Race Cars

If you’re not a track-day regular or vintage race car fan, you may never have heard of Bailey Cars, or its predecessor, Bailey Edwards Cars. The South African manufacturer builds replicas of classic endurance racers like the Porsche 917, the Ford GT40, the Lola T70 and the Ferrari P4, and...

After announcing its entry to the World Rally Championship in May of last year, Volkswagen has finally revealed the race car that it hopes will take it to WRC glory in 2013. Already previewed in concept form, the new Polo R WRC race car certainly looks the part, and, as testing has shown...

Porsche has revealed the first of its new generation of 991-based 911 race cars, the new 2013 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, which made its official debut this weekend at the automaker’s Night of Champions end of motorsport season celebratory event in Weissach, Germany. The Porsche 911 GT3 Cup is the...

If you’re a fan of IndyCar, you know that this year’s Grand Prix of Baltimore wasn’t exactly a seamless event. In fact, it almost wasn’t an event at all until Michael Andretti’s Andretti Sports Marketing agreed to take over the organization and promotion of the event...

In 1963, the Ford Motor Company very nearly became the owner of Ferrari. Ford reportedly invested millions of dollars on due diligence, only to have Enzo Ferrari back out of the deal after learning his cars would be ineligible to compete in the Indy 500 under Ford’s ownership. That...

At this week’s 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show, Mazda finally confirmed that its redesigned 2014 Mazda6 will be offered with a diesel engine. The new Mazda6 goes on sale in January, initially with just a SkyActiv-G 2.5-liter gas engine. The diesel will arrive in the second half of 2013. The...

With the reveal of its Continental GT3 race car concept, Bentley is showing that it’s serious about returning to the motorsports arena. Although you’d never guess it from the automaker’s current product line, Bentley has a long and successful history in motorsports, including a...

Just two weeks after it was announced that development of the Type 997 Porsche 911 GT3 race cars had come to an end, the first prototypes for one of their successors has been spotted. Our spy photographers recently snapped these photos depicting a prototype for the new Type 991 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR...

Though forbidden fruit for those of us on this side of the Atlantic (for now, anyway), Audi’s S3 hot hatch combines above average performance with plenty of luxury amenities in a sensible hatchback body style. In stock form, the car comes with a turbocharged 2.0-liter TFSI engine, rated at...

Akira Iida has competed in the Japanese Super GT Series, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring and VLN endurance races, where he has twice delivered class wins in a Lexus LFA racer. As if that wasn’t enough, Iida was also the driver who piloted a Lexus LFA...

While drooling over brochures of the Matech GT1 Ford GT, Ray Hofman, owner of RH Motorsports, had an idea: build a version of the Ford GT that looked like a race car, yet remained street legal and (relatively) comfortable to drive. If such a car appealed to him, Hofman thought, it would likely...

Announced in 2011, the B-Spec series (sanctioned by both the SCCA and Grand Am) is arguably the cheapest way to go racing on a professional level. Up to now, the series has starred the Honda Fit, the Ford Fiesta, the Kia Rio, the Fiat 500, the MINI Cooper, the Toyota Yaris and the Mazda2. Now...

At last year’s SEMA show, Chevy announced that it would build 69 COPO Camaros for the 2012 model year. The number was in honor of the original COPO (short for Central Office Production Order) Camaro, which hit the drag strip in 1969 as a factory-built race car. Like the originals, the new...

The Nissan Altima may not be the obvious choice for a racing series called V8 Supercars, but a version of the car, complete with a Nismo-tuned V-8 engine, will compete in the popular series from next year onwards, and today it has been revealed. The inclusion of more manufacturers in V8 Supercars...

About a week ago we brought you news that HSV, official tuner to GM’s Aussie division, Holden, was looking to establish a new one-making racing series in India using one of its tuned Holden Commodore sedans as the basis. HSV has now revealed some details about the project, including...

Today, Formula One cars are powered by naturally-aspirated, 2.4-liter V-8 engines, made by either Renault, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari or Cosworth. That changes for 2014, as the new regulations call for turbocharged V-6 engines, not to exceed 1.6-liters in displacement. Although the 2014 Formula One...

With only five examples in existence, this is probably the only way you’ll get to see the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 45th Anniversary race car in action. This latest video shows the car in its natural home, although we bet most owners won’t be tracking their examples. Why? Because the...

Though the upcoming 2014 Chevrolet SS--and it’s VF Holden Commodore sibling--won’t be revealed until the Daytona 500 next February, we’ll get a good preview of its styling next month with the reveal of the Chevrolet SS NASCAR race car that will be tackling the 2013 Sprint Cup...

In 2005, Porsche returned to sports prototype racing after a six-year absence, debuting its RS Spyder in the American LeMans Series LMP2 class. In 2006, its first full season, the Porsche RS Spyder dominated the ALMS LMP2 class, easily taking home the class championship. The car was so good that it...

This past week Lamborghini revealed its updated 2013 Gallardo range, which for the latest model year gets revised styling and a host of new personalization options. However, an update to the road car means the racing version, the Gallardo LP 570-4 Super Trofeo, is also due for renewal, and today we...