Race Cars

The last time a Bentley automobile took to the track in top-level motorsports was 2003, when the legendary brand from Crewe won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the Bentley Speed 8. Since then there have been inklings that the automaker was looking at a return to motorsports, which culminated late last...

During any given auto race, what transpires on the track is just one of several contests taking place--especially in Formula 1. There are pit crews, of course, but behind the scenes are teams of technicians in high gear at keyboards and screens. Their real-time monitoring and adjustments come from...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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”...

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.

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...

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

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...