Racing

If you're in the mood for some Molson and some fine special-edition Lancia Delta Integrale Evo hardware, it's time for a trip to Canada. Two of the cars are up for sale in Richmond, British Columbia, and they both belong to limited runs. The first, a 1992 Integrale Evo 1, is number 136 of a 400-car...

Corvette Racing's excellent ongoing series, Track To Street, now in its second season, has given us a look inside the mind and spirit of a professional racing team the way few others get to see. This time, we see what it's like to tackle one of the world's premiere street circuits at Long Beach...

NASCAR legend and perhaps the best-liked, most-referenced cheater in motorsports history, Smokey Yunick, used to run a shop called the Best Damn Garage In Town, and last night, the building that housed it until it was shuttered burned to the ground in Daytona Beach, Florida. Even after its closing...

Robert Kubica, a rising star in F1 and an eager participant in rally, saw his career put in jeopardy early this year with a freak accident that saw a guard rail skewer his car and his entire right side along with it. He's recovering well considering the severity of his injuries, and is home for a...

Stephen Colbert is finally being put out to sea. The comedian, actor, and co-planner of 2010's Rally to Restore Sanity will sail toward the northernmost tip of the mysterious Bermuda Triangle in next month's Charleston Bermuda Race. For several weeks, we'd heard that Colbert would serve as Honorary...

Over several decades, Suzuki has established quite a reputation for itself in the U.S. as a maker of high-quality, high-performance motorcycles and ATVs. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for its cars; while quality and performance claims hold, from our experience, Suzuki's sparse and...

We’ve seen plenty of pace cars in the past, including a Mercedes-Benz SL63 AMG serving for duty. However, we’ve never seen a car this expensive doing the rounds before. We’re talking, of course, about the 2012 Lexus LFA supercar, a V-10 race car built for the road that retails for...

Infiniti is making the most of its sponsorship deal with Formula 1 team Red Bull Racing and its star driver Sebastian Vettel, having the current champ take a pair of its luxury models out for some race track antics ahead of this weekend’s 2011 Chinese GP in Shanghai. Fresh from his dominant...

Dutch IndyCar and GT racer Junior Strous recently hit up the track at Spa Francorchamps, producing a blistering time and this exquisite video. Strous claims it's a record for the track, but given the modifications to the M3 and the non-race conditions, it's not clear which record he set. Whatever...

We’ve already seen race bred versions of the Aston Martin Vantage designed for the GT2 and GT4 competitions but now Aston Martin and its racing division, Aston Martin Racing (AMR), is developing a new GT3 car. Based on the V12 Vantage production car already in showrooms, the new Vantage GT3...

If you've been following the progress of the Austin F1 circuit's bid to host the world's premier road racing series, you know the barriers that have laid before the project, and those that remain. Today the organizers of the circuit and facilities held a press conference to announce everything is...

The organizers of the Austin, Texas circuit that's expected to host Formula 1's return to the U.S. are planning a press conference for just a few minutes from now, at 4:00 p.m. EDT. Tune in to the live stream at the link below. For more on the Austin circuit's F1 plans, check out our previous...

The 2011 Targa Tasmania ended in Hobart yesterday, putting a cap on the tricky, often treacherous, high-speed tarmac rally. This video offers one perspective on the experience, from Porsche's point of view. The look back includes some footage of Walter Rohrl in the seat of a vintage rally 911, plus...

The Gogogear Hyundai Genesis Coupe race car that made its debut at last year's SEMA show is getting ready to take to the track for its first competition run this weekend at Thunderhill Raceway in California. The racer sports the 3.8-liter V-6 engine cranked up to 330 horsepower and a host of...

If you missed this weekend's Malaysian GP, you didn't miss much (we won't spoil it for you) except for Vitaly Petrov's launching of his Lotus-Renault racer over a grassy knoll at the end of the race. He landed so hard the steering column broke off in his hands. The flight came after a rather...

After its inaugural year, BMW’s Z4 GT3 privateer race car is back for another season of tarmac action, this time with a number of modifications to keep it abreast of the field in the ever-competitive FIA sanctioned GT3 series. The updated 2011 BMW Z4 GT3 has now survived its baptism of fire...

When you think of Rally, Infiniti isn't the first name that comes to mind. Even Nissan, its parent, isn't. In fact, there's so little tie-in between the two, the unveiling of a rally-prepped safety car for the Spanish Rally Championship is completely surprising. It's a pleasant surprise, too. The...

You already know MINI will be back in WRC this year, testing at a limited number of events ahead of a full push for the 2012 season. One of these events was this past weekend’s Rally dell’Adriatico in Italy where the John Cooper Works backed MINI S2000 rally car stormed to victory at...

Kyle Busch will be making even more money than usual this year, if reports of Kimi Raikkonen's deal to drive one of Busch's trucks are correct. The reports say Raikkonen will be cutting a check for $100,000 to Busch's team--for every race he enters in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. The...

Though he only lived to the age of 34, Ayrton Senna da Silva is widely regarded by past and present racers the world around to be one of, if not the all-time, greatest to have taken a wheel in anger. His life and tragic death have undergone cinematic treatment in the movie entitled simply, Senna...