Racing
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Take one part Smart ForTwo, add equal parts Toyota Paseo Sprintex 1.5-liter engine and supercharger, mix well, and take to the drag strip. This is a recipe for beating Shelby Mustangs. MUST SEE: Maserati MC12 GT1 Race Car Sounds Off: Video At least, it’s one recipe for taking the drag-radial-shod pony car to task. And to be fair, the Smart driver didn’t quite win, lifting just before the lights to let the Mustang cruise past. It was still a close race, with the Smart turning a 13.90 to the Mustang’s 13.67 ET. The Smart car’s advantage is all in the hole shot. Despite a...
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Maserati MC12 GT1 Race Car Sounds Off: Video
The Maserati MC12 GT1 is one of the most successful cars in endurance racing, having been driven to multiple victories in the original FIA GT series and the short-lived FIA GT1 World Championship. Powered by a 6.0-liter V-12 engine limited to 540 horsepower, the Maserati race car was capable of...
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Mercedes Road Car Division To Work Closer With F1 Team
The Mercedes AMG Formula One team is dominating the current season, with one of its drivers named the victor at every race held so far. Part of the reason for the winning streak is the hard work engineers at Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, based in Brixworth, England, put into developing...
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Pastor Maldonado Gets New Lotus Evora S, We Wonder How Soon He’ll Crash It
The best weekend of racing this year is just behind us, and while most of us only had hangovers or lots of nacho-cheese-fueled regret to show for it, Lotus F1 driver Pastor Maldonado drove off in a brand-new Evora S. Lucky guy. ALSO SEE: McLaren F1 Flipped During Road Trip With Rowan Atkinson...
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Nissan’s Le Mans History: Gallery
This year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans will be an exciting race, both in the GT classes and in the headline P1 category. With Porsche’s return to the top tier, Audi and Toyota will face new and somewhat unknown competition. Next year, Nissan will throw its hat back in the same ring with the...
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Caterham To Be Sold?
Caterham, the British sports car manufacturer and Formula One team, is reportedly going up for sale, with an information memorandum said to have already been sent to potential investors in the Middle East. The information was first reported by The Edge Malaysia, citing an unnamed source...
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Sporting events across the globe draw in passionate fans who show support for their favorite teams, players, drivers, riders, and combatants. Watching a live sporting event is a wonderful way to spend a few hours, regardless of which sport you out there enjoy the most. Some sports, however, are more entertaining than others. Motor racing is one such sport that is an amazing sensory experience when viewed live. USA Today and its readers agree, because the publication recently had folks vote on the Must-Attend sporting events out there. Topping the charts? The Indianapolis 500. DON'T MISS...
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Ryan Hunter-Reay Wins 2014 Indy 500
Ryan Hunter-Reay took his second win of the 2014 IndyCar season at the weekend, emerging victorious in the 98th running of the famous Indianapolis 500. Hunter-Reay, driving the DHL Honda for Andretti Autosport, has become the first American to win the event since 2006, snatching the lead from Helio...
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Another One-Two Finish For Mercedes AMG At Formula One Monaco GP
As always in the Monaco Grand Prix, qualifying is critical, and this was proven yet again with polesitter Nico Rosberg of Mercedes AMG winning the 2014 race in spectacular form. Once again the only real challenge came from Mercedes AMG’s other driver, in this case Lewis Hamilton, who...
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Mercedes AMG Drivers Fill Front Row After Qualifying At 2014 Formula One Monaco GP
UPDATE: Nico Rosberg's qualifying result has been cleared by stewards and he will start at pole. Last year’s winner Nico Rosberg of Mercedes AMG will start at pole position tomorrow in the 2014 Formula One Monaco Grand Prix, after setting the fastest time during today’s qualifying...
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New Aerial Photos Show Progress On National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park
It’s been nearly a year since we checked in on the progress of the National Corvette Museum’s Motorsports Park, and the progress made in that time is remarkable. With a full course now laid out and work being done on facilities, it’s beginning to look like a real race track. ALSO...
