Racing

Jaguar is the latest automaker to announce a commitment to the Formula E electric car racing series, joining the likes of Audi, DS, Mahindra, Renault and Venturi. The British automaker’s first race will coincide with the start of Formula E's third season in the fall of 2016. It will mark...

British sports car and motorsports engineering firm Ginetta is out with a new race car called the G57. It’s a prototype-style endurance racer designed in line with regulations for the ACO’s new LMP3 category, which serves as a gateway to explore the prototype side of motorsports in...

She bought the car after seeing another prowling the hills of San Francisco. Janis Joplin found her Porsche in 1968, and she found it in Beverly Hills. The car in question is a 1964 Porsche 356 C Cabriolet, and it needed a paint job suitable to serve as the daily driver for a rock goddess. That...

In July, it was reported that the body of famed racing driver Juan Manual Fangio was going to be exhumed two decades after his burial. The reason? There was a paternity claim laid against him by Oscar Espinoza, and a court ruled that Fangio's body would be pulled up in order to extract a bit of DNA...

Formula One cars put tremendous strain on the drivers who pilot them. There are tremendous g-loads in nearly all directions thanks to the insane acceleration, cornering and braking ability of a modern F1 car. There are also incredibly high demands of the parts of the car themselves, as they have to...

Rallying can be extremely dangerous, especially for spectators who often line up right alongside the track to get as close to the action as possible. Sometimes, this results in tragedy. But fortunately that wasn’t the case during the recent Rally de Ferrol in Spain where a Porsche 911 got...

Two of the greatest words when paired together are “police escort”. On their own they can conjure up quite different emotions, but when placed side by side and in front of the phrase “while you drive this Lamborghini Huracán," add up to an absolutely brilliant sentence...

The calendar for the 2016 Formula One World Championship has been confirmed, and as expected there are 21 races including a new event in Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani race will mark the return of the European Grand Prix; it will be run on the planned Baku City Circuit, a street circuit in...

Infiniti has ended its sponsorship arrangement with the Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team, with one year left in the contract. The arrangement, signed at the end of the 2012 season when Red Bull was still at its peak, saw Infiniti become the title sponsor for the team, but it never really made much...

As a sign of how silly Formula One sponsorship can get, Red Bull Racing, which is funded by the Red Bull energy drinks company and has Infiniti as a title sponsor as well as Renault as a power unit supplier, has decided to give its power unit a name. The name will be that of Swiss watch company Tag...

It’s no secret that McLaren had a disastrous Formula One season this year. The team’s drivers Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button were regularly at the back of the pack and the new Honda power unit that many hoped would see a repeat of the performance of the Prost and Senna days turned...

Toyota’s S-FR sports car concept proved a hit at its debut back at October’s 2015 Tokyo Motor Show and now an updated version has been revealed ahead of a debut at next month’s 2016 Tokyo Auto Salon. The updated version is the S-FR Racing, and it was developed by Toyota Gazoo...

If you’re in the camp that thinks Lamborghini’s Urus concept, which previews the Italian marque’s upcoming SUV, is just a little too road-oriented, then perhaps you’ll be interested in a little company by the name of Zarooq. The company’s first product is the Sand...

With the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One team and its star driver Lewis Hamilton once again the world champions, Mercedes-AMG has decided to celebrate with a special edition version of its A45 hot hatch. You may recall that the Affalterbach tuner celebrated last year’s title with a special...

The 2015 Formula One World Championship came to a close yesterday, with the prize for the final event on the calendar, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, going to Mercedes AMG’s Nico Rosberg. This was the German’s third-straight victory—a career first—to make it six wins this season...

Racing isn't cheap. It is, however, something that a lot of us wish we could do. Sure, you can prep a car and take it to your local track day. You could get a crew together and run an inexpensive car at LeMons, ChumpCar, or an AER event. Maybe you just want to go autocrossing or hit a Time Attack?...

The Race of Champions has been held since 1988 as a means of pitting drivers from all types of racing against each other in equally prepared cars. This year's Race of Champions, which was held November 21-22 at London's former Olympic Stadium, featured 20 racers, and four-time Formula One champion...

The 2015 motorsport season may be coming to a close but things are already heating up for next year. One of the most exciting prospects is the competitive debut of Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] new GT race car. The car has been confirmed for both the United SportsCar Championship and the...

In only its second year back in top-level endurance racing, Porsche has managed to secure both the Drivers’ and Constructors’ titles in the World Endurance Championship. The top drivers in the premier LMP1 class were Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley and Mark Webber, who together managed...

Porsche’s entry-level customer race car at present is the 911 GT3 Cup, but the automaker has now undercut this with a new GT4-spec racer based on the recently revealed Cayman GT4. GT4 competition has been growing in popularity over the years as the series tend to be a much more affordable...