Filed under: Motorsports , Infiniti , Lotus , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Canada , Racing There were rain and wind and sun, sometimes all at once. There was the Wall of Champions. There was nothing happening in first place and nothing happening back in sixth during the race, but everywhere else – from the time the weekend began – it was surprises, passes, spins, more passing, flying carbon fiber and finally a couple more last-minute surprises

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Race Recap: Canadian F1 Grand Prix is one story with a thousand dramas

Filed under: Motorsports , Europe , Infiniti , Lotus , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Racing , McLaren Lots of contact, debris cautions, trips into the wall, full-course yellows and a red flag – these are the kinds of racing terms you unbox when you want to have a conversation about NASCAR … or the Formula One grand prix of Monaco.

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Race Recap: For the 2013 Monaco Grand Prix, NASCAR comes to the principality

Filed under: Motorsports , Infiniti , Lotus , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Renault , Middle East , Racing The sand, the wind, the penalties, the contact and the one crash – all of them collided to make the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix a surprise affair from day to day and lap to lap. Oh, and did we mention the tires

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Race Recap: 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix follows the template of this year and last [spoilers]

Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Renault , Racing While every team on the Formula One grid is worried about making a good showing in this year’s championship at the same time as they develop a brand-new car for next year’s championship, Bernie Ecclestone and F1 circuit promoters have a different concern: how next year’s cars will sound. The current cars use 2.4-liter, naturally-aspirated V8s that can reach 18,000 revolutions per minute and employ dual exhaust, next year’s engine formula calls for 1.6-liter turbocharged V6s that are capped at 15,000 rpm and are constrained to a single exhaust outlet. Ecclestone and promoters like Ron Walker believe the new engines sound like lawnmowers and that the less thrilling audio will keep people from coming to races.

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Ecclestone wonders if F1’s upcoming turbo V6s should get augmented sound [w/videos]

Filed under: Concept Cars , Coupe , Performance , Ferrari , Design/Style , Racing James Glickenhaus and his Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus team will have a new model ready for the 2015 Geneva Motor Show . Codenamed the P33, not many details are known about the car, but the post in FerrariChat.com says that it will be much smaller than the Glickenhaus P 4/5 (shown above) with a size closer to the Dino Competizone . The limited available information about the car indicates that the P33 will be crafted from carbon fiber, giving it a 1,600-pound curb weight, with a body that will have a “three-wing design.” Planned as a one-off model, the P33 will be powered by a twin-turbo V6 putting out close to 500 horsepower

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Glickenhaus confirms new sports car in development for 2015 Geneva reveal

Filed under: Motorsports , Audi , Chevrolet , Ferrari , Racing This year’s 12 Hours of Sebring wasn’t exactly a foregone conclusion because we’re still talking about racing, and anything can happen when the speeds are as high as the adrenaline and the desire. But we’re still talking about Audi bringing it’s two top-spec racers – and its huge budget and its nearly neurotic attention to detail – to a race that it uses as a test bed for The 24 Hours of Le Mans and as a way to open the endurance racing season with a victory

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Race Recap: 2013 Twelve Hours of Sebring, cakewalk up front, grindfest out back [w/spoilers]

Filed under: Motorsports , Infiniti , Lotus , Ferrari , Australia , Racing A pre-season full of talking points was swapped for a brand-new set of talking points after the running of the opening grand prix of the 2013 Formula One season. The consistency of the regulations from last year to this year and the triplicate dominance of Infiniti Red Bull Racing meant that no one would have been that surprised if the relative order of things remained the same. But teams found so many ways to switch things up that, in typical pre-season fashion, no one was ready to make any bets on in-season performance, and a couple of surprising players suffered the ignominy of getting it really wrong: McLaren knew it was in trouble from the very first test, while Williams drivers applauded their car as the best in years, only to have Pastor Maldonado call it “undriveable” on the very first day of practice in Melbourne

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Recap: 2013 Australian Formula One Grand Prix is all about the rubber [w/spoilers]

Filed under: Motorsports , Classics , Coupe , Performance , Auctions , Europe , Ferrari , Specialty , Racing Vintage Ferrari models show up on the auction circuit all the time, but few can match this particular ’53 340/375 MM Berlinetta Competizione in terms of historical significance. Not only did the machine compete in the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans , but this particular model managed to finish in second place before being disqualified for taking on extra brake fluid during a stop

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Le Mans-raced 1953 Ferrari 340/375 MM headed to auction