Racing

In its debut season, the McLaren 12C GT3 competed in 98 separate race events, taking home 19 victories and an additional 19 podium finishes. While most companies would be content with a handful of podiums in the first season of a new race car, that’s simply not the McLaren way. In 2012...

Audi’s R8 Grand-Am debuted at the 2012 Rolex 24 at Daytona, and its inaugural race was less than stellar. The APR Motorsports car finished 31st in class (44th overall, some 280 laps down), followed by the Oryx Racing R8, which finished 32nd in class (45th overall, 295 laps down). Any new race...

For the second year in a row, a team fielding the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 race car has taken overall victory at the grueling Dubai 24 Hours endurance race. Additionally, the winner this year was also the overall winner at last year’s event. That winner was the team Abu Dhabi by Black...

In August of last year, Rhys Millen set a new record for a run up the 12.42 mile Pikes Peak Hill Climb course, behind the wheel of his race-prepped Hyundai Genesis Coupe. When he crossed the finish line at the top of the mountain, just 9:46.164 had elapsed. Just over one month later, Millen’s...

Lamborghini has officially announced its return to international motorsport, with the company’s CEO Stephan Winkelmann confirming this week plans to race the Gallardo in an FIA-sanctioned event. Winkelmann didn’t reveal which GT3 series Lamborghini will enter, or how many cars it plans...

You may not be able to buy a new Lotus Exige to drive on your favorite roads, but if you enjoy the odd track day or are a serious motorsport competitor then the latest Exige is certainly worth a look. Yes, it is possible to own the latest version of the Exige, the Exige S, in the U.S., but only in...

For any of us who have ever nursed the fantasy of being paid to drive race cars--or even just having the cash and skill to pay our own way onto a track against the best in the world--the Nissan GT Academy is a sort of real-world fairy tale. For a handful of this year's winners from around the...

Have you ever wondered what pro drift drivers do to relax? When not pitching high-horsepower, rear-drive cars sideways for fun and profit, how do these guys burn off steam? If Ryan Tuerck is any indication, that downtime involves catching some local bands, knocking back a few Pabst Blue Ribbons as...

In four weeks, competitors in the 2013 American Le Mans Series (ALMS) will take to the track in Sebring for this season’s initial winter test. The event also marks the beginning of the end for the ALMS, which combines with the NASCAR-owned Grand Am series for the 2014 season. Though...

Scuderia Ferrari, the motorsport division of the famous Italian sports car manufacturer, has started construction of its new headquarters. The new building, located at the site of the former car park between a local restaurant and the Scuderia’s current headquarters in Maranello, Italy, is...

With its new operator Team 211 Entertainment in charge, California’s Irwindale Speedway is once again ready to host a full year of motorsport events. The main event in 2013 will be NASCAR Home Tracks, whose return to Irwindale Speedway was confirmed recently by NASCAR business development...

The merger of ALMS and Grand-Am announced in September, 2012, is moving forward, with the first joint races to be held in the 2014 season. Today, the racing organizations laid the foundation for merging the classes of each series into a single format. So far, it looks like most of the classes from...

Eighteen months ago, a fledgling Dakar Rally team calling itself Race2Recovery consisted of a handful of team members, mostly combat-wounded British soldiers, and a single Land Rover Freelander (our LR2) race vehicle. At tomorrow’s Dakar Rally start, a much more dynamic Race2Recovery Team...

The problem with racing at a professional level is this: if you want to go fast, it’s expensive; if you want to win, it can be exponentially more expensive. In fact, there are very few professional series we can name that give drivers of modest means the ability to climb the ranks without...

Nissan, together with Sony, held the first GT Academy in 2008, and since then the event has gone on to become a global phenomenon with gamers-turned-drivers from all parts of the globe now competing. Nissan’s GT Academy essentially pits gamers, playing the popular racing simulator Gran...

In just two days the 2013 Dakar Rally will commence, with scores of drivers and riders set to take across the plains and hills of Argentina, Chile and Peru during the arduous race. South America has been home to the Dakar Rally since 2009 due to security threats in Western Africa where the rally...

For almost 60 years NASCAR, and the cars and personalities that make up the sport, has been closely linked with American culture. From the hallowed grounds of Daytona International Speedway in Florida, to the Sonoma road course in California, the sport has created a lifetime worth of memories--some...

Next year's calendar for the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli, Ferrari’s official one-make racing series organized by its Corse Clienti Department and using the 458 Challenge race car, has been announced. The new schedule includes many new venues and the return of some old favorites...

A new motorsport series sanctioned by the FIA and made up exclusively of electric race cars is coming in 2014. That series is the Formula E Championship, which so far has added Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Rome, Italy as two locations where its zero-emission, electric race cars will be competing...

In its inaugural season, McLaren’s 12C GT3 captured a total of 19 wins and an additional 19 podium appearances across some 14 different racing series. While that's impressive on its own, it’s even more impressive when you consider that there are only 23 examples being campaigned by 13...