Racing
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The Global RallyCross Championship is back for another year and one of the teams to watch in 2014 is newcomer Volkswagen, which has partnered with Andretti Autosport and will be fielding a new GRC racer based on its Beetle compact. The team has also managed to snag 2011 and 2012 GRC champion Tanner Foust as well as former Formula One man Scott Speed as drivers. VW used today’s 2014 Chicago Auto Show to announce its entry into the sport, but the team’s Beetle GRC racer isn’t ready yet. While development is completed, the team will initially compete using modified Polo rally...
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Drift Garage: Episode 3 - The Car Finally Heads To The TrackThe Drift Garage series continues to roll forward, and in this episode the car is quite literally moving forward. Chris Forsberg and Ryan Tuerck get new components installed, which means the car is ready for a short shakedown run at a local track. The components include new suspension, a Recaro...
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Nissan GT Academy Trailer: The Racing Heads To IndiaA new season of Nissan's PlayStation gamer-to-racer TV series, GT Academy, is coming. According to the new trailer for the upcoming season, the competition will head to India for the first time. Having made versions of the GT Academy competition to find future racers in the UK, U.S., and Russia...
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Porsche Demonstrates The Art Of Pit Stops Using Its 919 Hybrid: VideoPorsche--understandably--is excited about its return to top-level endurance racing after sitting out for 16 years and watching sister brand Audi rack up win after win. The sports car brand has been building the excitement with the release of information surrounding its preparation for the new...
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Snow Autocross Is Slow, Sideways, Incredibly Fun: VideoIf you've been out on the roads this winter, chances are you've seen some pretty stupid low-grip maneuvers. Don't you wish there were a safe environment where normal people could learn how to control their cars on snow and ice? There is such a place. It's at Road America. Fortunately for those of...
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Audi Confirms Driver Lineup For 2014 World Endurance ChampionshipAudi’s assortment of drivers for its campaign in the 2014 World Endurance Championship has been confirmed, and the lineup includes no less than five world champions and Le Mans winners plus a former Formula One driver. Audi will be fielding two of its 2014-spec R18 e-tron quattro Le Mans...
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Formula One stalwart Ross Brawn has announced his retirement from the sport, ending months of speculation on what team he could end up following his decision last November to quit as team principal at Mercedes AMG. The British engineer, 59, made the announcement during a recent fishing trip in Scotland. "I'm retiring--it's not tongue in cheek," Brawn is quoted as saying. "I'm going to take a year to enjoy the fishing and then see what life brings." This ends a chapter of F1 that started all the way back in 1978 when Brawn first started out in the sport as a machinist for the newly formed...
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McLaren 12C GT3 To Run Bathurst 12-HourBased on one of the best road-going super sports cars we've ever driven, the McLaren 12C GT3 is even meaner and more capable when loosed on track. Soon, it will tackle the epic challenge that is the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, Australia. For 12 full hours. While the car is likely up to the...
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Lexus Reveals Upgraded LFA Code X Race Car For 2014 Nürburgring 24 HoursThe Lexus LFA may no longer be in production, but versions of the car are still being developed for motorsport use. The latest is the Lexus LFA Code X, which was developed together with Gazoo Racing and will compete in this year’s Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance race. This will be the...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Another Ayrton Senna-Owned Acura NSX Up For SaleYou can barely bring up the three letters N, S and X in car-guy company without somebody mentioning Ayrton Senna. The racing legend only had a small impact on Honda's development program for the original NSX but a few photographs and videos here and there mean the car has forever been immortalized...
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The Quietest Drag Race Ever: Tesla Model S Vs. Tesla Model SEarlier this week we brought you video of a Tesla Model S giving a 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray a run for its money on the straight strip. Today, there's no doubt the Model S will win--because it's racing another Model S. It's the quietest drag race ever. Leaving the line with little more than the...
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Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo Racing Series For Gran Turismo 6If Gran Turismo 6 itself wasn't enough justification to build a custom virtual driving setup and get busy, perhaps the latest addition to the game will persuade you: the Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo now has its own race-bred edition. MUST SEE: Switzer Nissan GT-R Hits 1,212 HP On The Dyno...
