Dion Von Moltke Tells TEDx How To Make It As A Pro Race Car Driver

TEDx talks are, admittedly, . Surprise! Here's one worth listening to. It's Flying Lizard driver Dion von Moltke explaining both how he got his start in racing as well as what it takes to make a living doing it. Von Moltke's start in racing was a tad crashy, to say...

May 12, 2025

Watch A Formula Continental Start From The Back Row And End Up First

Formula car racing is nuts. Your bum is mere inches off the ground and the wheels and suspension are right there, out in the open. Graze your competitors a bit in a pass and your race is usually over. Here's a guy who makes twelve clean passes to work up...

May 12, 2025

Ex-F1 Doctor Claims FIA Tried To Have Him Fired Over Blog Posts

Dr. Gary Hartstein's blog, A Former F1 Doc Writes, is an excellent resource for anyone interested in motorsports and medicine. Unfortunately, FIA Institute President Gérard Saillant that these posts violated Hartstein's contract with his current day job at the University Hospital of Liège. Full disclosure: we've Hartstein's posts here several...

May 12, 2025

How To Win At Tacky Christmas Sweaters in NASCAR

Dale Earnhardt Jr. knows the reason for the Christmas season, and girlfriend Amy Reimann knows, um...how reindeer procreate in threes? While several of the Hendrick Motorsports drivers have this year, it's clear that Dale Jr. knocked it out of the park. Dale and Amy decked their bods with holly jolliness...

May 12, 2025

Team Radio Proves Hamilton Was Suspicious About Rosberg's Off At Monaco

Let's be honest, stuff like this is why the idea of limiting team radio communication was a bad idea. Lewis Hamilton's team radio during Monaco qualifying in the official Formula One 2014 season review proves that Hamilton believes Rosberg went off intentionally to screw him out of pole. At the...

May 12, 2025

Proof That Doug DeMuro's Next Car Should Be A Delta Integrale

The Lancia Delta Integrale makes a pants-on-head bonkers rally car, and it sounds amazing. Bonus: rally cars are street legal for transit stages anyway. Clearly, I have found . In my fruitless attempts to steer him towards a nice, sensible 911 GT3 Cup that would be far out of his...

May 12, 2025

This Crash Will Make Your Butt Cheeks Clench Hard Enough To Crack Pecans

Night rallies don't have the best visibility to begin with. Add snow, and you have far less grip and stopping power than usual. Add a car out on course that you can see, but can't stop for and it's the stuff of nightmares. You can see the car coming down...

May 12, 2025

The Offseason Is Forcing Us To Watch Fights In Other Sports

Oh, bless our hearts. Each and every one of us. Here, have a MASSIVE St. Louis Rams vs. New York Giants brawl: Man, that'd be seven figures worth of assorted small fines in NASCAR, and probably some time off to boot. (Photoshopped Harvick, however, won't be fined.) Is it January...

May 12, 2025

Fifteen Ways To Get On A Race Track With Ze Germans

Achtung! Bockwurst! Paffenstücken! That's not even a real word! Anyway, there's something to be said about the many, many German cars you see at the track. Some marques and models even have their own racing series. Others just make a glorious noise at full throttle. Here are a variety of...

May 12, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: This Is Nissan's Front-Engine GT-R LM Nismo Le Mans Racer

Nissan will be heading to the this year, with what we believe to be a reveal of their new race car set for the . We can't wait that long, so here's our exclusive early look at what the new Nissan GT-R LM NISMO, aka Nissan's new LMP1 car, will...

May 12, 2025

One Year Of Onboard Action Compiled Into 18 Minutes Of Pure Envy

Driver Gunnar Jeannette is one of the luckiest dudes in the world. As a professional driver and the son of famed Porsche restorer Kevin Jeannette, he has access to toys most of us only dream about. Here's a delightfully diverse collection of his onboard laps assembled for our enjoyment. See...

May 12, 2025

Every Driving School In America

My experience at at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was one of the highlights of my year. Of course it was — what gearhead doesn't want to go to a driving school, where they learn how to fling cars around racetracks under the watchful eye of pro drivers? The good news...

May 12, 2025

Why A Front-Mid-Engined Le Mans Prototype Is A Freak Of Nature

We uncovered the GT-R LM Nismo Le Mans prototype and you may be wondering, "Tons of cars have the engine in front of the driver, so what's the big deal?" Well, a quick survey of all the other Le Mans entrants in the past decade show that this is just...

May 12, 2025

Lotus F1 Pays Kimi Räikkönen So Late He Doesn't Even Work There Anymore

Lotus F1 just paid Finnish former F1 world champion Kimi Räikkönen. Lotus was so late in their payment that Kimi hasn't actually driven for them in over a year. Kimi famously sat out the final races of the 2013 season for a back surgery. A 'back surgery.' reports that this...

May 12, 2025

A Prison May Be Moving Across From Miller Motorsports Park

Strange news coming out of Tooele, Utah: the land across the street from Miller Motorsports Park could house the enormous new Utah State Prison. The site is selected for the new facility that could replace the state's largest prison. Race tracks tend to have a tenuous relationship with their neighbors...

May 12, 2025