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Scuderia Ferrari's engineer in charge of Engine and KERS Operation Mattia Binotto says that the new Shell fuel that the team will be using this weekend will be good for a bump of one grid position in terms of lap time. Quantitatively, tha...

Chevrolet has supplied the pace car for the Indy 500 22 times since 1948, and this year will be number 23, as the company has just announced this year's pace car for the 96th running of the race will be the Corvette ZR1. “Chevrolet i...

After the mid-season tests at Mugello, McLaren has decided to switch to a higher nose for the Spanish Grand Prix at Catalunya this weekend on the MP4-27. The new nose sits much higher than the previous design with longer pillars leading to the...

Jacques Villeneuve got the chance of a lifetime on May 8 driving the same 1979 Ferrari 312 T4 in which Gilles Villeneuve, his father, took second place in the world championship. It was the the thirty year anniversary of Gilles' death dur...

Days after successfully repairing the the TS030, the Toyota Hybrid Racing team has experienced another set back. Driver Hiroaki Ishiura has decided not to drive the #8 Toyota TS030 hybrid race car during the 24 Hours of Le Mans due to intense back...

Saying Michael Schumacher is unimpressed with this season's Pirelli tires in Formula 1 would be a massive understatement. In a recent interview, Schumacher described driving on the tires as like driving on "raw eggs." Schumacher ...

Peugeot's rally history has been spotty but rather successful. It launched its factory-backed Group B 205 Turbo 16 in 1984 and won the contructors' championship in 1985 and 1986, and when Group B was banned, it won the Dakar Rally from 198...

The 6 Hours of Spa was a race of domination. Audi took the first through fourth spots at the top of the grid, and Nissan-powered cars won the top three spots in the LMP2 class. Porsche took wins in both the GTE-Pro and GTE-Am categories.  ...

Bentley wants to get back into sports car racing, especially at Le Mans. It has hired Graham Humphrys, designer of the BMW V12 LMR, to work on a new race car for them. What is not yet known is in what class the luxury automaker will compete, it ap...

There appears to be no universal reaction to the testing by teams and drivers from this week's Formula 1 test at Mugello. Lotus is buoyed by two days of success by Romain Grosjean, but teammate Raikonnen did not mind missing the chance at prac...