Racing
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Starting in 2017 is a new electric car racing series called the Electric GT Championship in which teams compete using race cars based on the Tesla [NSDQ:TSLA] Model S. The series aims to be the world’s first competition for production-based electric cars, although unlike the Formula E Championship it isn’t a sanctioned competition just yet. Nevertheless, EGT is pressing ahead with its inaugural season which will host seven races. When organizers announced the series in March, Tesla’s top Model S variant was the P85D and this was what the organizers initially chose for the...
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Massa to skip retirement for 1 more year with Williams?
Brazilian Formula One driver Felipe Massa might be planning to hold off on retirement for another year in order to continue driving for Williams. Massa in September announced that his contract with Williams would expire at the end of the 2016 season and that he had no intention to renew it. Shortly...
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2017 Toyota Yaris WRC gets massive air in cold-weather tests
Organizers of the World Rally Championship have implemented numerous rule changes to ensure there’s plenty of action throughout the 2017 season, and a video out showing Toyota’s new Yaris WRC rally car testing is proof of the awesomeness that is to come. The video comes to us from...
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Schumacher family launches ‘Keep Fighting’ initiative
Michael Schumacher’s family has launched a not-for-profit initiative to serve as a form of inspiration for anyone struggling in any endeavor, just as the Formula One legend has throughout his career and now in his recovery from the 2013 skiing accident that caused serious injury to his head...
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Porsche sends its endurance racing regards to Audi
Back in 2014, Porsche announced it would be returning to top-level endurance racing after a 16-year absence from the sport. Audi welcomed Porsche into the fold with open arms and a wide-open throttle salute. The four-ringed automaker put together a fun spot that both poked fun at Porsche while also...
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Volvo Trucks pits 2,400-hp race truck against WTCC race car
Volvo Trucks pulls off some pretty cool stunts in the name of showing off the engineering behind its trucks. We've seen Jean-Claude Van Damme do the splits between two Volvos, a Volvo truck driver tow a paraglider, a 4-year old girl operate a Volvo truck remotely, and a valet figure out how he's...
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A new rally car based on the upcoming seventh generation of the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Fiesta subcompact has been revealed. The rally car has been developed by M-Sport, a British motorsport and engineering outfit that’s helped develop a few Ford rally cars including the Focus RS RX for World Rallycross. The Fiesta rally car is designed for the 2017 World Rally Championship which is adopting some new and exciting rules. As we’ve already seen with Hyundai and Toyota’s 2017 WRC contenders, the 2017-spec cars are wider, lighter and more powerful than this year’s cars...
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Relive every crash and incident from the 2016 F1 season
We’ve got the perfect time waster for your Tuesday. It’s a compilation of all the crashes and incidents from the 2016 Formula One World Championship. The season concluded on November 27 in Abu Dhabi, with Mercedes AMG’s Nico Rosberg securing the crown, and while it was Mercedes...
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Ford Performance reveals track-only Shelby FP350S
Looking for a turnkey race car to run in Trans Am, NASA, or SCCA? Look no further than your local Ford parts counter where you will soon be able to order up the Shelby FP350S. This Ford Performance product, which isn't legal for the street, was shown today at the 2016 Performance Racing Industry...
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Dodge eyes potential return to NASCAR
Dodge departed from the NASCAR circuit back in 2012, but it is apparently eyeing a return to the left-turn loving motorsport. At the time, Dodge was coming out of bankruptcy and decided to cut its NASCAR program in an effort to focus its expenditures where they were most needed. Now it's a...
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Formula One returns to France in 2018
The Formula One World Championship will return to France in 2018 after a 10-year hiatus. The return of the French Grand Prix was confirmed on Monday during a press conference organized by the Automobile Club de France. Organizers have managed to secure a five-year contract for the race, which will...
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Jeff Gordon unretiring to pilot Cadillac's Daytona Prototype
After a long career of left turns, Jeff Gordon's retirement just took a hard right back into the driver's seat. According to Road & Track, Gordon is putting down the Werther's Original to jump behind the wheel of a new racing machine from Cadillac. The car in question is Cadillac's all-new...
