If your car affliction leans heavily on motorsport, a trip to most car museums can be hit or miss. Sure, you can always count on Indy pace cars at the National Corvette Museum. And yes, sprinkled among the 900+ motorcycles on display at the Barber Vintage Motorsport Museum are some notable race cars. But outside […]
Coatesville Vintage Grand Prix Brings Road Racing Back to its Roots
In the decade that followed WWII, sports car racing skyrocketed in popularity in the United States. Early sports car clubs set up makeshift race courses on the public streets of now legendary towns like Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin; Watkins Glen, New York; Pebble Beach, California; and countless others. Coatesville, Pennsylvania was not on that list, but […]
BTCC Volvo 850 Estate: Racing, With Room For The Dog
When Volvo released the T5 variant of their 850, the Swedish automaker wanted to boost its profile in order to gain market share. Instead of a traditional marketing campaign, Volvo took the 850 racing in the British Touring Car Championship. How the decision to use the 850 estate came about wasn’t intentional though. Volvo commissioned Steffansson Automotive to […]
Chanel’s $4,450 F1 Tees Make Las Vegas Grand Prix Look Cheap
By now, we’re all well aware that sports merchandise is expensive. You want a Yankees jersey? That’ll be a hundred bucks. You want a Lakers cap? Another $50, please. But Formula 1 is a sport that excels in extracting as much money as possible from its fans. And after outrage over the price of F1 […]
How To Watch The Monaco GP, The Indy 500 And The Coke 600
Welcome to How to Watch, Jalopnik’s weekly racing roundup, where we catch you up on the recent events of the racing world and let you know how to watch all the major events of the upcoming weekend. With the Monaco Grand Prix, the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600, Memorial Day weekend is the biggest […]
JDM Speed: On Track In South Australia
Ignition: The Sparks Of JDM Speed Some of us settled for boredom during our pandemic-induced lockdowns, but others used the quiet time to think, plan and build. A group of South Australian Japanese car enthusiasts fell squarely into the latter category, and the result was a new event for the local scene. After successful events in 2021 […]
Alexis DeJoria Is Ready to Win the NHRA Funny Car Championship
Alexis DeJoria’s name has been tied to countless broken records and historic successes for women in motorsport, but as a racer, she’s not ready to give up the competition just yet. She was the first woman to 100 NHRA Funny Car starts in 2016, and she’ll make her 200th this coming weekend at the Route […]
Watch NASCAR’s Throwback Weekend, IndyCar, IMSA, MotoGP May 12-14
Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, how to watch NASCAR’s throwback weekend at Darlington, the 1,000th MotoGP race and IndyCar’s GMR Grand Prix, and where you can talk about it, all in one convenient place. Jalopinions | What Would You Buy […]
Cadillac Driver Renger van der Zander Walks Away From Massive Crash in 6 Hours of Spa
The centennial anniversary edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is only five weeks. The LMDh prototypes will be taking on the French endurance classic for the first time. Last weekend’s 6 Hours of Spa was the final chance for all the top-class teams to put their cars through the crucible of competition before […]
Kick-Starting The Motorsport Season At Goodwood’s Members’ Meeting
Members’ Meeting 2023 Serving as the first major event of every new UK motorsport season, the Goodwood Members’ Meeting is largely an exclusive affair for members of the Goodwood Road Race Club (GRRC) and those in the fellowship (the waitlist list to join as a formal member). For those who venture to Goodwood Circuit in April for the Members’ Meeting, […]