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IndyCar: 2010 Kentucky Indy 300 comes down to fuelish decisions [SPOILERS]

For the IRL IndyCar Series, the 2010 Kentucky Indy 300 was all about the number "200." It was the 200th race in IRL history. The drivers would be running 200 laps around the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway. And the speeds would be well above 200 mph as the field of 27 cars ran inches away from each other under the lights of Kentucky. Among those 27 drivers was last year's runner-up, Ed Carpenter, who still hasn't scored a full-time ride, and Paul Tracy, the fan favorite who seems to never get rusty. Maybe we'll have to start calling him Platinum ... Read more →

Video: Japanese trailer for Ayrton Senna documentary Jeff Glucker

Ayrton Senna da Silva was born on March 21, 1960. To our knowledge, he won his first competition when he cut his umbilical cord before his doctor could. In reality, he began his karting career at ...

Video: Bad Habits' monster truck world record practice session doesn't go as planned Zach Bowman

Few realms of motorsport live the "Go big or go home" mantra to the fullest quite as well as the monster truck world. Aside from one of the largest voiceovers in the industry ("Sunday, Sunday, ...

Tanner Foust wins first RallyCar Rallycross event in U.S. [w/video] Steven J. Ewing

Tanner Foust took the top spot in the first-ever Rallycross competition in the United States this past weekend, piloting an all-wheel-drive Rockstar Engergy/Etnies Ford Fiesta. Rallycross has ...

Donto Motors P1 to take on Ariel Atom, KTM X-Bow Steven J. Ewing

If you've never heard of Argentina-based Donto Motors before, you're not alone. However, just because this company has remained out of the spotlight doesn't mean they don't have big things in the ...

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MotoGP 2010: Winds of change blow into the Brickyard [Spoilers] 6 days ago on Autoblog

The hype, the drama and one final chance to perform in front of the home town crowd made Indianapolis Motor Speedway a forum for several American riders to "leave it all out on the track " before MotoGP departed the U.S. for the remainder of the season. But with so much happening off the ...

Video: Overtaking redefined 6 days ago on Autoblog

We've seen some fine passes in our day, both by professional shoes like Michael Schumacher or Ayrton Senna, as well as unnamed trackday heroes. The pro stuff is great, but sometimes, nothing succeeds like a course full of bangers with nothing to lose. Case in point, this dirt track pass ...

13-year old motorcycle racer killed during warm-up lap at Indy 6 days ago on Autoblog

Tragic events unfolded at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend when Peter Lenz, 13, was killed after falling off of his motorcycle and being hit by another rider during a warm-up lap. Ben Spies, who took second place during Sunday's MotoGP event, commented on the unfortunate events: "I ...

IndyCar: 2010 Peak Antifreeze and Motor Oil Indy 300 [SPOILERS] 7 days ago on Autoblog

It might seem that the 2010 IndyCar championship is a foregone conclusion. After all, Team Penske's Will Power has a sizable lead in the standings and there are just four races left to run. Ah, but those four are all on ovals, and Will has never claimed the top step of the podium at an oval ...

Lotus Evora GT4 and Cup cars take to the 'Ring and Laguna 9 days ago on Autoblog

Lotus has set about proving that the Evora is more than just a pretty face, just recently putting its Evora Cup GT4 and 2-Eleven GT4 racers through their paces at the infamous Nürburgring and most recently at Laguna Seca. Both cars were hooned 'round the Green Hell by none other than Olie ...

Ben Spies moves to Yamaha MotoGP Factory Team 9 days ago on Autoblog

Shocking, we know. What's been called the second-worst kept secret in MotoGP has officially been confirmed. MotoGP rookie and current World Superbike champion Ben Spies (shown at right, with Yamaha's Lin Jarvis) will be saddling up with the factory Yamaha crew starting next year. Rumors to that ...

Widebody, mid-engine Honda CR-Z coming to SuperGT? 10 days ago on Autoblog

The GT Channel crew have snagged a handful of shots of a widebody Honda CR-Z being built for an unknown venue, and while it could just be an elaborate show car for this January's Tokyo Auto Salon, it's possible Honda is prepping the CR-Z for a run in Japan's SuperGT touring car series. With ...

