Shea Holbrook Wants To Jump From Road Racing Into A Jet Dragster

Sometimes, you just want to put the hammer down and see how brutally fast you can go. Say, 300 MPH kind of fast. For that reason, Pirelli World Challenge racer and race team co-owner is looking to hop over into a jet dragster, and that couldn't be more awesome. Sure,...

May 3, 2025

Why There Are No Young WRC Champions

Sebastian Vettel became the F1 World Champion after spending just 23 years and 134 days on this planet. The youngest WRC Champion was way past his 27th birthday. His name was Colin McRae, and he started at the age of sixteen with a Mini Cooper. Autocar went out to hoon...

May 3, 2025

Behind The Scenes of Red Bull Global Rallycross's Insane Finale

The Global Rallycross finale came down to the wire during the very last round, with Joni Wiman, Ken Block and Nelson Piquet, Jr., all in contention for the top spot. Ford Racing takes us behind the scenes for the final GRC round at Las Vegas. Three of Ford's angry little...

May 3, 2025

It's Not Hard To Get Lost When You're Racing In The Dark

Everyone always claims the Mazda Miata is the perfect track vehicle. Au contraire: this one proves it's a competent off-roader, too. Welcome to , a new feature where we spend that pesky time between race weekends looking at awesome footage from inside the car. There's something about a night race...

May 3, 2025

This Group Wants To Ban Alcohol Sponsors In F1

Have you enjoyed the return of the striking Martini livery to the Williams Formula One team this season? Of course you have, because you have eyes. But if the Paris-based European Alcohol Policy Alliance has their way, alcohol sponsorships in F1 would become a thing of the past. In an...

May 3, 2025

This Is The New Cadillac ATS-V Race Car And It Looks Badass

Cadillac just unveiled their newest race car on Twitter. It's the ATS-V-R, or maybe the ATS-VR, or possibly the ATSVR. Whatever, it looks badass. Cadillac tooted their own horn, pointing out they just sealed up their third consecutive championship in World Challenge, a totally important racing series that people around...

May 3, 2025

This Is The First McLaren Honda F1 Car In Over 20 Years

Honda is preparing to re-enter Formula 1 next year as an engine supplier. Here is the first look at their first driving car, an interim McLaren Honda. Honda and McLaren have quite a history together. McLaren's late '80s/early '90s glory years were powered first by Porsche and then to even...

May 3, 2025

How To Drive A Hairpin Like A Boss

Sébastien Loeb, having won roughly seventy-three world rally championships, now races for Citroën in WTCC, currently at Macau. Here's how he took the world's tightest hairpin at the world's tightest street course. As WTCC themselves commented, "You can take Seb out of rallye, but you cannot take the rallye out...

May 3, 2025

​Bernie Ecclestone Doesn't Care About You If You're Not Old And Rich

We all know Bernie Ecclestone is a money-grubbing, chauvinistic asshat, but the crusty supreme leader of F1 just upped his Mr. Burns quotient by 1,000 in , pointing out that 15-year-olds don't buy Rolexes and comparing Marussia and Caterham to "ladies with credit cards." Then it gets worse. In an...

May 3, 2025

A Hole Nearly Sends A Rally Car Flying At High Speed

This is what rally drivers refer to as 'a moment.' This is interdimensional human-shaped energy field Jari-Matti Latvala (who else) in his VW Polo today at Rally Wales. Or Rally GB. Or Wales Rally GB. However you want to call the super slippy, super treacherous event. The , but it's...

May 3, 2025

Success! Caterham Will Race At Abu Dhabi After All

Despite being just over $780,000 short of their of $3.7 million, the Caterham Formula One team has announced today that they will be traveling to Abu Dhabi for the final race of the season anyway. Finbarr O'Connell, a representative from the administration firm who controls Caterham's assets, mentioned today that...

May 3, 2025

Behold These Stunning Images From The 6 Hours of Bahrain

Some say practice days in endurance racing have a bit more purpose than providing you with amazing wallpapers, but as long as we get car porn like this, I don't care what it is. The Bahrain International Circuit was opened just ten years ago. It's got the same grippy Graywacke...

May 3, 2025

Weekend Motorsports Roundup, Nov. 15-16, 2014

Welcome to the Jalopnik , where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend? NASCAR and NHRA both wrap up...

May 3, 2025

Fernando Alonso Spotted In Porsche Garage At WEC Bahrain

Ferrari Formula One driver and constant Fernando Alonso showed up to watch the World Endurance Championship's 6 Hours of Bahrain. Some rumors link him to an Audi LMP1 driver. Other rumors point to an Audi F1 effort. Others still just say he's chillin' with personal friend and ex-F1 driver Mark...

May 3, 2025

Caterham F1 Team Lets 230 Of Its Employees Go

Just after successfully their entry to the final Formula One race of the season at Abu Dhabi, Caterham quietly let its entire 230-member backroom staff go. This doesn't bode well for their continued existence in 2015, that's for sure. Per , workers at Caterham F1 have not been paid since...

May 3, 2025