Red Bull's Stolen Formula One Trophies May Be Scrapped For Silver

Red Bull Racing advisor Dr. Helmut Marko has seen the video of the bizarre from over the weekend and told German newspaper Die Welt today that he believes that the trophies will be scrapped. While many of the trophies in the case were cheap reproductions, there is still silver content,...

May 12, 2025

SCCA Formula Ford Racing In 1980 Is Like Formula One Jr.

The SCCA national championship race weekend, known as the runoffs, was held at Road Atlanta from 1971 until 1993. They're always super competitive races and quite exciting. The 1980 Formula Ford runoff had 39 cars, and an enterprising YouTuber has uploaded the whole thing to show us what it was...

May 12, 2025

Could There Be A Lamborghini Prototype At Le Mans?

Could there be a third Volkswagen Group company competing in LMP1? Or could Lambo start out with an LMP2? seems to think there's a chance. Lamborghini is stepping up their sportscar game, devoting more and more funding to their in-house motorsports department. Lamborghinis have been to Le Mans before, including...

May 12, 2025

Bubba Wallace Moves Up To NASCAR's Xfinity Series

Camping World Truck Series standout Darrell Wallace, Jr., may be showing up more often in the Xfinity (formerly Nationwide) series much more often next year. He has been released from his contract with Joe Gibbs Racing and will for Roush Fenway Racing in 2015. Bubba Wallace made headlines last year...

May 12, 2025

Is That A Neon Cucumber, Or Is Nic Jönsson Just Happy To See Us?

Krohn Racing just unveiled their gorgeous new Ligier JS P2 Judd race car that will compete in the European Le Mans Series and select Tudor United SportsCar races next year. Professional Swede Nic Jönsson (left) seems particularly excited about this car. Bless your heart, that does appear to be a...

May 12, 2025

Former Australian Porsche Motorsport Manager Jamey Blaikie Dies In Crash

Jamey Blaikie, the former manager for Porsche Cars Australia Motorsport and a longtime member of Australia's extended racing family, died in a car crash on Monday, according to news reports. Porsche Australia officials say that Blaikie was killed on vacation in Fiji when his rental car crashed into a truck....

May 12, 2025

Why Yes, Co-Driving A Rally Car Is Hard

Red Bull recently put FC Barcelona soccer star Neymar da Silva Santos Junior in the right seat with two-time World Rally Championship winner Sebastian Ogier. He gets a book of notes to read after he calms down a little bit, but, uh, codriving is really, really hard, man. Ogier takes...

May 12, 2025

THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY! McLaren Might Finally Announce Their Drivers

Could for McLaren's 2015 Formula One driver lineup finally be over? suggests that an invitation-only media event scheduled for tomorrow may, in fact, end all the speculation regardingthe Alonso/Button/Magnussen love triangle and finally narrow it down to 2 drivers. Select members of the press are being invited to an event...

May 12, 2025

Lewis Hamilton Really Regrets This Fedora

Listen. Men, I am here to set the record straight on this: fedoras are never okay. Nor are closely-related hats such as the trilby. No. Unless you are in the 1930s or heading to a theme party in full period-appropriate costume, just say no to the fedora. Even two-time Formula...

May 12, 2025

Behind The Scenes With A BMW Team PTG Team Technician

BMW Team PTG is most known for being BMW's primary motorsports research and development team in the United States from 1995 to 2006. One of their technicians gave jbh a behind the scenes look into the team's greatest moments and the lovely E36 M3 that PTG campaigned in the 90s....

May 12, 2025

PSA: Your Fancy-Pants Recaro Seat May No Longer Be Legal For Racing

Bad news if you're currently running a seat in your race car: the seats have lost their FIA homologation, which is the safety certification that allows you to use them in your race car for many sanctioning bodies. During internal crash tests for the FIA standard 8855-1999, Recaro found that...

May 12, 2025

Hyundai Pulls Out Of U.S. Motorsports In Shock Move, Rhys Millen Says

A bit of a bummer for anyone who enjoyed seeing Hyundais get flung across the dirt in Global RallyCross or set records at Pikes Peak: Rhys Millen Racing, Hyundai's longtime partner, has announced the Korean brand has withdrawn from U.S. motorsports. Rhys Millen Racing made the announcement yesterday on their...

May 12, 2025

Here's A Gulf Livery Audi R8 Le Mans Racer To Haunt Your Dreams

The current crop of Audi R18s are amazing . But it's this particular ancestor that might be the prettiest Audi prototype racer of the modern era. This is an Audi R8 that ran at the 2001 24 Hours of Le Mans. It was entered and driven by F1 reject Stefan...

May 12, 2025

McLaren Chooses Jenson Button And Fernando Alonso To Drive In 2015

The wait is over, per . McLaren's Formula One driver lineup for 2015 includes two world champions in Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso. "Fernando and Jenson have started a combined total of precisely 500 grands prix between them - a mighty aggregate - and have won 47 of them," explained...

May 12, 2025

Ryan Eversley Rides Jalopnik Bump All The Way To Acura Factory Race Seat

The continues for the Internet's most amusing Honda racer. Ryan Eversley has just moved over to the Pirelli World Challenge in the RealTime Acura as a factory driver. Honda Performance Development rewarded his great performance in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge with the second full-time spot driving the #43 Acura...

May 12, 2025