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BMW M4 DTM Pit Stop In Thermal Technicolor Is Amazing: Video
If you’re a fan of any kind of motorsport, you know just how impressive the furiously synchronized miracle of a pit stop is. But it’s even more impressive when recorded with a thermal imaging video camera. ALSO SEE: 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat: Live Photos And Video As the team...
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Monte Carlo’s favorable Mediterranean climate seems to have taken leave for this weekend’s Formula One Monaco Grand Prix, with some rain affecting the practice sessions on Thursday and today and the current forecast for Sunday’s race showing more rain. The temperature is expected to reach a peak 72 degrees F (22 degrees C) and humidity levels should be around 50 percent. As the one circuit on the calendar where lots of laps are a feature of every driver’s pre-race program, the rain hasn’t helped preparation for most teams. The good news is that the fears...
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Nissan GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 To Tackle WEC And Le Mans In 2015: Video
This year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans is just a month away, with Nissan set to compete with its radical ZEOD RC plug-in hybrid race car in the event’s Garage 56 experimental entry. However, the Japanese automaker recently confirmed that it plans to compete alongside the likes of Audi, Porsche...
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Lewis Hamilton In His F1 Car Takes On Ken Block In A Fiesta ST Rallycross: Video
The 2014 Global RallyCross Championship got underway in sunny Barbados over the weekend, and on hand to help kick off the new season was none other than Formula One ace Lewis Hamilton. The Mercedes AMG driver was there to participate in the coinciding Top Gear Live event and took some time out to...
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2014 Formula One Monaco Grand Prix Preview
This weekend the spectacle that is Formula One heads to the luxury playground of Monaco for its annual grand prix race. The Monaco Grand Prix is one the drivers always look forward to more than most, because of everything this race entails including its history and prestige, its difficult layout...
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GoPro Goes Racing With LeMons And Brings Cameras Along: Video
If you're sitting at work right now thinking about the fact that you never got a chance to be that race car driver you always dreamed you could be, I have news for you. There exists a racing series out there that will allow you to go wheel to wheel against others thinking the very same thoughts...
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Pro Street Bentley Continental GT Is Straight-Line Class: Video
Here in the States, when we hear the term Pro Street we have visions of nearly cartoonish Camaro and Mustang examples lining up for a trip down the quarter mile. We say cartoonish, and we mean that in the best sense possible. The horsepower numbers are off the charts and the skin of the cars has...
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The Bloodhound SSC will use steel disc brakes in concert with air brakes and parachutes.
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Mazda MX-5 To Enter Nürburgring 24 Hours As Part Of 25th Anniversary Celebrations
Mazda will be taking its MX-5 Miata to the Nürburgring next month for the annual 24-hour race that takes place on the arduous German race track. The move is part of Mazda’s 25th anniversary celebrations this year for the MX-5, and to mark the current-generation NC model’s departure...
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F1 racing legend Sir Jack Brabham dies aged 88
Formula One racing legend Sir Jack Brabham died early this morning at his home in the Gold Coast, on Australia’s east coast. The 88-year-old is said to have passed away peacefully although he had been in ill-health for some time. MUST SEE: New High-Performance 2015 Ford Mustang Spied...
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Open-Wheeled Race Car Blasts Down Dutch Highway: Video
Is driving an open-wheeled race car on public roads a good idea? No. It’s an awesome idea. DON'T MISS: Mercedes-Benz 300SL Wrecked After Mille Miglia Crash: Video Oh, sure, it’s totally unsafe. But it’s still awesome. Watch as Jos Verstappen blasts down a highway in the...
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Watch The Nissan ZEOD RC’s Carbon Chassis Smash Into A Wall In Slow Motion: Video
Crash tests are often horrifying demonstrations of what the laws of physics can do to a car. Here, the Nissan ZEOD RC seemingly defies those laws, focusing all of its crash energy into its purpose-built crushable nose cone. Over and over. In slow motion. DON'T MISS: Mercedes-Benz 300SL Wrecked...
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First 10 Formula E Race Cars Delivered To Teams
The future of road cars is generally assumed to be the electric car, but what about the future of racing? While Formula 1 cars have used hybrid drive systems for several seasons now, all-electric racing hasn’t really caught on, whether at the drag strip or the road course. Formula E hopes to...
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