Please, Make An IndyCar Make-Up Race At Circuit Of The Americas Happen

IndyCar has been sent scrambling for a make-up race after their season opener at Brasília was , and it sounds like Circuit of the Americas may be in the running. Excellent. If NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yards) are a thing, can I be a WIMBY? Circuit of the Americas...

May 14, 2025

The Nismo GT-R GT3 Has Air Conditioning For Your Butt

Some endurance racing series are now requiring air conditioning as a way to prevent driver fatigue. How do these systems work? In the Nismo GT-R GT3 car, one pipe goes into the helmet, one goes into the seat and the other pipe goes wherever the driver wants to stick it....

May 14, 2025

This Is The Best Place You Can Possibly Stick A Reminder In A Race Car

Everyone knows that the only gauge that really matters in a race car is the tachometer, so why not remind yourself not to be an idiot right on the gauge? Let's be honest, the temptation for full-on stupidity is real in the heat of a race. This reminder is far...

May 14, 2025

The Mexican Grand Prix Is Losing One Of Its Most Infamous Turns

Sky Sports sent Ted Kravitz to check up on the progress for the Formula One race at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City, and brings some bad news: yes, they're chopping up the Peraltada to go into a thoroughly cheesy stadium section. Granted, the Peraltada isn't the only turn...

May 14, 2025

Red Bull Should Keep The Rad Zebra Camo Stripes As A Livery

Red Bull brought its RB11 2015 Formula One car out in camo to test at Jerez this weekend. Sure, it's a bit terrible in terms of sponsor visibility, but can we keep it anyway? Seriously? The camo looks fantastic. Red Bull has always had one of the easier Formula One...

May 14, 2025

That Car Nissan Just Showed Is The Crazy GT-R Nismo LMP1 Car

Wonder what that magical, be-winged beast from Nissan's commercial is? It's the car that Nissan plans to campaign in the World Endurance Championship's top LMP1 class. We've running before, but it's finally here, revealed and in the flesh. So, what about this car makes it so special? When we first...

May 14, 2025

Naked Nissan LMP1 Car Shows Off Its Crazy Front-Engine Design

When you strip off the bodywork, the LMP1 car looks even more unreal. These are the first clear shots I've seen that really show the engineering going on in the car, from its cab rear-ward design to its venting front diffuser to oh man are those turbos mounted right on...

May 14, 2025

The Nissan GT-R LM Nismo Is A Front-Wheel-Drive 1,250-hp Le Mans Racer

We've finally seen it in , and now Nissan finally released detailed shots of its World Endurance Championship LMP1 competitor along with more video of it in motion. This is the Nissan GT-R LM Nismo, the radically different car which Nissan hopes will win Le Mans. With the ad's official...

May 14, 2025

The Bathurst 12 Hour Is A Magical Land With A Candy-Liveried V8 Mazda3

What could make a Mazda3 more delicious? Candy, for one. Also, a V8 for good measure. Have we mentioned that the fellows at MARC have done this before with a humble V8, rear-wheel-drive Focus, and that they're running all of these cars in the Bathurst 12 Hour this weekend? Aww...

May 14, 2025

Watch The Nissan GT-R LM Nismo Burble And Pop Around The Track Some More

caught some extra footage of Nissan's Le Mans race car at Circuit of the Americas that didn't all make it into the Super Bowl yesterday. Here's that LMP1 in action. Enjoy. Not all of it has sound, but the combination of popping, gurgling and electrical whirring when sound was captured...

May 14, 2025

Ken Block's 2015 Paint Scheme Is SPACE

Ken Block isn't just content to jump cars into the air. He's going to space. This is his 2015 livery, as seen on his bizonko gajillion horsepower rallycross Fiesta. The graphics are halfway to Lisa Frank. More than that, though, they're a bit of a callback to Ken's wife's rally...

May 14, 2025

Where Is Porsche's LMP1 Engine Going?

Porsche, more than almost any other Le Mans team, keeps pretty close ties between the engines in its race cars and those in its road cars. So, uh, what's going on with the V4 in the 919 LMP1 hybrid? To back up my earlier claim about road car/race car links,...

May 14, 2025

Enjoy Winter Driving Perfection At Sno*Drift Rally 2015

As the snow falls outside, let's take a minute and revel in the perfection of AWD rally cars slaying sideways at this past weekend's Sno*Drift Rally in Michigan. This was the opener of the 2015 Rally America season and it was handily dominated by the new from Vermont Sports Car....

May 14, 2025

IndyCar Won't Be Racing Anywhere On March 8

According to Curt Cavin of the , there won't be a for IndyCar's now-cancelled date at . The March 29 race at St. Petersburg will now be the first IndyCar race for 2015. Simply put, nothing could work on this short of a notice. Circuit of the Americas was in...

May 14, 2025

There May Be No F1 German Grand Prix This Year

Bernie Ecclestone's letter to the newspaper claims that a German Formula One Grand Prix even at the back-up venue of Hockenheim won't be "commercially viable" because "attendance has been so low for the past few years." Ouch. Last we heard, the contract for the German Grand Prix went to Hockenheim...

May 14, 2025