Back to His Roots: The Kentucky Kid returns to the Indy Mile, but not to race 10 days ago on Autoblog

Before Nicky Hayden was an international superstar making use of some of the best front brakes in the world on his MotoGP bike, he was just a kid from Kentucky who made a name for himself forgoing the front binder altogether and winning a ton of AMA flat track races. Back then he was known as ...

Video: Trans-Am race cars battle it out at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion 11 days ago on Autoblog

One of our favorite events from the Monterey car week earlier this month was watching the field of 44 Trans-Am race cars tear it up at the Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The sights and sounds of classic Mustangs, Camaros and Challengers battling it out on the track just like ...

Volkswagen unveils Race Touareg 3 for 2011 Dakar Rally duty 12 days ago on Autoblog

Volkswagen has had great success with its diesel-powered Race Touareg 2, earning wins in both the 2009 and 2010 Dakar Rally. For the 2011 event, however, a brand new race truck will be entered, mimicking the changes made to the road-going Volkswagen Touareg for the 2011 model year. ...

Video: Ken Block's ADAC Rally prep is no match for mechanical failure 13 days ago on Autoblog

They don't call it the World Rally Championship for nothing. The globe's best and brightest descend on the pinnacle of the rally sport to duke it out all over the planet, and while Ken Block hasn't fared as well as predicted this season, he's at least made it to the point where he can step into ...

IndyCar: 2010 Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma [SPOILERS] 13 days ago on Autoblog

Just five races remain on the 2010 Indy Racing League IndyCar schedule, and only one of those is a road course. The final four rounds of the championship will all be contested on ovals – but this weekend the drivers will be taking on Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. Last race at ...

We obsessively covered Pebble Beach Week 19 days ago on Autoblog

As always, we made the annual trek to Monterey, California for Pebble Beach Week with laptops in tow and digital SLR cameras in hand to capture everything worthy of your time. As you can see by our assemblage of posts below, 2010 was another spectacular year for new and old. From a bevy of ...

NPR: Fight erupts over ownership of 'stolen' 1954 Ferrari 375 Plus 19 days ago on Autoblog

Thursday is going to be a big one for the vintage automotive universe. This week, Ohio judge Norbert Nadel is expected to decide who is the rightful owner of a 1954 Ferrari 375 Plus – one of the most valuable Prancing Horses in the world. Right now, says NPR, one Jacques Swaters has possession ...

Monterey 2010: Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion paddock walk 19 days ago on Autoblog

We can't exactly say that we've always liked the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion – mainly because this is the first year that the event, formerly informally known as the Monterey Historics, is using that title. No matter what they call it, though, we have to say that we're glad some ...

Monterey 2010: A century of Indianapolis 500 entrants féted at Pebble 20 days ago on Autoblog

The 95th running of the Indianapolis 500 this May represented the 100th Anniversary of "The Greatest Spectacle In Racing." The unbroken streak halted a total of five years during our involvement with the two World Wars. It's hard to believe we've had this legendary race for that long, but the ...

MotoGP 2010: Getting back on track in the Czech Republic [Spoilers] 20 days ago on Autoblog

For us, the mid-season break in GP action seemed reminiscent of the Monday night following the Superbowl, something is just missing. As the hot tires penciled in the fast lines around the Brno circuit, we remembered just what it was: lightning fast motorcycles of course! High winds and poor ...

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport's top speed will be 10 mph less than record [w/video] 21 days ago on Autoblog

Oh what teases those Bugatti folks are. They brought the new Veyron Super Sport to Laguna Seca during classic car week here in Monterey... and did a parade lap at a pace about one-tenth of the car's record-breaking 268-mile per hour top speed. We never expected it to take to the track in anger, ...

Monterey 2010: Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion puts vintage racers back on track 21 days ago on Autoblog

This year's Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion was actually the first one ever run, as there was a name change to go along with last year's change in management. The former Historics are now the Reunion, but name change aside, the event was still the same old week of wheel-to-wheel racing ...

Monterey 2010: Bugatti GP cars swarm The Quail [Video] 21 days ago on Autoblog

Monterey's classic car week means a long days of big events, with Concorso Italiano and The Quail anchoring our Friday schedule. We've brought you a sampling of those shows already, but the parade of race cars from Laguna Seca over to the Quail cries out for a little video. The cars come in, ...