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Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] on Sunday unveiled its new race car based on the 488 GTB, which will compete in the 2017 season of the Ferrari Challenge one-make racing series. The covers came off during Finali Mondiali, which marks the end of Ferrari’s racing efforts for the year and includes the final race of the Ferrari Challenge series. The 488 Challenge is the sixth car to participate in the series which in 2017 celebrates its 25th anniversary. It’s also the series’ first turbocharged car. It replaces the 458 Challenge Evoluzione, which started competing in 2014, and is the most...
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LaFerrari #500 sells for record amount at Finali Mondiali
A unique LaFerrari was sold at an auction on Saturday during Ferrari’s [NYSE:RACE] Finali Mondiali event at Daytona International Speedway. The final bid came in at $7 million, which means the car is the most expensive built this century to be sold at auction. The previous highest figure paid...
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F1 car hits the banks at Daytona for first time
Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] on Sunday caps off a four-day celebration of all things motorsport. Known as the Finali Mondiali, the annual event is being hosted in the United States for the first time, at Florida’s Daytona International Speedway, and on Thursday history was made there. ALSO SEE...
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F1 world champion Nico Rosberg announces retirement
World champion Formula One driver Nico Rosberg announced that he would retire from the motorsport, only a few days after winning his first championship. “Since 25 years in racing, it has been my dream, my ‘one thing’ to become Formula One world champion,” Rosberg said on his...
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BMW’s latest Art Car is the John Baldessari M6 GT3
It was in 1975 that French racer and art lover Hervé Poulain in collaboration with BMW’s motorsport boss at the time, Jochen Neerpasch, asked artist Alexander Calder to design the livery for a race car. The result was a colorful BMW 3.0 CSL, which in 1975 raced at the 24 Hours of Le...
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German Grand Prix dropped from 2017 Formula One calendar
Despite the popularity of Formula One in Germany, plus the fact that a German driver and team just claimed the 2016 title, the German Grand Prix will be absent from the calendar in 2017. The race was to be held at the Hockenheimring but the promoter pulled out due to financial reasons. It’s...
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Cadillac unveiled its latest race car today. It's called the DPi-V.R and it will compete in the 2017 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's new Daytona Prototype International (DPi) class. The last time Cadillac competed in prototype endurance racing was 2002. Cadillac joins Mazda and Nissan as manufacturers for IMSA’s top Prototype class. The class will also include international LMP2 prototype chassis from Riley/Multimatic, Ligier, ORECA and Dallara, all powered by single-specification Gibson V-8 engines. Apparently, Cadillac has kept the development of this car tightly under wraps...
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UK’s Anthony Reid to race Polish firm Arrinera’s Hussarya GT
The long road to getting Polish supercar startup Arrinera’s Hussarya into production is approaching its end. The company first burst onto the scene in 2011 when it unveiled an initial concept for what would ultimately become the Hussarya. After an intensive development program that included...
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Rosberg named 2016 Formula One world champion after Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Mercedes AMG’s Nico Rosberg was crowned the 2016 Formula One world champion after a nail-biting finish to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday. Teammate Lewis Hamilton comfortably won the race, having led from pole, but Rosberg only needed to finish third to win the title. In the end the German...
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2016 Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix preview
The final round of the 2016 Formula One World Championship is on this weekend in Abu Dhabi and the title is still up for grabs for two drivers: Mercedes AMG duo Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton. As has been the case for the past several weeks, the championship is very much Rosberg’s to lose...
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2017 Nissan GT-R Super GT racer revealed
The third and final race car for the 2017 season of popular Japanese touring car series Super GT, the Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500, has been revealed. The will compete in the premier GT500 class alongside the new-for-2017 Honda NSX-GT and Lexus LC GT500 race cars, which replace the respective NSX-GT...
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Porsche drivers named 2016 World Endurance champions as Audi bows out
The drivers of the number 2 Porsche 919 Hybrid Romain Dumas, Marc Lieb and Neel Jani have been declared the champions of the 2016 World Endurance Championship, with the battle for the Drivers’ title coming down to the final race in Bahrain on Saturday. Porsche was already named the winner of...
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