Watch A Masterclass In Rear-Wheel Drive Car Control

This is what happens when you enter a 1975 Dodge Dart hillclimb car in a snowbound rallycross. You get a masterclass of car control. Dennis Motorsports runs this car and here's his caption for the video. The Dart was ret-un-retired for the 2015 Stafford RallyCross. It is a 1975 Dodge...

May 14, 2025

24 Hour Races Prove That Sleeping In A Bed Is For Losers

Oh, you got to sleep in a nice warm bed during the Rolex 24? That's nice. When did your car break? In overnight endurance races, if your team isn't awkwardly passing out in the paddock, there's a good chance that you've already lost. Here's our mega-gallery of folks who couldn't...

May 14, 2025

IndyCar Didn't Even Know Brazil Was Canceling Its Season Opener

According to , IndyCar's season opener at the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet in Brasília has been canceled. Brazilian reports suggest that the government agency that owns the track itself and was funding the event pulled out at the last minute, leaving IndyCar's March 8 opener without a home. Brazilian TV...

May 14, 2025

Here's Proof That Citroën Cloned Loeb To Create Sebastian Ogier

And Volkswagen is enjoying the benefits! ...

May 14, 2025

Toyota Returns To WRC In 2017!

The future of the World Rally Championship just got brighter as Toyota announced it will enter the 2017 season , challenging Volkswagen on two fronts in motorsport. The car is being developed and built by in Germany and was tested already by several drivers including Frenchman Eric Camilli, the first...

May 14, 2025

Ferrari's "Sexy" New F1 Car Has A Cheese Grater On The Back

Scuderia Ferrari launched its , which team principal Maurizio Arrivabene describes as "sexy." Somehow they've managed to make sharp looking vents and gills look incredibly sexy, indeed. And look, an Alfa Romeo logo on a Ferrari! While we've all been giggling about the car being the "S-FIST," Ferrari managed to...

May 14, 2025

This Is How Photographers Get Those Gorgeous Shots Of Race Cars [UPDATE]

You ever see a photo of a pair of Aston Martin race cars screaming down the track, and you wonder "how did they get that shot? Did they strap a guy to the wing of a third race car? Is that definitely what happened?" Well, no. That's not what happened....

May 14, 2025

Sauber Paints Its F1 Car An Actual Color; IKEA Fans Everywhere Rejoice

While many other Formula One teams this year are content with thinking "50 Shades of Grey" is a design mantra, Sauber does it right and gives us a that's in a color! An actual color! Here's Sauber's cheerful blue and yellow 2015 car, sure to conjure up images of cheap...

May 14, 2025

Wayne Taylor Racing Loses 3rd Place At Rolex 24 For Drive Time Violation

Turns out, the Wayne Taylor Racing team actually did go over the for team member Jordan Taylor to drive in the last hours of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. IMSA announced today that they will move WTR to last place in the Prototype class results for the violation. IMSA had...

May 14, 2025

Shut The Front Door, Here's A Fiat Multipla Formula 1 Transporter

Toro Rosso has an F1 car transporter that's run by the front half of a Fiat Multipla. So cool. ...

May 14, 2025

Own One Of The Go-Karts That Got Ayrton Senna Into Racing

Want to own a true piece of history? How about one of the karts that got Ayrton Senna into racing? has one of Senna's karts up for auction soon, a 1981 DAP kart, chassis number DAP BH 33. According to the listing, it's the last kart Senna ever drove in...

May 14, 2025

The Porsches Of Rallye Monte Carlo

Three Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars entered the Rallye Monte Carlo this year. They were glorious. Here they are on the final switchbacks of the last stage. Here they are on ice. And here they are sounding glorious. The top finisher of the three was Francois Delecour in the Internet-famous...

May 14, 2025

Max Attack! The Ultimate Flat-Out Rally Fly By

This. Is. Rally. Well, it's not just rally. It's one of the most passed around rallying clips of the past three years. Here's what you're actually looking at. This is ex-F1 driver Robert Kubica at the Rallye di Como in 2012 in a Citroën C4 WRC. . It was one...

May 14, 2025

Oh No, NASCAR Offended The Glutens! Over 14,000 People Can't Take A Joke

NBC just put out a for NASCAR that is the perfect ultra-'Murican celebration of everything hilarious and rad about the sport. However, the Internet Offense Squad got so up in arms about the ad's line about gluten that they're now petitioning for its removal. The ad decries the wussification of...

May 14, 2025

Weekend Motorsports Roundup, Jan. 31 - Feb. 1, 2015

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? Hey, remember those about something happening...

May 14, 2025