Let's Just Call Him The Wizard Of Ozz Because His Car Control Is Magic

This weekend is the Long Beach Grand Prix, where IndyCar, Pirelli World Challenge and select classes from United SportsCar take to the streets of Long Beach and try not to eat a concrete barrier. How do you handle a car that just wants to oversteer and/or spin on every corner...

Aug 17, 2025

Sorry, Pastor Maldonado, Formula One Is Not A Rally

I have to give Pastor Maldonado’s detour through the gravel trap some credit here: the Lotus Formula One driver holds it together and keeps it out of the wall. Crash counter: . Perhaps the Venezuelan is missing out on his one true calling: rally. So far in Bahrain, Maldonado isn’t...

Aug 17, 2025

British Drift Championship: Lots of Oppo

Lydden Hill hosted the start of the British Drift Championship this weekend, and RWS Motorsport was there to capture all the delightfully sideways action. I think I’m in love with that white and purple drift wagon. Yes. Love. ...

Aug 17, 2025

Which Car Would You Enter In The 24 Hours Of LeMons Out Of Spite?

Once upon a time, I had a . Unfortunately, it belonged to my parents and got traded in when they finally realized they had spent several running 944s’ worth in repair bills. Had it been signed over to me, there was no doubt in my mind where it needed to...

Aug 17, 2025

Nico Rosberg Eats A Banana For The Cameras

After Free Practice 2 at the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix, Nico Rosberg was spotted eating a banana. I’d put this here as a caption contest, but I’m afraid most of the replies would be “mmmfff ppfff hmmm nom nom.” As someone who tends to roam race weekends with a...

Aug 17, 2025

Bahrain Update: Has Red Bull Switched Engine Suppliers Yet?

Nope. Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo’s Infiniti Red Bull Racing car at least made it to the end this time, but not before the engine exploded into a huge cloud of smoke at the very end. Fellow Renault-powered Red Bull-sponsored team Toro Rosso fared a tad worse, with both cars...

Aug 17, 2025

Rosberg Gives Räikkönen Second Place On A Silver (Arrows) Platter

The real battle at the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix wasn’t for first per se, although if you ask Kimi Räikkönen, he if he had been given more time. No, it was for the rest of the podium. Here’s the flub and subsequent pass that gave Räikkönen second place over...

Aug 17, 2025

Pastor Maldonado Started Two Places Behind Where He Should Have

There’s having a bad day, and then there’s really having a bad day, and somewhere on that continuum of terribleness is Pastor Maldonado’s trip to the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix. Maldonado received a penalty for gridding up 18th instead of 16th. Let that sink in for a second: Maldonado...

Aug 17, 2025

You Can't Work On The Car When The Race Is Red-Flagged For Rain

NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano and their Penske team wish this wasn’t the case, as they have a lot of work to do to get the two cars ready to race again from an incident on lap 19. Unfortunately, the race was red flagged for thunderstorms...

Aug 17, 2025

Insane MotoGP Race Ends With Marc Marquez and Valentino Rossi Colliding

MotoGP’s Gran Premio Red Bull de la República Argentina came down to a battle between two previous world champions: Marc Marquez and Valentino Rossi. Marquez was in the lead, but Rossi was coming up on him fast on a more durable rear tire compound than Marquez. by There was no...

Aug 17, 2025

Poop Is The Best Emoji: Fact

If he could find it, I bet he would say something about how this rain is ????, or how spinning out and taking a teammate with you is ????. Maybe he’d even say that he has to ????. All I know is that ???? is the best, most useful emoji...

Aug 17, 2025

NASCAR Race Ends Just In Time For Bristol To Get Pounded With Rain

NASCAR apparently timed today’s Sprint Cup Food City 500 in Support of Steve Byrnes and Stand Up to Cancer (pheeeeew) just right. It’s been throughout the day, but Bristol is about to get thoroughly pounded with thunderstorms right about...now. Here’s the radar that shows the line of storms headed to...

Aug 17, 2025

Driver So Mad At Race That He Refused To Do The Champagne Spray

Twenty-five cars are currently under investigation for various incidents during the Long Beach Grand Prix round of the Pirelli World Challenge, including that of Ryan Dalziel. Dalziel was so frustrated with how this race went that he just walked off the podium during the celebration afterwards. Only the GT, GTA...

Aug 17, 2025

The Definitive Visual Guide On How Not To Behave In A Motorcycle Race

Let Moto3 rider Romano Fenati demonstrate nearly every single bad behavior you could do in a motorcycle race. Fenati had a bit of a beef with fellow rider Niklas Ajo during the warm-up session for this weekend’s race, not only kicking at his competitor’s bike, but later reaching over and...

Aug 17, 2025

Watch A Field Of Spec Miatas Crash In A Sandstorm Made Of Oil Dry

A car in an earlier race at this weekend’s SCCA US Majors Tour at Virginia International Raceway blew its engine, spewing assorted fluids all along this section of track. Oil dry should soak that right up, right? Sure, but when a tight pack of Spec Miatas hit the oil dry...

Aug 17, 2025