Racing

One of the nicest and craziest guys in motorsports just laid down a record-setting run on his first attempt up the Mt. Washington Climb in Vermont. Pastrana got to the top of the 6,288-foot mountain in just 6:20.47, almost 22 seconds quicker than the previous record, set in 1998 by Frank Sprongl...

MINI's return to rally is fast approaching. The Countryman World Rally Car has just cleared the shakedown phase in the hands of famed racing firm Prodrive, and now heads on to further development. Shakedown testing established the fundamental core of the car's functionality and systems as working...

The duo at Red Bull haven't always seen eye to eye this season, and competition from McLaren is heating up, but both Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel are contenders for the win, and the driver's title. This video gives us Vettel's take on the Italian GP at Monza, and it leaves us looking forward to...

The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has once again put the Volkswagen Group's French marque back at the top of the fastest production car charts with its recent 268-mph record, but within days Shelby Supercars (SSC) announced it would be once again gunning to top Bugatti. We already know that SSC's new...

Fire may be the biggest worry of most racing drivers, but high-speed accidents are a lot more common. This accident is a testament to the safety of modern race car and track design. Driving down the fast, slightly curved back straight at Mosport during this weekend's American Le Mans Series race...

It's been a long, long day and night here at Hallett Motor Racing Circuit, and we're not done yet. Three more hours of racing will see the racing reach its peak as the top five teams scramble for the podium spots. First place is all but sewed up for the General Yee #1 Miata, leading the race by...

Motor Authority and the White Lightning crew are gearing up for another 24-hour race, this time at Hallett Motor Racing Circuit. Nestled in the undulating hills of northeastern Oklahoma, Hallett is a challenging, engaging 1.8-mile course, and an excellent chance for our team to finally escape our...

Who said electric vehicles have to be slow? A team from Ohio State University's Center for Auto Research and the guys at French EV startup Venturi has set a new speed record for a battery-powered vehicle: 307.7 mph. Earlier this week at Bonneville Salt Flats, piloted by Roger Schroer, the car...

It seems officials in Melbourne, the place where Lewis Hamilton was apprehended for doing an illegal burnout on the eve of the Australian Grand Prix last March, have finally dropped charges against the F1 superstar. Hamilton apologized for carrying out the burnout and was fined $500 AUD...

Racing, from grassroots to the highest pro leagues, involves a lot more work than play. It's just that most of the work is never shown to the fans. BMW has turned the tables around, and is showing us what's going into the rebuild process of the wrecked No. 92 M3 GT that hit the wall in the Kink at...

You might think sitting behind the wheel for a few hours is an easy way to earn a living, but you'd be wrong. Endurance racing in particular requires the ability to focus at almost superhuman levels for hours while fighting heat, g forces, the effort of driving the car, and, of course, the rest of...

Testing in advance of Rally Deutschland, Ken Block and co-driver Alex Gelsomino are hitting the tarmac for the first time ever in their WRC Ford Focus. The video shows that Block and Gelsomino are quick studies, though whether it'll be enough to keep up with the WRC crowd is another question...

Ask just about anyone at Suzuki why their cars aren't as popular as their motorcycles and you're likely to be greeted with a confused look. They build great bikes, and they put the same effort into their cars, so why the disconnect? Perhaps it's the name, perhaps it's the market, but whatever the...

In a past life, I wrote about the Miller 91 that Car and Driver editor Karl Ludvigsen found in a dank barn in France, and brought to the U.S.--and later saw installed in the National History Museum. Today, it's another spectacular Miller that made its way to the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours...

Call it a wrap - yesterday's motorsports gathering, The Quail 2010, is over, and with this post, MotorAuthority is switching gears to tomorrow's Pebble Beach Concours. Our first outing to the Quail Lodge's eight-year-old affair brought us an up-close view of some stunning race cars from the 1950s...

  With a frail Carroll Shelby at the helm, The Quail 2010 paid homage to some of the greatest Mustangs in history on Friday. And if you've never seen a 'Stang older than the 2011 BOSS 302 we brought you yesterday, the Quail's collection of pony cars provided an instant history lesson. Paired with...

  While The Quail 2010 celebrated 45 years of Carroll Shelby's Mustangs in a prime collection of GT500s, GT350s, KR convertibles and one bare-metal shell of an ur-Shelby Mustang, a smaller circle of roadsters connected the dots between the 'Stangs to Shelby himself. A curated quartet of Shelby...

Vintage race cars capture the highest tech and finest aesthetic of their time.

  This year's Quail motorsports gathering underscored the "motorsports" half of the equation, with a display of rare race cars that avoided the destruction you might expect to happen to lightweight, fragile classics like these two exceptional cars. The 1955 Kurtis 500SX above has a unique...

During its gestation, Lexus fielded several prototypes for its new LFA supercar in the 2008 and 2009 Nurburgring 24 Hours endurance races as part of the development program for the final production version of the car. With its race-bred genes, there’s now a chance that the car will compete in the...