Racing

When it rains, it pours: just months after getting the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas on the 2012 Formula 1 schedule, Weehawken, New Jersey has joined the ranks. An official press conference just minutes ago announced the race will be coming in June 2013, and will be dubbed the Grand Prix...

It's been a hard couple of weeks for motorsports, motorsports fans, and two families in particular. Dan Wheldon's death in Las Vegas, and now Marco Simoncelli's death in Malaysia, put a point on a fact we often like to gloss over in racing: it's dangerous. If you haven't already, I recommend...

Motorsport is expensive. If you were to write "expensive" in letters the size of the Hollywood sign, you'd only be scraping the surface of how expensive it actually is. It's bad enough competing at grassroots level but at world championship level the money involved is frankly ludicrous. And though...

BMW used the DTM season finale at Hockenheim over the weekend to unveil its M3-based race car that will fulfill the brand’s comeback to the German touring car series next year. In front of thousands of fans at the German city’s Hockenheimring race track, the “BMW M Performance...

The CEOs of Aston Martin and Toyota Dr. Ulrich Bez and Akio Toyoda have been getting much closer lately, with the two originally signing an agreement to develop the iQ-based Cygnet minicar back in 2009 and more recently teaming up to help the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster. Both execs...

The Corvette Racing team won the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year, but things didn't go so well after that. This video recaps the struggle of the rest of the season and the 2011 Petit Le Mans.

The incredible gathering of historic, vintage, and simply awesome machinery at Porsche's Rennsport Reunion has become something of a pilgrimage for both Porsche fans and motorsports devotees in general. This video offers those of us who weren't able to attend a small taste of what it's like. It's...

When you think of the Honda Fit, Fiat 500, Mazda2, or Ford Fiesta, your first thought probably isn't, "hey, that'd make a great road racing car!" That's exactly what the new B-Spec class hopes you'll think, however, and seeing these pint-sized racers all together, it might just happen. Last week...

By now anyone even vaguely familiar with the idea that some people gather on weekends to drive cars quickly around closed circuits is aware of Dan Wheldon's death due to injuries incurred in a 15-car wreck at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway last weekend. The loss of the two-time Indy 500 winner has...

This weekend's deadly 15-car wreck at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway still has the racing world bowing its head in remembrance, while looking at ways to prevent a similarly horrific incident. But even as we all pause in the wake of Dan Wheldon's death, the IndyCar series is moving forward. A new...

This weekend's Las Vegas 300 saw a catastrophic 15-car crash that left several drivers injured and claimed the life of Dan Wheldon. We have three-part coverage of the accident. In less somber news, we've brought you a spy video of the upcoming 2013 Audi S3, news of the Volvo V60 Plug-in hybrid's...

Red Bull Racing star Sebastian Vettel has shown why he's the undisputed 2011 Formula 1 World Champion, notching up his 10th win this season at yesterday’s Korean Grand Prix. At the same time, the win, plus his team-mate Mark Webber’s third place position meant that Red Bull Racing was...

Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon has died after a 15-car wreck at the Las Vegas Indy 300. Wheldon, a native of England, won the Indy 500 twice, earlier this year and in 2005. He hadn't won a race in two years when he took over the lead in the last lap of this year's Indy 500, winning for Bryan Herta...

October is the rainy season in South Korea so teams may need to use their rain tires at some point during the 2011 Formula 1 Korean Grand Prix, which takes place tomorrow at the Korea International Circuit in Yeongam. However, most weather forecasts for the next 24 hours show no signs of rain, with...

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton will start at first on the grid tomorrow for the 2011 Formula 1 Korean Grand Prix after dominating the qualifying session today and posting a fastest time of 1:35.820. However, recently crowned 2011 Formula 1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel has shown that he’s...

It’s official. Toyota has announced its intention to compete in the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship, the highlight of which is the 80th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans taking place on June 16 and 17 of next year. The Japanese automaker will compete with a new gasoline-electric hybrid...

If you haven't heard about it yet, there's a new racing spec making the rounds of the small-car world: B-Spec. Build to cross series boundaries and make racing a near-stock compact car more affordable and fun, the series has already attracted the likes of Honda and Mazda--and now Kia. Kia, racing?...

Big things are happening at tiny British sports car manufacturer Caterham. First we learned that the brand was being sold to Team Lotus Formula 1 and the race team’s associates, and then we got news that Caterham was establishing a new road car division. Now Caterham is announcing a new U.S...

While the 2011 Formula 1 World Championship title may have gone to Red Bull Racing star Sebastian Vettel, both Jenson Button of McLaren and Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso showed spectacular talent yesterday during the crucial Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka Circuit. In the end it was Button who...

Sebastian Vettel has done it again, with the German youngster managing to take home his second consecutive Formula 1 World Championship after gaining the one point he needed to secure the title at yesterday’s Japanese Grand Prix. It took fewer races and more wins than his 2010 title, and...