Filed under: Motorsports , Ferrari , Honda , Infiniti , McLaren , Mercedes-Benz Formula One’s all-powerful Strategy Group has approved proposals to boost the existing engines up to 1,000 horsepower, widen the tires, increase aerodynamic downforce and make the cars look better in the process. Continue reading Formula One speeds towards radical thousand-horsepower shakeup Formula One speeds towards radical thousand-horsepower shakeup originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:41:00 EST

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Filed under: Motorsports , Ferrari , Hybrid , Racing Ferrari has introduced its challenger for the 2015 F1 world championship, showing off an open-wheel racer with a far more attractive nose than last year’s car. Continue reading Ferrari SF-15T will look to reclaim former F1 glories in 2015 Ferrari SF-15T will look to reclaim former F1 glories in 2015 originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:15:00 EST

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Filed under: Motorsports , Japan , Infiniti , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Racing , McLaren Typhoon Phanfone made landfall in Japan on Sunday, causing a slow start to a very wet and strategy-heavy race, all of it overshadowed by the race-ending injury to Marussia driver Jules Bianchi .

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Race Recap: 2014 Japanese Grand Prix is wet, woebegone

Filed under: Motorsports , Cadillac , GM , Lotus , Ferrari , Luxury The CT6 will be a rolling buffet of GM’s latest technologies. Cadillac generated a minor firestorm this week by announcing plans to move its headquarters from Detroit to New York in 2015.

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Weekly Recap: Cadillac plots a new way forward

Filed under: Motorsports , Classics , Convertible , Videos , Ferrari , Racing There are many beautiful cars in the world, and then there is the Ferrari 330 P4 that outdoes practically all of them. Combining more curves than Christina Hendricks and the singing voice of Adele, it might just be one of the most aesthetically pleasing cars ever made. In its latest video, Petrolicious takes a look at the sole remaining original P4 in existence and talks to the lucky man who gets to drive it.

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Ferrari 330 P4 is a stunning red bolide

Filed under: Motorsports , Classics , Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , UK , Racing The Ferrari F40 has become one of the iconic cars of the last 50 years. It presaged the supercars of the future with its extensive use of carbon fiber and turbocharged engine, but it was also old school with no traction control, stability control or even anti-lock supervision to save the driver if they got in over their head. In its latest video, XCar Films takes a look at the F40 through the lens of a man in the UK who specializes in keeping them on the road and occasionally races these quintessential sports cars

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Celebrating the Ferrari F40 and the man who raced it

Filed under: Motorsports , Classics , Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , UK , Racing The Ferrari F40 has become one of the iconic cars of the last 50 years.

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Filed under: Motorsports , Audi , Chevrolet , Dodge , Porsche , Ferrari , Racing Two days after the flag dropped on the 2014 Rolex 24 at Daytona , people are still trying to figure out what it might portend for the rest of the season.

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Filed under: Motorsports , Audi , Chevrolet , Porsche , Ferrari , Racing If you don’t wish to know who won the 2014 Rolex 24 at Daytona , you should avert your eyes right now. We’ll even give you a double-space to skedaddle… For those of you still with us, the first race in the United SportsCar Championship (USCC) is done, but the discussions about it certainly won’t end for a while.

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Conquest and controversy conclude the 2014 Rolex 24 at Daytona [spoilers]

Filed under: Motorsports , Auctions , Ferrari , Celebrities , Racing There isn’t much in the world that can aurally match the screeching wail of a Formula 1 car at redline. We obviously can’t say whether or not the showmanship of starting this 1998 Ferrari F300 in front of the assembled masses at Barrett-Jackson and slowly taking it up to its 18,000-rpm redline had any effect on bidders, but it did, at the very least, result in a round of applause. This ’98 Ferrari F300 was driven 38 times by Michael Schumacher , and there was another round of applause for the driver, who’s currently in a medically induced coma and listed in stable condition after a skiing accident

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Filed under: Motorsports , Safety , Ferrari , Celebrities , Racing , Read This Updates on the current condition of Michael Schumacher remain few and far between, but at last word, the seven-time Formula One World Champion is still in a medically induced coma due to an epidural hematoma he suffered as a result of his recent ski accident . Robin Warner (above), road test editor at Road & Track , suffered a similar head trauma following a 38-foot fall during an SRT Viper vs. Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG photo shoot last February

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Having been there, Road & Track editor offers thoughts on Schumacher’s recovery odds

Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Ferrari , Racing Ferrari is the last of the three engine manufacturers remaining in Formula One to reveal its 2014 power unit.

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Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Ferrari , Racing Ferrari is the last of the three engine manufacturers remaining in Formula One to reveal its 2014 power unit. Called the 059/3, like the Mercedes and Renault units it is a turbocharged, 1.6-liter V6 further boosted by an energy recovery system that is twice as powerful as before. The 2013 KERS was good for 80 horsepower, could power the car for six seconds and reduce a lap time by about 0.3 seconds.

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Filed under: Motorsports , Ferrari , Rumormill , Racing Statements made by Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo may indicate that the Italian brand could return to a form of racing it’s been absent from for 40 years – prototype racing. That’s right, LMP1 could see a factory Ferrari team for the first time since 1973, if a report from ESPN F1 is to be believed. “We have won with the 458 GTE , but I also quite like the idea of racing at Le Mans in the highest category: who knows, maybe one day we can return and win, say thanks and come home,” Montezemolo said.