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An agent for Formula One racing legend Michael Schumacher has confirmed media reports that the seven-time world champion is slowly being brought out of an induced coma instigated by doctors treating him for a severe brain injury sustained during a skiing accident last month. Earlier today, agent Sabine Kehm supplied a statement to the Associated Press (via Fox News) in which she said, "Michael's sedation is being reduced in order to allow the start of the waking-up process, which may take a long time." Kehm made the statement to address speculation that doctors were attempting to wake...
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Building A Drift Missile With Forsberg & Tuerck, Part Two: Video"Drift missiles" are cheap, generally crappy cars used for horsing around and general tail-out antics with friends. The goal isn't to build anything pretty, or even anything particularly fast, just something mean enough to get the job done. This is how you do it. Like the missiles themselves, the...
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The Answer Really Is Always Miata: VideoAs a Miata owner myself, I am biased, I admit. But that doesn't change the reality of the matter. The Miata is always the answer, no matter the question. Here, you can see Matt Farah on a Drive visit with an NC CJ Wilson race car and a Lexus V-8-powered NA street Miata built and owned by team...
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Mercedes Driver Lewis Hamilton’s F1 Test Crash Caught On VideoYesterday, official testing for the 2014 Formula One World Championship got underway in Jerez, Spain, and the first major mishap has already occurred. A crash involving Lewis Hamilton in Mercedes AMG’s new W05 was the high point of the day, but thankfully it wasn’t a serious crash as...
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Lexus Reveals 2014 RC F GT500 Race Car For Japan’s Super GTLexus has revealed the race car that will take on similar-spec cars based on the likes of the Acura NSX and Nissan GT-R in Japan’s premier touring car series, Super GT. The new race car is based on Lexus’ recently revealed RC F and will be competing in the top GT500 category of Super...
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Tesla Model S Takes On 2014 Corvette Stingray At The Drag Strip: VideoMuch has been made of the Tesla Model S's performance chops, particularly in the 85-kWh Performance version. But even more has been made of the 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray's undeniable athletic abilities. So what happens when the two face off on the drag strip? The answer may surprise you, but...
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Ever wanted to imagine you're Ken Block as he flies around the Gymkhana course, setting the incendiary four-wheeled burnouts in motion? Here's your chance: Gymkhana 6 GoPro Edition. MUST SEE: Tesla Model S Takes On 2014 Corvette Stingray At The Drag Strip: Video There are dozens of other points of view, too, including some shots of the footwork necessary to pull off the sliding heroics, and a few from the deathly devices seeking to administer the price of failure for an ill-chosen line. It's a great look into the reality of what a Gymkhana video is, and in our eyes, it's even better than the...
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Red Bull Racing Reveals RB10 2014 Formula One Car: VideoInfiniti Red Bull Racing, the last of the top teams to reveal its new race car for the 2014 Formula One World Championship, has finally pulled off the covers. The car is the RB10, aptly named since it’s Red Bull’s 10th season in F1, and it's the one Sebastian Vettel will be hoping to...
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Mercedes AMG Reveals W05 2014 Formula One Car: VideoMercedes AMG Petronas has revealed its new race car for the 2014 Formula One season on the eve of the first official tests in Jerez, Spain this week. The car is the W05, and from these early images it appears to have adopted a snout-like design similar to that used by Ferrari for its own F14 T 2014...
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Nissan Reveals ZEOD RC’s 400-HP 3-Cylinder Engine, Confirms 2015 LMP1 EntryNissan and its motorsport partner NISMO have finally revealed the engine that will feature in its 2014 ZEOD RC electrified race car, which will compete in the Garage 56 experimental entry in this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. The engine is a turbocharged 1.5-liter three-cylinder putting out an...
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2014 Rolex 24: Daytona At NightWhen night falls on the Daytona International Speedway, it’s not just the partying that comes up to the next level. Racing is intense in the dark. Roaring around the track just as they did in the day time—if not faster—the racers and their cars take on a sometimes otherworldly...
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Rolex 24 GTD Last-Lap Incident: Penalty Reversed, Ferrari WinsUPDATE: IMSA has reversed its penalty on the #555 Level 5 Motorsports Ferrari 458 Italia assessed during the last lap when driver Alessandro Pier Guidi and #45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Audi R8 LMS driver Markus Winkelhock had an incident in the infield section of the course. Despite awarding the...
Nelson Ireson