Macau Grand Prix Stopped By Bottleneck Corner
The Chinese Cup race at the 2014 Macau Grand Prix came to a grinding halt – in perfect video game-like fashion – at the Lisboa Corner…
The Chinese Cup race at the 2014 Macau Grand Prix came to a grinding halt – in perfect video game-like fashion – at the Lisboa Corner…
Formula One race car driver Fernando Alonso was practicing for the upcoming 2014 Brazilian Grand Prix tomorrow when suddenly, his Ferrari caught fire. Alonso, a former world champion, coolly pulled over to the side of the track, climbed out of the burning car, grabbed a fire extinguisher from the other side of the fence and […]
Three years ago at an office tower parking garage in Reykjavik, a fellow decided he would try to circumvent the clear, presumably plastic, door preventing him from entering the facility by simply driving through it. This worked until he determined that he actually wanted to leave the facility altogether – but the sinister office tower […]
When Marussia’s Jules Bianchi hydroplaned, slid off the track at Suzuka and careened into a tractor during the rain-soaked 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, the only existing video was of the previously-crashed Adrian Sutil [who the tractor had been dispatched to move his car off the track]. But now from French media outfit TenSport has posted […]
As far as the end results were concerned, it was the same old, same old in Formula One racing this weekend as Mercedes won yet another race – the only difference this time was the weather conditions and the crash of Marussia’s Jules Bianchi that was attributed to said weather conditions. Prior to the race, […]
Drivers began Race 2 of Round 6 of the Porsche Carrera Cup in Sandown, Australia, without too much drama – until the first turn when Nick McBride lost his engine after being triple-tagged by other drivers…
Lucas Di Grassi was all set to get a podium finish in the first-ever Formula E race for electric race cars in Beijing – just not the one he expected – as Nicholas Prost veered his Renault into Nick Heidfeld’s Venturi on the final turn as both were jousting for the victory and the resulting […]
James May’s three-part “Cars of the People” series just concluded on BBC America but one scene was not used in the series – that of a Japanese people’s car being lifted by helicopter over the Top Gear track and then being unceremoniously dumped back on the ground, whereupon May comes over to briefly inspect the […]
Kasey Kahne held off Matt Kenseth by just over a half-second to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Oral-B 500 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway – it was Kahne’s 17th career win but his first win of the 2014 season. Denny Hamlin finished third and Danica Patrick finished sixth – her best-ever Sprint Cup finish. […]
Lee Duran, a 73-year-old vintage car racer, lost his life when he lost control of the open cockpit 1934 MG PA Special he was driving in a race of pre-World War II cars and flipped the car which hit the edge of the track and landed upside down during the Historics Festival at Lime Rock […]
Red Bull’s new Dutch teenage sensation driver, Max Verstappen – who is expected to enter his first Formula One race next year as a 17-year-old – was putting on a display of his race car-maneuvering talents for an event in Rotterdam when he got the car stuck in mid-doughnut mode. After assistants pushed him back […]
Russian IndyCar rookie Mikhail Aleshin crashed at the auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, during a final practice run preparing for the Verizon IndyCar Series…
Mercedes held a team meeting where they engineered an apology from Formula One-leading driver Nico Rosberg for colliding with teammate Lewis Hamilton at the 2014 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps last week. The resulting Lap Two collision damaged both race cars enough to eventually knock Hamilton out of the race completely and reduce Rosberg to […]
In the wake of the death of sprint car racer Kevin Ward, Jr. last week after being hit on the track by NASCAR driver Tony Stewart, the NASCAR organization has issued new rules regarding drivers getting out of their cars under a caution flag…
A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO became the new record-holder for the highest price ever paid for a car at an auction when it was sold for $34.65 million but with the “buyer’s premium” added in, was officially sold for $38.1 million at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta was one of […]
NASCAR driver and team owner Tony Stewart was racing in a sprint car event at the Canandaigua Motorsports Park during the Lucas Oil Super Sprint feature race when he became entangled with Kevin Ward, Jr. on a turn and the resulting collision sent Ward, Jr. into the wall and out of the race. Ward, Jr. […]
Historic car racer Denis Welch was killed at an event at Silverstone in the UK over the weekend. Welch was driving a 1960 Lotus 18 as he was competing in the second Jack Brabham Memorial Race for pre-1966 Grand Prix race cars when he became entangled with another car on the opening lap and rolled […]
You probably would like to drive a Ferrari 458 Speciale. So would this guy at the Kyalami track in South Africa. Or, at the very least, he wishes he had a do-over after having his 458 Speciale exchange pleasantries with the wall…
The only thing keeping it from being another 1-2 finish for Mercedes at the 2014 German Grand Prix in Hockenheim was the fact that Lewis Hamilton crashed during qualifying and had to begin from the 20th spot on the grid – but that wound being a mere formality as it took Hamilton less than 20 […]
Making life slightly more difficult, Lewis Hamilton crashed his Mercedes after a brake failure entering a hairpin turn in the first session of Formula One qualifying for the upcoming 2014 German Grand Prix and will start in the 16th spot on the grid for tomorrow’s race while his teammate and current season leader, Nico Rosberg, […]