All Our Cars Keep Breaking At The 24 Hours Of LeMons

You know you’re having an interesting weekend when you see a 924 turning laps and almost wish you’d brought your finicky front-engined Porsche. Then we’d have four cars to break! Here’s the quick rundown of how my LeMons experience has been a tad more authentic than usual. Scotch Rocket’s car...

Aug 18, 2025

We Got One Of The Awards That Matters At The 24 Hours Of LeMons

Sure, there are class winners and an overall winner of the race itself, which are all fine and well. There’s also awards you don’t want like “Most Heroic Fix.” But of course, the awards you really want at a LeMons race are for the extraordinary and bizarre, and we got...

Aug 18, 2025

Polish Rally Drivers Don't Need No Stinking Steering Wheel

If your steering wheel fell of while you were driving, you’d probably pull over to the side of the road and wait for a truck to come and tow you to the nearest shop. But you are not a Polish rally driver. If you were, you wouldn’t give a crap...

Aug 18, 2025

Watch A Photographer Run For His Life From This Huge Rally Jump

This is not a photoshop. You’re watching Frank Kelly in his MkII Ford Escort at this weekend’s Sperrins Rally in Northern Ireland. YouTube uploader put it best, I think. Welcome aboard Kelly Motorsport Airlines. The weather is good and clear, good flying conditions today. Our flight time will be approximately...

Aug 18, 2025

Why Is Nissan's Le Mans Car Front-Wheel Drive?

Nissan is entering in the LMP1 category this year at Le Mans to take on the mid-engined, rear-wheel drive Audis, Toyotas and Porsches. And here’s why they think that’s not crazy at all. Because the Circuit de la Sarthe is very fast track and fuel is strictly limited, in order...

Aug 18, 2025

F1 Car Hits Mechanic In The Nuts

That’s not gone well. At the Spanish Grand Prix over the weekend, Romain Grosjean overshot his marks coming in to his pit box. And by overshot his marks, I mean he beaned his jack guy right in the nards. The mechanic shrugged the whole thing off, amazingly. He finished up...

Aug 18, 2025

For Racing Drivers, The Home Struggle Is Real

Haha, the two worlds of racing and guilty-pleasure HGTV shows have collided. Driver Michael Valiante appeared on an episode of , and proved one fact that my apartment reflects about eighty thousand times more: who has time for a stupid house?! I love HGTV shows because it’s pure fantasy. I...

Aug 18, 2025

Susie Wolff May Leave Williams F1 Test Role Over Lack Of Seat Time

According to , Williams Martini Racing Susie Wolff expressed some hum-hawing about her future with the team at Barcelona. She was disappointed when Adrian Sutil was brought in as the reserve driver, and feels as if her chances for seat time look all that much slimmer nowadays. Sutil was brought...

Aug 18, 2025

Meet The Guy Who Won Le Mans For McLaren At Its First Attempt

You might remember Paul Lanzante’s name for the fact that his team , but back in 1995, he was the guy who went to Le Mans to race an F1 that wasn’t ready to race at all. The fact that Paul Lanzante hasn’t been to Le Mans before wasn’t the...

Aug 18, 2025

Rally Driver Pulls An Austin Powers

That’s not gone how it was supposed to go. This is at the Roger Sauvelon Historic Rally Festival, where this poor Opel driver handbraked a little more than necessary. It’s like this, but with more rallying and less quasi-futuristic clothes: Luckily, rally fans came to his rescue. Thanks, rally fans!...

Aug 18, 2025

Injured Spectator Sues IndyCar After Skull Fractured By Race Debris

Per the , the spectator at the IndyCar Grand Prix of St. Petersburg has filed a lawsuit against the series, race owner/operator Green Savoree, and the manufacturer of the fence around the track for damages in excess of $15,000. While many tickets for auto racing events have a release of...

Aug 18, 2025

These Subaru Rally Photos Will Blow Your Mind

You didn’t realize motorsports could be so gorgeous. All it takes is a drive over to rural Oregon with a view of Mount Hood, then put in a 2015 Subaru STI Rally America car going flat out and you’re totally set. These shots are from Subaru and their American rally...

Aug 18, 2025

James Glickenhaus Is Making History This Weekend At The Nürburgring 24

If either of the two can do just one yard at the Nürburgring on Saturday, will make history and American flags can be raised just a little higher all around the globe. But team James Glickenhaus and their gorgeous race cars will do more than just a yard. Much more....

Aug 18, 2025

Vintage Racing Is Not For Fools

Our man Jason Torchinsky is headed to Italy to race in the . Does he know what he’s in for? Knowing Jason, the answer is somewhere between “somewhat” and “no.” But our pals from across the pond at will be there too, and they have a bit more prep under...

Aug 18, 2025

Simona de Silvestro Escapes Unharmed After Her IndyCar Ignites On Fire

Simona de Silvestro’s cars have an unfortunate history of catching fire at the Indianapolis 500, it seems. Today’s practice session fire was her third fire in five visits to the famous race. Fortunately, she was able to hop out of the car before flames caught up to her seat inside....

Aug 18, 2025