Racing

If you're new to the car game, or just not that into the current R35 GT-R or the previous R32-34 models, you might not know about the car's history, born of a racing heritage in cars called Skylines. Though the Skyline name has been dropped from the current GT-R, the three-letter performance...

Just yesterday we brought you details on the Volkswagen Polo R WRC racer, set to make its competition debut at the Monte Carlo Rally, scheduled to kick off on January 15, 2013. With just weeks left to shake down the car, the crew from Oneighturbo caught the 300-plus horsepower Polo working out the...

For 25 years, the Race of Champions has thrilled fans by bringing together the best drivers in the world in head-to-head competition designed to take each driver outside his comfort zone. In three days, the 2012 Race of Champions will kick off in Bangkok, Thailand, with competitors including...

Fresh from its wins in both the Drivers and Constructors categories in the 2012 Formula One World Championship, Red Bull took to Bologna, in Northern Italy, to host its latest Red Bull Speed Days event. The event, which took place this past weekend, saw Red Bull cars from all motorsport categories...

The winner of the 2012 Nissan GT Academy's North American competition was recently revealed through the competition's television series, and now, the formerly unemployed 29-year-old mechanic is looking forward to his first pro race at the Dubai 24 Hour race on January 10. This year's winner, Steve...

If you’re not a track-day regular or vintage race car fan, you may never have heard of Bailey Cars, or its predecessor, Bailey Edwards Cars. The South African manufacturer builds replicas of classic endurance racers like the Porsche 917, the Ford GT40, the Lola T70 and the Ferrari P4, and...

After announcing its entry to the World Rally Championship in May of last year, Volkswagen has finally revealed the race car that it hopes will take it to WRC glory in 2013. Already previewed in concept form, the new Polo R WRC race car certainly looks the part, and, as testing has shown...

After years of waiting, Volkswagen has finally added a high-performance ‘R’ variant to its Polo subcompact range, but instead of launching it as a standalone model the new hot hatch’s arrival coincides with the automaker’s 2013 entry into the World Rally Championship (WRC)...

Recently, Porsche confirmed it would enter the 24 Hours of Le Mans as early as next year, competing in the GTE class with a new 911 RSR race car ahead of a previously confirmed assault in the top LMP1 class in 2014. Now, Porsche has announced that its LMP1 entry will be fielded by a factory team...

Porsche has revealed the first of its new generation of 991-based 911 race cars, the new 2013 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, which made its official debut this weekend at the automaker’s Night of Champions end of motorsport season celebratory event in Weissach, Germany. The Porsche 911 GT3 Cup is the...

If you're not familiar with the name, Leh Keen is one fast, fast driver, proving it season after season in the Rolex Sports Cars Series and, like you'll see here, a range of other events. As part of a NASA time trial, Keen--wearing street clothes and a helmet--piloted the TopSpeed Motorsports GT-R...

While the list of bad things that can happen to a driver on track in a race-prepped car is almost limitless, the failure of a front tire or wheel has to be among the worst. Not just because of the massive impact it's likely to cause, but because you just might have time to anticipate that impact...

Nissan's GT Academy is the stuff dreams are made of--literally. Imagine going from a hardcore video gamer to a real-world pro racer in one giant leap. That's the GT Academy. But not all of us have time to keep track of the show, especially since it's on Spike TV--not one of our usual haunts. Now...

If you’re a fan of IndyCar, you know that this year’s Grand Prix of Baltimore wasn’t exactly a seamless event. In fact, it almost wasn’t an event at all until Michael Andretti’s Andretti Sports Marketing agreed to take over the organization and promotion of the event...

During last month’s Brazilian Grand Prix, the last race of the 2012 Formula One season and the race that would determine the winner of this year's Drivers’ Championship, it was discovered post race that Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel may have overtaken a Toro Rosso under...

Sometimes, you never see the divorce coming until the kindly-looking lady serves you with papers. Though we don’t know all the behind-the-scenes details, we surmise that’s likely how the four-year marriage between Hyundai and Rhys Millen Racing (RMR)ended. Just one month after Rhys...

Aston Martin, specifically, Aston Martin Racing, the official motorsport division of the British sports car manufacturer, recently made its return to racing in the U.S., debuting at the Laguna Seca leg of the 2011 American Le Mans Series--a race which it won. Since then, we’ve also seen Aston...

Finnish driver JJ Lehto’s career spans an incredibly diverse array of motorsports, ranging from Formula One through the American Le Mans Series. In between, Lehto even spent a year in the United States, driving for Hogan Racing during the 1998 Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) season...

A Porsche factory team will compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans a year earlier than previously thought, though instead of tackling the top LMP1 class the team will initially contend in the GTE class, currently dominated by Ferrari and its Italia sports car. Porsche confirmed over the weekend that...

Perhaps no other race car in recent years has captured the imagination of fans in quite the same way as the Nissan DeltaWing. Perhaps it’s the car’s futuristic shape, or perhaps it’s the fact that the car is considerably down on horsepower compared to others in the field, yet it...