Racing

If you thought the aggressive lines of Ferrari’s own Italia 458 Challenge race car meant business, wait until you lay eyes on Houston-based Risi Competizione’s latest Ferrari 458 Italia GT racer. Designed to compete in the American Le Mans Series, the new race car pictured above is just...

Highcroft Racing and Honda Performance Development (HPD) are testing a brand new race car, the ARX-01e prototype, for American Le Mans Series racing at Sebring this week. The car is still being developed through the aerodynamic and systems testing process, but is looking strong in early testing. At...

What better way to drum excitement for your show than to partner with one of the country’s most watched events, the NASCAR Nationwide Series. That's exactly what the producers of Top Gear USA have done, signing a deal with Charlotte Motor Speedway to rename the May 28 NASCAR Nationwide Series...

Less than two weeks remain to the debut of the Global RallyCross Championship (GRC) at Irwindale Speedway, and now the series has a promo video, courtesy of ESPN. Packed full of recognizable names like Block, Foust, and Millen, the series mixes motocross with rally cars and results in a whole lot...

You probably already have a good idea how the rear wing and KERS systems will impact the 2011 season, but you may not have seen a good illustration of how, when, and why they work. This video fixes that. Narrated by Sebastian Vettel, the video gives a peek inside the strategy as well as the...

Pure form meets pure function: the James Glickenhaus-backed Pininfarina Ferrari P4/5 Competizione combines the aesthetics of the original custom P4/5 with the ravenous track-eating ability of an endurance racer as it prepares for its outing at the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring this June. This video...

No stranger to perhaps the most brutally expensive, technical, and intellectually difficult racing series in the world--Formula 1--McLaren has taken the first produce of its Automotive division and kitted it out for racing duty in the form of the MP4-12C GT3. This video shows the car off in all its...

You've already seen Gymkhana Three, parts one and two. Now it's time for the bonus edit with alternate angles and some more horsing around from Block and crew. There's really no excuse necessary for a few minutes spent watching the rev-limiter-popping, tire-shredding, power-sliding antics of Block...

Despite Mercedes-Benz's formation of its own team out of the remnants of the Brawn-run Honda F1 program, McLaren F1 is still sourcing its engines from its former partner. But that could still change. It's unlikely, according to Martin Whitmarsh, the team's boss, but not impossible, that McLaren...

We still have two years to wait until we'll see DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft) racing in the U.S., but we can start getting more familiar with the series now so we're ready to hit the ground running when it finally does come Stateside. This season, Audi is gearing up for the 2011 DTM...

If you had any doubt that racing safety has come literally light years ahead in the past century, this video should erase it. Horrific, brutal, and often deadly crashes in the days before seatbelts, safety cells, and fire suppression systems were an accepted, if feared, part of the sport. The music...

Expected to do battle against the likes of the MINI Cooper and Ford Fiesta as well as a throng of French models in next year’s World Rally Championship (WRC) will be Volkswagen with its stylish Polo. The German automaker is reportedly set to announce plans by the end of this month to enter...

The AMG Driving Academy just got a lot more interesting: you can now work your way up to getting the SLS AMG GT3 on track in the Masters program. You may remember the SLS AMG GT3 from our live coverage of the world debut event in Oaxaca, Mexico. The FIA race-ready car pegs the pricing needle at...

Endurance racing is a grueling, often frustrating experience, but the rewards--when you get it right--are equally significant. Team Falken Tire gives us a look into what they're working on improving for the 2011 American Le Mans Series season with this video from the Sebring winter test session...

If you don't know who Scott Pruett is, you should. He's a legend in U.S. road racing, a dominant force in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car series, and often steps in for NASCAR road course duty as one of the "ringers." Behind the wheel of the Lexus LFA, at breakneck pace, he's still completely...

The Horse Whisperer, Ferrari's often acid-tongued official blog, tackled the whole Ford F-150/Ferrari F150 Formula 1 car naming dispute today. In its typical style, the sardonic commentary flowed forth, proclaiming the latest name change, "should make it clear even to the thickest of people that...

We've all had the dreams, hustling our way around our favorite tracks on our preferred racing sims: if only we could get the opportunity, we could show the world how fast we are in real life. One lucky gamer, Lucas Ordonez, got exactly that chance as winner of the Nissan/Playstation GT Academy...

America, get ready for some fun in the dirt. The Global RallyCross Championship is getting ready for its first event at Irwindale Speedway on March 25-26. It will be broadcast on ESPN, so set your DVRs now. If you're unfamiliar with rallycross, you're probably not a fan of the X-Games, Rhys Millen...

Before you get all excited about the thought of Infiniti fielding a team in the top echelon of motorsport, Formula 1, note that the Japanese luxury brand is only acting as a sponsor for an existing team, in this case championship holder Red Bull Racing. Infiniti has only announced a marketing...

Aston Martin’s motorsports division, the aptly named Aston Martin Racing, has unveiled its new LMP1 race car, which is set to compete in this year’s Le Mans series in Europe. The new race car has been labeled the AMR-One and is just one of six new cars to be built. The Gulf liveried...