunity to confirm the continuation of its double world-champion driver...

  • Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 at the 2012 Dubai 24 Hours race
    Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3s' 1-2-3 Dubai 24 Hour Win: Video

    The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 was driven to first, second, and third place at the 2012 Dubai 24 Hours endurance race.

  • An SLS AMG GT3 awaits construction
    Building The SLS AMG GT3, Step One: Video

    In a new video series AMG takes us through the process of building it s AMG SLS GT3 racer.

  • Caterham CT01 2012 Formula 1 race car
    Caterham F1 First To Unveil 2012 Race Car

    Caterham F1, the team formerly known as Team Lotus, has unveiled its new CT01 race car that will be competing in the 2012 Formula 1 season. Caterham F1 is the first team to unveil its new racer and in the process has revealed some of the design changes made to suit the new rules for 2012. The CT01...

  • 2013 Ford Fusion NASCAR Sprint Cup race car
    2013 Ford Fusion NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Car Unveiled

    Even if you're not a NASCAR fan, you've probably noticed that the race cars haven't looked like the cars they're ostensibly based on for a long time. That's changing, just a bit, with Ford's 2013 Fusion the first to bring brand identity back into the series. "We wanted Fusion to be the car that...

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