NASCAR Driver Kurt Busch Will Not Be Charged For Domestic Assault

According to Associated Press motorsports reporter , the Delaware Department of Justice has announced today that they will not be pressing criminal charges against NASCAR driver Kurt Busch over that Busch strangled and smashed ex-girlfriend Patricia Driscoll's head against a wall. The incident allegedly occurred in Busch's motorhome at Dover...

May 15, 2025

The Audi R18 At Sebring Will Loosen Every Filling In Your Unworthy Mouth

Audi its LMP1-class R18 e-tron quattro at Sebring, where the surface is just old and bumpy enough to be a good, proper shakedown—and we do mean shake. Watch as the R18 skips along the surface, rattling the driver inside. According to Marshall Pruett over at , the R18 e-tron quattro...

May 15, 2025

We're At The Pirelli World Challenge Season Opener All This Weekend

Pirelli World Challenge features one of the most in America. The Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy (read: all wonderful Porsche Cup cars) is running this weekend, too. Patrick and I will be covering the event all weekend long, and here's why you should pay attention (even from home). This weekend, it's...

May 15, 2025

Bad Idea Funtime: Could You Corner Balance A Car With Truck Nutz?

My 944 has a problem: when the gas tank starts to empty, I've ruined its perfect 50-50 weight balance by taking off the heavy glass hatch. I don't have any fancy-schmancy metal ballast just lying around, however, I could probably source quite a few Truck Nutz. Many people are able...

May 15, 2025

Ask K-PAX McLaren 650S GT3 Factory Driver Kévin Estre Anything You Want

I love the McLaren 650S. You love the McLaren 650S. Inevitably, you want to know what it's like to race said McLaren 650S. We've got the member of the K-PAX/Flying Lizard Motorsports Pirelli World Challenge team who's been driving the 650S the longest to answer all your questions right now....

May 15, 2025

Rally Crew Missing For 17 Minutes After Driver Crashes Into Lake

Rally Mexico has not gotten off to a good start. Ford's WRC team lost contact for 17 minutes with their crew after Estonian driver Ott Tänak rolled off the road into a lake. These pictures are only just arriving on the web from the . Tänak and his co-driver did...

May 15, 2025

Driving A Rally Stage With A Flat Tire Suuuuuuuuucks

All of those beautiful rally yumps and drifts rely on one crucial component: tires. When you have a busted tire, it makes everything completely miserable. Ride along with the Troy Motorsports Ford Fiesta R2 as it struggles to move in a straight line on the Scotia North stage of the...

May 15, 2025

Jeff Gordon Smashes NASCAR Pole Record At Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Good news for Gordon fans: he's not only on pole, but he set a Sprint Cup track record for Las Vegas Motor Speedway doing it. According to , Gordon's car hit a speed of 194.679 mph in a 27.738-second lap of the 1.5-mile speedway. I wouldn't be surprised if the...

May 15, 2025

Weekend Motorsports Roundup, Mar. 7-8, 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? This weekend, we're at the ,...

May 15, 2025

The MOMO Livery Contest Winners Look Even Better In Person

The Jalopnik Bump lives on! We've left our mark right at the front of the Momo Ferrari 458 and Porsche 911 that received the treatment during the Pirelli World Challenge offseason. Here are the livery contest winners. Ya done good, Internet. Ya done real good. Eduardo Cisneros' GT Cup Porsche...

May 15, 2025

Tony Stewart, Enemy Of ISIS, Had His Track Website Hacked

Tony Stewart's Eldora Speedway briefly showed this message around 2:00 p.m. Saturday purporting to be from ISIS. The message appeared in place of its usual graphics, complete with irritating autoplay audio of an Arabic song. According to , the Arabic logo reads, "There is no God, but God." Two Cincinnati...

May 15, 2025

This Onboard Of A Rally Car Crashing Into A Lake Is Utterly Terrifying

Crashing is bad enough. Rolling down a hill into a lake is probably the worst case scenario, ever. Here's the onboard footage from the crash where driver Ott Tänak and codriver Raigo Mōldar plowed nose-forward off the track and rolled into a reservoir during the World Rally Championship's Rally Mexico....

May 15, 2025

How To Completely Bork A Standing Race Start

One of the most, erm, challenging things about Pirelli World Challenge is the standing start. Either your reactions are on their A-game and your car is working as it should or you're going to be left behind. Let's look at when that all goes wrong, shall we? This was from...

May 15, 2025

Sorry, Jeff Gordon: No Front-Row Start For You At Las Vegas

Jeff Gordon's returned during the last practice session for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Kobalt 400 this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. A in the final practice session yesterday will force Gordon to use a back-up car for the race, and thus, he must start from the back of the...

May 15, 2025

Nutz For A Cause: This B-Spec Car With Truck Nutz Is The Best Thing Ever

When I joked about with Truck Nutz, I had no idea I'd actually find a pair in the Pirelli World Challenge paddock. Many race cars race in support of charities, but Timothy Mincey Sr.'s Testicular Cancer Foundation-sponsored car is particularly on the ball(s) with it. Look at deez nutz. Look...

May 15, 2025