Monterey 2010: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 shines in silver 22 days ago on Autoblog

That image above speaks for itself. All you really need to know is that this isn't Dubai, Russia or even Germany – it's right here in Monterey for classic car week. You can probably identify the Mercedes-Benz inside that shiny wrapper on your own, but just in case you've recently taken an ...

Vauxhall shows off street legal (!) 3000-horsepower Red Victor 3 23 days ago on Autoblog

The drag racing world is a scary, scary place. It's a realm where engines are built to hold together just long enough to scoot down the quarter mile before they're torn apart and rebuilt for the next run. It's a world where if your vehicle is turning anything close to double-digit fuel mileage, ...

Monterey 2010: Lotus Evora Cup GT4 has us shaken and stirred 24 days ago on Autoblog

While the Lotus booth at the Jet Center Party in Monterey had several outstanding cars on display, two of them had us drooling more than the rest. The first was the all-new, million-dollar Lotus Exos T125 single-seat racer and the other was the car you see here – the Lotus Evora Cup GT4 ...

Monterey 2010: Lotus Exos Type 125 debuts in front of crowd that can afford it 24 days ago on Autoblog

Our first stop during the annual classic and exotic car feast up in Monterey every year is always the Jet Center Party, more formally known as McCall's Motorworks Revival. This year was no exception and aside from the copious amounts of food and drink available, there were of course some cars to ...

Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 order books open for 2011 race season 24 days ago on Autoblog

The full-on competition version of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG is now officially available to order for race teams in preparation for the 2011 season. Mercedes-Benz will start delivering the GT3-class race cars in February of 2011, leaving plenty of time for teams to do their own preseason ...

Rumormill: Lexus to build GT racing version of LFA, GT1 or GT2? 25 days ago on Autoblog

Motor Trend is reporting that Toyota's may be getting back into motorsports big-time with a GT entry based on the Lexus LFA. According to the report, Lexus would enter the FIA GT1 championship to take on the Nissan GT-R. This seems like a move downmarket for the $375,000 Lexus sports car from a ...

Aston Martin design director gets custom Vantage GT4 25 days ago on Autoblog

And he's going racing with it. Marek Reichman, the design director for Aston Martin, will be hopping into the saddle of a Vantage GT4 for his first shot at the Aston Martin GT4 Challenge of Great Britain. Reichman has gone fender to fender before, though he typically keeps to vintage club ...

Video: Ferrari 458 Challenge wrung out at Fiorano 25 days ago on Autoblog

A video camera can do strange things to reality. While we've always heard that training a lens on a person can add 10 pounds to their figure, it's also true that focusing on a moving car can subtract 20 mph. Watching a car scoot around a track on screen and seeing the same action in real life, ...

Video: Corvette Racing Series Episode 8: Cascade engineering 26 days ago on Autoblog

Episode eight of the Corvette Racing series is up and this installment delves into what the team calls "cascade engineering." It covers some of the same ground we discussed back in March when we toured the Pratt & Miller race shop where the C6.Rs are built and prepared. The race team ...

Team Need for Speed racing team adds Time Attack 1,100-HP Scion TC 27 days ago on Autoblog

Chris Rado has added another car to Team Need for Speed: an 1,100-horsepower all-wheel drive Scion TC taking aim at the Time Attack series. It's taken a few years to take the idea from concept to reality, and pictures of the build make it clear why. The zebra-marked tC with gold-plated bulkhead ...

Reynard Inverter gets road legal in the UK [w/video] 27 days ago on Autoblog

One of the great things about being a gearhead in the UK is the Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) process. In short, the IVA (formerly the Single Vehicle Type approval) is a set of rules that allows one-offs and very low volume vehicles to be approved if they meet only the most basic ...

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Autoblog Podcast #193 - Hot Mustangs, Volt Mileage, 1 Series M, Mazda design and Lotus Evoras

Chris, Sam, Alex and Dan convene for Episode #193 of the Autoblog Podcast. We cover the Ford Boss Mustang and Roush supercharger package, the latest Chevrolet Volt fuel economy dust-up, the BMW 1 Series M Coupe, Mazda's apparent new design language and the Lotus Evora S and Evora IPS. Thanks for listening!