Racing

  • Mercedes-Benz at the Mille Miglia

    Probably the best-known of all the classic long-distance road races, the Mille Miglia ran from 1927 to 1957, using 1,000 miles of public roads from Brescia to Rome and back. Many now famous race cars ran that course, including those from Alfa Romeo, BMW, Ferrari and Porsche. And of course there were the cars from Mercedes-Benz, such as the SSKL that won the 1931 race and the legendary 300 SLR that was driven to victory in 1955 by Sir Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson. Mercedes was the only non-Italian brand to have won the Mille Miglia more than once and, to this day, remains heavily involved...

  • Meguiar's Scion FR-S Forza
    Meguiar's Modified Scion FR-S Goes Virtual With Forza

    Attention Forza fans, a slow-car fast favorite is making its debut in the virtual racing world. The Meguiar's Scion FR-S has been digitized and is now available for download. Car-loving gamers who dabble in both the Forza Motorsport 4 and Forza Horizon universes can add the yellow drift coupe to...

  • Max Welti
    Max Welti To Head Lamborghini’s Squadra Corse Racing Division

    Swiss motorsport engineer Max Welti has been appointed head of Lamborghini’s new motorsport division, Squadra Corse. Welti replaces Lamborghini R&D chief Maurizio Reggiani, who was only heading the squad until a suitable manager could be found. The 60-year-old Swiss national is a former...

  • Scuderia Ferrari Orologi
    Scuderia Ferrari Racing Division Gets Its Own Watch Line

    Only last week we brought you details about a new watch from Hublot celebrating Ferrari’s new LaFerrari supercar. Now we have the first image and details of another Ferrari-brand watch, this time celebrating the Prancing Horse’s motorsport division, Scuderia Ferrari. The new watch is...

  • 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray  -  2013 Indianapolis 500 Pace Car
    2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray: 2013 Indy 500 Pace Car

    The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray has already stunned auto-show crowds and ignited immense interest among enthusiasts. And now—as it should be this year—a Stingray shall lead at the Brickyard. General Motors [NYSE: GM] has confirmed that its 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray will...

  • Aston Martin Vantage GTE in the 2013 WEC season opener at Silverstone
    Aston Martin Announces 24 Hours Of Le Mans Driver Lineup

    Aston Martin, competing in the GTE category of the 2013 World Endurance Championship, has announced the driver lineup for the event’s highlight, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. As previously reported, Aston Martin will field no less than five cars in this year’s race at Le Mans, including one...

  • Aston Martin Hybrid Hyrdogen Rapide S

    Aston Martin, it seems, has just made a bit of history. It's probably not what you're expecting though because it doesn't involve gasoline, a dairy farm's worth of dead cows, or references to one iconic British MI-6 agent. Instead, the automaker has just completed the first Hydrogen-only, zero CO2 emissions lap of Germany's Nürburgring Circuit. This was accomplished using a prototype of the new Hydrogen Hybrid Rapide S with Aston Martin CEO Dr. Ulrich Bez at the wheel. The Hybrid Hydrogen Rapide S is powered by a twin-turbocharged version of the oh-so delightful 6.0-liter V-12 unit found...

  • Porsche 911 GT3 Cup chases 962C at NOLA Motorsports Park
    Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Chases 962C At NOLA Motorsports Park: Video

    If you haven't heard, there's a new road course and motorsports park in southern Louisiana called NOLA Motorsports Park. The facility is impressive, but as with any track, it's as much about what's happening on course as it is about the site itself. Here, we have a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car chasing a...

  • McLaren Can-Am race cars - past and present
    Historic McLaren Can-Am Racers To Be Joined By 12C Can-Am In Goodwood: Video

    McLaren turns 50 in 2013 and to celebrate it is pulling out all the stops. The company has already revealed its new flagship supercar, the P1, which it will show in anger for the first time at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK this July. But this being McLaren’s 50th year, the...

  • 2013 Maserati GranTurismo MC Trofeo race car
    2013 Maserati Trofeo MC World Series Starts This Weekend

    The racing version of the Maserati GranTurismo sets out on a new season this weekend.

  • Strategic Recovery Institute EV1
    SRI EV1 First Electric Off-Road Race Car To Run Baja Peninsula: Video

    Electric cars are many things: efficient, quiet, high-tech, expensive. With few exceptions, however, electric cars are not exciting. This is one of those exceptions. The first all-electric off-road race vehicle will tackle the Mexican 1000 race in the National Off Road Racing Association's series...

  • Renault Twizy F1 concept
    Meet Renault’s F1-Inspired Twizy

    The Renault Twizy is an electric city car that retails for less than $10k and has a power output starting as low as 4 kilowatts (5 horsepower) and topping out at about 13 kilowatts (17 horsepower). It’s not exactly the type of vehicle you’d use to highlight the link between the world of...

