Racing

Los Angeles is famous for its car culture, thanks in part to the Fast and the Furious franchise. What it isn’t so famous for is Formula One. Well, the two worlds came together recently when Red Bull Racing’s Daniel Ricciardo stopped by. The Australian spent some time there in August as...

Some have heroes with names like Griffey, Sayers, Butkus, Abdul-Jabaar, and Messier. For cars guys, the names are Gurney, Fullmer, Andretti, Foyt, McLaren, and many more. The difference is you can no longer watch Ken Griffey jack a homer, Kareem Abbul-Jabaar sink a skyhook, or Gale Sayers juke a...

Portuguese racing driver Carina Lima has been revealed as one of the seven owners of a Koenigsegg One:1. She happens to own the very first One:1, chassis number 106, which was the original prototype Koenigsegg used to develop the car and the example on show at the 2014 Geneva auto show debut...

Keiichi Tsuchiya is a 60-year-old man from Japan who is faster than you behind the wheel. He's finished second overall at Le Mans, won a number of national championship events, and doesn't have that wealthy race car driver background you'd expect. He started out racing in the streets and eventually...

"Kill all tires." It's a bumper sticker on the back of the Hoonigan cars that compete in the FIA World Rallycross Championship series. It's more than a bumper sticker or a pithy adage, though. It's a philosophy for the whole series. The Series The FIA World Rallycross Championship is a relatively...

Formula One is currently on its summer break and Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] driver Kimi Räikkönen, 36, took advantage of the time off to marry his 29-year-old model girlfriend Minttu Virtanen. The couple, who have a son together, Robin, tied the knot on Sunday in the town of Siena, located in...

It wasn't all that long about that a Chevrolet Corvette took more than 9 seconds to sprint to 60 mph, let alone 150 mph like this 1,100 horsepower beast of a 'Vette Z06 created by the folks at Advanced Modern Performance. All right, so the last time a Corvette leisurely ambled to 60 mph in 9...

Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel recently went up against a driver in a 488 GTB in a race against the clock. However, the four-time world champion wasn’t in one of his F1 cars, or even in another exotic. Instead, he faced the 488 in an ambulance. To make the competition...

While autonomous driving technology may still be in its infancy, there are efforts underway to get a fully autonomous racing series up and running. The series has even been given a name: Roborace. We first learned of Roborace back in March. The cars would be identical, right down the various...

Porsche introduced a race car based on its limited edition Cayman GT4 for the 2016 motorsport season. Ahead of the 2017 season, there’s a new, more hardcore version. It’s called the Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR, and it was developed by German motorsport and engineering firm Manthey-Racing...

There are some radical changes coming to Formula One in 2017. The list includes longer, wider cars and much wider tires. The changes are aimed at increasing downforce and grip, which should lead to higher speeds and thus faster lap times. Earlier today we were treated with a preview of what the new...

Police in Brazil have rescued 67-year-old Aparecida Schunck, the mother-in-law of 85-year-old Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, after she was kidnapped at her home in São Paulo on July 21. The kidnappers demanded 120 million Brazilian Reals (approximately $36.5 million) for her release but...

Mercedes AMG’s Lewis Hamilton took a commanding win on Sunday at the 2016 Formula One German Grand Prix held at the Hockenheimring. It was the Briton’s 49th career win, which means he’s now just two shy of matching Alain Prost for second in the all-time standings. At the top of...

Would you be willing to pilot a Nissan GT-R modified to put out 2,000 horsepower? How would you feel at speeds exceeding 200 mph? And what would you do if it all started to go wrong during braking from a speed run? One lucky fellow with Team Insanity Racing had the guts to find out all of the above...

After a brief hiatus last year, the Formula One German Grand Prix is back on the calendar. The 2016 race, round 12 of the Formula One World Championship, is on this weekend at the Hockenheimring, a high-speed circuit that’s also very demanding on the brakes. The current layout was formulated...

Losing your brakes while driving is a terrifying feeling. There's nothing but the sense of impending doom since you're no longer in complete control of your two-ton metal machine. Imagine if you were out on a race track when you lost your brakes? Now imagine you were doing 165 mph when they went...

Police in Brazil have confirmed reports of the kidnap of 67-year-old Aparecida Schunck at her home in São Paulo on Friday. Schunck is the mother-in-law of 85-year-old Bernie Ecclestone, the billionaire boss of the Formula One Group, the entity which manages most of the commercial aspects of...

Acura's enjoying the limelight with its new NSX supercar, and it's been very adamant that it will take the car racing. Back in March, Honda's luxury division announced the NSX GT3 race car, making it clear that it intends to race it in 2017. Engineers have been developing the race version and...

A report out of Brazil claims the mother-in-law of Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone, 85, has been kidnapped. Veja reports that Aparecida Schunck, 67, the mother of Ecclestone’s current wife Fabiana Flosi, 38, was kidnapped on Friday near her home in São Paulo and a ransom of 120...

It recently emerged that Formula One driver Max Verstappen had purchased a 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Thanks to a Twitter post from Mark Webber, who ended his F1 career with Verstappen’s current team Red Bull Racing, we now know what color Verstappen chose. Shunning the more radical orange and...