Tasting Notes: #44 Magnus Racing Porsche 911

Porsche 911 GT America: Smells like vinyl and automotive cleaner. Taste is faint, but revolting. Tastes primarily like old socks, with hints of rubber and grit in the mix. Has a numbing effect on the tongue once done. The varmint has been entirely cleaned up now, so it does taste...

Aug 15, 2025

Jochen Mass Took Out A Lister With A Mercedes 300 SLS

Of course, the saddest crash ever comes from the , where racing legend accidentally bumped into a Lister while racing in the Salvadori Cup. Mass was all excited about racing the priceless Mercedes racer, but then this happened: Then, unfortunately, this happened. It appears as though the Lister wanted into...

Aug 15, 2025

12 Hours Of Sebring Ends With Total Chaos In GTD Class

"There's no such thing as endurance racing anymore," explained Sébastien Bourdais, who drove the number 5 Action Express Racing that won the 12 Hours of Sebring overall today. "Just a long sprint." If anything proved that theory this weekend, it was the late battle in the GT Daytona class. The...

Aug 15, 2025

Sebring Marshals Know How To Party

Well, this is one way to keep track of the race when you can only see it from one turn for long periods of time. Here are a couple other little things I found on the photo trail around the track. I understand the fire extinguisher. I only sort of...

Aug 15, 2025

Getting Audited Sucks For Race Cars, Too

All of the Mazda MX-5 teams that participated in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race this weekend were found yanking out their engines after the race on Friday night. Why? According to IMSA, it was time to do a routine audit to make sure everything was in spec. Yes,...

Aug 15, 2025

I Need An Off-Road Porsche 911 In My Life

The best car in the 12 Hours of Sebring paddock wasn't one of the party trucks that wandered around with fans yelling "WOOOO" in the bed, or any kind of latest-and-greatest supercar. Nope. Not even close. It was this 1986 Porsche 911 jacked up on nubby tires with a million...

Aug 15, 2025

Tony Stewart Is Pissed And Wants Martin Truex Jr. To Know About It

Martin Truex Jr.'s number 78 Chevy had a bit of a run-in with Tony Stewart's number 14 Chevy during today's NASCAR Sprint Cup Auto Club 400. So, Stewart let Truex know in the pits after the race—rather heatedly. (At least no one threw any punches or grabbed onto any firesuits...

Aug 15, 2025

The New Audi R18 E-Tron Quattro Has Way More Hybrid Power

Audi will be switching from the two-megajoule to the four-megajoule sub-class this year within the LMP1 class in the World Endurance Championship. What does that mean? This year's Le Mans prototype racer gets more hybrid power, delivering more of electric boost for longer periods of time. The R18 has been...

Aug 15, 2025

Mercedes Driver Lewis Hamilton Celebrates Win By Buying A LaFerrari

Things are going great for Lewis Hamilton these days, thanks for asking! He won last year’s Formula One driver’s championship in what was unquestionably the most dominant car on the field, and he’s off to a great start in 2015 after last weekend’s win at the . How does the...

Aug 15, 2025

Show Us: The Strangest Yellow Caution Flags Thrown In Racing

"Was that invisible debris?" and "I think the officials may be hallucinating in those hot helmets this year" seem to be common laments of NASCAR fans, giving way to conspiracy theories galore about NASCAR throwing flags just to spice things up. So show us: what are the most bizarre caution...

Aug 15, 2025

Reminder: The Nürburgring Will Eat Your Car If You Get It Wrong

Friendly reminder: the Nürburgring will bite you—literally. It will open the jaws of its tire wall and om nom nom. This poor Renault Megane RS driver went too hot and turned too early through one turn, hopped a curb in a braking zone for the next one, failed to slow...

Aug 15, 2025

Watch A Rally Driver Roll His Car And Keep Going Like Nothing Happened

Now that's how you build a roll cage. This is Jari Huttunen and codriver Marko Vartiainen in their Opel Astra Gsi at the recent Runni Rock Ralli up in Finland. Huttunen loses control of the Astra, hooks it into a snowbank, and rolls. Does that stop him? Hell no. Just...

Aug 15, 2025

Irwindale Speedway Will Probably Become A Crappy Outlet Mall

Ugh. Southern California has eleventy billion places to go shopping, and only one race track left in Los Angeles County, according to Speedhunters' to Formula D's races there. Can't you put your oversized exercise room for old people somewhere else? I don't even live in SoCal, and I think this...

Aug 15, 2025

NASCAR Becomes NOPE-car With Bizarre Bee Infestation

Africanized swarms of bees took to the back of Derrike Cope's hauler at last weekend's NASCAR Xfinity Axalta Faster. Tougher. Brighter. 200 at the Auto Club Speedway. One word: . The number 70 team had set out a nice little sitting area behind the hauler that absolutely no one who...

Aug 15, 2025

Ask Nissan Motorsport Head Darren Cox Anything You Want

Nissan has been a busy company lately, both with their ongoing GT Academy program as well as their crazy World Endurance Championship , the debut of which has been pushed back to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. We'll let you ask what's going on with that for the next...

Aug 15, 2025