Racing

The weather at the Nürburgring, home to the 2013 Formula One German Grand Prix, can change throughout the weekend but is usually cold, even during these summer months due to the altitude of the circuit. Some cloud is expected during tomorrow’s qualifying session but Sunday’s race...

Late last month Mark Webber announced his intention to retire from Formula One at the end of the current season and enter the 2014 World Endurance Championship together with Porsche. This came as no major surprise given Webber’s relationship of late with his current employer Red Bull Racing...

Fresh from its dominating run at the recent Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, where it ran a time of just 8:13.878, totally obliterating the previous record of 9:46.181, Peugeot’s highly-modified 208 T16 rally car is now on its way to the grounds of Goodwood House in the U.K. for the...

On Sunday, drivers will line up on the grid at the Nürburgring (the GP circuit and not the full Nordschleife) to take part in the sixteenth edition of the Formula One German Grand Prix. While every alternate year the race takes place at the nearby Hockenheimring, it is the race at the...

We’re now just a week out from the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the U.K., and in the lead up to the event one of the show's presenters, Mexico’s VŪHL, has announced that Formula One rookie Esteban Gutiérrez will help launch its new 05 sports car. For those unfamiliar with...

The Global Rallycross series is currently on its way to Loudon, New Hampshire after spending a few weeks overseas. The series has several races to take care of stateside before jetting back to Europe for a battle in Germany, but apparently there's a U.S. city feeling a bit left out, and it would...

Legendary engine tuner and manufacturer Cosworth will no longer supply Formula One teams with engines from next season onwards, with its sole remaining buyer Marussia announcing plans to switch to a new supplier. Fortunately, Cosworth has other plans as well, including branching out into the world...

Sébastien Loeb, driving a highly-modified Peugeot 208 rally car in yesterday’s 2013 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, completely obliterated the standing record, set last year by Rhys Millen. This was only the Frenchman’s first time at Pikes Peak but with the entire course now...

Mercedes AMG’s Nico Rosberg won yesterday’s thrilling British Grand Prix, a race marred by spectacular tire blowouts and several safety car sessions. Red Bull Racing’s Mark Webber, who this past week announced his retirement from Formula One, finished in second despite a bad...

Scion Racing is on a mission. The goal: to tackle all 156 turns of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb and to arrive at the 14,110-foot summit with a good time in hand, and in one piece. To achieve this goal, the automaker has teamed up with a handful of drivers and tuners to turn three of...

Last weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, as devastating as it was, proved to be an almost fairy tale-like event for the Porsche works squad, which made its official return to the legendary race after a 15-year hiatus. After trailing Aston Martin in the GTE category, both in the Pro and Am classes...

Jeff Zwart is a man who knows his way around the Pikes Peak Hillclimb. Zwart has won the event seven times, and he holds the street car record for making the run up the mountain. He has made the trip in both a Porsche 911 GT2 and a 911 GT3. Now, for the 2013 run taking place this weekend, he's...

This weekend sees a popular race held for many of the teams competing in the 2013 Formula One World Championship, the British Grand Prix, which once again takes place at the famous Silverstone circuit. Many teams’ have their headquarters located near the track, including current leader in...

Like anyone else with a pulse, you're no doubt excited for the upcoming release of Ron Howard's new film Rush. The movie tells the tale of a slice of racing in the mid to late 1970s, when Niki Lauda and James Hunt battled for Formula One supremacy. Word got out about the movie when the crew was...

Two of the biggest names in motorsport, Williams and NISMO, have announced today a collaboration aimed at developing high-performance road cars. Williams’ technology offshoot, Williams Advanced Engineering, will join the engineering development team from NISMO to help develop new...

The car you see above is, wait scratch that--the wildly viscious, wonderfully intriguing, super star racing vehicle shown above is a Lancia 037. This was one of the infamous WRC Group B monsters that changed the sport of rallying, and was the last rear-wheel-drive car to win before the...

Every now and then, a race car comes along that helps push motorsports in a new direction. The DeltaWing is such a car thanks to its radical design and slim-nosed setup. The car hasn't been without its own controversies but it's finishing better with every race it enters. The next chance it will...

Sony has confirmed that a demo version of its upcoming Gran Turismo 6 racing simulator will be available for download from the PlayStation Store from July 2 onwards. The demo is completely free and will be downloadable up until August 31 for PS3 users. It will include a range of Nissan cars...

Drayson Racing, led by former British science minister and avid racer Lord Paul Drayson, set a new record yesterday using an electric version of a race car originally developed for the American Le Mans Series. Using its B12 69/EV Le Mans prototype, Drayson Racing managed to set the land speed...

French automaker Citroën has finally confirmed it will campaign the World Touring Car Championship, starting next year and with star driver Sébastien Loeb in tow. Loeb is the winner of nine World Rally Championships and was predicted to join Citroën in WTCC as early as September of...