Racing

All-electric formula racing is coming soon, in the form of the FIA’s Formula E Championship. The first official test for the series and the cars was held today at Donington Park in the U.K. Above is a video showing earlier testing on a very wet day. Fastest in the new Spark-Renault SRT_01E...

If you’ve never been to a rally, find one and go to it. You’ll love it. If you don’t know why you will, watch this video. The driver is Mads Ostberg, the car is a Citroen DS3 WRC, and the insanity is the setup dial-in for the Rally Portugal. Of course, the danger for any...

This weekend is the 2014 Formula One British Grand Prix, which once again takes place at the legendary Silverstone circuit. Silverstone was where the very first race of the inaugural Formula One World Championship was held, back in 1950, and it’s been the permanent home of the British Grand...

Struggling Formula One team Caterham has been sold to a consortium of investors from Switzerland and the Middle East. The team, which has failed to make headway in F1 since joining the sport in 2012, will continue to compete under the Caterham banner and be run from the current headquarters in...

This 1987 BMW E30, fully prepped and boosted, is fierce little machine. The restrained fury with which it attacks Pikes Peak is even fiercer. Putting about 480 horsepower to the rear wheels and weighing in at just 2,340 pounds, Tim Hardy’s turbo E30 made the climb in just 10:44.650. The time...

Sam Nalven, a.k.a. the Drift Idiot, goes to great lengths to explore the world of drifting. Instead of the standard view of the Formula Drift environ, Nalven dives deeper in order to learn more about the cars and the people who stuff them sideways at over 100 miles per hour. In his latest episode...

The guy who brought us Drift Garage and its drift missile build, Formula Drift champ Chris Forsberg, is embarking on a new series that will see him touring garages around the U.S., from home-built outfits to massive professional teams. It’s called Garage Tours. Scheduled to run every Tuesday...

The hillclimb is a dying art in North America, thanks to a litigious public and an unreasoning disregard for rally-style motorsports. But at Mt. Washington, just as at Pikes Peak, it’s alive and well. Here, a Nissan 240SX makes a blazing but smooth run to the top of the mountain in rear-drive...

The Goodwood Festival of Speed should be on every gearhead’s bucket list. Whatever you have to do to get there, do it. Beg, borrow, stow away on an ocean liner. Get there. Motor Authority was fortunate enough to attend this year’s event, and though it was only for a few brief hours, we...

The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, or TT, is a famously challenging event, populated by people who know neither limits nor fear. But while the super bike riders get all of the credit for the event’s popularity and history, Subaru has made it a place for car people, too. Earlier this month, the...

No overall record was set at yesterday’s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado, but we’re sad to report that motorcyclist Bobby Goodin, competitor #86, crashed near the summit and died of his injuries. Goodin, a 54-year-old from Flower Mound, Texas, was flown to nearby Penrose...

Mercedes-Benz is the featured marque of this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, and that means the annual event’s latest Central Feature sculpture is designed to honor the German automaker. A Central Feature has been present at the Goodwood Festival of Speed since 1997, and all of them...

McLaren has used the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed to reveal its all-new GT3-spec race car based on the latest 650S supercar. McLaren had said it was planning to showcase the latest track-focused car developed by its McLaren GT motorsport arm, and now we have it in the form of the 650S GT3. Just...

Honda will bring an array of vehicles to the 2014 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.

Scion is turning to someone familiar with both the car and course as it mounts a challenge on this year's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, drift star Ken Gushi. MUST SEE: #GiveAShift: The 7 Best Manuals Transmissions You Can Drive Gushi won last year's Exhibition Auto Class at Pikes Peak...

The P4/5 Pininfarina Enzo, the P4/5 Competizione, the upcoming SCG003—James Glickenhaus is the man behind some of the last decade’s most amazing one-off cars, and in this video, he explains his passion, his collection, and more. MUST SEE: #GiveAShift: The 7 Best Manual Transmissions You...

Just a week after its victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Audi has won the equally arduous Nürburgring 24 Hours. Audi and its partner team Phoenix Racing celebrated a hard-fought victory yesterday at the Green Hell after its #4 R8 LMS ultra, competing in the top SP9 GT3 class and driven by...

Mercedes AMG drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton took a hard-fought one-two victory yesterday at the 2014 Formula One Austrian Grand Prix to make it six one-two finishes this season after just eight races—a feat only achieved once before in F1. Rosberg claimed his third win of the season...

Reminding us that there are more teams in the 2014 Formula One World Championship than just Ferrari, Mercedes AMG and Red Bull Racing, Williams managed to lock out the front row of tomorrow’s Austrian Grand Prix after a brilliant performance in today’s qualifying session. Star driver...

There was some rain during the first free practice session for the 2014 Formula One Austrian Grand Prix, which hindered teams from gathering crucial data for the new venue. The good news is that the skies should clear up over the weekend, with a mostly sunny prediction pegged for Sunday’s...