Racing

If you thought Senna was the only movie centering on the life of a Formula 1 legend being released in recent times, think again. A new biopic about Austrian driver Niki Lauda and his epic battle--which he ultimately lost--with British driver James Hunt in the 1976 Formula 1 World Championship has...

Ferrari’s 250 GT series debuted at the 1956 Geneva Motor Show, bodied by Boano and for sale to the public for homologation purposes. Racing versions of the car, known as ‘berlinettas,’ were bodied by Scaglietti using thin-walled aluminum, minimal interior appointments and plastic...

The futuristic DeltaWing racer, originally proposed as a new chassis for Indy Car, last saw action at this year’s running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. A fan favorite (because everyone loves an underdog), the Nissan-powered DeltaWing was retired by a crash early in the event. Despite an epic...

Yesterday, while many of his friends were autocrossing near Dallas, Texas, they were thinking about Jeremy Foley. Why? Because he'd be running up Pikes Peak in a 560-plus-horsepower (at the wheels) Mitsubishi Evolution by Evolution Dynamics. That's Most of our idea of a very good day. But...

Rhys Millen drove a modified Genesis Coupe to a new record at the 2012 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.

With everything from the likes of the Banks Power/Dallenbach 1,400-horsepower beast to Monster Tajima's electric prototype to smaller privateers like the Evolution Dynamics Mitsubishi Evolution IX piloted by Jeremy Foley, the action at Pikes Peak is already underway. Qualifying is in the books, and...

The beauty of a barn find is this: sometimes you don’t even know what you have until you start the process of disassembly. Take the case of a 1965 Shelby DragonSnake Cobra for example: when purchased by a collector last year, he believed it to be one of six built. As it turns out, the car was...

Since its unveiling in 2007, Nissan’s GT-R supercar has continued to evolve, with engineers putting it through some of the harshest conditions in order to help them fine tune the car over the remainder of its life. One such test was the Nürburgring 24 Hours held earlier this year...

Joy Rainey’s motorsport resume can hold its own against most non-professional drivers. The U.K. resident is a veteran of events including the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, the London to Sydney Marathon and the Carrera Sudamericana. She also campaigned a Jaguar E-Type in hill climb...

Just in case you’ve never seen an F1 race in person or on television, we’ll warn you in advance: the unmuffled engines of Formula One cars are loud. They’re also extremely high-strung, which is why teams go through as many engines as FIA rules allow in the course of a single...

If you haven’t seen Audi’s video, Truth In 24 II, it’s well worth a screening when you have the time. The documentary details Audi’s efforts at the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, through the eyes of people like driver Benoit Treluyer and race engineer Leena Gade. Footage from the...

Porsche’s original factory museum, opened in 1976, was modest in both location and scope. Situated on a side street in Stuttgart, the facility was only large enough to display some 20 cars at any given time. In 2009, Porsche opened a new museum in Zuffenhausen, adjacent to its corporate...

Despite having just unveiled a 2013-spec Dodge Charger for NASCAR Sprint Cup competition, the brand will be leaving NASCAR at the end of the 2012 season. The news was confirmed on an official conference call with the media this afternoon. Ralph Gilles, president and CEO of SRT, said, "Dodge has...

The original Cannonball Baker Sea To Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash was a highly illegal and controversial event hastily assembled by Brock Yates in protest of the Draconian 55 mph national speed limit enacted in the United States in the early 1970s. The idea was to run across the continental...

The Audi Sport Quattro was introduced in 1985 as the automaker’s entry into the much revered Group B class of the World Rally Championship. Compared to the road-going Quattro Coupe, the Audi Sport’s most noticeable feature was a wheelbase shortened by over 12 inches. To save weight, the...

Colorado wildfires delayed the 2012 running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, but it's getting underway this week--and it looks like Audi has something up its sleeve. An image posted to Facebook teases us, saying there will be a surprise "to pay homage to [Audi's] record-breaking past" at...

The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) has a long history of creating rules for classes that ensure parity between all entrants. While the organization makes an effort to ensure its rules are fair for all and promote competitive racing, sometimes it misses the mark. This gets more complex when you...

Rubbing, it’s said, is racing, and that may hold true in certain forms of motorsports. Punting your competitor because you don’t want to finish second, however, isn’t racing unless we’re talking about demolition derby. A Pagani GR, as far as we can tell, has never been...

Pro drivers, despite living the dream, don't always get that much track time on a given race weekend. So what do they do to get an edge--or even just to get familiar with a trak they haven't raced on before? They use simulators--and some of them use familiar, retail sims that us regular folks can...

Watching Clint Bowyer cross the finish line at the 2007 Daytona 500 upside down, backwards, and on fire--or Carl Edwards punting Brad Keselowski at Atlanta in 2010--might be the reason some fans of NASCAR watch the long oval races, but for some fans, that's losing its appeal--or new fans are...