Новости за 05.12.2020

Electric motorsport has a sustainability problem. No, I’m not talking about the complexities of recycling batteries or the ecological costs of electric vehicle development on the environment. I’m talking about an unsustainable manufacturer mindset—the very one that’s resulted in manufacturers leaving the sport in…

Qualifying for the Formula One Sakhir Grand Prix at the Bahrain outer loop looked a hell of a lot different than qualifying just one week ago: Lewis Hamilton is out after a positive COVID-19 test, George Russell has replaced him at Mercedes, Jack Aitken took Russell’s place at Willams, and Pietro Fittipaldi has taken…

Back in July, IndyCar announced that it was making diversity a primary goal of the series with its Race For Equality & Change program. Like a lot of motorsport programs announced at the time, it was pretty vague in its details and concrete goals—but some of the first benefits are popping up. Earlier this week, the…

The Haas Formula One Team finally did it. It fired both of its current drivers and replaced them with two young guns that have been competing in the junior ranks of the sport. In 2021, Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin will hit the F1 grid for the first time in their careers. Let’s run you through what you need to…

As more and more motorsport series announced their 2021 schedules, I couldn’t help but think they seemed a little ambitious in thinking that the COVID-19 pandemic would have subsided. And it turns out that wasn’t a misguided thought—NASCAR has already placed attendance caps on the 2021 Daytona 500, its first race of…

We’ve been losing things over the Bermuda Triangle for over 100 years, but one of the strangest occurrences took place 75 years ago today, on December 5, 1945. Five torpedo bombers up and disappeared during a three-hour training mission out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. All 14 airmen were lost—alongside an additional…

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The first time I saw a race car in real life, it was in October of 2014. I was standing in downtown Austin, Texas, watching a Red Bull Racing Formula One car do donuts in front of the capitol building of the city I’d moved to just months before. I had no idea how to cope with it. Growing up out in the boons, F1 always…

A week-and-a-half ago, when GM announced that it was bailing on Trump I emailed every automaker still on Trump’s side to see if they had any comment. That included Nissan, which responded then it doesn’t “typically comment on actions of competitors.” Today, Nissan said it was bailing on Trump too.

Driving onto a live racetrack accidentally should be very hard to do. Actually, it should be impossible! But for the second time in little more than a month, a motorist has ended up stranded on the Interlagos circuit in Brazil, even though there was no intention to do so while cars were running laps.

There is nothing I love more in the world of motorsport than a legendary racing driver in one series leaving to pursue whatever kinds of racing they find fun. Jimmie Johnson has spent more than twenty years becoming one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time, and now that he’s closed that chapter of his life, he’s…

There has been a lot of news this week about teams and companies shuffling their motorsport priorities, including BMW and Audi leaving Formula E, Bentley dropping its GT3 program, and Volkswagen leaving racing altogether. Here comes another startling addition to that pile, as BMW has also decided to end its partnership

Excited to drive the new Ford Bronco next spring, were you? Well, you won’t, as Ford announced today that both two- and four-door versions of the highly anticipated and high-riding SUV have been delayed until summer 2021.

At a time where both sedans and manual-transmission models are fading from the market, it’s nice to see automakers continue to make compact and fun four-door offerings. Hyundai just released pricing for the Elantra N Line and it seems that it has the Honda Civic Si sedan squarely in its sights.