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Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Ferrari Though Niki Lauda may today be chairman of the Mercedes F1 team, anyone who’s seen Rush will know that he’s inexorably tied to Ferrari . And it’s that bond that Ferrari has celebrated with this special-edition 458 Italia .

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Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Hybrid , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , Racing What could possibly be better than a Ferrari LaFerrari running at full clip on the Italian brand’s Fiorano test track? The answer is obviously two LaFerraris, both doing hot laps. So far as we know, this is the first time we’ve had an unadulterated listen – outside of the car , that is – to the latest Ferrari hypercar when it’s being ran hard.

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Twin LaFerraris roar around Fiorano

Filed under: Motorsports , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Ferrari The so-called “silly season” in Formula One conjured up all kinds of rumors, and most of them revolved around Kimi Raikkonen . Would the 2007 World Champion stay at Lotus ? Would he switch to Red Bull to replace Mark Webber

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Filed under: Motorsports , Classics , BMW , Bugatti , Chevrolet , Ferrari , Racing The entry list for all of the events in this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion totaled 15 single-spaced pages long. That’s explains how the field for this past weekend’s Trans-Am race contained 41 cars, which is a larger field than ever competed in a real Trans-Am race.

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2013 Monterey Motorsports Reunion

Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , Racing The sexy Ferrari P4/5 Competizione, a cross between the lightweight F430 Scuderia and the race-only F430 GT2 with special Pininfarina bodywork, spent some time in Europe notching a few race victories. But it finally has made its way back to the US and into owner Jim Glickenhaus’ collection, where it met its sister car and inspiration, the original P4/5

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Glickenhaus’ FIA championship-winning P4/5 Competizione comes home [w/video]

Filed under: Motorsports , Ferrari , Racing Luca Cordero di Montezemolo does not strike us as the kind of person we’d want to cross. We imagine the Chairman of Ferrari as sort of like an automotive Don Corleone, a thought that is further confirmed when we hear about the aftermath of last weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Fernando Alonso made some unsubstantiated remarks that have angered his team, with The Daily Mail reporting that when asked after the race what he wanted for his birthday, the Spaniard responded “Someone else’s car.” And while no one seems to know exactly what was said, it was enough to prompt a personal phone call from the boss of Ferrari on Alonso’s birthday for a dressing down

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Ferrari chairman ticked off by Alonso

Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Ferrari , Humor , Russia , Racing Whoops. That’s a word nobody wants to hear in racing, and that’s especially true in Formula 1 , where the cars cost untold millions to design, develop, build and operate.

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F1 driver underestimates talent needed for wet-weather burnout

Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show , Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Ferrari , Rumormill , Racing We’re heavy on the speculative side with this, but Auto Express is saying that “Rumours of Ferrari 458 Scuderia emerge, with possible debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show.” To be clear, that’s the possible debut of a car that is still only a rumor, and we’re not sure it will be called “Scuderia,” either – remember, the track-day 360 was the Challenge Stradale. Admittedly, the rumor of its existence is strong and there is plenty of precedent: Ferrari has introduced some model or variant of its mid-engined V8 sports car at the last three Frankfurt Motor Shows.

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Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Europe , Videos , Ferrari , Celebrities , Luxury Fernando Alonso gave a wide-ranging interview to German television station RTL, the Spanish driver and German interviewer conducting the session in Italian, driving a special Italian car on very special German track. Among many answers – from the industriousness of his native Ovideo, Spain to where he relaxes – Alonso gives Ferrari an eight out of ten for the season, admitting they don’t have the fastest car but they have a complete car, and refuses to give himself a number, only saying that he is more complete as well than when he first entered. Beyond the normal-guy persona and wealth of topics, the 10-minute interview is neat for being able to watch Alonso hurl the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta over and around kerbs while he’s answering questions

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Filed under: Motorsports , Europe , Aston Martin , Audi , Chevrolet , Nissan , Porsche , Ferrari , Racing There was little usual about this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans – intermittent rain in the weeks before the race meant cars didn’t get on track as much as they wanted, and intermittent rain during the race meant cars went off track a lot more than they wanted.

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24 Hours of Le Mans an on-and-off love affair

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Filed under: Motorsports , China , Infiniti , Lotus , Ferrari , Renault , Racing , McLaren Formula One fans and commentators have spent the three weeks since the Malaysian Grand Prix discussing two things more than any other: that pass, and tires.

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Race Recap: 2013 Chinese Grand Prix a test of tires, carnage and a fight for second [spoilers]

Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Europe , Videos , Ferrari , Luxury Air Malta recently worked up a little stunt that pitted an Airbus A320 against a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta in a drag race to raise funds for charity.

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Ferrari F12 races Air Malta A320 jet

Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Europe , Videos , Ferrari , Luxury Air Malta recently worked up a little stunt that pitted an Airbus A320 against a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta in a drag race to raise funds for charity. It’s easy to forget just how quick something the size of a jetliner can be, but watching the video below shows us just where the big passenger aircraft stands when it comes to sprinting down a runway

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Ferrari F12 races Air Malta A320 jet

Filed under: Motorsports , Infiniti , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari Humidity, hunger and heartbreak were the takeaways from the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix.

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Filed under: Motorsports , Infiniti , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari Humidity, hunger and heartbreak were the takeaways from the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix.

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Race Recap: 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix is a fool in the rain