Racing

If ever there was an unlikely Formula One championship-winning team, it would be Red Bull Racing. Built from the ashes of Ford-backed Jaguar Racing (which in turn came from the wreckage of Stewart Grand Prix), the team reportedly sold for just $1 and a commitment to invest $400 million over the...

F1 danger man Romain Grosjean has edged out Le Mans legend Tom Kristensen to take out this year’s Race Of Champions title. Others left in the Frenchman’s wake were fellow F1 drivers Michael Schumacher and David Coulthard, who made it to the semi-finals, as well as recently crowned F1...

If you're too mired in the snooze-fest that is every EV on the market except for the Tesla Model S to really care about electric cars, you're not alone. But you should be, because electric race cars could be awesome. What's holding them back? Mostly the inadequacies of current battery technology to...

Professional motorsport, on almost every level, is struggling to attract fans, sponsors and teams as discretionary money vanishes in the wake of a constricting global economy. Even marketing juggernaut NASCAR is feeling the pinch, with fewer bodies in the seats year after year, and fewer...

If you frequently attend monster truck events, chances are good you don’t drive a Nissan Leaf. Likewise, if you do drive an electric car, it’s a safe bet that you’re not spending Saturday nights watching hyrdocarbon-spewing, fossil-fuel-gulping monster trucks crush junkyard...

Drifting is a sport, even if it's not racing. Sure, it has judges like figure skating does, but it also has ferociously badass cars like this Dodge Challenger piloted by Red Bull drifter Samuel Hübinette. Of course, you're already familiar with that vicious drift Challenger, or at least you...

Building a no-holds-barred time attack car is tricky enough in its own right, requiring the right balance of power, handling, weight, and reliability. But what happens when your cherished race car self-destructs in testing the day before the championship? That's exactly what happened to FX...

Martin Brundle is perhaps best known for his two stints in Formula One (1984-89, 1992-96), but the British racing driver has also completed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans eight times, winning the event in 1990 with co-drivers Price Cobb and John Nielsen. Christian Danner has raced in IndyCar and CART...

In 2014 Porsche will be reliving its Le Mans glory days with a brand new LMP1 race car and a determined team of drivers and engineers who are set to take part in not only the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans, but also the World Endurance Championship. The automaker recently confirmed its LMP1 entry...

By almost all accounts, the inaugural United States Grand Prix at Austin, Texas’ Circuit of the Americas was a success. Those in attendance, from Formula One drivers through F1 fans, praised the track, the venue and the parties involved in making the race a success. Only Jackie Stewart seemed...

With 2012 now approaching its end, race fans all over the globe can start looking forward to next year’s motorsport season and all the excitement that will ensue. For race teams, however, things are as busy as ever, as development and testing of new cars--and drivers--continue unabated. One...

If you're new to the car game, or just not that into the current R35 GT-R or the previous R32-34 models, you might not know about the car's history, born of a racing heritage in cars called Skylines. Though the Skyline name has been dropped from the current GT-R, the three-letter performance...

Just yesterday we brought you details on the Volkswagen Polo R WRC racer, set to make its competition debut at the Monte Carlo Rally, scheduled to kick off on January 15, 2013. With just weeks left to shake down the car, the crew from Oneighturbo caught the 300-plus horsepower Polo working out the...

For 25 years, the Race of Champions has thrilled fans by bringing together the best drivers in the world in head-to-head competition designed to take each driver outside his comfort zone. In three days, the 2012 Race of Champions will kick off in Bangkok, Thailand, with competitors including...

Fresh from its wins in both the Drivers and Constructors categories in the 2012 Formula One World Championship, Red Bull took to Bologna, in Northern Italy, to host its latest Red Bull Speed Days event. The event, which took place this past weekend, saw Red Bull cars from all motorsport categories...

Ferrari knows that some of its clients take driving very seriously, to the point where they’d rather drive their 458 Italias or F430s on the racetrack than on the street. For these discriminating owners, Ferrari has created spec racing series for both the 458 and F430, rolled up under the...

If you’re not a track-day regular or vintage race car fan, you may never have heard of Bailey Cars, or its predecessor, Bailey Edwards Cars. The South African manufacturer builds replicas of classic endurance racers like the Porsche 917, the Ford GT40, the Lola T70 and the Ferrari P4, and...

After announcing its entry to the World Rally Championship in May of last year, Volkswagen has finally revealed the race car that it hopes will take it to WRC glory in 2013. Already previewed in concept form, the new Polo R WRC race car certainly looks the part, and, as testing has shown...

After years of waiting, Volkswagen has finally added a high-performance ‘R’ variant to its Polo subcompact range, but instead of launching it as a standalone model the new hot hatch’s arrival coincides with the automaker’s 2013 entry into the World Rally Championship (WRC)...

Recently, Porsche confirmed it would enter the 24 Hours of Le Mans as early as next year, competing in the GTE class with a new 911 RSR race car ahead of a previously confirmed assault in the top LMP1 class in 2014. Now, Porsche has announced that its LMP1 entry will be fielded by a factory team...