Trans Am Is The Best Sounding Race Series

SRT isn't completely from motorsports. They're still alive and kicking with partner , who runs a sweet lime green Challenger in the Trans-Am series. This short clip of Tommy Kendall's Challenger and another competitor's Camaro proves that Trans Am is now the best sounding race series in existence. Tommy Kendall...

May 7, 2025

Ferrari Replaces Their Formula One Team Principal Again This Year

Ferrari just can't get comfortable with their lag in performance when it comes to Formula One. So, they've replaced their team principal this year, swapping Marco Mattiacci for Maurizio Arrivabene. In less than a day after the final grand prix of the 2014 season Ferrari knew it was time for...

May 7, 2025

If A Spanish King Says Alonso Is Going To McLaren It Must Be Legit

Former King of Spain Juan Carlos let it slip that Fernando Alonso is going to McLaren. When asked about the slip, Alonso said that the king is "always right." The secret in F1 is out, amigos. For some (probably contractual) reason, Alonso cannot confirm where he is going after the...

May 7, 2025

Here Are All The Things I Screwed Up To Crash This Race Car

This weekend, I was racing a Spec E30 at Lime Rock park in a two-day, 10 hour endurance race. It may have taken me an hour, but . Here's how it happened. We start the race in third and hold the position for a few laps. Under pressure, I drop...

May 7, 2025

Jordan Taylor Brings Us Van Burnouts, Peed Pants And Hits Of The '90s

Jordan Taylor's got a little bit of a flat-top going now that he no longer has , and what better way to commemorate that than to go over the sweet, sweet 'tunes of the nineties? This is what happens when you let the Wayne Taylor Racing boys loose in a...

May 7, 2025

Ferrari's "Fire Everybody" Strategy Just Sacked Their Aerodynamicist

File this under "people we probably would have sacked earlier," but has reported that aerodynamicist Nicholas Tombaziz has been let go from the team. Sergio Marchionne's scorched-earth campaign to make Ferrari's Formula One team not suck continues. Given that it's the performance of the cars that was been the biggest...

May 7, 2025

How To Handle A Phone Call When You're Racing

The same hands-free phone technology that saves our butts on the road can be a real pain if you decide to race or track your street car. How do you handle a call if you forgot to leave your phone far away in the paddock? Keep driving, of course. Clearly,...

May 7, 2025

Miata Horror Crash Shows What Can Go Wrong Even In Low-Level Racing

Now this is how you break your arm in style. Mark Leach, the driver of the blue #16 Miata might not have felt very lucky going into this crash, particularly since it was his very first race. Leach felt lucky at the end of it, though. He had multiple fractures...

May 7, 2025

Porsche To Run Third Car At Le Mans; Still Says Button Won't Drive It

Volkswagen Group nemesis Audi has brought three cars to Le Mans for years, and now Porsche's joining the three-car party. But who will drive it, you ask? Porsche they'll choose from their own GT driver pool, but rumors still suggest some names from F1 may have a go. Say it...

May 7, 2025

Slow Your Roll, Sebastien Loeb's Rallye Monte Carlo Drive Is A One-Off

Yes, insanely dominant World Rally Championship driver Sebastien Loeb and his co-driver Daniel Elena are for Rallye Monte Carlo. No, they won't pwn all the n00bs in WRC, at least not for the entire season. It's a one-off drive. Here's why we love it anyway. First off, the one-off thing...

May 7, 2025

This Barcalounger Buick Might Be America's Biggest Sleeper

Take one look at this car's interior and try an guess what it'll run in the quarter. Seriously, look at those pillowy green-on-green guts and try to believe this car will run in the 9s. Yep, this Buick runs some kind of carb'd version of an LT1 with 400 horsepower...

May 7, 2025

The Little-Known Series Where The Rich Offroad Priceless Classic Cars

Forget the concours d'elegance. These guys don't just drive their priceless classic cars, they absolutely thrash them. Offroad. It's called trials, put on by the UK's Vintage Sports Car Club or VSCC. The idea is you take your vintage, prewar car and drive it on something like a prewar country...

May 7, 2025

McLaren Honda Formula One Test Plagued By Electrical Woes

Poor McLaren spent more of its time in the garage and on a flatbed yesterday as opposed to actually driving during the Abu Dhabi Formula One test day. GP2 series runner-up Stoffel Vandoorne couldn't even lay down a flying lap in the McLaren MP4-29H1x1 text car. 2015 F1 testing began...

May 7, 2025

The Chase For The Sprint Cup Proves Playoffs Don't Work For Auto Racing

There's no doubt that the NASCAR drivers who compete in the Chase for the Sprint Cup are at the top of their craft, but does the Chase really work as a system for awarding the best racer of the year? It certainly brings but it also proves that playoffs just...

May 7, 2025

Skoda's New Rally Car Is A Ferocious Speed-Zebra

"It's nice, but it sure would look better as a rally car" was pretty much our take on the . Lo and behold, Skoda took our advice and suited up its Volkswagen Polo-based subcompact for rally duty. With zebra stripes! (Granted, it's possible Skoda was planning on doing a rally...

May 7, 2025