Volvo Says It's Pulling Out Of Motorsports, Everyone Cry Now

Volvo, the last bastion of Swedenism in the automotive landscape, was holding the line in motorsports, with entries in the Swedish Touring Car Championship and Australian V8 Supercars. And now Volvo just said that they won't be continuing after the contracts run out, and they're pulling out of racing entirely....

May 12, 2025

Worst Idea For A Formula E Press Photo Ever

If you thought thewas bad, well, here's an electric race car just chillin' in the water. Won't that short everything out? I know it's the ocean, but I really wouldn't want to go in that water to fish it out, either. Seeing a beached car stuck in the sand is...

May 12, 2025

How Fast Is The Mitsubishi Evo? Just Watch This.

Mitsubishi conquered the rally world in the 1990s with extreme preparation, organization, and professionalism. That and crazy fast cars. This is Norway's Henning Solberg (Subaru champion driver Petter Solberg's older brother) absolutely whipping Tommi Mäkinen's Evo 6.5 from the 2001 season. You're not seeing old WRC footage, this was shot...

May 12, 2025

RallySprint Returns 10 Years After Deaths Scared SCCA Away From Rally

RallySprint is considered a step between rallycross and full-on stage rally. It's a good ol' dirty time, and now the Sports Car Club of America is bringing them back for the first time in over a decade. Given the SCCA's tumultuous history with their rally program, this news comes as...

May 12, 2025

How To Make Breakfast Tacos, The Best Track Day Food Ever

Unless you're at a place where the trackside specialty is a breakfast sandwich, early morning is either nonexistent or a surefire way to get the trots before noon. Why not make your own? Anyone with a stove and a pan can half-asleepedly make the best breakfast in the world: breakfast...

May 12, 2025

Here's The Subaru Rally .GIF To End All Subaru Rally .GIFs

Colin McRae, the 555 Impreza, and one of the biggest jumps in WRC history. This is the one. This is Rally Australia 1997, at the Bunnings jump. It is, and I'm not sure if there's a better word for it, bonkers. Here's the outside video of the leap, along with...

May 12, 2025

Unbelievable Driving From Monte Carlo And The Rally Hasn't Even Started

The Monte Carlo Rally is coming up. That means pre-season testing. And that means unbelievably spectacular driving. Prepping for the Monte is interesting because 1) it's the biggest event of the year 2) it's the first event of the year so it's the first chance to test for the full...

May 12, 2025

Kurt Busch Claims He Was Naked When His Ex-Girlfriend Barged Into His RV

NASCAR driver Kurt Busch called ex-girlfriend Patricia Driscoll's of domestic assault a "fabrication" in his testimony Wednesday. Busch claims that he was emotionally distraught after watching a movie when Driscoll decided to check up on him anyway, barging in on him in the nude. Driscoll is seeking a protective order...

May 12, 2025

Lamborghini Rally Car: It Begins

The bull is naked. That's how has described their current level of progress on their set for a tarmac event debut next year. Even with all of that, the thing is still getting 7.5" of suspension travel from Reiger. I can't describe how much I'm looking forward to seeing this...

May 12, 2025

Things I Didn't Want To See Today: Eyelids

I was about to sit down to dinner, and now I will be forever haunted (and less hungry) from seeing inside Oswaldo Negri's eyelids. I know some people can do this, but...but......I can't even. Doesn't the inside of your eyelid dry out? Or your eye? Or both? TELL US, FREAKS...

May 12, 2025

Bernie Ecclestone's Christmas Card Brags About His $100 Million Bribe

Bernie Ecclestone might just be the only man in the world who can bribe his way out of a multimillion dollar bribery case and then brag about it on his Christmas card. If you've been following global publication Evil Muppet and Despicable Dictator Weekly, you'll know that F1's head honcho...

May 12, 2025

The McLaren 650S GT3 Is Coming To Pirelli World Challenge

Want to see the new McLaren GT3 race car racing in the United States? You're in luck. K-Pax Racing and Flying Lizard Motorsports announced this week that they will campaign the two McLaren 650S GT3 race cars in 2015 in the Pirelli World Challenge. While the teams haven't announced what...

May 12, 2025

Ferrari's Test Driver Line-Up Got Even Better: Vergne To Join In 2015

Scuderia Ferrari's Formula One test roster already made a major score in young racer . Per , Ex-Toro Rosso racer Jean-Éric Vergne will join the team for 2015 as a test driver as well. "The objective is a unanimous one and that is to help the Scuderia get back to...

May 12, 2025

Stop Fawning Over Retro Liveries. It's Time For Something New.

Every time a professional race team swaps sponsors, switches cars or starts a new year, you always hear approximately 47 billion calls for them to go back to a classic livery. "Do the pink pig!" "You're not sponsored by Gulf, but can you do Gulf blue and orange anyway?" "ZOMG...

May 12, 2025

Weekend Motorsports Roundup, Dec. 20-21, 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 offseason is officially upon us....

May 12, 2025