Race track

The Ford Performance Racing School is splitting its operations between new facilities in North Carolina and Utah beginning in 2020.

Porsche has reopened the 7.8-mile circular test track at its Nardò test facility in Italy after $40 million in investment and seven months of construction.

The most fun you can have driving is on a closed courses and off of public roads. So, why not treat yourself to your own racetrack? North Florida Speedway, a 3/8-mile dirt racetrack,is currently for sale in Lake City, Florida. Alright, so it won't be suitable for the world's finest supercars, but...

Mercedes-AMG has marked a milestone in South Korea. AMG Speedway has opened to become the first racetrack to bear the tuner's name. The new track sits outside the South Korean capital of Seoul, where it stretches 4.3 kilometers (2.7 miles) and will not only serve as a place for motorsports but as a...

Ralph Gilles has been a positive fixture in the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles [NYSE: FCAU] world for a number of years now. He's the cheerful head of design who clearly shares the same passion for automobiles that burns strongly in the rest of us. He's also happy to hit the track in his own vehicles...

All Audi vehicles offer luxury, but the brand has a three-tiered approach when it comes to performance. Base Audis, especially sedans and coupes, are fairly sporty, but the uplevel S models definitely amp up the sporty feel. There is a third level, though, the RS models, that push the envelope...

Tax season is behind us, and that means many are wondering what they could possibly do with their refunds. Here's an idea: buy a racetrack. Maybe we're not the soundest of financial advisors, but it's a racetrack. For sale. Think of the possibilities! Measuring in at 3/8 of a mile, the high-bank...

Alexander West is, according to his Twitter profile, into finance and cars. He's clearly quite good at the finance part because he's got a heck of a lineup of vehicles from which to choose. On his YouTube page he posts simple, straight-forward clips of him enjoying his vehicles on tracks all over...

In the works for over three years, the first steps toward actual construction of the planned Corvette Museum Motorsports Park have begun. Crews began clearing the land on the future site of the Motorsports Park this week. While the official groundbreaking is still some time away, the move is the...

Though the McLaren P1’s official debut will take place at next month’s Geneva Motor Show, McLaren is still showing off its P1 prototype. The car made its Middle East debut in Bahrain last month, so McLaren took advantage of a vacant Bahrain International Circuit to grab some stills of...

Let’s be brutally honest with one another for a second: there’s a segment of the sports-car-buying population that has no interest whatsoever in actually driving fast; instead, they like the image that a fast and expensive sports car gives them. We’re not here to judge, and that...

Martin Brundle is perhaps best known for his two stints in Formula One (1984-89, 1992-96), but the British racing driver has also completed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans eight times, winning the event in 1990 with co-drivers Price Cobb and John Nielsen. Christian Danner has raced in IndyCar and CART...

To outsiders, the life of an automotive journalist is second only to the life of fictional spy James Bond. After all, we get to travel to exotic locations, drive the latest, fastest cars and eat meals we couldn’t possibly pay for on our own dime. Sadly, the reality of the job is countless...

Augusto Farfus is a Brazilian racing driver who currently gets paid by BMW to campaign an M3 in the DTM series. While Farfus may look young, his resume includes stints in the World Touring Car Championship from 2005 - 2010, a season in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup in 2011 and two entries into...

The massive motorsports park planned for the area across the highway from the National Corvette Museum took another step closer to construction this week as the Warren County, Kentucky authorities approved the zoning necessary to place a track there. In addition to the National Corvette Museum, the...

A new race track opening in Bad Driburg, Germany, promises to be the German equivalent of Italy's Ascari Race Resort.

Less than two weeks after Marco Simoncelli's tragic death, the owners of Italy's Misano Circuit have agreed to dedicate the track to the fallen Italian rider.

We all like to think that our cars have been developed using technology bred on the race track. It adds a sense of kudos and the impression of thoroughbred engineering to even the most mundane of vehicles. Ironic then, that with the push towards electric vehicles as road transport, the world of...

The 1980s was an exciting time to be a young person. The reason? Video games. From coin-operated arcade games to the advent of home games consoles a whole generation had a new form of entertainment and for the budding gearheads, the best fun was provided by racing games. Just as car technology has...

It might seem ironic that on the weekend the NASCAR Cup series visited Infineon Raceway in Northern California, the circuit chose to announce the completion of its large solar arrays. As over forty NASCAR racers tore around the circuit for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 on Saturday and Sunday, spectators...