Motorsports

In the round-up: F1 is now biggest “sport entertainment” series – Domenicali • Mansell gets 2025 F2 seat • McLaren IndyCar principal steps down.

I’m a massive fan of Minis, both literally and figuratively. I’m 6-foot-8 and own a four-door 2017 Mini Cooper S hatchback, and anyone who knows me knows how much I love my car. In the modern profit-driven automotive market, automakers are consolidating product lines and simplifying option packages, often leading to… Read more…

These days, it’s rare to see an automaker try something truly new and different. Sometimes it’s a success like the Tesla Model S, and other times it’s a flop like the Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet. Did the world really need a two-door Murano convertible? Not at all. Was it a great car? Not really. Should Nissan…

It’s been a rough few weeks lately in the F1 world, what with the series taking a hiatus ahead of the Las Vegas/Qatar/Abu Dhabi triple-header to end the 2024 season. With festivities kicking off in Las Vegas shortly for the second Grand Prix of a three-year contract in the city, Alpine has given everyone something…

In June, fresh off of an eighth-place finish in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Portland International Raceway, Parker Kligerman went for a run in the mountains. He’d spent years chasing the top levels of motorsport, reaching them, falling out of them, then climbing them again. During that time, he’d have waves of emotions about…

Kris Bryant, star third baseman for the Colorado Rockies, recently had his Lamborghini Huracan stolen as it was being shipped to his home in Las Vegas. Luckily, police retrieved the supercar and the story behind how it was stolen is wild. Read more…

Roadkill is officially dead. Cohost Mike Finnegan shared that news over the weekend, but at the time, we didn’t have a lot of details other than the fact that the production company was shutting down, and there would be no more episodes of Roadkill once the 13th season aired. I tried reaching out to both…

Sadly, Dodge doesn’t make the Viper anymore. Up until it ended production in 2017, America’s brash supercar was one of the few places you could find a naturally aspirated V10 engine. Now, amazingly, one of those V10 engines is up for sale and its never been used. Read more…

Marc Marquez says he felt “very comfortable and very calm” on his first day with the works Ducati team, describing it as the best outfit in present-day MotoGP.Having signed a two-year contract with the Italian factory, Marquez got his first taste of the Ducati GP25 in the official test at Barcelona on Tuesday.Completing a total…

Investors are all abuzz right now on the news that Donald Trump will make it easier to get autonomous cars on the roads. Tesla stock shot up on the news, and Wall Street analysts justified the jump by saying much of the company’s value is based on its AI efforts. Here’s the issue: The analysts…