KTM X-Bow GT4 Boasts With 320 PS, an All-New Front Fascia and an Enclosed Cockpit
16 Dec 2014, 11:04 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Just over a month ago, Reiter Engineering and KTM teased us with a bird’s-eye teaser of a track-only X-Bow, slated to go racing next year. Now we’ve been informed it’s officially d...
Fastest Monster Truck In the World Record Goes to the Raminator of Hall Brothers Racing
16 Dec 2014, 09:11 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Back in the swinging ‘60s, a handful of pickup truck owners started jacking the suspension, fitting huge rubber and toughening up the chassis for the fun of mud bogging and truck pulling. Desp...
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle Red Alert Super Stock Drag Racer Heading to Auction
15 Dec 2014, 16:27 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Out of the three generations of Chevrolet Chevelle, the now defunct nameplate fascinated a lot of guys and gals with its second incarnation. Built between 1968 and 1972, the second-gen Chevrolet Che...
2015 McLaren-Honda F1 Driver Lineup - Alonso and Button Join Forces, Magnussen Now a Test Driver
11 Dec 2014, 11:14 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Ever since Sebastian Vettel announced he will jump ship to Scuderia Ferrari for next year’s season, all eyes were on Fernando Alonso and the imminent announcement about his change of heart. No...
F1 Test Driver Susie Wolff Finds Out that Doing a Burnout in a DTM Car Is Not that Easy
9 Dec 2014, 10:44 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We’ve talked about Susie Wolff before, for instance when we showed you that the woman knows her way around drifting a... Maybach. Nonetheless, the F1 test drive has her good and her bad days, ...
Why the 60 Trophies Stolen During the Red Bull F1 Factory Attack Affect Us All
6 Dec 2014, 15:40 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Over the years, motorsport has become more of a business and less of a passion. This has led to a decrease in interest from the public, the greatest challenge motor racing is facing nowadays and som...
Why Ferrari Should Build an FXX K Spider (Open-Top LaFerrari Racecar)
6 Dec 2014, 13:22 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Now that you can pay Ferrari to fly you to various motorsport events where they'll allow you to drive the racing incarnation of the LaFerrari, the FXX K (you can't actually own the track s...
2015 Formula 1 Season Packed With 21 Grand Prix Events, Survival Cell Modified for More Protection
5 Dec 2014, 14:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The highest class of professional single-seater auto racing will return next year with a season that includes 21 Grand Prix events. Apart from the two more races over the current season, the FIA inf...
Jules Bianchi is Responsible For Japanese GP Crash, Says FIA
5 Dec 2014, 13:14 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After both Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger tragically lost their lives at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994, Formula 1 got safer. Not just single seaters, but also circuit layouts, crash barrie...
Marussia F1 Auction is a Complete Closure of the Team’s Headquarters
3 Dec 2014, 17:18 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After his unfortunate crash at the Japanese Grand Prix, Jules Bianchi will be in for quite a big shock when he’ll find out Marussia F1 is no longer a team. Years of spending way more than nece...
Sebastian Vettel Onboard Lap at the Wheel of the Ferrari F2012 Isn’t Half Bad
3 Dec 2014, 15:26 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After 2 years at BMW Sauber, another 2 at Toro Rosso and 4 Drivers’ Championship titles with Red Bull Racing, Seb got bored and decided to jump ship to Ferrari, taking Fernando Alonso’s ...
Racecars Storm into Essen 2014, Here's a Mega-Gallery · Live Photos
29 Nov 2014, 16:36 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Truth be told, it is extremely difficult to capture the emotion of racing on camera and spread it into the world, which is why motorsport doesn't gain the popularity it deserves. Add the ever-i...
Sbarro Espera Ibride Sparta Hybrid-Rallye-Auto is Better Than Pizza · Live Photos
29 Nov 2014, 11:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Sbarro is a chain of New York style pizza joints... oh wait, scrap that. Too much fatigue from photographing the cars exhibited at the Essen Motor Show got us very h...
Jean-Eric Vergne Ousted From Scuderia Toro Rosso, Tweets About New Challenge
28 Nov 2014, 12:48 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The 2014 Formula One season was one of many changes. Maybe the most dramatic was the change from the N/A 2.4 V8 to the so-called 1.6-liter turbo hybrid power unit. But the king single seater motorsp...
McLaren-Honda MP4-29H/1X1 Completes Only 3 Laps in 8 Hours of Testing · Video
26 Nov 2014, 13:17 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / A lot of things are happening these days at the McLaren Formula 1 team’s Woking headquarters. Fernando Alonso is going to abandon the Scuderia Ferrari for the British outfit next year, Kevi...
Bianchi Out of Artificial Coma, Schumacher Can't Speak and Paralysed
22 Nov 2014, 08:40 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / 2014 has been a year of change in Formula 1. The naturally aspirated V8 powerplants of yesteryear were ditched for hybrid power units that employ turbo V6 mills, there are more rookies than before o...
How to Drift - Fifth Lesson: Brake Drifting
21 Nov 2014, 17:41 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / F1, IndyCar, World Sportscar Championship and NASCAR champion Mario Andretti once said: “It is amazing how many drivers, even on the Formula One level, think that the brakes are for slowing th...
LaFerrari XX Racecar Shows Amazing Aerodynamic Package in Latest Spyshots
20 Nov 2014, 09:43 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Ferrari’s Fiorano racetrack probably has more Prancing Horse tire marks than asphalt, but the circuit is currently serving for the development of the fastest street car-based Ferrari that has ...
Cadillac ATS-V.R is a FIA GT3 Twin-Turbo Monster · Video
15 Nov 2014, 12:48 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / With the 2016 Cadillac ATS-V Coupe set to take the Los Angeles Auto Show by storm on November 18th, the poshest carmaker in the General Motors portfolio isn't going to let it at just that. The ...
McLaren-Honda MP4-29H/1X1 Interim Car Started Testing for the 2015 Season
15 Nov 2014, 11:52 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The British Formula 1 team has officially taken its partnership with Honda to full throttle with the MP4-29H. What you can see in the photograph above is exactly what you think it is – an MP4-...