The Beauty And Agony Of Formula 3

From this year's chaotic weekend comes this gorgeous video of the Formula 3 race. Never has a lower-level formula race looked and sounded so epic. There's only fifteen laps in the season finale and the first few were interrupted by a huge crash. Make it count. Lo and behold, there's...

May 3, 2025

How Does Mercedes' Formula One Gearbox Work? An Explainer

Excellent technical resource brings us an explainer of the narrow cartridge-style gearbox Mercedes is using this year in its utterly dominant Formula One car, the W05. No one outside the team has seen the internals, so Craig Scarborough and Peter Windsor drew out the basics based on what they know....

May 3, 2025

Formula One Spotter Guide For The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Have trouble telling all the different Formula One cars apart when each car has an evil twin on the same track? Never fear, Andy Blackmore is here with yet another brilliant spotter guide. ...

May 3, 2025

Weekend Motorsports Roundup, Nov. 22-23, 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? The cruel, cruel winter months where...

May 3, 2025

Nico Rosberg Takes Pole At Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton may be in points of Nico Rosberg for the Formula One World Driver's Championship, but Rosberg's going to make winning that difficult. Nico qualified in first during today's qualifying for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, ahead of Hamilton by 0.386 seconds. Currently, the two drivers are...

May 3, 2025

Spider In A Race Car: NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. KILL IT WITH NOPE.

Hi. I like race cars. I hate spiders. I have been known to unload entire cans of spider killer in my 944 after seeing one anemic little web in there. Here is a huge spider that came down in Nadja Pollard's Miata during a race. . Watch the right side...

May 3, 2025

Offseason, Schmoffseason

'Tis the season for the DALE TREE. ...

May 3, 2025

Red Bull Gives You Illegal Wings; Faces Grid Penalty

Per the BBC, the FIA will be the front wings on both Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull Racing cars. The FIA, which sanctions Formula One, claims that the current wings flex downwards too much, giving the Red Bull cars an unfair aerodynamic advantage at speed. Unless they successfully...

May 3, 2025

Force India Co-Owner Vijay Mallya Is Losing It On Twitter

Formula One's seem to have come to an inevitable head: someone's gotta flip their lid on social media. That someone is Force India co-owner Vijay Mallya, and he's expressing his displeasure by putting on blast for their cheaty wings. Earlier this week, a letter from Force India deputy team principal...

May 3, 2025

Caption This: Caterham's Finbarr The Burninator

Bless his heart, Caterham Finbarr O'Connell tried to field questions from the media, as he came along with the team to help head up the operation for the weekend. He looks about as out of place as it gets. I have mixed feelings about Mr. O'Connell. On one hand, he's...

May 3, 2025

Why Mercedes Having A "Shrink" At Abu Dhabi Is Nothing Crazy

Several tabloids this week have run claiming that the Mercedes Formula One teams have a "shrink" on standby to console the loser of this year's World Driver's Championship after the final race at Abu Dhabi. Here's why they're all a sack of turds for singling Mercedes out on this. First...

May 3, 2025

Fernando, Caterham Is Faster Than You

Well, in a straight line, anyway. Will Stevens' Caterham has less downforce than Fernando Alonso's Ferrari, allowing Stevens to out-drag Alonso and force the Ferrari driver to actually work for that pass. I like this Stevens fellow already. He's taking good defensive lines where he can and making people earn...

May 3, 2025

This Is What A Fire-Spewing Formula 1 Turbo Failure Looks Like

Formula 1 went turbo this year and now, on the last race of the season, we get to see the massive smoke- and fire-spewing result when one of them fails. The driver is Lotus' Pastor Maldonado, who has not been the season's star driver, to say the least. Here's shaky...

May 3, 2025

Lewis Hamilton Is Your 2014 Formula One World Driver's Champion

An unfortunate power unit failure on lap 25 took Nico Rosberg out of contention for the Formula One World Driver's Championship, giving Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton the win. The two teammates were neck-and-neck for the even more so because of the double points Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Things were looking...

May 3, 2025

Jenson Button Has A Chat With McLaren Head Ron Dennis

Sky F1 captured some footage of driver-sans-2015-contract Jenson Button meeting with McLaren CEO Ron Dennis after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Although we're Alonso will be driving for McLaren next year, no one knows who his teammate will be. Button is far older than teammate Kevin Magnussen, however, he consistently...

May 3, 2025