Racing

Fernando Alonso is an extremely talented Formula One racecar driver. He's won two F1 championships with Renault, and was in fact the youngest driver ever to earn back to back championships. Alonso bounced around the next few years with a stint at McLaren, then back to Renault before finding a home...

The Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona, home of the Formula One Spanish Grand Prix, is a track that all teams know intimately and one where conditions can change significantly throughout the weekend. The current weather forecast for Sunday’s race is partly cloudy skies and a peak temperature...

A fortnight ago, we told you Michael Schumacher would soon be donning his racing suit again and hopping behind the wheel of his former Mercedes AMG Formula One car to tackle the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The stunt is being done as part of Mercedes’ celebration of the Nürburgring 24...

Racing star Dale Earnhardt Jr. has to drive a Chevrolet SS-based race car in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series as part of his contract terms with Hendrick Motorsports, but it’s interesting to see that one of his personal rides off the track is the car that precedes the SS, the Pontiac G8...

Sébastien Loeb, possibly the most competent driver in any field of motorsport (we’re yet to see him in an F1 car, though), goes for his first test drive of Peugeot’s 875-horsepower 208 T16 Pikes Peak monster. Loeb, of course, is used to handling such beasts, having won a record...

Making a name in racing is not easy. It takes more than raw talent, especially these days. But Porsche's Young Driver Academy is seeking to help find and cultivate the top racing talent of tomorrow. In addition to speed behind the wheel, a modern racing driver must also have supreme race craft, a...

While in previous years there have been two Formula One races held in Spain, the European and Spanish grands prix, in 2013 there will be only one, the Spanish GP, which once again takes place at the Circuit de Catalunya just outside of Barcelona. This is the first of seven European races on the...

The latest season of the Global RallyCross Championship has just kicked off and the action so far has been thick and fast. But going into the future we can look forward to even more GCR goodness, with organizers confirming today that a new Lites class is being introduced. We first heard of the new...

Dodge and the SRT crew are very excited to get a full season of racing under their respective belts. The all-new Viper is their weapon of choice, and it looks appropriately vicious in its full GTS-R spec trim. Dodge ran part of a season last year, but now the automaker is putting its full weight...

Audi is gearing up to defend its overall victory at last year’s Nürburgring 24 Hours race, announcing today that it will have eight of its 2013-spec R8 LMS ultra race cars competing this year. Most of the cars will be fielded by private teams, though two of the cars, #14 and #15, will be...

After breaking the Pikes Peak record for an electric car in 2012, and coming a respectable sixth overall, Toyota is set to return to the famous ‘Race To The Clouds’ this year with an improved version of its EV P002 electric racer. Toyota has also secured a new driver for its 2013...

Probably the best-known of all the classic long-distance road races, the Mille Miglia ran from 1927 to 1957, using 1,000 miles of public roads from Brescia to Rome and back. Many now famous race cars ran that course, including those from Alfa Romeo, BMW, Ferrari and Porsche. And of course there...

Attention Forza fans, a slow-car fast favorite is making its debut in the virtual racing world. The Meguiar's Scion FR-S has been digitized and is now available for download. Car-loving gamers who dabble in both the Forza Motorsport 4 and Forza Horizon universes can add the yellow drift coupe to...

Swiss motorsport engineer Max Welti has been appointed head of Lamborghini’s new motorsport division, Squadra Corse. Welti replaces Lamborghini R&D chief Maurizio Reggiani, who was only heading the squad until a suitable manager could be found. The 60-year-old Swiss national is a former...

Only last week we brought you details about a new watch from Hublot celebrating Ferrari’s new LaFerrari supercar. Now we have the first image and details of another Ferrari-brand watch, this time celebrating the Prancing Horse’s motorsport division, Scuderia Ferrari. The new watch is...

Aston Martin, competing in the GTE category of the 2013 World Endurance Championship, has announced the driver lineup for the event’s highlight, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. As previously reported, Aston Martin will field no less than five cars in this year’s race at Le Mans, including one...

Aston Martin, it seems, has just made a bit of history. It's probably not what you're expecting though because it doesn't involve gasoline, a dairy farm's worth of dead cows, or references to one iconic British MI-6 agent. Instead, the automaker has just completed the first Hydrogen-only, zero CO2...

If you haven't heard, there's a new road course and motorsports park in southern Louisiana called NOLA Motorsports Park. The facility is impressive, but as with any track, it's as much about what's happening on course as it is about the site itself. Here, we have a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car chasing a...

McLaren turns 50 in 2013 and to celebrate it is pulling out all the stops. The company has already revealed its new flagship supercar, the P1, which it will show in anger for the first time at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK this July. But this being McLaren’s 50th year, the...

The racing version of the Maserati GranTurismo sets out on a new season this weekend.