Racing

While Formula One driver safety has greatly improved over the years, head injuries remain a cause for concern. In 2009, Ferrari driver Felipe Massa was nearly killed when a spring thrown from Rubens Barrichello’s car struck him in the helmet, causing a life-threatening injury (and requiring a...

Next month Nissan will formally compete in the Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance race using one of its production GT-R supercars. The competitive outing is part of Nissan’s celebration of the R35 GT-R’s fourth year on the market but it also serves as an opportune moment to see what...

We first heard rumblings that the commercial rights to the highest echelon of motorsports, Formula 1, might be for sale early last year, and then just last month reports broke that the sport’s largest equity holder, CVC Capital Partners, was considering launching an initial public offering...

Aston Martin and Ferrari may commonly mingle with Lexus next to the greens at your local country club, but in May they’ll compete together and with others at “The Green Hell,” Germany’s Nürburgring race track. It may be easy to first associate the Japanese luxury...

While the 2013 Ford Fusion Sprint Cup race car won't join the (mostly) oval fray until next year, the 2012 Focus Electric will be getting its NASCAR debut this weekend--sort of. It'll be the pace car. Ford announced the Focus Electric as the pace car a couple of weeks ago, but now we have photos of...

Despite the funky name, the Caterham SP/300.R is a sleek little beastie, built for track days and wheel-to-wheel racing. In the U.S., Dyson Racing has signed on as the car's distributor, and now, the first of the customer cars has shipped. Designed by Caterham and Lola, the car is aimed at...

The first four races of the season have come in a whirlwind like the one that can blow sand across the Bahrain International Circuit, home of the Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix. Drivers and teams will be facing notoriously high temperatures during race time tomorrow, though surprisingly they may even...

Reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel demonstrated a brilliant return to form during qualifying today at the 2012 Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix, managing to post the fastest time of the day and set himself up for his first win of the season. The Red Bull Racing driver’s fastest time for the...

Despite the heated political situation, the 2012 Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix will go on as planned this weekend. The race is the fourth event on the 2012 F1 calendar and takes place at the 3.3-mile Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir. This year, the circuit layout has reverted to the shorter...

If Beccy Gordon’s last name sounds familiar, it should. Brother Robby Gordon is an accomplished racer, having driven in series ranging from IndyCar though NASCAR and even the SCORE off-road series. Father “Baja Bob” Gordon was an off-road racing legend, and sister Robyn was the...

Though it was Michael Schumacher who was fastest during practice yesterday at the 2012 Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix, it was his Mercedes AMG teammate Nico Rosberg who was fastest at today’s qualifying session. Rosberg posted a blistering lap time of 1:35.121, which secured his maiden F1 pole...

The 2013 Lexus GS 350 will be the pace car for the 2012 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

Unless you've been living under a rock since Tuesday, you know about Lotus' rant in response to what it perceives as rampant falsehood and inaccurate reporting of its current situation, both in terms of product and its corporate status. Frustration in the face of potentially harmful reporting is...

Fresh from their two week break over Easter, the stars of the 2012 Formula 1 season are currently down in Shanghai, China for the annual Chinese Grand Prix. Hosted at the Shanghai International Circuit, another of the Hermann Tilke-designed race tracks, the Chinese Grand Prix is often marred by wet...

In a modern automobile, a steering wheel can be a pretty complex object. Gone are the days when the steering wheel was simply used to change direction and house the horn; today, it can control everything from a driver’s paired phone to cruise control and even infotainment settings...

In March we brought you details about a new advertising campaign being run by Infiniti, which was to feature the automaker’s two-time Formula 1 World Championship winning brand ambassador Sebastian Vettel. Combining television advertising with digital media, viral content videos and even...

In the second lap of 1976’s German Grand Prix, held at the Nürburgring, Niki Lauda’s Ferrari 312T2 suffered a rear suspension failure, ultimately resulting in a collision with a Surtees-Ford driven by Brett Lunger. The crash left Lauda’s car in flames at the side of the...

Set to grace the auction block at Bonhams’ annual Quail Lodge Sale leading up to August's 2012 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is this ultra-rare Gulf Team Davidoff 1997 McLaren F1 GTR 'Longtail' race car. Long-term readers of this site may remember the car being up for sale previously...

Formula 1 great Gilles Villeneuve was killed in a qualifying accident that preceded the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. At the time of his death, the Canadian driver had racked up a total of six Grand Prix victories, half of which were earned in 1979 behind the wheel of a Ferrari 312 T4 Eulogized by...

As its name implies, the business of Ford Racing Performance Parts (FRPP) is making Ford products go faster. The group is behind such projects as the Ford Focus ST-R racer and the 2013 Mustang Cobra Jet drag car, which recently set a production car acceleration record by sprinting from 0-60 mph in...