Racing

There are now just four races to go until the end of the 2012 Formula One season, but with the championship balanced on a knife edge and several contenders still in the running for title glory, there should still be plenty of excitement, hopefully all the way to the final curtain in Brazil. Thanks...

If you're not familiar with the Goodwood Festival of Speed, you should be. It's a pilgrimage of motorsports and car enthusiasts from around the world to the grounds of Goodwood to see and hear some of the most exciting, unique, and historic cars of the past and present. Next year will be its 20th...

Looking at any given weekend's upcoming F1 Grand Prix is typically a matter of previewing the track, weather conditions, drivers, and the current state of the points race. Here, Pirelli gives us a different look ahead at the Indian Grand Prix: from the tire's point of view. With the yellow (the...

Recently we brought you news that current owners of Cosworth, American racing names Gerry Forsythe and Kevin Kalkhoven, had put the legendary British tuner and engine manufacturer up for sale. Since then, reports out of the UK claim motorsport firm Prodrive is considering submitting a bid for...

Apparently, it does. The Bloodhound SSC, which generates an astonishing 47,000 pounds of thrust through a rocket motor fed by an F1 engine used as a fuel pump, will go carbon neutral for its land speed record attempt, the team announced today. How, exactly, does a hydrocarbon-spewing monster with...

Remember the Toyota Racing Dream Build Challenge that pits four of Toyota's top drivers from NASCAR and NHRA in a race car build-off? Well, we now have our first look at the entry from one of the drivers, NASCAR star Kyle Busch, who has come up with the new ‘Rowdy Edition’ Camry based...

Today, Formula One cars are powered by naturally-aspirated, 2.4-liter V-8 engines, made by either Renault, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari or Cosworth. That changes for 2014, as the new regulations call for turbocharged V-6 engines, not to exceed 1.6-liters in displacement. Although the 2014 Formula One...

If you're a fan of motorsports in the U.S., you know about the Circuit of the Americas. This past weekend, track officials and Pirelli North America put on a special event for media and VIP patrons to see the first official laps of the circuit--and even to ride along, and, in our case, drive the...

With only five examples in existence, this is probably the only way you’ll get to see the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 45th Anniversary race car in action. This latest video shows the car in its natural home, although we bet most owners won’t be tracking their examples. Why? Because the...

While new pavement generally means faster speeds, it also means lots of cars into the SAFER barrier as tire wear can be unpredictable. Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at the freshly-surfaced Kansas Speedway was no exception to this rule, and the race drew 14 cautions over its 400 mile length...

David Higgins is, if you're not familiar, the 2012 RallyAmerica National Champion driver (along with co-driver Craig Drew), and the lead wheelman in Subaru Rally Team USA's efforts. He's therefore, by definition and demonstration, one bad-ass driver. But in rally, it's not all about the driver (or...

NASCAR has been running Sprint Cup races at Kansas Speedway since 2001, but the track the series returns to this weekend isn’t the same track that drivers have known for years. It’s still in the same location, and it’s still a mile-and-a-half tri-oval, but a freshly-paved surface...

This isn't the first time a race car has been crashed hard and fixed overnight. It's not even the most dramatic repair job we've seen done under the same conditions. But it's still damned impressive. Here, you'll see the Nissan DeltaWing/Highcroft Racing team strip down and rebuild most of the rear...

For months there have been rumblings that the 2013 Grand Prix of America, set to run on June 16 in Weehawken, NJ, would be postponed until 2014. While a specific reason wasn’t cited, F1 czar Bernie Ecclestone repeatedly referred to “contractual issues” for the delay. Now it looks...

We’ve all been there: one minute you’re kicking back, sipping Dom Perignon from the navel of a “relaxation specialist,” wondering if her fee can be counted as a business expense on your taxes, and the next you’re wearing a black hood in the back of a clapped-out...

Yesterday we brought you the news that the Nissan DeltaWing racer had been involved in its second at-speed crash, this time colliding with a GTC Porsche 911 in practice for Saturday’s ALMS Petit Le Mans. At this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, the experimental car was take out of contention by a...

Ill-fated is perhaps the best descriptor for the Nissan DeltaWing project at this point. First it failed to beat out the new Dallara offering as the next spec chassis for IndyCar, then it was taken out just hours into the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and now it has ended up on its lid after what appears to...

In 2005, Porsche returned to sports prototype racing after a six-year absence, debuting its RS Spyder in the American LeMans Series LMP2 class. In 2006, its first full season, the Porsche RS Spyder dominated the ALMS LMP2 class, easily taking home the class championship. The car was so good that it...

Tony Stewart and Lewis Hamilton don’t have a lot in common, aside from being sponsored by Mobil 1 synthetic motor oil. Stewart drives for Stewart-Haas Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, while Hamilton races for McLaren Mercedes (this year, anyway) in Formula One, which are entirely...

It seems that pitting a supercar against a jet aircraft never goes out of style. Depending upon the length of the course and the vehicles involved, sometimes victory goes to four wheels, while other times it goes to two wings. Car versus rotary-wing aircraft (aka helicopter) throw-downs are a bit...