Toyota Drivers Claim Championship In The World Endurance Championship

Sebastien Buemi and Anthony Davison, drivers of the number 8 Toyota TS040, were crowned LMP1 drivers' champions in the 6 Hours of Bahrain, the penultimate race of the World Endurance Championship. Congratulations, Team We're Not Audi! The #8 car only finished in 11th place, but that was enough to give...

May 3, 2025

Kevin Harvick Is Your 2014 Sprint Cup Series Champion

Denny Hamlin just couldn't hold it together and Kevin Harvick took the end of season Ford EcoBoost 400 and the 2014 Sprint Cup Series championship Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway. With only twelve laps to go, yet another caution flag fell on the track. When the race restarted again (rerestarted?), Harvick...

May 3, 2025

Sébastien Loeb's Quest To Dominate Everything Moves To Team Ownership

Not content with pwning the World Rally Championship, Pike's Peak, the Race of Champions, the World Touring Car Championship...ah, this list gets long, so I'll stop there, Sébastien Loeb now wants to dominate team ownership in the WTCC. It's hard not to like Sébastien Loeb. He's a man with the...

May 3, 2025

Watch A Drag Racing Funny Car Explode In Slow Motion

NHRA held its Auto Club Finals this weekend in Pomona, California, where Jon Capps' Funny Car done blow'd up. Luckily, he escaped the blaze unharmed, but let's watch an amusingly nonchalant announcer narrate the slow-mo inferno. "I love having that shot with the front wheels off the ground and fire...

May 3, 2025

Mercedes In Urgent Contract Talks With Lewis Hamilton

Per Mercedes Formula One boss Toto Wolff wants to get into contract talks as soon as possible to keep both Lewis Hamilton as well as Nico Rosberg on the team for the forseeable future. This would shut the door on amove as well for . Nico Rosberg's contract was extended...

May 3, 2025

Here Is The First Video Of The McLaren Honda Formula One Car In Action

appeared last week of a modified 2014 McLaren Formula One car that will be testing the new 2015 Honda F1 engine at Silverstone. Now we have video. That's a nicer sound than the current V6 turbo engines, isn't it? Honda is returning to Formula One as an next year, putting...

May 3, 2025

Leaked Letter Shows How Bad Formula One's Finance Problem Really Is

A to Bernie Ecclestone cosigned by smaller Formula One teams Force India, Sauber and Lotus explains just how lopsided the sport's distribution of commercial revenue is along with other key facts, such as how none of the smaller teams voted to move to the new V6 turbo engine. The letter...

May 3, 2025

Bernie Ecclestone Doesn't Like Bloggers Very Much

Never mind that Formula One is already the most difficult event to get media accreditation for—Bernie Ecclestone wants to limit the number of freeloadin' Internet journalists at F1 races. How can someone so adept at trolling understand the Internet so little? Inautonews that after poo-pooing the influence of social media...

May 3, 2025

A Multi-Car Pileup Stopped Every Car On Track At The Macau Grand Prix

The Chinese Cup series brings us a lovely tale of what happens when you build a street course corner just a tad too small. You get a pileup that stops the race! Lisboa Corner at Macau is quite narrow, and clearly tighter than the two lead cars expect. They come...

May 3, 2025

Listen To Ayrton Senna's McLaren Honda F1 V12 Run Again

Hey. Hey. Shut up. Just, shh. Quiet. No, shh. No. Listen to the Honda V12 in this F1 McLaren. Shut up and listen. The car is Ayrton Senna's 1991 MP4/6, the engine is Honda's RA121E 3.5 liter naturally aspirated V12. McLaren wheeled the car out at Silverstone,probably . Photos appeared...

May 3, 2025

24 Hours of LeMons Team Recreates The Porsche Tractor With A Diesel 911

brought us the world's first turbodiesel Porsche 911 in Ferkel the Nein-11, a Volkswagen Jetta TDI swapped 24 Hours of LeMons entry sure to make purists everywhere cringe. Now they have their diesel Porsche appropriately themed. There's a certain aspect of the 24 Hours of LeMons that has gone past...

May 3, 2025

Meet America's Greatest Toyobaru, The Rally GT-86

If you were not already aware, this is the greatest Toyobaru in the country. It's the Nameless Performance GT-86 and it will be tearing a rear-drive hole in the American rally scene this year. Nameless has been working on this car for quite some time. Jalopnik's codriving mastermind Dusty Ventures...

May 3, 2025

The First Female NHRA Pro Stock Champion Was Featured In A Disney Movie

Before Erica Enders-Stevens became the first female champion of the hyper-competitive NHRA Pro Stock class, she was featured in the Disney Channel's made-for-TV movie Now the world of drag racing has the largest number of women participating out of any motorsport. "Right on Track" was as adorable and heartwarming as...

May 3, 2025

Overdriving Crash Sends Rally Car Four Wheels In To The Air

This weekend's season-concluding Wales Rally GB could have been called Overdriving: The WRC Event. Here's what happened when one driver pressed a little bit too hard. You're watching Kris Meeke () desperately trying to move himself up past Mikko Hirvonen, only a few seconds ahead of him in the standings....

May 3, 2025

Nine-Time Le Mans Winner Tom Kristensen Announces Retirement

Following Audi Sport Team Joest teammate Allan McNish's strategy of "," record-holding nine-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen announced his retirement from sportscar racing today. Tom Kristensen is so ingrained in the culture of Le Mans racing for his record number of wins that his nickname is "Mr. Le Mans."...

May 3, 2025