Racing

Mercedes-Benz has signed up Mick Schumacher, son of Formula One legend Michael Schumacher, as its newest brand ambassador. And to kick off the partnership, Schumacher junior, who’s earned himself the nickname Quick Mick because of his winning performance on the race track, is starring in a...

Motorsport organizing body the FIA on Tuesday announced the names of nine constructors who have been granted homologation for Seasons Five, Six and Seven of the Formula E Championship. We’re currently in Season Three, which spans 2016-17. Among them is BMW, although the automaker is yet to...

AMS Performance hasn’t been sitting idle after clocking a world-record setting 7.14-second quarter-mile time with its monstrous Nissan GT-R build. Following that record last November, AMS and driver Gidi Chamdi have done it again. The 2,500-horsepower AMS GT-R invaded the dragstrip to go for...

There's been a lot of talk about walls lately. So much so, in fact, that Pink Floyd has considered a reunion for the first time since the band's acrimonious split in the mid 1980s. Now drummer Nick Mason has another reason to want a reunion: to pay for the damage to his McLaren F1 GTR. It seems the...

Somehow, Porsche managed to squeeze five historical moments from its motorsports history into a video just 3 minutes 31 seconds long. We’re not complaining, though, as Porsche makes the case for each of the five quite convincingly. The brand traces its motorsports timeline back with a little...

James Glickenhaus brought his amazing SCG003 to Geneva. This served as the debut of the road-legal version of the race gear that Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus has produced and taken to battle at events like the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. He and his team have logged many hours on the Green Hell...

Few men in the history of racing are as accomplished as John Surtees. The son of a London motorcycle dealer began his racing career by racing motorcycles in the early 1950s, and he went on to win four 500cc motorcycle grand prix world championships in 1956, '58, '59 and '60. After the 1960 win, he...

Porsche has been on a bit of a Top 5 kick as of late. We're not complaining, though, because it's always fun to list off an automaker's greatest hits, especially when those hits are of this caliber. Today, Porsche is taking a look at what it believes to be the cars wearing the five wildest rear...

If you're a fan of the Nissan brand, you should be aware of a slice of its motorsports history. I'm talking about Prince. No, not the dearly departed Purple One but Prince Motor Company. The small Japanese automaker that became a part of Nissan back in the mid 1960s. Before it did so, it created a...

Chevrolet's latest race car is about to hit the track. It's the Camaro GT4.R and it's a combination of a couple of our favorite Camaros, with some track prep by the Pratt & Miller race shop. The GT4.R starts out with the body from the newly announced ZL1 1LE, and all of the dive planes and big...

Last week Danish supercar marque Zenvo announced it had a surprise in store for the 2017 Geneva auto show. The surprise turned out to be a strategic partnership with Swiss endurance racing outfit Rebellion Racing. The two firms, which both turn ten this year, plan to share engineering resources as...

Unless you've ridden on top of 11,000 horsepower, Leah Pritchett has more stones than anyone one of us. She's a Top Fuel dragster driver and she holds the record for the fastest pass in NHRA history with a 3.658 run over the 1,000-foot distance at the NHRA Arizona Nationals. She set that record on...

Self-driving race cars may be anathema to genuine race fans, but there’s no doubt the phenomenon has the potential to further hone the technology for road cars, which after all is one of the enduring legacies of motorsport. A company by the name of Roborace is working on the world’s...

McLaren is the last of the car brands to reveal its race car for the 2017 Formula One World Championship. The new car is called the MCL32, and it sees a return of the signature McLaren color orange to the livery. The new name is a reference to the end of the reign of Ron Dennis at McLaren and the...

Left-foot braking. It's a tool performance drivers can add to their skill sets, but does it really make a difference? The folks at Team O'Neil Rally School have made a video to answer that question, at least when it comes to rally driving. To find out if right- or left-foot braking is better when...

The reigning champion—and current title favorites—Mercedes AMG Petronas is the latest to unveil its race car for the 2017 Formula One World Championship. The car is officially known as the W08 EQ Power+, and its unveiling took place Thursday at Silverstone in the United Kingdom. On hand...

Renault Sport on Tuesday unveiled its challenger for the 2017 Formula One World Championship, the R.S.17. Renault didn’t enjoy a miracle start to its comeback last year and instead ended the season third last, with only Sauber and defunct team Manor behind it. There’s renewed hope with...

"I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone." Those words from race driver Bruce McLaren come at the end of the new trailer for the upcoming film "McLaren." Born in 1937 in New Zealand, Bruce McLaren seemingly came from nowhere to take on the big boys of racing and beat them at...

It was in March of 2016 that Aston Martin announced a technical partnership with the Red Bull Racing Formula One team, the crowning glory of which is the upcoming AM-RB 001 hypercar whose development is being led by Red Bull’s expert aerodynamicist Adrian Newey. The hypercar isn’t due...

The cars of the 2017 Formula One World Championship will be very different to anything we’ve seen in the past several years. Among the changes are longer, wider bodies and much wider tires. The changes are aimed at increasing downforce and grip, which should lead to higher speeds and thus...