Formula 3 Crash At Macau
Not learning their lesson from the Chinese Cup – Formula 3 racers collided and piled on each other at the same Lisboa Corner that claimed the Chinese Cup competitors at the 2014 Macau Grand Prix…
Not learning their lesson from the Chinese Cup – Formula 3 racers collided and piled on each other at the same Lisboa Corner that claimed the Chinese Cup competitors at the 2014 Macau Grand Prix…
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…
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 […]
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…
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 […]
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. […]
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…
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, […]
Texas motorcyclist Bobby Goodin had just crossed the finish line at the 2014 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb but had apparently misjudged his finishing speed in the gravel and was flung into an adjacent boulder field where he sustained injuries that claimed his life. Goodin, who was racing on the course for only the second […]
British cyclist Chris Hoy is a six-time Olympic gold medalist who also fancies himself to be somewhat of a race car driver. But when he took Nissan’s rare Nismo GT-R out for a little spin at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, well, there wasn’t so much spinning as there was plowing straight through a corner […]
Mr. Bean – aka actor Rowan Atkinson – came to the rescue of an American businessman, according to the UK’s Daily Mail after he flipped his McLaren F1 and tossed it into a tree near Tuscany in Italy. Atkinson had been part of a motoring enthusiast’s group and part of a supercar convoy when he […]
Ryan Hunter-Reay started in the 19th position but became only the second American winner of the Indianapolis 500 in the last nine years as he held off three-time winner Helio Castroneves by the second-closest margin in race history – .0060 – to claim the victory. The finishing duel was set up 25 laps earlier when, […]
The Monaco Historic Grand Prix pits cars from bygone eras agaisnt each other before the modern-day versions take over on May 25, 2014. But a nut on the left front wheel of Jim Clark’s fabled 1967 Lotus 49 was not torqued enough and the next thing you know the car is…well, it’s too painful to […]
At certain airports around the world, it may be possible to drive a truck underneath a parked 757 aircraft, apparently the airports near Miami are not among those in which this neat trick can be accomplished…
Dave Blaney was down to his last car – well, his only car, really – and now he doesn’t even have that after a crash in a practice session has taken him out of the Daytona 500. Blaney, who was the Daytona 500’s slowest qualifier and therefore was slated to start in last place in […]
On the first day of testing for the 2014 Formula One racing season, Lewis Hamilton crashed the Mercedes W05. After running 18 laps on the test track at Jerez, Spain, a front wing failure on the machine caused Hamilton to slide into a wall behind a Spanish reporter covering the F1 tests…