Watch The 2015 Audi R18 Take A Corner At 200+

We’ve seen the before, but this is the first time we’re seeing it in its Le Mans configuration.... at 200+. Audi has a thing for running Monza without its speed-cutting first chicane. The team just lets its cars shoot straight into the Curva Grande. This R18 is screaming along at...

Aug 17, 2025

Volkswagen To Formula One Rumors Go Nuts After Piëch's Resignation

Volkswagen is almost everywhere! They’re truly the People’s Race Car in some respects. They’re just not in Formula One. Rumors of a VAG-backed F1 effort pop up from time to time, most recently under the brand. Now that supposedly anti-Ecclestone chairman Ferdinand Piëch is , will we see VW in...

Aug 17, 2025

World's Crappiest Car Takes On Rally And Wins Your Heart

The Citroën Dyane 6 is about as far from a performance car as can possibly be imagined. Here are two competing in a tarmac rally and winning your heart in the process. This video is entitled “Crazy Citroen Dyane 6 Rally | Drifts & Maximum Attack | Alberto Miera 2007...

Aug 17, 2025

The Audi R18 Just Lost Some Downforce To Be Blindingly Fast At Le Mans

After winning the FIA World Endurance Championship season opener at Silverstone, Audi changed bodywork significantly before hitting Spa to prepare for once again. As Jan Monchaux, Head of Aerodynamics at Audi Sport explains, the car had to be changed to better suit the average speed figures at Le Mans, which...

Aug 17, 2025

This Is Why I Need A Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car

Everyone has needs. Water, food, shelter, the occasional hug...and a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. Yeah, that’s a need. Let the Mauro Motorsports 997 GT3 Cup demonstrate why that’s been added to my short list of needs: this rear-engined rocketship just passes everything with ease. Welcome to , a feature where...

Aug 17, 2025

NASCAR Open Test Interrupted For Cutest Reason Ever

Yesterday’s NASCAR open test at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was interrupted for a totes adorbs break. This baby goose made its way onto the speedway. Officials yellow-flagged the session, retrieved the baby goose and reunited it with its family. Say it with me now: “awwwwwww.” I’ve seen all manner of animals...

Aug 17, 2025

DiRT Rally Looks Like The Most Realistic Rally Game Yet

Bill Caswell loves the DiRT franchise, but the previous rally games have always seemed a little too arcadey to him. Now that they’ve added damage that’s only repairable during service stops, it’s a bit more like the real thing! ...

Aug 17, 2025

Jeff Gordon To Drive Indianapolis 500 Pace Car (And Taunt Travis' Face)

Our esteemed Editor-In-Chief Travis Okulski will be going to the Indianapolis 500 as usual this year. Good news! Travis’ and four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon will be , haunting Travis’ every thought from inside a beautiful white Corvette. The Indianapolis 500 tends to produce the best looking Corvettes in history,...

Aug 17, 2025

Rally Car Suspension Does Alien Chest Burster Impression

This is what a complete strut tower failure looks like. Or, you know, what it would look like if your suspension did its best Alien chest burster impression. This is from WRC Rally Argentina over the past weekend. Here’s another angle. The driver is (from Norway!!), driving for VW. Are...

Aug 17, 2025

Patrick Dempsey Isn't Done With Rain After Leaving Grey's Anatomy

Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is wet and cold this weekend, but that’s not stopping the World Endurance Championship from racing. Here’s one of Patrick Dempsey’s laps in the Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR, complete with cars kicking up blindingly huge crazy rooster tails of spray. At one point in the video,...

Aug 17, 2025

This Is Honda's Leaner, Meaner Aero Kit For The Indianapolis 500

If you thought Honda’s for IndyCar this year was too complicated, busy and silly, perhaps you’ll like the more classic look of their superspeedway version. Honda optimized their aerodynamics for big oval races like the Indianapolis 500, foregoing a few wings for straight =-line speed. IndyCar released this cool animation...

Aug 17, 2025

Fractured Vertebra Sidelines Kazuki Nakajima At 6 Hours Of Spa

The at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps only got worse at the World Endurance Championship’s 6 Hours of Spa weekend. In the heavy rain of Free Practice 1, the #1 Toyota of Kazuki Nakajima rear-ended the #8 Audi of Oliver Jarvis near Les Combes corner, fracturing one of Nakajima’s vertebrae. According to...

Aug 17, 2025

Late Model Horror Crash Shows How Not To Respond to An Accident [Update]

Here’s the worst-case scenario that any racer could imagine. Driver Shane Mitchell’s car got airborne in a crash at the Wenatchee Valley Super Oval, landed on the wall and caught fire as it came to a stop. Mitchell suffered a back injury in the accident, so he was stuck there...

Aug 17, 2025

Weekend Motorsports Roundup, May 2-3, 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? Break out all the Ricky Bobby...

Aug 17, 2025

NASCAR Driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Flat-Irons His Mullet

So says AP reporter Jenna Fryer, who posted these photos of a suspiciously tame mullet on Ricky Stenhouse Jr. The struggle is real if you have naturally frizzy hair, man. I can’t say I blame him. He’s even got a little curl at the bottom! I’d offer flat-iron advice, but...

Aug 17, 2025