Racing

Now one-third of the way through the season, the NASCAR Sprint Cup is heading to Kansas for the STP 400. Friday's final practice session is just finished, but qualifying remains ahead, scheduled for 11:10 a.m. local (noon Eastern) Saturday morning. Each car will put in two laps to determine the...

The civil (and not-so-civil) unrest in Bahrain had put the race's presence on the 2011 Formula 1 schedule in doubt this year, and until today, most had assumed the race would be skipped. Instead, the FIA voted to hold the race despite the violence and political turbulence. Since Bahrain was...

Nissan has announced that its Leaf Nismo RC Concept electric race car concept from the recent 2011 New York Auto Show will be making a demonstration run at the Le Mans Vers Le Futur, a support event for the 79th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Leaf Nismo RC was never meant to be a one-off...

Sebastian Vettel secured his first ever victory in Monaco, taking the checkered flag yesterday at the 2011 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix after starting on pole. The German’s youngster’s lead over closest rival McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton in the 2011 Formula 1 Drivers’...

Monaco’s favorable Mediterranean climate seems to have taken leave for today’s Formula 1 Grand Prix, with predictions of rain looking to dull the day’s racing. A lovely high of 77 degrees is forecast, with only a very mild easterly wind of 7 mph, but the rainfall radar for Europe...

Though Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick, and Carl Edwards have all scored multiple wins so far this year, the top of the race order has only one of those names in it: Carl Edwards. Look for Edwards to make a strong showing, especially coming off his win at last weekend's All-Star Race also at Charlotte...

Memorial day weekend is approaching, and for NASCAR fans, that means the Sprint Cup cars will be running the Coca-Cola 600--and of course, the Nationwide Series will battle it out in the Top Gear 300. This is a quick look at what to expect from the scheduled events. The Nationwide Top Gear 300 will...

The coachbuilt Aston Martin V12 Zagato is set to make its motorsport debut this weekend in race car form at the Nurburgring during one of the famous track’s VLN events, but our stealthy spies have spotted the car being loaded into Aston Martin’s test facility at the ‘Ring. Seen...

This weekend the spectacle that is Formula 1 heads to the luxury playground of Monte Carlo for the 2011 Monaco Grand Prix, one of the most important and prestigious races, not only on the F1 calendar, but in the whole world. The narrow roads of the famous street circuit, with all its elevation...

The fantastic festival of carbon fiber that is the James Glickenhaus Ferrari P4/5 Competizione was built as a one-off project for endurance racing, with its first major event to be the 24 Hours of Nurburgring next month. But now it looks like it could be exiting the racing sector because of a rules...

NASCAR star Kyle Busch, currently third in the Sprint Cup standings, was pulled over on a road near his home in Mooresville, North Carolina yesterday for speeding in a bright yellow 2012 Lexus LFA not unlike the one pictured above. Busch was driving with his wife Samantha in the car at a speed of...

The much-publicized deal between Nissan's luxury Infiniti brand and Red Bull Racing's Formula 1 effort has spawned rumors about future products, how the collaboration might impact Infiniti's range. But the speculation hasn't gone in the other direction until now. The latest has Nissan/Infiniti's...

With both MINI and Volkswagen already confirming their intentions to enter the competitive world of the World Rally Championship (WRC), an international race series once dominated by the likes of Subaru and Mitsubishi and still by Citroen, Fiat, more specifically Fiat’s Abarth performance and...

Perhaps in celebration of the extension of his Formula 1 contract with Ferrari to 2016, Fernando Alonso took a Ferrari 458 around the test track in Fiorano. He brought a passenger along for the ride, and the unidentified man seemed to enjoy it, based on his unabashed giggling. We'd probably giggle...

Formula 1 is more interesting this year than it has been in any of the recent five, and though that has little to do with Infiniti's tie-up with Red Bull, the new partnership may yet spawn something even more interesting, and more relevant to those of us in the U.S., who won't get to witness F1...

Spain’s tradition of great weather has rung true for today’s race at Circuit de Catalunya, the site of the 2011 Spanish Grand Prix, with forecasters predicting dry conditions and just a slightly patchy sky. Temperatures should peak at around 78 degrees, which should guarantee plenty of...

To no great surprise, Formula 1 Championship leader Sebastian Vettel dominated practice today ahead of the 2011 Spanish Grand Prix though it was his Red Bull Racing teammate, Mark Webber, who was fastest at the Circuit de Catalunya. However, all eyes were on Force India driver Adrian Sutil who is...

Kimi Raikkonen has conquered Formula 1 and raced in the World Rally Championship. So why not try his hand at NASCAR? He'll be making his debut in the Perky Jerky truck this weekend in the Camping World Truck Series at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Raikkonen's team, ICE1RACING, has partnered with Kyle...

Back in 1991, when the McLaren F1 supercar had just been born and the Persian Gulf War was still raging, Mazda was working on a new endurance racer, one with a four-rotor Wankel rotary engine. The race car was the Mazda 787B and it would eventually go on to take overall victory at the 24 Hours of...

Two weeks seems like an eternity in the fast paced world of Formula 1, with Sebastian Vettel’s dominant win at the 2011 Turkish Grand Prix now only a distant memory. Since then we’ve heard news of an alleged glassing incident involving Force India’s Adrian Sutil and Renault...