Racing

Believe it or not, Formula One drivers really are human. Well, most of them are, anyway, and that includes Adrian Sutil, who wrecked a Gumpert Apollo on the perilous Nordschleife today. The damage, as you can see in the image above, isn't terminal--it looks like some bodywork will put the car back...

It was less than a month ago that we reported Porsche was planning a return to Le Mans prototype racing in time for the 2014 season, and now we have news of yet another automaker considering doing the same. This time ‘round its Jaguar, which is reportedly considering a return to the sport...

The 1954 Mercedes W196 race car ran with open wheels for the first time at the German Grand Prix.

The BMW M3 gets a fully radicalized motorsports interpretation for the company's return to DTM racing next year. The DTM series will be coming to the U.S. in 2013.

Felipe Massa's severe head injury and close call with death after being hit in the head with a spring thrown free of Rubens Barrichello's car at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, which happened less than a week after 18-year-old Henry Surtees died during a Formula Two race when a loose wheel struck...

The 2012 Audi A5 will do battle against BMW and Mercedes in next year's DTM championship before heading to the U.S. for several races in 2013.

The Corvette Racing Team shows us what it takes to win a race like Le Mans. Hint: it's all about teamwork.

The new team will initially race with the Lotus Evora GTE through a full North American and International schedule in 2012.

Want to be a motorsports hero? Think you can hang with some of the best rally, drift, offroad, and gymkhana drivers in the world? Get your video camera out and try out for the Octane Academy. Four high-profile drivers will put on a four-day driving camp for the people chosen through the video...

Sir Stirling Moss is the latest buyer of the Aston Martin Cygnet luxury minicar, which of course was finished in British racing green for the Formula 1 legend.

Compressed natural gas and electric race cars could have a very real future in American Le Mans Series racing, and sooner than you might think.

The Porsche Sport Driving School at Barber Motorsports Park offers instruction from the most basic to full-race--and the cars to learn in, too.

Tommy Kendall walks us through the fundamentals of high-performance driving in this video, the first of a series from AMG's Driving Academy.

This crash video shows how quickly things can go from great to terrible when professionals make mistakes at high speed.

Carmakers love motor racing. The phrase "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday" didn't come about for no reason - racing is a great way of raising the profile of your cars and the buying public love knowing that some of the technology in their cars has filtered down from the race track. That's the theory...

Fernando Alonso has clenched the first victory for Ferrari in the 2011 Formula 1 Championship, taking top honors at the Silverstone race track during yesterday’s British Grand Prix. The win comes exactly 60 years after Ferrari’s first ever victory in Formula 1, which took place back in...

This weekend is the 2011 Formula 1 British Grand Prix, which once again takes place at the legendary Silverstone circuit in the UK. In the lead up to the actual race on Sunday, heated arguments have taken place over the degree of off-throttle exhaust blowing that will be allowed, with most teams...

Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber takes the M37 around the track with VIPs on board ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix.

The nicest, craziest guy in motorsports stunts is about to get behind the wheel of a monster truck. This can only be a good thing.

It's not every day that a pro takes you for a lap, shows you the line, and offers his personal notes on braking and gear selection. Today is one of those days.