Racing

Ford factory WRC driver Mikko Hirvonen and much of the world rally team was on hand in Birmingham, U.K. today for the unveiling of Ford's new Fiesta RS WRC entrant, set to take the place of the current Focus for next year's championship. The use of the Fiesta as the WRC racer comes on the heels of...

Last month we brought you the first word on the return of Cadillac and the CTS-V to road racing with an SCCA World Challenge CTS-V Coupe, and today we have new images of the car in the metal. The debut outing for the new CTS-V Coupe racer will be the St. Petersburg, FL weekend of the 2011 World...

Fernando Alonso’s life in F1 has been littered with controversy, with the young Spaniard on several occasions being accused of ‘brake testing’ other drivers as well as for having disputes with team bosses during his tenures at Renault and McLaren. Now we get a taste once again of...

Porsche has already confirmed a new model debut for next week’s 2011 Detroit Auto Show, with one official boastfully describing it as something “spectacular”. While the automaker has several brand new models in the pipeline--the production version of last year’s awesome 918...

The use of hybrid drive systems, or Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) as they're known in Formula 1, has a relatively short history in racing. In F1, the history is about to become present once again, with KERS back on the grid for 2011. But it may not be all it's cracked up to be, if HRT...

Comparing drivers across time is a tough endeavor. How to account for the huge differences in performance of the cars driven? The upgrades in safety? Changes in track layouts? Apparently F1 legend Sir Jackie Stewart can, and he has, saying today's crop of F1 drivers is the best in history. If...

Usually things slow down a bit at this time of year, but not when it comes to celebs and their fondness for cars. Over the next few days, we expect to hear about starlets buying expensive rides for their honeys (and vice versa) but for now, in addition to the pieces you've already seen about...

Three weeks ago we brought you some of the first images on the Internet of a GT3 racing prototype of the 2012 McLaren MP4-12C. Today, McLaren confirmed the program, revealing a computer rendering and its plans for the race car. Partnered with CRS Racing, McLaren will deliver the first MP4-12C-based...

Aston Martin will return to the white hot competition of Le Mans racing, entering next year’s 24-hour endurance race with a new LMP1 race car. The only problem is that Aston Martin is in need of a new, emotive name for its latest race car, and it’s calling on its fans to come up with...

One-make racing competitions are quickly gaining in popularity among the luxury automakers, with Ferrari’s upcoming Trofeo Pirelli series and Lamborghini’s Super Trofeo drawing plenty of attention--and sponsorship dollars. Aston Martin’s one-make GT4 Challenge also had plenty of...

Motorsports and ecology aren't exactly hand-in-hand concepts. Getting the most speed out of a car usually involves pumping a lot of fuel through it--just to end up back where it started. To improve the green image of racing, many series are taking steps to use greener fuels--and now NASCAR is among...

Caterham's range of ultra-light track cars have been extremely popular amongst driving enthusiasts in the UK and certain other markets such as Italy, Japan and the U.S., and for good reason. The cars represent a much more simplistic approach to racing, with a no nonsense design and purity that most...

The classic statement of the price of road racing: "How do you make a small fortune in racing? Start with a large one." The truth of that statement is what has given it such legs, but Mazda and Honda hope to overcome the high hurdle to entry-level road racing with their newly-formed B-Spec series...

The 2011 season promises to be exciting throughout the world of motorsports, with the FIA doing away with the ban on team orders in F1, a new formula for World Rally Championship cars, and now, Cadillac's re-entry into road racing with an SCCA World Challenge CTS-V Coupe. The new CTS-V Coupe racer...

The 2011 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR is ready to take off into the new motorsport season with a number of extensive enhancements designed to ensure it continues a successful series run. The 2011 version of the world’s most successful GT race car celebrated its world debut at the “Night of...

The grid has been all a-bluster with talk of the coming engine changes for 2013 for months now, but today, it's official: the 18,000 rpm, 2.4-liter V-8 is now on its deathbed in Formula 1, its 12,000 rpm 1.6-liter four-cylinder turbo replacement announced today for the 2013 season. The goal: a...

Just as we promised you a little over a week ago, Ford Racing has developed its track-only hardcore 2012 Mustang BOSS 302S. The official details released today read like a solid-axle track addict's dream. Based on the same basic set of features as the 2012 Mustang BOSS 302 production car, the 302S...

The Dodge Viper may be due for a return in 2012, but it won't be the same Viper we grew to know, love, and fear. For that, you'll either have to find someone willing to let go of their car, or find a way to get a seat in the still-cranking Dodge Viper Cup Series, which today announced it will...

So you wanna go drag racing, and you're a die-hard Blue Oval fan? It'll be hard to beat the factory-built Ford Racing 2012 Cobra Jet Mustang (2010 model pictured), though you'll have to be quick to get one of the 50 examples planned for construction. Revealed today at the Performance Racing...

With Travis Pastrana gone from the world of rally to mire himself in the world of NASCAR's Nationwide series, there was an open seat at Subaru Rally Team USA (SRT USA). Until today, that is. David Higgins has been named as the second driver alongside team leader Dave Mirra. Mirra had been second to...