Flames To The Face! Onboard The Nissan LMP1 GT-R LM

Modern top-level prototype racecars have notoriously bad, gunslit visibility. The adds a level of complexity with flames. Flames to the face. Nismo's LMP1 car is front-engined, with exhausts mounted up front as well, exiting right in the driver's line of sight. I might be perhaps a touch distracted by this...

May 15, 2025

Meet Carmen Jordá, Lotus' New Development Driver

Lotus has announced that Carmen Jordá is its new development driver for the year. Could she beat Susie Wolff to a Formula One drive? We're not sure, but it's pretty awesome to see another woman nudging closer to competing in F1. Lotus says Jordá will focus on simulator and fitness...

May 15, 2025

Weekend Motorsports Roundup, Feb. 28 - Mar. 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? The big event of the weekend...

May 15, 2025

Ex-F1, Le Mans Winning Driver Jochen Mass Is Now Posting On Twitter

Jochen Mass's list of driving accomplishments is as long as his is currently short, including a Le Mans win all the way up to the fact that he in Rush. He's slowly getting the hang of this social media thing and posted something delightful for our amusement today: some vintage...

May 15, 2025

Stolen NASCAR Race Car Found In Suburban Atlanta

Good news for Travis Kvapil! According to , the Team Xtreme race car Kvapil was supposed to race at Atlanta Motor Speedway was found early today by the side of the road northwest of Atlanta in Gwinnett County, Georgia, twenty miles from where it was stolen. Team owner John Cohen...

May 15, 2025

Racing On Your Home Track Will Prove That You Know Nothing

Aww, yes: Harris Hill Road. My car lives here. I live here. (I have an apartment for stuff, but...haha, no.) This race is like the 12 Hours of My Couch. My Porschelump 944 should Just kidding. I have no idea what I’m doing in race traffic. Not. A. Clue. The...

May 15, 2025

Maldonado Bins It At Barcelona-Catalunya's Turn Four In Formula One Test

Has Lotus Formula One driver Pastor Maldonado crashed today? . Maldonado ate it outside Turn 4 in testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya today. Thankfully, Maldonado is okay, however, his had to be reset. Maldonado was having a good, quick run where he claimed to be gaining confidence in the...

May 15, 2025

Jeff Gordon Is Not Having A Good Final Year In NASCAR

Poor Jeff Gordon. He announced he would be and hasn't had a good race yet. Today's race was relatively tame by NASCAR standards, but nope. Gordon's car got crumpled into a sad little NASBALL once again. Last week, he got caught in the huge at the end of the Daytona...

May 15, 2025

Snow Makes 24 Hours Of LeMons Practice A Big, Hilarious Drifty Mess

The best weather we had all weekend for the 24 Hours of LeMons' North Dallas Hooptie race at Eagles Canyon Raceway was a few inches of powdery snow during the practice day. Needless to say, the race didn't happen, but a few of us went out for practice laps, anyway....

May 15, 2025

NASCAR Official Eats It On Live TV

An eight-car pileup late in the Sprint Cup Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 required a quick cleanup for the race to finish under green. One unlucky official picking up a piece of debris at Atlanta Motor Speedway today got caught tripping over his own feet on the live broadcast. Oops....

May 15, 2025

Stop Everything You're Doing And Love Stadium Super Trucks

is, by far and away, the perfect race series for someone who cares for nothing about racing. Do you really care which driver hates which? No. Do you really care whose dad was whose? No. Do you even care who wins? Not really. But it's loud, it's fast, it's slidey,...

May 15, 2025

Red Bull Racing F1 Car Is Purple For 2015

RBR ran this year, but now that testing is over, the team can show off its race colors. Turns out, they're significantly purple. What's not red, yellow, and blue, as in past years is purple. This has been the trend for the team since 2013 (ever since Infiniti started to...

May 15, 2025

Kurt Busch Signs Terms For His Return To NASCAR After Suspension

reports this morning that Kurt Busch has signed NASCAR's terms and conditions for the series' consideration of his reinstatement as a driver following his . The suspension still holds in the meantime, however, there is the possibility that Busch will return to the grid. NASCAR suspended Busch after the Family...

May 15, 2025

Max Chilton Will Bring Daddy's Money To Nissan's Insane Le Mans Racer

Max Chilton will join the illustrious ranks of ex-Formula One drivers who've said, "screw you guys, I'm racing Le Mans." Per , Chilton just scored a full-time drive in the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO LMP1-class World Endurance Championship racer along with Alex Buncombe. Max Chilton is most famous for being...

May 15, 2025

Meet The Man Who Rescued The Marussia F1 Team With Dolla Dolla Billz

No one expected the Marussia Formula One team to make it on to the grid this year, yet here we are in March, watching the team name as its first driver and going on its plans to make it to the Australian Grand Prix. Ovo Energy founder Stephen Fitzpatrick is...

May 15, 2025