Racing

Mitsubishi is returning to Colorado’s famous ‘Race To The Clouds’ with a pair of electric race cars utilizing technology from the automaker’s road-going i-MiEV hatch. Mitsubishi entered the Pikes Peak competition for the first time last year with its original i-MiEV...

It’s official. Honda will be back in Formula One in the 2015 season, serving as engine supplier to McLaren. The two companies made the announcement earlier today, ending years of speculation of Honda’s possible return to motorsport’s top echelon. By supplying engines to McLaren, a...

Renault, engine supplier to the likes of Red Bull Racing and a former F1 champion itself, has signed up with the innovative Formula E Championship as an official technical partner. The French automaker joins the likes of McLaren, Drayson Racing and Spark Racing Technology as Formula E partners...

Any form of motorsports is serious business. Safety is of the utmost concern, no matter what speeds or road types are involved. Rally racing involves all sorts of varying speeds, road types, and is one of the most dangerous forms of motorsports out there. Tree-lined stages give way to...

Aston Martin has waited until just a few days out from the 2013 Nürburgring 24 Hours to tell us about its other entries planned for the annual endurance race. We can now confirm that Aston Martin’s previously announced Hybrid Hydrogen Rapide S will be joined by a V12 Vantage GT3 race car...

Australia’s unique touring car series, V8 Supercars, will be hosting its first race in the U.S. this week, the Austin 400. The race will take place at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, which becomes only the sixth venue outside Australia to host a V8 Supercars race. For years, V8...

Scuderia Ferrari secured a superb first and third place finish in yesterday’s 2013 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix, with star driver Fernando Alonso taking home the victory and his team-mate Felipe Massa coming in third--this despite a penalized start at ninth on the grid for the Brazilian...

Pole position after qualifying today at the 2013 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix went to Mercedes AMG’s Nico Rosberg. The young German posted a best time of 1.20.718, which was just enough to edge him past his Mercedes AMG team-mate Lewis Hamilton’s time of 1:20.972. This means it will...

The Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR is the product of the mad minds at AMG. Built to compete in the 1997 FIA GT Championship, the CLK GTR was crafted as a racecar first but it was also a road car since it required homologation models to actually compete. Thus Mercedes-Benz was forced to churn out 25...

Fernando Alonso is an extremely talented Formula One racecar driver. He's won two F1 championships with Renault, and was in fact the youngest driver ever to earn back to back championships. Alonso bounced around the next few years with a stint at McLaren, then back to Renault before finding a home...

A fortnight ago, we told you Michael Schumacher would soon be donning his racing suit again and hopping behind the wheel of his former Mercedes AMG Formula One car to tackle the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The stunt is being done as part of Mercedes’ celebration of the Nürburgring 24...

Racing star Dale Earnhardt Jr. has to drive a Chevrolet SS-based race car in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series as part of his contract terms with Hendrick Motorsports, but it’s interesting to see that one of his personal rides off the track is the car that precedes the SS, the Pontiac G8...

Sébastien Loeb, possibly the most competent driver in any field of motorsport (we’re yet to see him in an F1 car, though), goes for his first test drive of Peugeot’s 875-horsepower 208 T16 Pikes Peak monster. Loeb, of course, is used to handling such beasts, having won a record...

Some of the best racing on the planet can be found in the various spec series that run across the globe. This puts driver talent to the forefront because all of the vehicles in a given spec series are the same. Be it Mazda MX-5 Cup Cars or Dodge Viper ACRs, a spec series typically provides a...

Making a name in racing is not easy. It takes more than raw talent, especially these days. But Porsche's Young Driver Academy is seeking to help find and cultivate the top racing talent of tomorrow. In addition to speed behind the wheel, a modern racing driver must also have supreme race craft, a...

The latest season of the Global RallyCross Championship has just kicked off and the action so far has been thick and fast. But going into the future we can look forward to even more GCR goodness, with organizers confirming today that a new Lites class is being introduced. We first heard of the new...

Dodge and the SRT crew are very excited to get a full season of racing under their respective belts. The all-new Viper is their weapon of choice, and it looks appropriately vicious in its full GTS-R spec trim. Dodge ran part of a season last year, but now the automaker is putting its full weight...

Audi is gearing up to defend its overall victory at last year’s Nürburgring 24 Hours race, announcing today that it will have eight of its 2013-spec R8 LMS ultra race cars competing this year. Most of the cars will be fielded by private teams, though two of the cars, #14 and #15, will be...

Martini Racing, the official racing brand of Italian distillery Martini & Rossi, is making a return to international motorsport together with longtime partner Porsche. In fact, Martini's first motorsport sponsorship program was for two Porsche 906 race cars that competed in various sports car...

After breaking the Pikes Peak record for an electric car in 2012, and coming a respectable sixth overall, Toyota is set to return to the famous ‘Race To The Clouds’ this year with an improved version of its EV P002 electric racer. Toyota has also secured a new driver for its 2013...