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  • 2014 Volkswagen Beetle Global RallyCross car

    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...

  • drift garage missile car
    Drift Garage: Episode 3 - The Car Finally Heads To The Track

    The 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...

  • Nissan GT Academy Season 3
    Nissan GT Academy Trailer: The Racing Heads To India

    A 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...

  • 2014 Porsche 919 Hybrid pit stop
    Porsche Demonstrates The Art Of Pit Stops Using Its 919 Hybrid: Video

    Porsche--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...

  • Autocross in the snow is a fun way to spend the winter
    Snow Autocross Is Slow, Sideways, Incredibly Fun: Video

    If 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...

  • 2014 Audi R18 e-tron quattro Le Mans Prototype race car
    Audi Confirms Driver Lineup For 2014 World Endurance Championship

    Audi’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...

  • Ross Brawn

    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...

  • 2013 McLaren 12C GT3 race car
    McLaren 12C GT3 To Run Bathurst 12-Hour

    Based 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...

  • 2014 Gazoo Racing Lexus LFA Code X race car
    Lexus Reveals Upgraded LFA Code X Race Car For 2014 Nürburgring 24 Hours

    The 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...

  • 1992 Acura NSX once owned by Ayrton Senna
    Another Ayrton Senna-Owned Acura NSX Up For Sale

    You 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...

  • Two Tesla Model Ses face off in the quietest drag race ever
    The Quietest Drag Race Ever: Tesla Model S Vs. Tesla Model S

    Earlier 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...

  • Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo Racing Series
    Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo Racing Series For Gran Turismo 6

    If 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...

  • Michael Schumacher

    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...

  • Tuerck and Forsberg walk through the Drift Missile creation process
    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...

  • Drive tackles the Miata and finds it really is the answer
    The Answer Really Is Always Miata: Video

    As 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...

  • Lewis Hamilton
    Mercedes Driver Lewis Hamilton’s F1 Test Crash Caught On Video

    Yesterday, 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...

  • 2014 Lexus RC F GT500 Super GT race car
    Lexus Reveals 2014 RC F GT500 Race Car For Japan’s Super GT

    Lexus 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...

  • 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray takes on the Tesla Model S at the drag strip
    Tesla Model S Takes On 2014 Corvette Stingray At The Drag Strip: Video

    Much 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...

  • Gymkhana 6 GoPro Edition gives new insight into the driving

    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...

  • Red Bull Racing’s RB10 2014 Formula One car
    Red Bull Racing Reveals RB10 2014 Formula One Car: Video

    Infiniti 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...

  • Mercedes AMG's W05 2014 Formula One car
    Mercedes AMG Reveals W05 2014 Formula One Car: Video

    Mercedes 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...

  • Nissan’s three-cylinder engine for its ZEOD RC electrified Le Mans car
    Nissan Reveals ZEOD RC’s 400-HP 3-Cylinder Engine, Confirms 2015 LMP1 Entry

    Nissan 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...

  • The 2014 Rolex 24 at Daytona at night
    2014 Rolex 24: Daytona At Night

    When 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...

  • Winkelhock an Guidi battle for position at the end of the 2014 Rolex 24 at Daytona
    Rolex 24 GTD Last-Lap Incident: Penalty Reversed, Ferrari Wins

    UPDATE: 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...

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