Racing

We've seen hilarity ensue when a man takes his five-year old son drifting. Now we get to see what happens when a son has his mom ride shotgun during an autocross. In this video from Spectro Racing, "Scott" takes straps his mom into the passenger seat of his Volkswagen GTI, helmet and all, while he...

NASCAR driver and part-time Sprint Car racer Tony Stewart is being sued over the 2014 on-track accident that took the life of 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr. The wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Stewart by the late racer's family. LEARN MORE: NASCAR’s Tony Stewart Hits And Kills Kevin...

Nissan’s troubled LMP1 campaign in the 2015 World Endurance Championship shows little signs of improving, with the Japanese automaker confirming this month that it won’t be attending future races until it sorts out technical issues that hampered its performance at its debut race...

You've already heard that BMW is trotting out a handful of cars from its racing history. The cars will be fired up and tracked hard during the Monterey Motorsports Reunion event during this coming week's Monterey Car Week, which includes the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. BMW has...

McLaren Formula One driver Jenson Button, 35, and wife Jessica Michibata, 30, were involved in a robbery at their holiday home in the south of France earlier this week. The robbers are thought to have circulated an anaesthetic gas through the air conditioning system of the home located in...

High-horsepower Funny Cars are notoriously quick down the strip but a new record was set last Friday at California’s Sonoma Raceway. Jack Beckman behind the wheel of the Infinite Hero Dodge Charger made a pass in just 3.921 seconds at 323.43 mph, setting a class record in the process. The...

According to the just and wise Harry Hogge, crew chief of Cole Trickle's Chevrolet Lumina race team in the 1990 motion picture "Days of Thunder," rubbin' is racin'. Well, that may often be the case in the gold ol' US of A, but the Germans aren't too fond of that adage. On the last lap of Sunday's...

When Mazda announced its all-new fourth-generation MX-5 Miata, the first question was not whether it would race the little sports car, but where it would race it. The answer is: everywhere that involves turning left and right. Besides ongoing support of the grassroots, Mazda is revising its MX-5...

Belgium’s BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS won this past weekend’s 24 Hours of Spa, the highlight of the Blancpain Endurance Series aimed at private teams. The team’s number 46 BMW Z4 GT3 race car driven by Nick Catsburg, Lucas Luhr and Markus Palttala was the first to cross the...

Ferrari took advantage of a poor start by the Mercedes AMG drivers at yesterday’s 2015 Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix to jump into the lead, and in the case of star driver Sebastian Vettel stay there right up until the end of the race. At one point Vettel had a 30-second gap between the...

In extreme conditions at today’s qualifying session for the 2015 Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix, which once again is being held at Budapest’s Hungaroring, Mercedes AMG proved unstoppable. Star driver Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time in a session where the air temperature hit 91...

Budapest’s Hungaroring, home of the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix, is one of the most challenging circuits on the calendar, and that’s before you take into account Hungary’s notoriously high ambient temperatures this time of year. It’s not uncommon for temperatures to...

This weekend is the Spa 24 Hours, the highlight of the Blancpain Endurance Series, and this year a number of teams will be competing using the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 race car. Another Aston Martin will be present at the Belgian race, though, and that’s the limited edition Vulcan track...

After a couple of weeks away due to testing, the 2015 Formula One World Championship continues this weekend with round ten, the Hungarian Grand Prix, which once again is taking place at the Hungaroring near Budapest. Here, temperatures can approach 100 degrees F (38 degrees C) during the day, and...

We’re sad to report that French Formula One driver Jules Bianchi has succumbed to his injuries sustained during a horrific crash in 2014’s rain-affected Japanese Grand Prix. The news was confirmed overnight in a statement released by Bianchi’s family. He was only 25 years old...

There’s nothing like seeing a staggered race to compare and contrast the performance of different vehicles, and it’s always fun when a Formula One car is involved. This latest video from oil giant ExxonMobil ups the fan factor by including an interactive 360-degree view. MUST WATCH...

At its World Motor Sport Council meeting held in Mexico City on Friday, motorsports governing body the FIA announced a provisional calendar for the 2016 Formula One World Championship, and included for the first time is a race at Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. The calendar also sees the...

Remember Cole Trickle? He was that promising open-wheel racer from California with a number of wins under his belt, but without the support of a big family name to pursue his dream of winning the Indy 500. He decides to jump over to NASCAR, and he becomes a polarizing young racer. Still, he manages...

A new race series called the Touringcar Racer International Series (TCR) launched this year and it’s already proving popular among enthusiasts and up-and-coming drivers. That’s because the concept behind TCR calls for low cost of entry and low running costs. CHECK OUT: 2018 Volkswagen...

Finnish rally legend Tommi Mäkinen, a winner of four World Rally Championship titles during the 1990s, will serve as team principal for the Toyota WRC team, which is set to start throwing gravel come 2017. The team will be competing under the newly established Toyota Gazoo Racing banner, and...