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The car cuts 1,300kg over the standard car with a 600hp twin-turbo V8

Bentley announced that it would go racing with the Continental GT3 a year ago, and it seemed like a total price. How would Bentley convert a big, heavy grand touring car into a racecar? But Bentley and the team at M-Sport have done it and shed 1,3...

The team will use 991-chassis 911 RSRs

Porsche can easily be called the most respected name in motorsports and whenever it enters factory-backed cars into a series, it automatically lends the racing an extra amount of legitimacy. The company has just announced that it will enter two fa...

The team says that Alonso did well with subpar equipment to take second

Ferrari is conflicted about its performance in the Singapore Grand Prix. It is happy that Fernando Alonso was able to score a second place in the race, but it knows that it gave Alonso a subpar car in the race and the strong finish is because of h...

The new engines make more power and are more efficient than the current engines

Renault has signed a three-year contract to supply engines to Caterham from 2014 to 2016. Next year’s F1 engines are 1.6-liter V6 turbocharged engines with two forms of energy recovery. Caterham has been using Renault engines since 2011. ...

Good tire strategy brought Alonso to second

*Update: Mark Webber will receive a 10-spot grid penalty for the next race, the Korean Grand Prix, for entering the track on foot without the marshals' permission. Webber's car broke down on the final lap of the race. On his cool-down lap,...

Rosberg mounts a valiant effort but was a tenth too slow

Sebastian Vettel has racked up yet another pole position despite stiff competition from Mercedes, especially Nico Rosberg. Vettel led the Q2 and Q3 qualifying sessions with ease and seemed constantly able to find time on the track where other driv...

The video is the first in a series looking at each aspect of the car

Infiniti is trying to make its ties to the Red Bull Racing team as close as possible with there even being rumors that Red Bull may help Infiniti work on a car. Sebastian Vettel is already Infiniti's "Director of Performance," and he...

The team is the priority, not the drivers

Since the days of Enzo Ferrari, the Scuderia Ferrari F1 team has been run with the concept that there would be preferred driver and a secondary driver, but the signing of Kimi Raikkonen to the team for next season shows for the first time that thi...

There are also races from NASCAR and the WTCC

If endurance racing is what you like, then this might be the best weekend since the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The ALMS and WEC share the weekend at the Circuit of the Americas, and the Asian Le Mans Series is at Fuji. If endurance racing is not your th...

Barrichello says some things were better after he left F1

Felipe Massa is not out of Formula 1 yet, but his future does not look good in the series. But another team could conceivably pick him up after losing his seat at Ferrari to Kimi Raikkonen. Formula 1 veteran Rubens Barrichello says that leaving Fo...