Racing

New luxury upstart Eterniti’s first model, the Hemera super-SUV, may look like a tarted up version of its donor vehicle, a Porsche Cayenne, but that won’t be the case for the brand’s future models. Along with the debut of the Hemera Concept at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show this...

The factory-backed Aston Martin Racing team will be back on U.S. soil to compete in its first American Le Mans Series (ALMS) race of the year at Laguna Seca on September 17 and 18. The team will be making the trans-Atlantic trip from Silverstone, where it competed in the fifth round of the...

Like its recently-unveiled Audi and BMW counterparts, the 2012 Mercedes DTM AMG C-Coupe is built around a carbon fiber monocoque, finned like a mutant manta ray, and powered by a 500-horsepower 4.0-liter V-8 engine. We want one. Unfortunately, the roughly 2,300-pound (with driver) DTM AMG C-Coupe...

What's wrong with a hot German sports coupe getting a full-on, ground-up, carbon fiber monocoque race treatment? Nothing at all, that's what. Here's the proof. These live images of the 2012 Audi A5 DTM car show that, whatever BMW's M3 DTM car and Mercedes-Benz's AMG DTM car have to offer on track...

The 2012 Ford Focus ST gets a racing variant, which can be ordered as a turn-key setup straight from Ford dealers here in North America.

Sebastian Vettel remains unstoppable at Monza. [MotorAuthority] The 2012 Audi A5 DTM race car is revealed ahead of the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. [MotorAuthority] Audi's Urban Concept gets some live photo action ahead of the Frankfurt show. [GreenCarReports] Red Bull Racing and Renault have extended...

The 2012 Audi A5 DTM is a purpose-built racer with little more than some visual cues in common with the production car, but it'll do battle with the companies primary rivals, both on and off track: Mercedes-Benz and BMW.

Red Bull Racing and Renault Sport F1 have confirmed the extension of their successful partnership in the world of Formula 1 for a further five years. The new turbocharged 1.6-liter V-6 engines to be introduced from 2014 will be incorporated into the framework of an enhanced collaboration. Within...

Sebastian Vettel is potentially one Grand Prix away from taking out the 2011 Formula 1 World Championship after cementing his eighth win of the season, this time at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza yesterday. The German youngster’s lead over the rest of the field now stands at 112 points, and...

Weather conditions aren’t looking too good for the 2011 Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza today. There are predictions of a thunderstorm for later today and the clouds over the track certainly make those predictions look possible. It’s currently partly cloudy...

The 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 will get 580 horsepower and 556 pound-feet of torque. Yeehaw! [MotorAuthority] Has Maserati's SUV concept leaked ahead of Frankfurt? [MotorAuthority] The 2012 BMW X6's facelift has been spied. [MotorAuthority] Have a taste for retro electric cars? How about an electric...

This weekend Formula 1 teams head to Monza in Italy for the 2011 Italian Grand Prix. Described as the fastest track in F1, Italy's Autodromo Nazionale Monza race track is known colloquially as “La Pista Magica”, and with good reason: the atmosphere is second to none. Additionally, the...

Echoing sentiments of fans around the world, Porsche's CEO Matthias Mueller has called Formula 1 "not interesting," and "simply too expensive." Instead, the company will be putting its racing efforts toward a new FIA endurance racing category to come in 2014. Porsche already backs many GT-class...

If Audi’s current R8 LMS racer is too extreme for you, the automaker from Ingolstadt, more specifically, its quattro GmbH performance division together with Raeder Motorsports, has announced that a slightly tamer five-cylinder TT RS race car is now ready for sale. We’ve already seen the...

Mercedes GP Formula 1 drivers Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg will help present Mercedes’ new C-Class Coupe based race car that will compete in the 2012 season of Germany’s DTM touring car series. The presentation will take place at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show on September 13...

Audi’s R8 LMS race car has been with us for a little over two years now, and during that time has notched up quite a number of wins, including more than 100 GT3 class wins in Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. Audi is now preparing the R8 LMS customer race car for the U.S. A dedicated...

The 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and the Monterey Motorsport Reunion are just a couple of weeks behind us, but we already have more incredible vintage sports and racing car action to look forward to: the Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV heads to Laguna Seca October 14-16. Highlighting...

We all like to think that our cars have been developed using technology bred on the race track. It adds a sense of kudos and the impression of thoroughbred engineering to even the most mundane of vehicles. Ironic then, that with the push towards electric vehicles as road transport, the world of...

It doesn't seem like it's been four years since one of the greatest rally drivers to have turned a gravel-chucking wheel died in a private helicopter accident: Colin McRae's death in 2007 still feels fresh to rally fans. And now it's been ruled his fault by British authorities. The latest word on...

If racing improves the breed, will it do the same for a new species? The Italian aerodynamic engineering group FondTech believes so. The E-11 electric race car prototype is the firm's interpretation of a Formula E racer. As we reported earlier, the FIA plans to debut Formula E electric car racing...