Double-Amputee Alex Zanardi Will Share A Car For The 24 Hours Of Spa

BMW plans to modify a Z4 GT3 not only to accommodate world's double-amputee Alex Zanardi, but other drivers as well. According to , the team will participate in the 2015 Total 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, but the team has an interesting design challenge to make it work. How can a...

Aug 15, 2025

"Track Night In America" Is Like Happy Hour For Track Rats

Ah, late afternoon: a time for all the half-priced queso you can drink eat. There's one problem with most happy hours, though: driving afterwards tends to be a bad idea. That is, unless driving is the happy hour. Behold, the Sports Car Club of America's "Track Night In America" program....

Aug 15, 2025

How Fast Are Those Funny-Looking IndyCars, Really?

We've seen the new for this year, but how do the cars drive with all those fancy add-ons? Well, for one, they make Barber Motorsports Park look like a go-kart track when they run it in what appears to be fast-forward. Here's an onboard from this week's test. Enjoy. Welcome...

Aug 15, 2025

Let's Take A Video Tour Of Toyota's Secret Race Car Vault

Toyota Motorsport GmbH in Cologne, Germany is one of Toyota's two official racing arms. Whatever Toyota needs for the purpose of going fast — engines, chassis, concept cars, entire race cars — they can build it. So you can imagine they've amassed over the years. For their latest video, our...

Aug 15, 2025

A Hot Lap At Spa With Lots Of Pedal Action In A Lotus 2-Eleven

Lotus is currently developing a brand new 2-Eleven , and if it's going to be faster than its predecessor, we're in for a good one. If you're looking for a track-focused sports car that's significantly lighter and cheaper than a , but faster than a, you can get a single-seater...

Aug 15, 2025

I'm At The 12 Hours Of Sebring (And Supposedly Have To Lick Magnus' Car)

Welcome to the 12 Hours of Sebring, the one place where you wish you'd dressed up as a cow and where all kinds of marvelous wonders await you on track. Oh, and supposedly I have to lick a car. Tudor United SportsCar is the flagship twelve-hour event, but we've got...

Aug 15, 2025

DeltaWing Plans To Race A Pointy-Nosed GT Race Car By The End Of 2015

We last heard of the DeltaWing Technologies' consortium of mad scientists in their plans to for car sharing. Not only is the arrowhead-shaped road car moving right along, but they plan to make a GT race car based on that shared pointy chassis. The DeltaWing concept was all about unparalleled...

Aug 15, 2025

German Grand Prix Cancelled, Nothing Is Sacred In F1

Yet again the world is reminded that nothing is sacred in Formula 1. The German Grand Prix isn't on the 2015 race calendar. Not the Nürburgring. Not Hockenheim. Nothing. This has been a developing drama over the past few months. Normally the German GP alternates between the 'Ring and Hockenheim,...

Aug 15, 2025

Ask Team Falken Porsche 911 Driver Bryan Sellers Anything

Bryan Sellers is one of the three drivers in the Team Falken Porsche 911 RSR this weekend at the 12 Hours of Sebring, sharing a car with Wolf Henzler and Patrick Long. He's also here to answer any questions you'd like about the car, Sellers is one of Falken Tire's...

Aug 15, 2025

Bathing In Your Own Sweat Sucks Way Less When You Win The Race

Modern race cars often come equipped with cool suits that circulate water through tubes close to the driver's skin, making hot, muggy locales like Sebring somewhat bearable. Sometimes they fail. Stevenson Motorsports' number 6 Chevrolet Camaro became a rolling sauna on the grid, but they won anyway. The number 6...

Aug 15, 2025

This Is The Greatest Beard In The Sebring Paddock

We're suckers for , and this, this, ladies and germs, is how you do a beard. One of the crewmembers on the Austin-based CJ Wilson Racing team knows the ways and secrets of The Beard. This is by far the best beard I've seen in the paddock. The team's MX-5...

Aug 15, 2025

World's Greenest Car Wins Pole For 12 Hours Of Sebring

The absolute greenest (look at it, man) car on the grid won pole for the 12 Hours of Sebring: the number 57 Ligier JS P2 Judd of Krohn Racing. Olivier Pla put down a stonking fast lap that put Kermit's race car on pole. Krohn just started racing the JS...

Aug 15, 2025

Weekend Motorsports Roundup, Mar. 21-22, 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? We're at the this weekend, and...

Aug 15, 2025

Entire Side Of Car Gets Ripped Off In Crash At The 12 Hours Of Sebring

The 12 Hours of Sebring has barely started and it's already completely crazy. Michael Shank Racing's Ozz Negri almost came into contact with the Team Falken Tire Porsche 911, but hit something way worse. Negri caught the curb trying to get around the 911 on the inside, and the curb...

Aug 15, 2025

A Dude Just Got Ran Over At The 12 Hours Of Sebring

The number 16 Prototype Challenge car of BAR1 Motorsports just ran a dude over on live TV. BAR1's car was trying to leave the pits side-by-side with the Krohn Racing P2 car and unfortunately, there was a crew member in the way working on the Fifty Plus Racing car. DUDE-RUN-OVER...

Aug 15, 2025