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Formula 1: Drive to Survive Shall Return in 2020 With All Teams On Board
Formula 1: Drive to Survive will return on Netflix in 2020, this time with all teams onboard.
Food Fight: Will Formula 1 Merge With Formula E?
We know 10 people who want F1 to go back to naturally aspirated V10s for every person who wants them to use electric motors. Maybe that ratio is 100:1. But…
Did Formula One Improve in 2018? Part I
In this series, we look at F1 in 2018 and ask if it improved. Our general impression is that F1 was slightly more exciting in 2018 than in the immediately previous years. But the driver’s champion didn’t change and the constructor’s champion probably won’t change either, so we have to look deeper to…
Speed Secrets: Improve The Driver Or The Setup?
One of the trickiest challenges facing a driver is knowing when to work on making the car’s setup better, or when to work on one’s own driving. Maybe even more challenging is knowing where to start tuning your car, what to do, and understanding the Why behind any of these changes. Dale Thompson and Neville Smith have a shop on the South Coast of New South Wales in Australia, and have been helping set up cars varying from street to full-on race cars. What I find most interesting is their approach – starting with the basics in the shop before ever going to the track, and making sure there is a solid baseline (far too many people don’t do this!). Their results have been impressive, shaving seconds off the best lap times of drivers/cars that have been “stuck” for a long time.
Driven: 2016 Cadillac ATS-V
GM’s luxury brand has made it a cornerstone of their mission as a company to beat the Europeans at their own game, and those marching orders continue with their latest V-Series offering. The segment is a hotly contested one filled with worthy contenders – from Audi we’ve got the RS5, Mercedes-AMG has the new C63, and BMW, the company that defined this segment in the first place, has a new M3/M4.
Pirelli World Challenge: The Best U.S. Race Series
We’ve talked to many racers about how they would design a race series. Of course different drivers have different views, but there are some common denominators.
Ten Innovative Production Car Technologies Born in Racing
For decades, car manufacturers from all around the world have turned to racing in a bid to prove their cars’ technical superiority and boost their overall brand image. How many times have you read the term “race-derived” in a road test, a press release or a sales brochure?
Gear Spotlight: All the Essentials to Get Ready to Go Racing
For many, half the battle of making the jump from racing fan to racing participant involves cobbling together the requisite gear. With these bundles we’ve taken the guesswork out of that task, offering bespoke packages based on experience level and the type of track driving you’ll be doing. Of course, it never hurts to have some guidance along the way, so we’re also highlighting some of our favorite books on race driving technique too.
McLaren Announces New Five-Tier Customization Program
McLaren has just launched a new program which will offer separate tiers of customization work that buyers can opt for when outfitting their supercars. McLaren Special Operations will now compartmentalize the bespoke work available to cars including the 650S, 12C, P1, the Asia-only 625C, as well as “heritage” products like the F1 and the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren and the track-only McLaren P1 GTR.
Driven: 2015 Jaguar F-Type R Coupe
We’ve spent some quality time with the convertible version of the Jaguar F-Type over the past year or so, and while that car in both V6 and V8 flavors delivered some pretty divine open-top motoring and, in the case of the V8 model, offered one of the most compelling exhaust notes we’d ever heard in a production car, we were anxious to get behind the wheel of a hard top F-Type and see if the coupe’s added rigidity would translate to a substantially more capable F-Type.
Tramontana GT, R, And XTR For Sale
Tramontana, a niche Spanish carmaker, is an interesting one. The Tramontana R has been around for a while, with its Mercedes 5.5-liter V-12 producing 720 horsepower. Now there are two models we haven’t seen available before: the GT and the top-of-the-line XTR.
Driver Profile: Niki Lauda
Niki Lauda, born in Vienna, Austria in 1949, started racing cars despite his family’s disapproval. He Joined Formula 2 in 1971 driving for March, and soon found himself driving for March’s Formula 1 team. Lauda joined BRM’s F1 team in 1973, and was eventually signed to Ferrari in 1974. He won his first Formula 1 championship with Ferrari in 1975.
Jaguar Hilariously Rejects V8 Supercars Speculation
Calling it “frankly insane” and claiming “I don’t know what it does for AMG to get flogged by a V8 Commodore week after week, but it’s their brand, their issue. And the same thing will happen to Volvo to be honest,” Jaguar Land Rover’s Managing Director of the Asia Pacific region, David Blackhall, shot down all speculation that the Indo-British brand would be joining Ford, Holden, Mercedes-Benz AMG, Nissan, and Volvo in the Australian V8 Supercars series.
McLaren Announces Honda Engine Deal
As we reported yesterday, an announcement regarding the future of McLaren’s F1 team would be coming this week. Now, barely 24 hours later, we’ve got the official press release from McLaren declaring that the venerable British team would be switching to Honda power in 2015.
1999 Williams FW21 Formula 1 Car For Sale
This car was driven by Ralf Schumacher—Michael’s younger brother—for Williams in the 1999 Formula 1 Season. Now it is available for the current equivalent of just under $345,000.
Driven: 2014 Aston Martin Vanquish
Yet when you’re behind the wheel, these figures and metrics and the fact that there are faster, cheaper cars available mean very little. Driving an Aston Martin isn’t a performance choice so much as a lifestyle choice. You feel a little bit taller, a little bit happier just standing next to a beauty like this. Driving an Aston Martin singles you out as a connoisseur, someone that could have a Ferrari, or Lamborghini, or Bentley, but recognizes that there’s more to life than 0-60 times and top speeds that you’ll never hit. That doesn’t mean this isn’t an inspiring car to drive, though, as we found out during a long weekend testing it.
List: The Top Ten Winding Road POV Test Drives
Considering it’s Friday, and none of us want to do actual work, this makes today’s list a perfect time sink. We’ve corralled our most popular POV test drives, and have assembled them in one place. There’s roughly an hour’s worth of video here, with everything from affordable rear-drive coupes, to full-bore sports cars, to a pair of very powerful muscle cars. There are few better ways to spend an hour of your day then watching these videos (make sure you have headphones!).
Driven: 2013 BMW M5
Road or track, complex corners or never-ending sweepers, the underlying element of goodness here is the M5’s stirring powertrain. The twin-scroll turbo-fed 4.4-liter V-8 engine puts out an astonishing 560 horsepower and 500 pound-feet of torque for its lucky operator to make use of—figures that are both significant upgrades from the last-generation’s V-10.
McLaren Debuting 12C Can-Am Edition At Pebble Beach
McLaren has a long and storied history in the world of Can-Am racing. The series, ran in the 1960s and 70s featured absurd levels of power (1500 horsepower in some cars in qualifying form) and technology. The orange cars of Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme dominated for years until McLaren’s untimely death. This 12C Can-Am Edition is a tribute to those outrageous racers.
Quick Drive: 2013 Ford Focus EcoBoost
Why are we talking about an engine that’s only sold in Europe, though? Well, because it won’t be European-only for long. Ford has stated that the 1.0-liter EcoBoost will be sold in North America (and Asia, Oceania, and Africa) in 2013. The Dearborn-based OEM hasn’t mentioned what vehicles it’ll be available in, but based on the pair of lime green metallic Focus hatchbacks sitting in front of us at the Dearborn Proving Grounds, we think we have a good idea what the first American model to get the 1.0-liter will be.
You Vote: Pick The Best Concept And Production Car From Geneva 2012
We need your help folks. Just like we did for the LA and Detroit auto shows, we’re going to put together a story featuring your favorite cars from the 2012 Geneva Motor Show.
