The Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Looks Like A Beast To Handle

MMM. Cold tires on a moist track. Here’s footage of the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 that was revealed yesterday in action. It looks like they hand-picked all the slip-slidiest moments for our amusement, but it definitely makes this car look like a bit of a handful. Cars going straight on a...

May 13, 2025

The Unbelievably Slick Roads Of Rallye Monte Carlo

The Rallye Monte Carlo starts today, and the roads these WRC drivers are going to have to contend with are unreal. This video is from shakedown (in which returning nine-time champion Sebastien Loeb blitzed the rest of the field), and it shows just how slippery these mountain roads are even...

May 13, 2025

I'm Going To The Rolex 24 At Daytona This Weekend And It's Going To Rule

This weekend is the legen— wait for it—dary Rolex 24 at Daytona, and I'll be there covering it for Jalopnik. Fifty-three entries will be battling for wins in four classes, with 196 drivers from 27 different countries—and that's just in the feature United SportsCar race. [Full disclosure: I'm BMW's guest...

May 13, 2025

Personal Nightmare Jeff Gordon To Retire From NASCAR After 2015

Four time Sprint Cup champion and Jeff Gordon will retire from full time NASCAR racing after the 2015 season. Gordon told his team this morning that this is the end of his full time Sprint Cup career, which presumably means he's going to spend his after this season getting revenge...

May 13, 2025

Sebastien Loeb Showed Up The Entire Rally Establishment In Just 13 Miles

Nine-time world champion Sebastien Loeb is making a one-off return to the WRC in 2015 for the season opener Rallye Monte Carlo. He crossed the finish line of the first stage only minutes ago and, uh, holy crap. On the 13 mile (21.31km) stage, Loeb was 22 seconds quicker than...

May 13, 2025

The Perils of Driver Changes

a Volkswagen-diesel-powered Porsche 911 that competes in the 24 Hours of LeMons, seems to be . In this case, the team provides us with a gentle headbutt for our review and amusement. This, ladies and germs, is the peril of working in a tiny space. Driver swaps outside of the...

May 13, 2025

Robert Kubica Did Not Crash Out Of The Monte

Robert Kubica (bad news) is out of day one of the Rallye Monte Carlo but (good news) it's not because he crashed! Dude has electrical problems and will have to rejoin the rally tomorrow with a healthy time penalty. He also spun at some point. Dammit, Robert. Top Photo Credit:...

May 13, 2025

Twin Turbo Honda V6 In A Carbon Fiber Chassis Gets Pole At Daytona

A twin turbo Honda V6 like the one in your Accord just got pole at the Daytona 24. The Honda HR28TT (derived from the Honda J35 series of production engines and including the stock oil filter of all things) was stuffed in the middle of , if you're curious. reports...

May 13, 2025

This Is What It Looks Like When You Drive Into A Bunch Of Flying Tires

Spec Racer Ford driver Eric Vassian not only caught a major wipe-out in front of him at the Sports Car Club of America Majors race at Sebring, he caught a lot of debris to the face. Welcome to , a feature where we spend that pesky time between race weekends...

May 13, 2025

Watch Rally's Sneaky Bastard Champion Pull A Trick On His Rivals

VW's top rally driver Sébastien Ogier is the reigning double world champion, so he's the first driver on the road at today's Rallye Monte Carlo. Here's the sneaky trick that lets him pull. The thing is, being first on the road is a disadvantage in the Monte. It means you're...

May 13, 2025

Breaking News: Sébastien Loeb Makes Mistake

This is going to be hard to believe but Sébastien Loeb has made a mistake while driving. Yes, the nine-time WRC champion whose record is so clean that I could wipe my ass with it. He had a slight crash. Basically, he went sideways on special stage 8 on some...

May 13, 2025

Ask Mazda Diesel Prototype Racers Nunez and Bomarito Anything

Remember that wonderful ? Mazda carried over the development from that car into a wonderful diesel-powered prototype racer. We've got Jonathan Bomarito and Tristan Nunez who are racing that prototype at the Rolex 24 here to answer all your questions. What do you want to know? The SpeedSource-run prototype is,...

May 13, 2025

Watch The Winningest Rally Driver Ever Fix His Car With Ratchet Straps

You don't become a nine-time world rally champion by letting other people do all the work for you. Even when, you know, you shatter your suspension. This is Sébastien Loeb and codriver Daniel Elena fixing their Citroën on the Monte today with ratchet straps. What's funny is how often you...

May 13, 2025

MAX ATTACK!!!! At Rallye Monte Carlo

The Rallye Monte Carlo is on its second day today and the drivers are pushing as you can well see! Today's stages have been pretty brutal with multiple drivers crashing or breaking on stage, including Loeb, Kubica, and Meeke. I am extremely excited right now for rally! ...

May 13, 2025

Why Everyone Is Freaking Out About Driver Rankings: An Explainer

What are driver rankings, and why have they become such a controversial subject? In order to keep racing fair, the FIA created a system that's so unfair to some drivers that they fight to be ranked lower than their skill, which explains how a guy who won the Rolex 24...

May 13, 2025