Racing

The race cars of the GT500 class in the Japanese touring car series (JGTC) have some of the most extreme aerodynamic packages in the business and the latest iteration of one of the event's legends, Nissan’s GT-R super sports car, doesn’t fail to live up to the standard of past heroes...

A1GP is the latest motorsport series to be swept by the ‘green’ craze, with the announcement today that next weekend’s calendar event in Taupo, New Zealand, will see the field of 22 cars switch to a 30% biofuel mix. This makes it the first truly global motorsport series to race...

Recent rule changes in Formula 1 have drawn heavy criticism from some camps for their tendency to clamp down on innovation and technological development, which they see as the heart and soul of the series. Others see the measures as overdue steps to combat the skyrocketing expense and shrinking...

F1’s new commercial agreement means that Prodrive will not enter the sport in the near future, David Richards said on Thursday. The Oxfordshire based company’s chief had earlier left open the option of reassessing. Prodrive’s plans in 2009, having withdrawn his entry to become...

Hot on the heels of the Gulf Oil Ford GT40 comes news from Aston Martin that they will be racing their GT1 Le Mans cars in the distinctive orange and blue colours. Two DBR9s will be painted to celebrate Gulf Oil’s first victory at the 24 hour race 40 years on. The two Aston Martin DBR9s for...

The Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) race series is a tight and contentious one, populated solely by Mercedes-Benz and Audi since 2005. While the two-marque seasons have made for some very heated competition, the fans and the series itself would like to see another maker enter the fray. Lexus may...

Continuing Ferrari’s Formula 1 tradition, the Prancing Horse today launched its F2008 car for the upcoming season. The first of the new generation of cars to incorporate the mandatory Standard Electronic Control Unit (SECU) produced by Mclaren Electronic Systems, the F2008 comes a day ahead...

Max Mosley has played down formula one drivers’ fears that the ban on traction control will make the sport more dangerous in wet weather. The FIA president denies that the removal of driver aids is set to compromise safety, after a group of drivers expressed their concerns to the British...

A new set of rules could have an immediate impact on the 2008 formula one championship, according to BMW-Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld. The German driver told his website that he is “anxious” to see the effect that the ban on driver aids including traction and launch control will have...

Team principal Tadashi Yamashina says he has been given two more years to deliver the goods for Toyota in formula one. The Japanese took the reigns of the struggling Cologne based team earlier this year, following a half decade of underperformance despite Toyota’s top annual budget...

Motorsport has always been the driving force in automotive innovation, although it has also proven to be paradoxically resistant to new forms of propulsion. By jump-starting a one-make electric vehicle (EV) race series, U.K.-based Westfield Sportscars, Ltd. hopes to push EV racing into the...

McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton has been caught speeding on a French highway. The 22-year-old rookie was clocked by radar on the A26 motorway, linking the towns of Calais and Reims, at 196kmh at the wheel of a Mercedes CLK, the news agency EFE reported. It is claimed that French police suspended the...

The FIA’s recent announcement of a ten-year engine freeze on F1 engine development is just the first of a whole range of new cost cutting measures the motorsport governing body has planned. The World Motor Sport Council has now agreed to several other major changes, including limiting the...

Reigning Champion of Champions Mattias Ekström managed to take top honors at this year’s Race of Champions event at Wembley Stadium in the UK, beating out motorsport heavy-weight Michael Schumacher in the finals. Both Ekström and Schumacher claimed one win each in the best-of-three...

This past week saw the launch of PF1, a new company based in the UK planning to sell and maintain old F1 cars for personal track use. Partnering with engine technology specialists Cosworth, PF1 has acquired several late-model Jordans, Jaguars and Super Aguri race cars and will be offering potential...

We all like to think that given the chance to race around a track we’d be pretty capable right from the first lap. The reality is that most drivers would be time wasting mistakes on nearly every corner. Here’s a video with none other than Fifth Gear’s Tiff Needle showing us the...

The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council on Friday ratified an immediate ten-year freeze on formula one engine development. Between next year and 2017, each team may only use a 2007-spec engine design that is to be “delivered (to the FIA) no later than 31 March 2008″, a statement...

The FIA World Motor Sport Council on Thursday found Renault guilty, but imposed no penalty for the French team’s breach of the International Sporting Code. The body had met in Monaco to consider allegations that Renault, led by Flavio Briatore, possessed confidential information belonging to...

Xtrac, a UK-based engineering design and manufacturing company, which specializes in vehicle transmission and driveline technology, has received the “Most Innovative New Motorsport Product of the Year Award” for its pioneering work developing a state-of-the-art gearbox for race teams...

The plans for 2008 of both Renault and Fernando Alonso are expected to be clear by no later than next Monday. Although Red Bull, Honda and Toyota are understood to still be in the running to secure the services of the double world champion, the Spanish newspaper Diario AS mentioned December 10 as a...