  • Onboard with Michael Schumacher at the 2011 Germany GP

    Michael Schumacher, seven-time F1 driver's champ and so fast he had to retire twice to make it stick, will soon be back in an F1 car--this time on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Schumacher will pilot a 2011 Mercedes W02 F1 car around the long, treacherous course on May 19, according to SpeedTV. The trip to the 'Ring will be significant for Schumacher, to be sure, but it's also the first time a new-ish Silver Arrow has been around the course since 1954. Ostensibly, the lap is an exhibition--simply allowing the German driver to drive a German F1 car around Germany's most legendary track...

  • 2013 Porsche 911 RSR race car
    Porsche Considered F1 Before Picking Le Mans

    Prior to its confirmation of a return to top-level racing at Le Mans, made in 2011, there was some speculation that Porsche might represent the Volkswagen Group in the world of Formula One. Porsche, whose reputation is built on the performance of its cars, knew at the time it needed to be in some...

  • 2013 Audi R18 e-tron quattro long-tail prototype
    Audi Starts Tests Of Long-Tail R18 e-tron quattro Ahead Of Le Mans

    Audi has rolled out a long-tail version of its R18 e-tron quattro Le Mans prototype, which it will be using for evaluation purposes in the second road of the 2013 World Endurance Championship, the Spa 6 Hours race in Belgium. The brand with the four rings will be campaigning three of its R18...

  • Monster Sport Super 86 Pikes Peak race car
    Meet Monster Tajima’s Toyota GT 86 Pikes Peak Racer: Video

    Pikes Peak legend Nobuhiro ‘Monster’ Tajima has put away his Monster Sport E-RUNNER electric car from last year, and is hopping back behind the wheel of a gas-swilling custom racer to tackle this year’s running of the annual Pikes Peak Hill Climb in Colorado. The Japanese master...

  • SCCA Pro Solo at Mineral Wells, TX
    What Is SCCA Pro Solo? This Is: Video

    Getting started in motorsports is tough. It's not like you can just go out and buy some basic equipment or join a team and get going. Or is it? Professional racing is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. Even among those fortunate enough to go racing professionally, few actually make any real...

  • HPD Acura NSX
    Honda To Enter 10 Vehicles In Pikes Peak, Including Original NSX

    With each passing year, more and more OEMs are showing up at the Pikes Peak Hill Climb with the intention of taking home some trophies. The latest is Honda, which plans to campaign an unprecedented 10 vehicles across nine different classes in this year’s event, scheduled for late June. Honda...

  • Formula E Championship stops by Los Angeles, California

    Like it or not, electric motorsport is coming. In fact, there’s already an FIA-sanctioned event for electric cars, the Formula E Championship, whose inaugural season starts next year. That inaugural season is to feature 10 races spread all over the globe. So far the cities of Miami, Beijing, London, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Malaysia’s Putrajaya have been selected to host one of the zero-emission races, and we can now add Los Angeles to that list. The city’s mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, officially welcomed the Formula E Championship at a special event coinciding...

  • 2013 Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak
    Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak Will Do 0-60 MPH In 1.8 seconds

    French automaker Peugeot has released full specifications for its 208-based race car that multiple World Rally winner Sébastien Loeb will campaign in this year’s Pikes Peak Hill Climb. Loeb will be competing in the Unlimited class and is seeking an outright win on the mountain, and...

  • Valentino Rossi tests Kyle Busch's NASCAR Nationwide Toyota Camry
    Valentino Rossi Drives Kyle Busch's NASCAR Nationwide Car, Does "Pretty Good"

    When you're used to slapping knees against the pavement at 160 mph, a NASCAR Nationwide car must seem like a lumbering behemoth, despite its 650-ish horsepower. Of course, it also has two more wheels than a Moto GP bike. But that didn't deter Valentino Rossi from getting up to speed quickly in Kyle...

  • Sebastian Vettel at the Sochi Olympic Park Circuit in Sochi, Russia
    Sebastian Vettel Samples Russia’s Sochi Olympic Park F1 Track: Video

    Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel has become the first Formula One driver to experience the Sochi Olympic Park Circuit, a street circuit still under construction in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. A new Russian Grand Prix will feature on the 2014 F1 calendar and...

  • Subaru's new web series 'Launch Control'
    Subaru "Launch Control" Rally Web Series: Episode 1

    If you're like us, you love rally. You might even have spent last weekend driving a Neon through a bunch of dirt and cones until its brakes failed. And you might be interested in Subaru's new web series "Launch Control," set to cover the company's rally efforts with Subaru Rally Team USA and Subaru...

  • Scott Speed wins GRC gold in X Games Brazil
    Scott Speed Takes Gold At Global Rallycross X Games Brazil: Video

    Scott Speed was once a Formula 1 driver. Before that, he was known as one of the fastest men alive in a kart. Now he's doing all kinds of stuff, including driving the occasional Global Rallycross car. Turns out he's pretty good at that, too. While big names in rallycross like Ken Block, Travis...

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