Racing

It’s now officially official: in less than two months, Formula One racing will return to the United States at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. On Tuesday, the track received the required “Grade 1” rating from Charlie Whiting, the head of racing, safety and tech for...

Although you’d never guess it from Bentley’s current product line, the luxury automaker has a long history of motorsports glory. From 1927 through 1930, Bentley dominated the competition at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, taking first place in four consecutive years (and capturing first...

Despite the massive push from Red Bull Racing to promote the 2013 Grand Prix of America, scheduled to run on a temporary street circuit in Weehawken, NJ next June, Bernie Ecclestone is now saying the contract for the race has been voided. This is counter to the provisional 2013 schedule circulated...

Augusto Farfus is a Brazilian racing driver who currently gets paid by BMW to campaign an M3 in the DTM series. While Farfus may look young, his resume includes stints in the World Touring Car Championship from 2005 - 2010, a season in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup in 2011 and two entries into...

This year’s Goodwood Revival featured a remarkable showing of pre-Second World War German Formula One cars, known as “Silver Arrows” for their distinctive bare-aluminum bodies. While seeing Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows run is impressive, seeing them run against cars from Auto Union...

After a tense duel from the red lights to the checkered flag, with two safety car periods, Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel took his second win of the 2012 Formula 1 season at yesterday’s Singapore Grand Prix. Using a two-stop strategy, the reigning world champion took full advantage...

The weather is difficult to track in Singapore and heavy rain is always a possibility. Unsurprisingly, Friday’s prediction of no rain has now turned into a possible chance of a thunderstorm at today’s Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix. Fortunately, that chance is only around 30 percent, so...

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton dominated qualifying today at the 2012 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, posting a fastest time of 1:46.362 and in the process earning himself pole position for tomorrow’s race. Hamilton’s time was close to half a second faster than Williams’ Pastor...

Heading into this weekend’s Chase for the Championship race at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Brad Keselowski leads Jimmie Johnson by a scant three points, and third-place Tony Stewart by just eight points. Keselowski may wish the series was heading somewhere else, since the Penske Racing...

The latest race on the 2012 Formula 1 calendar is one of the most spectacular of the season. As the only night race of the year, the Singapore Grand Prix provides a fantastic show under the lights held around the impressive 3.15-mile Marina Bay Circuit, and has quickly become a firm favorite with...

After falling off the radar for some three decades, the reveal of the ‘lost’ 1960 Corvette raced by Briggs Cunningham at Le Mans made big news prior to this year’s Corvettes at Carlisle show. One of three campaigned by the team in 1960, it was the only one unaccounted for until...

Suspended indefinitely on July 24 after testing positive for amphetamines--allegedly taken unwittingly in a pill offered by a friend--AJ Allmendinger is once again eligible to race in NASCAR, and, presumably other series as well. Allmendinger's suspension came as something of a shock to most of the...

Sometimes, street racing is a good thing, as is the case with the Verva Street Racing spectacular, held annually in Warsaw, Poland. Visitors gets to see some of the world’s best known historic race cars, dicing wheel to wheel on the (disturbingly narrow) streets of Poland’s largest...

If you think the days of the gentleman driver / racer in an Italian sports car are dead and gone, Maserati has some news for you. Its GranTurismo MC Trofeo World Series pits drivers of the Maserati coupe against one another in a single marque series, ensuring close competition on circuits around...

If you were looking for the ultimate in collectible Mercedes-Benz automobiles to one-up your friends with 300SL Gullwings, we’ve got some bad news for you: one of the most desirable Mercedes automobiles of the modern era recently changed hands at RM Auctions Pebble Beach sale. In other words...

Australia’s V8 Supercars racing series is about to get a lot more interesting with news today that a team fielding a trio of Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG sedans will be participating at the start of the 2013 season. The Mercedes brand is being represented by a private customer team, Erebus...

Porsche’s 918 hybrid supercar is on track for delivery to customers in late 2013. While we’ve only seen a glimpse of the production-ready street version, Porsche hasn’t been shy about releasing images and video of the 918 in various racing liveries. Early cars were shown in a...

Calling the Nissan DeltaWing racer a fan favorite is a bit of an understatement, so Nissan has announced the car’s return to competition at the American Le Mans Series’ season finale, the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta on October 17-20. We last saw the DeltaWing driven on track at the 24...

In 2006 film producer and longtime Ferrari fan James Glickenhaus unveiled a custom supercar based on a Ferrari Enzo. Inspired by the legendary P series Ferrari race cars of the 1960s, and built by Italian design house Pininfarina, the car was called the Ferrari P4/5 and remains to this day the only...

When the checkered flag waved at Sunday’s GEICO 400 at Chicagoland Speedway, the expected race winner wasn’t the car crossing the start finish line first. Brad Keselowski took the victory, but the race was dominated by Jimmie Johnson, who started from pole position. Johnson clearly had...