Racing

Like all sessions so far, qualifying at the 2013 Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix was also rain affected, with the showers coming at various intensities throughout the afternoon, making for difficult strategic and technical choices for everyone. At the start of the session, everyone went out...

The current weather forecast for the 2013 Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix is rain, with the wet stuff expected throughout the weekend. The good news is that the weather should improve slightly before Sunday but teams will almost certainly be facing a wet race. Humidity on Sunday will be a high 73...

German tuner ABT Sportsline has reached an agreement with the organizers of the Formula E Championship that will see it become the seventh team and the only German outfit to enter the new electric car racing series. Its team will compete under the banner ‘Audi Sport ABT Formula E Team’...

We’re now at the last race of the 2013 Formula One season, the Brazilian Grand Prix, which is once again being held at Interlagos’ Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace, one of the oldest and most atmospheric venues on the calendar. At more than 2,800 feet above sea level, the track is also the...

Jay Leno was down in Austin, Texas over the weekend to enjoy the Formula One United States Grand Prix, but since he’s not your average F1 fan he managed to get a much closer look at the action and some of the parties involved. Thankfully, he was kind enough to film it all for his online...

A Ferrari owner has enlisted the help of the Italian sports car manufacturer’s Tailor Made personalization program to build this one-off 458 Italia honoring legendary Formula One driver Niki Lauda. The build of the car coincided with the September launch of the new movie Rush, which tells the...

Despite having the 2013 Formula One Wold Championship title already in the bag, Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel has shown no let-up in his desire to keep winning after breaking yet another record during yesterday’s United States Grand Prix. His victory at the Circuit of the Americas...

Weather conditions are looking good for this weekend’s 2013 Formula One United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Skies will be partly cloudy, which means there could still be some rain, while the top temperature is expected to reach a warm 81 degrees F (27...

Longtime Porsche client Flying Lizard Motorsports will race the Audi R8 LMS in the inaugural United SportsCar Championship.

Want to own a genuine Audi rally car? All you need is $385,000.

Bentley recently took the covers off its new Continental GT-based race car, which has been designed for GT3 competition and will be competing initially in the FIA-sanctioned Blancpain Endurance Series. Its first race is scheduled for the 2013 Gulf 12 Hours, at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi on...

Just last month, IndyCar racer Dario Franchitti suffered a scary wreck after touching wheels with Takuma Sato at the Houston Grand Prix. Today, Franchitti announced he is retiring from racing as a result of the head and spinal injuries suffered in the accident. The decision was made "based on the...

We become more convinced each day that Mazda is secretly run by a person attempting to channel Enzo Ferrari. That person believes his or her brand exists solely to fund the automaker's exploits on the race track. Sure, it's a much more affordable and approachable version of what Enzo was doing, but...

No stranger to perhaps the most brutally expensive, technical, and intellectually difficult racing series in the world--Formula One--McLaren has taken the first produce of its road car division and kitted it out for racing duty in the form of the MP4-12C GT3. The race car has enjoyed reasonable...

The Formula One United States Grand Prix returns this year, for only the second time at the Circuit of the Americas, in Austin, Texas, and once again the local race is the penultimate event on the 2013 calendar. Unlike last year, however, the championship has already been decided, with Red Bull...

Hunt's 1977 McLaren M26 matched the low end of the pre-auction estimate.

Remember the wide-body Ford Mustang set to star in the upcoming Need For Speed movie? Well, it’s set to hit Homestead-Miami Speedway this weekend as the official pace car of the NASCAR Sprint Cup’s Ford EcoBoost 400 series finale. Driving the car will be Ramon Rodriguez, one of the...

The Ferrari Challenge, the Italian automaker’s one-make racing series for gentleman drivers and up-and-coming racers, will see the introduction of a new race car for the 2014 season. That new race car has been revealed as the Ferrari 458 Challenge Evoluzione. As its name suggests, the car is...

With Kimi Räikkönen taking Felipe Massa’s seat at Ferrari for the 2014 Formula One season and beyond, many thought the Brazilian may finally step down from a career in motorsport’s top echelon. Massa, however, was determined to continue his fight in F1 and this week it’s...

Everybody's favorite real-life action hero (and genuinely nice guy) Travis Pastrana today admitted defeat in the competitive, expensive world of NASCAR. Pastrana announced he hasn't had the success necessary to secure sponsors for next season, and will be moving on to other pursuits. Pastrana gave...