About 13 months ago, I was working with Dan Wheldon on a story that formed part of a series of Indianapolis 500 retros here on RACER.com in the build up to the Centennial event. [CLICK HERE for the story]. Throughout the piece, it was clear how much he loved the event and regarded it as the apex of motorsports. What transpired on that last lap on May 29, 2011, could not have had a more suitable beneficiary … More
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Porsche has been rather quiet on the 918 Spyder front since debuting the car at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, but our spy photographers have just sent us the first-ever images of the hybrid supercar undergoing shakedown testing in its final body work.
Although still clad is some light camouflage, we can tell that the production version of the 918 Spyder will remain nearly identical to its show car counterpart. However, there are a few changes, including  … Pictures, video and more
Josef Newgarden, Rubens Barrichello, Michel Jourdain and Simon Pagenaud talk to us about Rookie Orientation Practice for the 2012 Indy 500.
Travis Pastrana has leaped from an airplane without a parachute and jumped a rally car nearly 300 feet off a pier to a floating barge. Yet, he’s seldom felt anything as extreme as his first trip around Darlington Raceway on Friday.
It was the ”most cared I’ve been in a vehicle, in anything with a roll cage for sure … More