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The FIA have created a new electric vehicle racing series called the Formula E Championship. The cars will be purely electrically powered. The series will be run by entrepreneur Enrique Bañuelos as CEO, team owner Alejandro Agag, ...

This weekend at Spa-Francorcamps Michael Schumacher will start the 300th Grand Prix of his career, and it is apt that it should take place at Spa, where it all began for the 43 year old German driver. The seven-time world Champion has an affin...

Spa Francorchamps has also been named by Michael Schumacher as one of his favourite venues of the calendar in Formula One. Spa has been a kind of lucky charm for Schumacher. He drove his first ever Grand Prix there, he took there his first ever F1...

To promote the New Jersey Grand Prix next June, Red Bull has produced a video of the RB8 driving the track, racing through the Jersey Tunnel and singing the national anthem.  The video is well produced, and it is really fun to hear the ca...

Pirelli is bringing its hardest tire compounds to the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa this weekend, which it says will allow drivers to push harder. The harder tires degrade more slowly than softer compounds, which should make tire strategy less of an i...

Ferrari says that it is already dyno testing its 2014 Formula 1 engine for when the series switches to turbocharged, 1.6-liter V6 engines.  "It is a very challenging period for power train people. We are working on the 2012 powe...

Chevrolet will use the Camaro as its vehicle in the Nascar Nationwide Series for 2013. It will make its debut in February at the Daytona International Speedway. The Nationwide Series is the lower-tier series that supports the Nascar Sprint Cup. ...

Wolfgang Riep, a 25-year-old student from Lachutel, Belgium, was selected as the winner of the 2013 Nissan GT Academy at Silverstone over the weekend. Over 830,000 people from the Europe region participated in the competition this year. Riep ...

The Toyota TS030 performed well in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but not great. It was still easy to be unsure of the car, its performance and drivers. Today at the Six Hours of Sebring the single car Toyota team proved itself definitively that the tea...

Mazda has announced a new version of the MX-5 specifically for GT4-class racing. The MX-5 GT4 produces 320hp from its 2.0-liter turbocharged engine. The car qualifies for competition in the Avon Tyres British GT Championship and other se...