Motorsports Blog

Michael Schumacher attempted to make a Formula 1 comeback last year to fill in for Ferrari’s injured Felipe Massa, but was unable to make it back to the cockpit. For the 2010 season, however, the seven-time world champion will be behind the wheel of one of the new Mercedes GP ...    Read more

BMW has finally added the M3’s 4.0-liter V-8 to the new Z4’s engine lineup. Unfortunately, the 2010 BMW Z4 GT3 is available only to private racing teams, as the car is intended for competition in the GT3 racing category.After withdrawing from Formula 1 for the 2010 season, BMW decided to ...    Read more

After Renault suffered massive setbacks this season with an underperforming car that Fernando Alonso called “the worst on the grid” and the damaging crashgate scandal, it was unknown whether the French automaker would remain in the sport next season. The company confirmed its commitment to the sport today, announcing it ...    Read more

For 2010, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, Le Mans racing’s governing body, will add a new series called the Le Mans Intercontinental Cup.The inaugural 2010 season of the Le Mans Intercontinental Cup will feature three Le Mans-style races in North America, Europe, and Asia. Currently confirmed for 2010 are Atlanta’s ...    Read more

It must be almost New Year's Eve, as Red Bull announces sponsorship of another action sports event. The energy drink company convinced (easily, we're sure) Travis Pastrana to set the world record for distance jumped in a rally car. On New Year's Eve, Pastrana will jump a rally spec Subaru ...    Read more

Due to the success of the first GT Academy, Nissan and Playstation are once again giving avid video game racers a chance to become professional drivers by holding another one.In 2008, Nissan and Playstation held the first GT Academy. It gave video gamers a chance to prove their worth at ...    Read more

Finally confirmed for the 2010, the Canadian Grand Prix will again be on the Formula 1 calendar. The contract has been extended to allow the race to take place in Montreal over the next five seasons. The 2010 Canadian Grand Prix will be held June 13, returning to the Circuit ...    Read more

In 2011, a British team aims to shatter the current land speed record of 763 mph. The team is currently working on a project known as Bloodhound SSC and aims to break 1000 mph without leaving the ground. To accomplish the team’s goal of cracking 1000 mph, the vehicle is ...    Read more

Hummer and Hall racing have secured stock full and stock mini class wins for the 2009 Baja 1000. "These production trucks are the right size," said Rod Hall, owner of Hall Racing. "They're fun, take a lot of abuse and just keep running and running." The 2009 Baja 1000 was ...    Read more

Jimmie Johnson made history yesterday by breaking Cale Yarborough’s record of three consecutive NASCAR titles. Johnson won his fourth straight title yesterday after placing fifth at the Ford 400 at Miami Homestead Raceway.Johnson’s achievement of winning four titles in a row not only eclipses Yarborough’s record of three straight, but ...    Read more

We’d heard about the Ford Fiesta S2000 rally car being developed to compete in various rallys around the world, but hadn’t seen the actual car yet. Ford and its partner M-Sport unveiled the car yesterday at M-Sport’s headquarters in England. Despite Ford and M-Sport’s previous work on rally cars dating ...    Read more

It’s official -- 2009 Formula 1 champion Jenson Button is leaving behind his Brawn (or Mercedes-Benz) GP team, and signing with McLaren for the 2010 season. “It’s always a difficult decision to leave a team when you’ve been there for so long,” said Button. “But life is all ...    Read more

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. It seems Mercedes-Benz has taken that logic to heart, as Daimler announced yesterday it would purchase a 45-percent stake in the successful Brawn GP Formula 1 team.Concurrently, the German automaker also revealed it was selling its 40-percent share of McLaren, its current F1 ...    Read more

To promote the 2010 Mustang, Ford’s Mustang Unleashed campaign has helped a blind man drive a new Mustang, an 18-year-old challenge his shop teacher on a drag strip, and a drift racer compete in Japan. Now it’s managed to pit some of the best video game players against one another ...    Read more

To show off the 2010 4Runner’s impressive capabilities, Toyota will enter a very lightly modified version of the car in the SCORE Baja 1000 -- one of the toughest desert races in the world.The grueling SCORE Baja 1000 covers more than 670 miles of some of Mexico’s toughest terrain. Seeing ...    Read more

After a successful 2009 Dakar Rally, Volkswagen seems dead set on conquering the 2010 race. VW announced it would return to the race with no less than five -- five! -- Touareg 2 TDI off-road trucks. Contrary to the Dakar name, the 2010 race (like the 2009 event) will cover ...    Read more

If you happen to watch any Grand-Am races next year, there's a good chance you'll see Kia's shapely new Forte Koup whizzing around a track. The Korean automaker revealed it will field a pair of Koups in the 2010 Koni Grand-Am Sports Car Challenge.Kia, along with the Atlanta-based Kinetic Group, ...    Read more

It seems Honda isn’t the only Japanese automaker to leave Formula One. After eight years in the sport, Toyota announced it would officially bow out of F1 at the end of the year.“Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces its plan to withdraw from the FIA Formula One World Championship at the ...    Read more

Drag racing is a gas -- and when it comes to Roush's new Mustang racers, said gas is propane.The pair of Mustangs, set to compete in the NMRA Ford Nationals series, are powered completely by propane. Roush sees the fuel as a "right here, right now" green alternative to gasoline ...    Read more

Ever wonder what a Dodge Challenger would look like dressed up in NASCAR garb? Your questions have been answered.Dodge, along with partner Penske Racing, unveiled its new Challenger stock car, designed for the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Both of Penske’s Nationwide drivers -- Justin Allgaier and Brad Keselowski -- are slated ...    Read more

The Brazilian Grand Prix proved to be the key element to the Formula 1 Driver’s Championship yet again. Jenson Button, driving for Brawn GP, finished fifth in the race, allowing him to snag the title. Button’s victory also helped Brawn win the Constructor’s Championship in its first year of operation.Button ...    Read more

Jay Lamm's 24 Hours of LeMons races have been covered in great detail since the inaugural race in 2006. The formula is quite simple -- take a $500 car, install several thousand dollars worth of safety gear, buy several hundred dollars worth of personal safety gear, and then attempt to ...    Read more

Instead of returning to the prototype class with a new LMP1 car, American automaker Panoz has decided to develop a new GT2-class race car for competition in the American Le Mans Series.From 1999 to 2002, Panoz raced in the ALMS' LMP1 class, and found success with several overall wins. The ...    Read more

Lotus F1 Racing confirmed its entry into Formula 1 for the 2010 season one month ago, but the team is already prepared to start wind-tunnel testing on a scale model. Could this be a sign that the team is up to the task of developing an entire F1 in a ...    Read more

Famed action sports star-turned-rally driver Ken Block has been offered a spot to drive in the World Rally Championship. The all-new Monster Energy Drink World Rally Team will have Block piloting a WRC-spec 2009 Ford Focus. Block, well known in the U.S. for his ...    Read more