Racing

The 24 Hours of Le Mans runs this weekend, and as part of the festival that accompanies the event, the 1959 Aston Martin DBR1 will return to the scene of its victory in the hands of Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori. Shelby and Salvadori both passed away in the past several weeks, along with the...

If you think full-size pickups are just for tradesmen, ranchers and those needing to haul boats, trailers or race cars, think again. Proving that pickups can also haul something else, Ford has announced that the official pace truck of Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Race at Michigan International...

Two-time defending Formula 1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel has been in North America for the past several days, initially competing at the Canadian Grand Prix before heading to the site of next year’s inaugural Grand Prix of America for a trial run. He also happened to take some time out to...

The Grand Prix of America isn’t on the Formula One schedule just yet, as the first race isn’t penciled in until June of 2013. That didn’t stop current F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel from giving the temporary street circuit a go, substituting an Infiniti G37 Coupe for his Red...

The racing version of the new 2013 SRT Viper, the Viper GTS-R, has completed its first shakedown ahead of its American Le Mans comeback later this year.

Though we saw some light rain during practice, weather conditions for the 2012 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix appear to be fine and sunny. The current temperature at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal is 59 degrees F (15 degrees C) and there is barely any cloud scatter. Temperature during the...

Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel has secured pole position for the 2012 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix taking place this weekend at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. Vettel was on fire at qualifying today, managing to set the quickest time in all three sessions. His best time was an...

Updated: Upon further consultation with Simon Crellin of the Isle of Man TT press office and Subaru of America's Dominick Infante, some of the statistics acquired from my previous sources have been called into question. Where there is a conflict between official TT facts and figures not available...

This weekend Formula 1 is at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal for the 2012 Canadian Grand Prix, and the question on everybody’s lips is whether we’ll be seeing a seventh new winner crowned in this very exciting season. At the last race in Monaco it was Red Bull Racing’s...

Electric cars are taking over Pikes Peak, or threatening to, with Monster Tajima among the contenders. The latest entry to get some video detail is the Toyota Motorsports EV P002 prototype car. Based on the familiar Radical sports car chassis, the car is predicted to reach a top speed of 149 mph...

Drive enough cars on enough racetracks and you become somewhat immune to speed-induced terror. Most of us here are completely comfortable hustling the latest models around circuits near and far, so it’s no longer a thrill to strap into the passenger seat and have a pro driver show us what a...

The Cadillac brand is no stranger to international motor sports, even in recent decades. To promote its Northstar V-8 engine program, Cadillac built a Le Mans Prototype (LMP) racing program that campaigned cars in several international series from 2000 through 2002. Stating that the LMP program had...

Infineon Raceway, once known as Sears Point, and located near Sonoma, California, is no longer Infineon Raceway as of today, June 1, 2012. No official name has been chosen to take Infineon's place--likely meaning it has no title sponsor at the moment. Instead, the track and facility will simply go...

Parallel parking is one of the driving skills needed to obtain a driver’s license in most states. Student drivers often spend weeks knocking over cones and garbage cans before perfecting the combination of vehicle positioning and steering angle necessary to produce the desired results. If...

Proving that there’s no such thing as too much racing, Aston Martin has announced the entry list for the inaugural Aston Martin Racing Festival of Le Mans, scheduled to tale place at the Circuit de la Sarthe, France, in conjunction with this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. Meant to be a...

Over the years, the saying of “win on Sunday and sell on Monday” seems to have devolved into “spend a lot of money to race on Sunday, to have the potential of a few more sales on Monday.” For automakers in tight financial times, spending the kind of money necessary to...

Not long after setting the fastest-ever Ferrari lap time around the Nürburgring-Nordschleife's tortuous course at 6:51 in qualifying for the Nürburgring 24 Hour race, the P4/5 Competizione of James Glickenhaus caught fire. The fire happened during a pit stop, when a small fuel spill...

In an effort to raise funds for those affected by recent earthquakes in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, Ferrari will kick off an international, on-line auction beginning the week of June 4. Up for grabs are a wide variety of items, across many different price points. At the top end of the...

As Lamborghini looks to expand into new markets, the automaker’s one-make racing series, the Blancpain Super Trofeo, has hosted its first race outside of Europe. The inaugural race took place this past weekend at Sepang International Circuit, home of the Malaysian Grand Prix, where...

While the Camaro ZL1 you can buy at your local Chevy dealer today is meant to be a Jack-of-all-trades muscle car, the original Camaro ZL1 was built with a singular purpose in mind: to get through the quarter mile faster than any other car being run in AHRA competition. The 1969 Camaro ZL1 was the...