Racing

The 2014 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona is coming up sooner than you'd think, and with it, the merged American Le Mans Series and Grand Am racing now known as the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. Audi will be among the major manufacturers contending for the inaugural title, bringing a total of four...

Seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher is said to be in a stable condition following a second round of surgery yesterday to treat hemorrhaging of his brain caused by a skiing accident in the French Alps on December 29, 2013. The accident, which saw Schumacher fall and hit his...

Next year will see the introduction of completely new rules for the World Endurance Championship and the series’ highlight, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The central theme is a focus on efficiency, which is designed to push participants to develop new technologies that can eventually filter across...

So you're a hotshoe in the virtual world, eh? Think you can take the heat when it's not happening on a couch with a bag of Doritos nearby? Can you handle real-world g-forces and the threat of bodily harm? Maybe you can. Maybe not. The team at Viagame took a crack at finding out if one Swedish gamer...

Another of the uber-rare McLaren F1 supercars is going up for auction, this GTR ‘Longtail’ racing variant that’s set to be sold to the highest bidder at a vehicle auction taking place in Scottsdale, Arizona in mid-January. With less than a hundred F1s ever built, the cars...

Ferrari will seek the help of its fans worldwide in choosing the name for its new race car for the 2014 Formula One World Championship. Ferrari says “internet hits” will be used to choose the name, but doesn’t provide any further details. The automaker does mention, however, that...

With Mercedes AMG and Renault having already revealed their new engines for the 2014 Formula One World Championship, that leaves just Ferrari as the only remaining engine builder that is yet to reveal its new F1 power unit. Today, we got a little closer to the reveal of the new power unit, with...

Mexican driver Sergio Perez, who was dropped from McLaren after a single season, will drive for Force India in the 2014 Formula One World Championship. He joins German driver Nico Hülkenberg who returns to the squad after a one-year stint with Sauber. Perez was replaced by Danish driver Kevin...

The 2014 Audi R18 e-tron quattro LMP-1 car will feature laser headlights.

Nissan GT Academy named the winner of its third season.

Gran Turismo 6 will get an end-of-the-year update with Red Bull-specific content.

Kimi Räikkönen recently paid Scuderia Ferrari’s headquarters a visit recently where he was able to meet with team principal Stefano Domenicali and some of the other senior engineers. It was an opportunity to go over the current state of play on the design of Ferrari’s 2014...

Motorsport’s organizing body, the FIA, has put out a tender for a 12th team to enter the Formula One World Championship from the start of the 2015 or 2016 seasons. The process is similar to what the FIA did in 2010 when three new teams were selected from 15 applicants. Those teams were HRT...

After 32 years racing, from Formula Vauxhall to Formula 1 to Le Mans, Allan McNish has decided it's time to step back from the pressures of the pinnacle of motorsport to focus on his family and--between the lines--more entertaining forms of motorsport. A three-time champion at Le Mans, winning the...

If you were disappointed that the newly-unveiled 2015 Ford Mustang is to be offered with independent rear suspension--across the range, for the very first time--rather than its traditional live axle, then we have good news for you. It looks like Ford will be offering a solid axle Mustang after...

At Porsche’s annual ‘Night Of Champions’ motorsport celebratory bash held earlier today at the automaker’s R&D center in Weissach, Germany, the name of the new Le Mans prototype that will see the Porsche marque return to top-level endurance racing after 16 years was...

A driver and passenger reportedly walked away from this intense crash uninjured.

Bentley has a rich history intertwined in the world of motorsports. As of late, however, the automaker hasn't been competing as often as it did in the early 20th century. One notable exception is a win at Le Mans back in 2003 with the Speed 8 racecar. Now though, Bentley is looking to get back into...

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is one of the most anticipated motorsport events of the year, and 2014's theme has now been announced. Entitled "Addicted to Winning - The Unbeatable Champions of Motor Sport", 2014's theme celebrates those who have dominated their discipline throughout the history of...

The Audi R18 e-tron quattro continued the four-ringed brand's dominance of the Le Mans prototype division in 2013, and with a new batch of updates and improvements, Audi is looking to repeat again for the 2014 season. With Porsche joining the LMP1 fray, and Toyota likely to bring improvements as...