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There is a NASCAR road race too

It is another relatively weak weekend for racing. There are several regional touring car races like Scandinavian Touring Car Championship on Saturday, August 10, and the British GT Championship on the 10th and 11th, but there are no truly int...

The team will be ready for the Rally Monte Carlo in January

Hyundai Motorsport conducted gravel testing of its i20 WRC in July in southern France to prepare the car for competition next season. The team's test drivers are Juho Hänninen, Bryan Bouffier and Chris Atkinson. "We have had...

Results are the only way to keep his seat

For the second time in two seasons Felipe Massa is racing for his seat at Ferrari. If his performance does not improve, Ferrari has made it incredibly clear that Massa will be gone at the end of the season. And Massa knows it. Massa has scored...

Citroën is building the a strong team for next season

Citroën is getting serious about its 2014 World Touring Car Championship team. It already announced that Sebastien Loeb would be one of the drivers of its C-Elysée WTCC car. Now, it has added three-time WTCC-winner and current points l...

Drivers come and go but the fans remain

Ferrari Chairman Luca di Montezemolo has become very serious about improving the company's F1 hopes in the last few weeks. First, he held a meeting following the Hungarian Grand Prix where he gave all of the engineers knives with the implied m...

This is Webber's final season in F1

Mark Webber is finishing the last half of his final season in Formula 1 before going back to Le Mans where he raced before his F1 career began. He says that in his time in F1 he has seen the quality of the F1 grid drop, and he blames the drop on t...

They lack a little bass, but the engines still sound great

We are less than a year away from the first completely new Formula 1 engine configuration since 2006, and while Renault has already shown its engine, Mercedes is letting us hear the engine for the first time in a new video.  The video has...

This weekend has the first ever race for the Asian Le Mans Series, and DTM goes to Europe

We might be seeing the a big shift in motorsports this weekend. Historically, auto racing has had major hubs in Europe and North America. Outside of Japan, Asia has had relatively few motor races, despite its huge population. This weekend the firs...

It also makes a sly point about the F1 team's recent performance

If you have watched Formula 1 over the last season, then you have likely seen the Tooned logo on the back of the McLarens but not know what it means. Since last season, McLaren has been creating short animated films above the development of its ra...

He is unhappy with the performance of the F1 team

Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo is not being subtle about how he feels about the Scuderia Ferrari's performance this season in Formula 1. In a meeting with all of the team's engineers, Montezemolo gave each of them a knife with a mes...