Racing

Following his win in Singapore just two weeks ago, Red Bull Racing star Sebastian Vettel is almost certain to claim the 2011 Formula 1 World Championship title this weekend at the Japanese Grand Prix. Vettel needs just one point to claim the title and considering his past performance that should...

Ferrari's former technical director, Aldo Costa, will join former Ferrari teammates Ross Brawn and Michael Schumacher at Mercedes GP in December.

Yesterday we learned about the 2012 Camaro ZL1's lap time of 7:41.27 through GM president Mark Reuss. Today, Chevy has released the official video. It's chock full of exactly what you'd expect: engine roar, tire scream, and lots of on-the-limit driving, including a few instances of opposite lock...

This weekend, fans of the Viper and will get an interesting intro to the upcoming 11 weeks of Viper Cup racing coverage: a celebrity challenge, featuring top Dodge motorsports drivers including Kurt Busch, Brad Keselowski, Sam Hornish Jr., and more. The racing is in Viper ACR-X spec race cars at...

The SLS AMG is one of the models available with the AMG Performance Media data acquisition system.

Drag racing is a hard thing to do on a budget; it's a sport measured in cubic dollars. But many people manage to bend that immutable rule by doing a lot of work themselves. Sometimes that goes wrong. In this case, it could have gone horribly wrong, but, as this video dug up by Autoblog shows...

Racing drivers, for all their other talents and skills, are often a rather dramatic bunch. Sometimes, that drama extends throughout their personal lives, as has been the case with Al Unser Jr. The latest of his escapades involves street racing his Suburban while allegedly intoxicated. Unser Jr. has...

While Formula 1 is still the top echelon for motorsports, Le Mans endurance racing looks to be more and more exciting for the major automakers. Porsche recently confirmed its return to the top level LMP1 class in 2014 and Lexus, too, is rumored to be preparing an LFA race car for the GTE class. Now...

Lately the talk has been all about how Ford would soon be building a new GT500 to take on the raging 580-horsepower Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, but the tables may have turned: reports are now emerging that Chevy is aiming to take the factory-built drag racing fight to Ford and Dodge. Dodge has offered...

In the world of high-end trackday cars, there are many choices and few wrong answers. One of the best answers is likely the Riley MkXXV, which is powered by the bored and stroked 5.8-liter S85 V-10 (yes, the one from the last-gen M-5) shown in the dyno video below. The sound alone is worth the 1:42...

Today we bring you a melange of news from the weekend, including Sebastian Vettel's continued dominance in F1, our first drive impressions of the 2012 MINI Cooper Coupe, and a close look at the ongoing work on Cadillac's upcoming compact sport sedan, the 2013 ATS. The 2013 Cadillac ATS reveals more...

With three-time Dakar Rally winner Volkswagen pulling out of the event from next year onwards, there are a number of new players keen on entering the grueling off-road rally in the coming years. One of these is Britain’s Excite Rallye Raid Team, which has announced that it will be running...

Sebastian Vettel has notched up his ninth win of the 2011 Formula 1 season with victory yesterday at the Singapore Grand Prix. Vettel, who started on pole, managed to hold off second place scorer Jenson Button of McLaren as well as his own Red Bull Racing team-mate Mark Webber who finished in...

Being the tropical region that it is, heavy downpours and severe thunderstorms are a common thing in Singapore, the site of today’s 2011 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix. However, it appears conditions for today’s race will remain dry and only partially cloudy, with the stormy weather not...

Red Bull Racing star Sebastian Vettel looks set to win his second Formula 1 Championship, with the German youngster taking out pole position for tomorrow’s Singapore Grand Prix at the conclusion of today’s qualifying session. Vettel has a lead over his rivals that stands at 112 points...

David Coulthard has more fun in the Lone Star State than we ever will, promoting the 2012 Circuit of the Americas F1 race in a Red Bull Renault F1 car.

Today's video game moment of Zen is brought to you by none other than the game that jeopardized so many of our early educational careers: Pole Position. This Namco arcade classic features "realistic" explosions, stunning 8-bit graphics, and sound effects that shaped a generation. Modern driving...

After severely crushing his ankle trying to land a 720-degree trick he calls the "toilet paper roll," Travis Pastrana may be looking for a safer form of motorsport. Today, the motorcycle stuntman turned rally-racer said he'll be focusing on his NASCAR program with Michael Waltrip once he recovers...

Austrian and Finnish news outlets are reporting Kimi Raikkonen has visited with Williams F1 at the teams Oxfordshire, England factory, possibly as a prelude to returning to Formula 1. Raikkonen, a former F1 world champion, left the series after the 2009 season to pursue a drive in a World Rally...

Aston Martin Racing, the official motorsports division of the automaker Aston Martin, has won the annual Laguna Seca race of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) on its return to the sport. This was the penultimate round of the 2011 season and for the race Aston Martin Racing started from third and...