Race Cars Make A Legal Touge Run To Satisfy The Otaku In All Of Us

Everyone has those "Initial D" fantasies of touge domination, only the fact that it's highly, highly illegal to race on public roads gets in the way. Motorhead Magazine shut down approximately five miles of the Mazda Turnpike up Hagone Mountain to whet that appetite legally. Turn up the volume, and...

May 13, 2025

American Alex Kihurani's Season In The European Rally Championship

Rally co-driver Alex Kihurani was tired of losing to dudes from across the pond, so he decided to spend some time in Europe to study their tricks. If you haven't been following his "The European Rally Championship Gets Americanized" series, you should fix that right now. Here's the full series...

May 13, 2025

I Autocrossed My LeMons Race Car And That May Have Been A Terrible Idea

Even if you primarily do other forms of racing, autocross can be a great place to shake down a car. You get to toss the car around at its limit like a total hooligan in the company of other car geeks. If things go wrong, you're in good, knowledgeable company....

May 13, 2025

Composite Image Shows Just How Similar Le Mans Prototypes Have Become

Underneath the space-age bodywork, these cars are worlds apart, but you have to admit that the exterior design has become pretty standardized among the Porsche, Audi and Toyota LMP1-class World Endurance Championship cars. Short nose. Bulbous headlamps. Tiny, somewhat forward driver's cockpit. Engine behind driver. Large wing for downforce. Large...

May 13, 2025

Forget Your Fancy Race Car. You Need A FWD Hatchback For Rain Domination

Your fancy-schmancy Caterham, TVR or even Miata won't do you any good when the heavens open up and the clouds take a big wet dump all over your race track. You need something with more traction. An engine over the drive wheels, perhaps. You need a front-wheel-drive hatch. Welcome to...

May 13, 2025

Brumos Racing Is Back, Sort Of, Thanks To Dempsey/Wright Motorsports

Anyone who loves seeing those classic red and blue stripes got a boatload of sadness last year when Grand-Am team Brumos Racing decided to sit out the first year of the TUDOR United SportsCar series. Brumos might not be back as a team per se, but Dempsey/Wright Motorsports will bring...

May 13, 2025

Former F1 And Le Mans Driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise Dead At 77

Ex-Matra and BRM Formula One driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise from a stroke while on vacation in Dakar, Senegal, according to reports. Beltoise'sin racing started in Motorcycle Grand Prix, went to F1, and included fourteen appearances at Le Mans. He was 77. The high point of Beltoise's Formula One career was BRM's...

May 13, 2025

Why Penis Noses Got Banned From F1 In 2015

Last year's Formula One noses were enough to give you nightmares of being attacked by a phallic object that has absolutely nothing to do with body of work. Fortunately, the FIA agrees: no, the wasn't actually safe, and has been banned in 2015 per the rules. The regulations that required...

May 13, 2025

PSA: There Is No Such Thing As A "Spoiler" In Motorsports

Now that and the Roar Before the 24 is coming up fast, it's time for us to post a friendly reminder: . We're not going to give you "spoiler warnings" on races because that's not a concept that applies to live news. Of course, we're not talking about big wings...

May 13, 2025

Turner Returns To United SportsCar After Z4 Gets Horsepower Bump

Surprise! Turner Motorsports announced today that they're now going to run a full season in TUDOR United SportsCar. The Z4 GT3 that they run just got a rather Balance of Performance adjustment. That may or may not be related, but we're glad Turner's back, anyway. According to , Turner will...

May 13, 2025

Was This Really The World's Most Dangerous Sport?

You know a sport is tough when the announcer is frankly amazed everyone made it out of the competition alive. And it's 1955. Certainly there are some moments in this short film on motorized ski racing that look, uh, not exactly safe. The part where the Porsche 550 loses it...

May 13, 2025

The 1000 Horsepower Ford Turbo Engine Nobody Remembers

You would think that a 1000 horsepower Formula 1 engine would get a bit more press than this. You're looking at the Ford TEC, also known a the Cosworth GBA. Designed by the same guy who helped create the legendary Cosworth DFV V8, this was a 1.5 liter twin-turbo V6...

May 13, 2025

FIA Releases Tougher F1 Superlicense Rules To Prevent Future Verstappens

Max, baby—uh, wait, that's not what we mean—it's not that we don't love you, it's just that there are about your age and experience level. The FIA released more stringent criteria for earning a Formula One Superlicense today, which fans have unofficially dubbed the "Verstappen Rule." While age is in...

May 13, 2025

The Toyota Supra Rally Car That Time Forgot

Toyota built a Group A Mk III Supra and ran it in the toughest World Rally Championship event on the planet! Here is the car's very much forgotten story. Up until the early 2000s, the WRC included the Safari Rally. The event ran for hundreds of miles across East Africa...

May 13, 2025

Kevin Magnussen Won't Be Driving In Formula One Free Practice This Year

Poor K-Mag. Maybe it's because McLaren is so focused on getting the new Honda power units down right, but test driver Kevin Magnussen won't be participating in Friday practices like the other test drivers in Formula One. Magnussen revealed this sad tidbit in a response to a fan: I'll admit...

May 13, 2025