On May 5, NASCAR unveiled its seventh-generation race car at its tech center in Charlotte, North Carolina. [credit: Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images ] Big changes are coming to NASCAR. On Wednesday afternoon, the sport formally unveiled its new race car, called the Next Gen. It makes its racing debut in 2022, and it’s a radical […]
This sketch is all we’ve seen of Porsche’s forthcoming LMDh hybrid racer. But now we know that when it starts racing in 2023, it will be run by Team Penske. [credit: Porsche ] Porsche and Penske: two of the most storied names in racing. You could fill at least one library just with books about […]
Enlarge / Red Bull is assuming control of its own engine development next year once Honda leaves the sport. But could we see Porsche badges on the cars before too long? The rumors won’t stop swirling. (credit: Lars Baron/Getty Images) Even though we’re only two races in, this year’s Formula 1 season is already shaping […]
The Odyssey 21 of Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky and Jenson Button, who are driving for the JBXE Extreme-E Team. Button is not the only F1 world champion to enter a team in Extreme E, but he is the only one to also strap in as a driver. [credit: Extreme E ] Traveling to threatened environments in order […]
Enlarge / Porsche is working on synthetic fuels and will begin testing them in racing as early as next year. (credit: Porsche) In the grand scheme of things, the fuel used by racing cars on track amounts to a mere rounding error compared to the carbon dioxide emitted by all the spectators driving to watch […]
Enlarge / Sabine Schmitz sitting in her car during a car parade at the Nürburgring race track in 2014. (credit: Thomas Frey/picture alliance via Getty Images) Sabine Schmitz, racing driver and TV host, has died of cancer in Germany at the age of 51. Known as the “Queen of the Nürburgring,” Schmitz grew up next […]
This is the Hyundai Veloster N ETCR, an electric racing car being developed for a new EV touring car category. [credit: LAT Images ] The annual 24-hour race at Daytona International Speedway in Florida got under way on Saturday afternoon. And this year’s race has been a pretty good one so far—although there are still […]
After winning the last couple of Le Mans races with its TS050, Toyota Gazoo Racing returns in 2021 with an all-new car for an all-new category. It’s called the GR010, and it will compete in the Le Mans Hypercar class. [credit: Toyota ] The future of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is resolving into […]
|} When Audi demonstrated its FE07 race car a week, it did not tell us it’d be the corporation’s last Formula E automobile. [credit: Audi ] Formula E likely expected that its preseason evaluation could be the source of several headlines today. Ahead of this electrical racing series’ seventh year launch in Chile in January, […]
Even the FIA KZ Planet Kart Championship went {} Sunday, but rather of just rushing through it and rival to win just like a regular man, 1 motorist COMPLETELY LOST HIS S**T AND ALMOST KILLED ANOTHER ONE BY THROWING A BUMPER ON THE TRACK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RACE! You need to see this […]