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Big Deal? VW racing chief, F1 drivers visit Homestead for NASCAR season-closer

This year's Sprint Cup was awarded this past weekend at Homestead, where Jimmie Johnson scored his record fourth consecutive championship with a fifth-place finish behind race winner Denny Hamlin. (Oh yeah, "spoiler alert".) Anyway, on to the interesting part: the oval speedway had some unlikely German visitors for the series finale, leading the motorsport press and the fans to begin asking questions. The Volkswagen Group's head of motorsports Hans-Joachim Stuck was reportedly among the spectators at Homestead this past weekend, and took ... Read more →

VIDEO: With F1 program scrapped, where will Toyota Motorsports land next? Noah Joseph

As Toyota president Akio Toyoda announced the withdrawal of his company from the Formula One World Championship, he reiterated Toyota's commitment to motorsport competition. But while this may have ...

Kia Forte Koup going racing in 2010 Grand-Am Koni Challenge series Sam Abuelsamid

For the first time in its history in the U.S. market, Kia is going racing in 2010. Kia announced today at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas that it has partnered with the Kinetic Group to build and ...

Camaro returns to racing this weekend against Mustang, Challenger Jeremy Korzeniewski

This Sunday, October, the classic dark blue Sunoco Chevy Camaro will race once again. What's more, the car will be piloted by drivers with rather appropriate last names: Donohue and Bucknum. ...

Alex Roy retires from rallying, campaigning team in Grand Am Rolex series Damon Lavrinc

In a move that's sure to surprise almost no one, Alex Roy – head of Team Polizei, multi-rally champion, author of The Driver and the man responsible for crossing the continent in 31:04 – ...

Event Alert: April Calendar of Automotive Events 8 months ago on Autoblog

April might be best known for its rain and resultant flora, but we hope sunshine prevails. After all, April marks the beginning of the IndyCar season with an undercard of ALMS in St. Petersburg, as well as a follow-up race for each series in the shadow of the Queen Mary from Long Beach, CA. NASCAR ...

Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey to race Ferrari at Le Mans 9 months ago on Autoblog

Throughout the history of motorsports several Hollywood actors have had aspirations to be professional racecar drivers. Steve McQueen and the late Paul Newman come to mind, both of whom were very successful, and some modern era actors have also had a go at it too like Jason Priestley, Eric Bana and ...

Training Wheels: Dallara rolls out Formulino racer 10 months ago on Autoblog

Typically, race cars – especially formula single-seaters – are designed and built for a specific series. Nobody knows that better than Dallara. The Italian motorsports engineering firm designed and fabricates the chassis for GP2, the World Series by Renault, practically the entire ...

SEMA 2008: Camaro GS Race Car Concept LIVE 1 year ago on Autoblog

If the 2010 Camaro is, as Ed Peper said, "a 21st century sports car for the young and the young at heart," then this is the race car for those actual and spiritual whippersnappers. The Camaro GS Race Car Concept takes its inspiration from the Trans Am racer of Mark Donohue, but Riley ...

Nissan may take GT-R to go racing in Australia 1 year ago on Autoblog

The land Down Under hasn't been kind to Nissan when it comes to motorsports. The Skyline GT-R was banned in 1993 from the country's touring car series after three consecutive wins in 1990, 1991 and 1992, and Nissan hasn't returned since. That might change in the 2008 season, as Nissan is ...

Enter the Rumormill: Nissan GT-R may compete in Grand Am series 1 year ago on Autoblog

The Nissan GT-R GT500 race car from Japan's Super GT series. A brief blurb over at GT Channel revealed a rumor we hope would come true. According to the site's sources, Nissan may be considering campaigning a GT-R in the U.S.-based Grand Am series. If it were to come to fruition, we'd expect the ...

McDreamy can only be tamed by a wild Mustang 2 years ago on Autoblog

The ladies swoon over Patrick Dempsey on Grey's Anatomy so much that he's garnered the nickname McDreamy on the show. McDreamy himself, however, dreams about ponies - a particular pony, in fact, in the form of a Ford Mustang FR500C built for the Grand Am Road Racing KONI Series. Dempsey recently ...

Unofficial Porsche powered Fabcar to run in Grand Am finale 2 years ago on Autoblog

The factory-backed Porsche RS Spyders of Penske Racing have been leading the ALMS LMP2 class and even captured some overall victories this year. In the competing (well, kinda) Grand Am series, the official Porsche engine in the Daytona Prototype class is a 3.8-liter flat-six. The Spirit of Daytona ...

TiVo Alert: Grand-Am Rolex Series rolls into Barber Motorsports Park 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image to view more high-res pics of last weekend's racing action While Autoblog doesn't cover every motorsport event, or most for that matter, it doesn't mean we're not fans. So when racing comes to town, we try to check it out. Barber Motorsports in Birmingham, Ala. was busy last ...

Caddiwhack: Predator 800 HP twin-supercharged CTS-V 2 years ago on Autoblog

click image for high-res gallery The Cadillac CTS-V is a fine sports sedan. Perhaps it's not our first choice when talk of Mega Millions wins come around, but we certainly wouldn't point and laugh at somebody who bought one. One of the complaints about the car is that several less expensive ...

Motorsports this weekend: May 13-14 3 years ago on Autoblog

A busy racing weekend, particularly for open-wheel fans! North American TV broadcast times and channels from tvracer.com, all times shown as Eastern. American Le Mans Series: Lone Star Grand Prix, Houston A rare visit to a street circuit for the ALMS is proving tough for Champion Racing's venerable ...

[Not TiVoSafe] Motorsports Highlights: April 22-23 3 years ago on Autoblog

Quite a weekend! Ferrari returns, a new Nextel Cup points leader, a wild sports car race, a ton of motorcycle road racing, and some fence-climbing in Japan. Formula 1: At the front of the field, the San Marino Grand Prix was a mirror-image of last year's race, this time with Michael Schumacher ...

[Not TiVoSafe] Motorsports Highlights April 8-9 3 years ago on Autoblog

NASCAR: Kasey Kahne started on the pole and won going away Sunday to cap a perfect weekend in Texas, becoming the 11th winner in as many races in the 2006 Nextel Cup series. Kahne's Dodge finished five seconds clear of Matt Kenseth's second-place Ford. A brace of Chevy's driven by Tony stewart, ...

Motorsports this Weekend: April 8-9 3 years ago on Autoblog

Champ Car World Series: The Champ Cars are in Long Beach for their season-opener this weekend. Interesting storylines include Newman/Haas driver Sebastian Bourdais, who is going for his third consecutive championship, and RuSport's Justin Wilson, who should join Forsythe Racing's Paul Tracy as a ...

[Not TiVoSafe] Motorsports Highlights: March 4-5 3 years ago on Autoblog

WRC: Sebastian Loeb (Citroen) put his 2006 season back on track this weekend with a win in Rally Mexico. Last year's winner Petter Solberg (Subaru) fought Loeb down to the wire, but ultimately settled for second place, and his first points of the season. Austrian Manfred Stohl was third for the ...






Autoblog Podcast #154: Gobbling up the News

Chris, Sam, and Dan kick out a podcast just in time for the long holiday drive.

 
 

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