Racing

The Altima gets a V-8 engine for its V8 Supercars racing duty.

Briton Jenson Button has won the 2012 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix, and in the process has earned himself and his McLaren team some much-needed championship points. The start of the race was marred by a crash that took out several of the top contenders, including points leader Fernando Alonso of...

Despite heavy rain during Friday’s practice session for the 2012 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix, and a little bit more of the wet stuff during qualifying yesterday, things are expected to stay mostly dry for the today’s race. The current weather forecast for the area surrounding the Spa...

McLaren’s Jenson Button earned his first pole of the 2012 Formula 1 season following a scorching performance today during qualifying at the Belgian Grand Prix. He stunned all with a time of 1:47.654 in the second session, but then returned in the third to cut it down to just 1:47.573. The...

Next week, Alex Zanardi will climb aboard his hand-powered tricycle and compete for Italy in the 2012 Paralympic Games. It’s oddly fitting that the road cycling events will take place at England’s Brands Hatch circuit, where Zanardi last competed behind the wheel of a World Touring Car...

Following the traditional summer break, all teams are now camped outside the legendary Spa Francorchamps circuit in preparation for this weekend’s 2012 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix. The circuit is a favorite on the F1 calendar, thanks mostly to its history, the surrounding pristine scenery...

If you’ve been watching the 2102 Izod IndyCar Series, you know the last three or four races haven’t been the most entertaining in series history. Push-to-pass, the feature that gives drivers a temporary increase in boost and engine speed, was reinstated at July’s Honda Indy...

If you believe Red Bull Racing, Formula One will come to the streets of Weehawken, New Jersey, in June of 2013. If you believe Bernie Ecclestone, there won’t be a race in the shadow of New York City until 2014, as the proposed street course needs a considerable amount of development before F1...

Though it’s hard to imagine today, the Chevrolet Corvette didn’t begin life as a high-performance sports car. Instead, early models went intended to be “sporty” convertibles, fitted with the “Blue Flame” in-line six-cylinder engine and a live rear axle. A V-8...

In 2011, NASCAR star Tony Stewart and former Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton swapped rides at Watkins Glen as a promotion for Mobil 1 synthetic oil (which sponsors both drivers). For 2012, Mobil 1 decided to mix things up a bit and ask fans of Tony Stewart what he should drive next. The...

The Lexus GS 350 F Sport Safety Car will make its debut at the Muscle Car Masters taking place in September at the Eastern Creek Raceway in Sydney, Australia.

If you still think that electric automobile racing is the stuff of science fiction, think again: the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has granted the commercial rights to the Formula E series to Formula E Holdings. That means the proposed 2014 debut of the series is...

Last week we brought you the incredible story of a historically significant racing Corvette, believed lost to history but then found in storage in St. Petersburg, Florida. As one of three Corvettes campaigned by Briggs Cunningham at the 1960 24 Hours of Le Mans, the car has a potential value in...

When the cars take to the Circuit de la Sarthe for the 2013 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the vehicle occupying the 56th pit box will be like no other in the history of endurance racing. Powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, the electric-motor-driven GreenGT H2 will be capable of reaching speeds...

Next year, Ford will debut the 2013 Fusion in NASCAR Sprint Cup competition, and for the first time in years we’ll see a car that differs from others on track by more than just graphics. While still not “stock” in the old-school sense of the word, the new Fusion race car carries...

There’s a new version of Activision’s NASCAR racing game due in stores this fall, and NASCAR The Game: Inside Line promises to give player the thrill of Sprint Cup competition, without the hassle of figuring out where to park the transporters between races. We previously told you that...

A year ago, Motor Trend magazine gathered nine of the tastiest morsels it could beg, borrow or steal from the press fleet to bring you “The World’s Greatest Drag Race.” It was something of a mismatch, since cars like the BMW 1 Series M and the Lotus Evora S never stood a chance...

Developing a world-class supercar like the Lexus LFA from a clean sheet of paper is no easy task, and turning that supercar (or supercar prototype) into a competitive endurance racer is an order of magnitude more difficult. Taking that race car to compete with long-dominant German automakers, in...

Time shares have long been a popular way for people to “buy” something they otherwise couldn’t afford. Whether you’re talking about vacation properties, airplanes or exotic cars, there’s a time share concept for almost any passion. Écurie 25 is perhaps the best...

Porsche is ensuring classic race cars like the 917 LH pictured above don’t end up as museum relics, by offering support for owners who actually want to use the cars as their designers intended, racing around a track. Speaking at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion last week, Porsche announced it...