Racers Crash On First Lap Of Indianapolis 500, Then Crash Under Yellow

It’s one thing to start the Indianapolis 500 with a crash near the back of the field. It’s another thing to have another crash under yellow further delay green laps of racing. Oops. So, effectively, the race really got to start from a single-file yellow-flag conga line, not so much...

Mar 30, 2026

Car Hits Two Crew Members At The Indy 500

All three Dale Coyne Racing cars were involved in an incident on pit lane, where the rush to get out of pit lane ended badly for two crew members working on Tristan Vautier’s car. After Ed Carpenter and Oriol Servia both , there was a lengthy yellow while those two...

Mar 30, 2026

Montoya Drove From The Back To Win A Four-Way Battle For The Indy 500

The Indianapolis 500 went somewhat predictably for most of the race. The faster Chevrolets of Team Penske and Chip Ganassi Racing kept the top five spots for most of the day, edging out the Honda cars on speed. The big surprise was Juan Pablo Montoya coming back from 30th place...

Mar 30, 2026

Jimmie Johnson Mistakes NASCAR For Formula Drift

NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Jimmie Johnson claims he was trying to adjust the track bar in his car because it was too loose, but I know he secretly wanted more of that sweet, sweet oversteer. Johnson once again showed that he is a master of opposite lock in a situation...

Mar 30, 2026

Ryan Blaney's NASCAR Ford Thinks It's A Formula One Renault

Tonight’s Sprint Cup Coke 600 is often referred to as NASCAR’s ultimate test of endurance, Unfortunately for Ryan Blaney, his car reminded me less of a World Endurance Championship racer and more of, erm, . Since when does Renault make Ford V8s?! Sorry, Blaney. Tonight is not your night. Blaney...

Mar 30, 2026

Carl Edwards Is The Most Relieved Person Who Could Have Won The Coke 600

Carl Edwards got his first win with Joe Gibbs Racing in his #19 Toyota and his first win in 31 races, and subsequently rushed into the stands with the checkered flag to celebrate with the fans. Even Edwards’ sticky Coke-coated shoes couldn’t stop him from winning NASCAR’s feat of endurance,...

Mar 30, 2026

Total Beast Of A Driver Does 600-Mile NASCAR Race, Then Runs 14 Miles

NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Landon Cassill not only finished the whole Coca-Cola 600* last night at Charlotte, but he ran to NASCAR Hall of Fame afterwards, exactly 13.92 miles away. Dude is a beast. After getting out of the car, Cassill donned a pair of running shorts to start stretching...

Mar 30, 2026

Money Can't Buy What Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus Is Doing Right Now

Fifty years from now, when a retired journalist writes a book about Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus and , it will be the tale of David and Goliath full of nice pictures and adjectives like ‘legendary’ and ‘astonishing’. And it won’t be far off the truth. If you’re a regular Jalopnik reader,...

Mar 30, 2026

Mercedes Apologizes To Lewis Hamilton; Says There's No Team Favoritism

When asked “What the hell happened there?” in regards to Lewis Hamilton’s at Monaco, Mercedes Formula One team boss Toto Wolff shed some light on what makes timing at Monaco more difficult to calculate than it is at other tracks. Now we know more on how that call was botched....

Mar 30, 2026

Rally Portugal Safety Car Catches Fire On Stage, Left To Burn

The 00 car at a rally has an important function: run the course before the competitors to inspect everything from signage and bannering to whether or not spectators are in the right locations. That is, unless it’s on fire. Then it doesn’t do a very good job of checking anything....

Mar 30, 2026

Man Arrested For Choking Fiancée While Arguing About NASCAR Vs. IndyCar

An argument as to whether NASCAR or IndyCar was better turned sour for one Indiana couple. According to , David Wilson was so convinced that NASCAR was the superior series that he allegedly choked his fiancée over it. Wilson’s fiancée was watching the Indianapolis 500 in the living room as...

Mar 30, 2026

Is This The Most 1990s Race Car Ever?

I happened to stumble across this picture and holy shit this is so ‘90s I just bombed Kuwait. You’re looking at the second-placed finisher of the TI Circuit Aida Group A 300km, a round of the 1992 All Japan Touring Car Championship. The car is the #22 Object-T Nissan Skyline...

Mar 30, 2026

This Is Six Minutes Of Walter Röhrl In A Porsche GT3 RS At Full Gas

He makes keeping 500 horsepower together on a track look so easy! The thing about rally legends is that the cars they pushed towards victory back in the day had lots of power but not such wizardry as carbon brakes, a magnesium roof, carbon body panels, a PDK automatic gearbox,...

Mar 30, 2026

Sound Check Sessions: Koenigsegg One:1 Or LaFerrari?

Can a 789 horsepower Ferrari V12 possibly sound better than a twin-turbo Koenigsegg V8 producing one megawatt of holy force? I guess it’s about time we find out! Koenigsegg’s test driver Robert Serwanski went to Suzuka Circuit with one of the five in existence and came back with a video...

Mar 30, 2026

Jump Onboard Richard Petty's 200MPH Plymouth Superbird 45 Years Later

NASCAR icon Richard Petty hasn’t driven his 1970 Superbird stock car that gave a character to Pixar’s Cars since the end of the 1970 season, but as he is a regular , he’s about to fire her up next month. Goodwood Road & Racing’s Andy is a proper muscle car...

Mar 30, 2026