Motorsports

In the round-up: Alpine must make up for 0.3-second deficit with 2025 chassis – Briatore • Stolen Lauda helmet goes on display • Wittich ‘has not resigned’

On Thursday at Phoenix Raceway, Tyler Reddick began one of the biggest weekends of his career: his first true shot at a NASCAR Cup Series championship. Forty drivers showed up to Phoenix, yet all but the Championship Four — Reddick, William Byron, and past Cup champions Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney — were eliminated from…

Impersonating a cop is a big no no. One man in Florida found this out the hard way after he flashed the fake police lights in his unmarked Dodge Charger at an intersection in order to run a light. Read more…

There aren’t any new models available under $20,000 in the for American car buyers anymore, but emerging auto markets like India have plenty of cheap cars to go around. One of these budget cars just proved that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to be safe. Read more…

NASCAR got the season-ending “Game 7 Moment” it has been chasing since instituting the Playoffs points system in 2004 last weekend, and fans are pretty pissed off about it. The 2024 Cup Series champion, Joey Logano, secured his third title with the worst average season-long finishing position in NASCAR history. Across… Read more…

Remember back in April, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told Tesla it could no longer call its semi-autonomous software “Full Self-Driving,” and that it had to throw a “supervised” in there to cover its ass? Well it seems no one told Tesla’s social media team, because the company’s tweets… Read more…

Cadillac continues its EV push with the introduction of a new, family sized electric SUV: the 2026 Cadillac Vistiq. The second largest Cadillac EV and the fifth overall electric model for the brand, the SUV comes across as a refreshed, more handsome version of the gas-powered XT6 but there are major design differences… Read more…

The season finale is not just for crowning the series champion, but it also signifies the end of careers, partnerships and in some cases, race teams. The 36th and final points-paying race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup season at Phoenix Raceway was no different. While all the focus was on the championship showdown, several other…

Only millionaires typically have time and money to cosplay as Batman, but the police already have all the heavy equipment and qualified immunity to indulge their superhero fantasies. A sheriff’s office in Olympia, Washington used a grappler to end a pursuit last week by crashing a stolen car at 100 miles per hour. The… Read…

To the big teams go the spoils… or something like that. Close and competitive racing has been a common theme in the IndyCar Series for years, but the end-of-year results always favor the usual suspects. Chip Ganassi Racing wrapped up its seventh title over the last 12 years in North America’s premier open-wheel championship, with Team…