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It looks like that new gearbox is quite a help to Lewis Hamilton. In the two rounds of Formula 1 practice today before the Chinese Grand Prix, Hamilton was fastest in the first session and second fastest in the second session. Not to be outdone, M...

The Scion FR-S, or Toyota GT-86 in the rest of the world, was never going to win any automotive beauty contests, but it is hardly an ugly car. Until now that is.  Toyota is sponsoring the Grand Prix of Long Beach in Los Angeles that compr...

Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso are pessimistic about this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix due to issues with their respective cars; Romain Grosjean appears hopeful after upgrades to his Lotus.  Hamilton will be pushed back five grid ...

Nissan is producing a series of videos showing the development of the Deltawing, similar to what it did with the Juke-R. Nissan plans to have a new video on its European Youtube page every two weeks showing a different portion of the car's dev...

Audi Motorsport boss Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich coordinates all of Audi's racing activities from Le Mans to DTM. The new DTM season begins at the end of April at Hockenheim with a new trio of models and new series rules. Dr. Ullrich sat down and dis...

Toyota Hybrid Racing reported today first via Twitter then via a press release that it suffered a large accident while testing at Paul Ricard on April 4. The crash damaged the team's only monocoque beyond repair, and the team will be unable to...

The Williams Formula 1 Team has a new, female development driver named Susie Wolff. Wolff has competed in karts and in the DTM series for the last seven years.  “Susie is a talented, successful and highly professional racing driver ...

Bernie Ecclestone will not force Formula 1 teams to race at the Bahrain Grand Prix if they do not want to.  "If the teams don't want to go, then we cannot make them," said Ecclestone. The decision to cancel the race...

Genii Capital who finances the Lotus F1 Team will remove its sponsorship with Group Lotus the sports car company due to financial problems with Group Lotus. It has not been paying its full fee to the Lotus F1 Team to remain the team's title sp...

Gazoo Racing will be campaigning two GT-86's and a LF-A in the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring that runs from May 17-20.  It will be the first time that the GT-86 has competed in the race. It will be in the SP3 class using its s...