Racing

Ken Block is many things: shoe magnate, hoonigan honcho, and WRC driver among them. It turns out he's also rather refreshingly humble and aware of the difficulty of rally racing. Of course, he's had his fair share of exposure to adversity, both self-induced and environmental, over the course of the...

With Ford and Dodge recently unveiling their respective race cars for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, all eyes now turn to Chevrolet to see what it has in store for the sport and all its fans. While many had been expecting a new version of the current Impala race car, Chevrolet has announced...

For those that feared the worst for Jaguar's Heritage operations after news last month that the Heritage Museum would be shutting down this fall, it appears the division is merely shifting its focus: now on to racing. Well, historic racing, to be precise. The new Jaguar Heritage Racing program will...

A 2002 Chevrolet Corvette Riley & Scott race car was the last Paul Newman, famed actor and renowned racing driver, ever took into competition. It sold this weekend at the RM Auction at the Amelia Island Concours for a price of $275,000. The 2002 Corvette racer was powered by a 5.7-liter V-8...

A 1962 Ferrari 330 LM took home top honors in the Sport category at Sunday's Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance.

Toyota is bringing its top performance machines from all across the globe to the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK this summer, announcing today that among the highlights will be the groundbreaking TS030 Hybrid Le Mans prototype, Lexus LFA Nurburgring endurance racer, and the GT 86 sports...

Speedway Motorsports is working to build a functional Nurburgring in the desert outside of Las Vegas.

The 2012 ALMS season is already heating up, with the first race of the year--the legendary 12 Hours of Sebring--coming this weekend. Corvette Racing has built a new, wider C6.R for the new year, and among those taking it on will be the BMW Team RLL BMW M3 GT. As the 40th anniversary of BMW's M...

The American Le Mans Series provides some of the best road-racing action on television in the U.S., and it's coming back for the 2012 season this weekend for the 12 Hours of Sebring. Along with its return will be the latest iteration of the Corvette Racing C6.R, now in wide-body format. Based on...

SRT Motorsports, the official motorsports division of the Chrysler Group, has unveiled the 2013 Dodge Charger race car that will compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series next season. The new race car was unveiled at a special event hosted at Las Vegas Motor Speedway over the weekend. In keeping with...

As we reported back in January, Morgan Motor Company has teamed up with France's OAK Racing to enter Le Mans in the LMP2 class, albeit with re-branded Pescarolo World Endurance Championship cars. This video shows the first shakedown test of the new joint effort as the team readies to bring the...

The 2012 Chevrolet Camaro will get a special-edition drag racing-only COPO version limited to just 69 units.

Pending the successful completion of testing and FIA homologation, the Lotus Exige R-GT will make its FIA European Rally Championship debut at Brescia, Italy next month.

This year is certainly shaping up to be a busy one for Aston Martin Racing, the official motorsports division of the British sports car manufacturer. Having already announced a new Vantage-based GTE for endurance racing, as well as a Vantage GT4 Grand-Am racer, Aston Martin Racing has now unveiled...

As we reported last month, the SRT brand has leveraged its corporate cousinhood with Ferrari to team up with F1 drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, through a gift of a pair of 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8s. Now, DriveSRT has released the video detailing the drop-off in Maranello. As you...

Some may bemoan the fact that the famous Pikes Peak hillclimb in Colorado is now a paved course, but it's opened up the hill to more vehicles than ever before. That now includes electric cars--which is why, this July 8, Mitsubishi is fielding a race-prepared version of its 'i' urban electric car...

Testament to Audi’s commitment towards pioneering new technologies, the brand with the four rings has unveiled its new 2012 Le Mans racing prototypes, which combine highly-efficient TDI diesel engines with hybrid technology and quattro all-wheel-drive. Audi first saw Le Mans victory back in...

A helmet used by the legendary Ayrton Senna, as well as one of his racing suits, went up for auction in the Race Retro Sale that took place during this past weekend’s annual Silverstone Auction in the UK. At the close of bidding, the helmet was sold for a staggering $114,000--almost double...

Juan Pablo Montoya managed to escape with only a sore ankle following his fiery crash with a jet-dryer truck during Monday night’s postponed Daytona 500. Montoya, who drives for Earnhardt Ganassi, lost control of his Chevrolet during the seventh caution of the race. He then crashed into one...

He may have his detractors but there’s no denying that Alain Prost is one of the most accomplished race car drivers in history and remains a motorsports figurehead even after all these years. Prost, 57, is a four-time Formula 1 World Champion, having won more titles than any other driver...