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Seven Supercars Ran ‘Follow the Leader’ on a Colorado Highway. Deputies Were Already Waiting at the Finish Line police-catch-seven-drivers-turned-highway-race-track-speeding-colorado

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Seven Supercars Ran ‘Follow the Leader’ on a Colorado Highway. Deputies Were Already Waiting at the Finish Line

John Lloyd August 21, 2026

Highway 103 in Clear Creek County, Colorado isn’t a closed circuit, a canyon run with a scenic...

Max Verstappen Will Wear This Suit One Last Time at Zandvoort, Then It’s Someone Else’s Max Verstappen Is Staying Put For Next Season

Max Verstappen Will Wear This Suit One Last Time at Zandvoort, Then It’s Someone Else’s

John Lloyd August 21, 2026

Somewhere in a Red Bull Racing kit room this week sits a race suit that hadn’t been...

Cédric Sbirrazzuoli, the Ferrari Racer Conquest Only Needed Four Times a Year, Dies at 39 After Cancer Battle Ferrari 296 GT3 GT3 race car practicing at Daytona

Ferrari 296 GT3 GT3 race car practicing at Daytona

Cédric Sbirrazzuoli, the Ferrari Racer Conquest Only Needed Four Times a Year, Dies at 39 After Cancer Battle

Elizabeth Puckett August 21, 2026

With 30 minutes left on the clock at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta last October, Albert Costa Balboa...

This Daytona Coupe Nearly Doubled the American Car Record — and It Never Won a Major FIA Race Screenshot 2026-07-29 at 1.45.00 PM

This Daytona Coupe Nearly Doubled the American Car Record — and It Never Won a Major FIA Race

John Lloyd August 20, 2026

Chassis CSX2300 hammered at $39 million at Pebble Beach, beating the previous American car record by 95...

Alex Fiorio, Lancia’s Eternal WRC Runner-Up, Dies at 61 After Stomach Cancer Battle Alex_Fiorio_-_Transilvania_Rally_Show_2008_2

Alex Fiorio, Lancia’s Eternal WRC Runner-Up, Dies at 61 After Stomach Cancer Battle

John Lloyd August 19, 2026

Alessandro “Alex” Fiorio, the Italian rally driver who spent the late 1980s finishing just behind some of...

NASCAR Turns 8/18 Into Kyle Busch Day—and the Numbers Tell the Story Samantha Busch and Kyle Busch walking through a NASCAR pit area

NASCAR Turns 8/18 Into Kyle Busch Day—and the Numbers Tell the Story

Elizabeth Puckett August 18, 2026

Race-car numbers are usually rented real estate. A driver leaves, a sponsor changes, and the vinyl gets...

Suspect Charged After Greg Biffle’s NASCAR Rings Surface in Georgia Greg Biffle And Cleetus McFarland Team Up For Hurricane Helene Relief Efforts

Greg Biffle And Cleetus McFarland Team Up For Hurricane Helene Relief Efforts

Suspect Charged After Greg Biffle’s NASCAR Rings Surface in Georgia

Shawn Henry August 18, 2026

Some stolen property is built to disappear. Cash changes hands, bags get dumped, and a common handgun...

Fernando Alonso Designed His Own Aston Martin — And Insisted It Keep a Manual Gearbox Impressive Through And Through The Fernando Alonso Car Collection

Impressive Through And Through The Fernando Alonso Car Collection

Fernando Alonso Designed His Own Aston Martin — And Insisted It Keep a Manual Gearbox

John Lloyd August 18, 2026

Fernando Alonso spent part of Formula 1’s summer shutdown the way most gearheads only fantasize about: rowing...

Disney and F1 Extend Their Partnership Through 2028, and Lightning McQueen Finally Gets Grid Time Mickey and Minnie Mouse pose beside the Disney x Formula 1 show car at D23, promoting the Disney and Pixar's Cars collaboration

Mickey and Minnie Mouse pose beside the Disney x Formula 1 show car at D23, promoting the Disney and Pixar's Cars collaboration

Disney and F1 Extend Their Partnership Through 2028, and Lightning McQueen Finally Gets Grid Time

John Lloyd August 16, 2026

Disney and Formula 1 have decided to keep going steady, and this time Lightning McQueen is riding...

Porsche Built 100 Nürburgring Tribute GT3s, And Americans Can’t Legally Own One Until 2052

John Lloyd August 15, 2026

Porsche just pulled the covers off a 911 GT3 built to mark 100 years of the Nürburgring,...

Cadillac’s V-ONE Concept Proves Its Le Mans Race Car Has Been Sandbagging All Along Cadillac-V-ONE-Concept-front-view

Cadillac’s V-ONE Concept Proves Its Le Mans Race Car Has Been Sandbagging All Along

Elizabeth Puckett August 15, 2026

Every race car sold to the public through homologation rules is, by design, less than it could...

NASCAR’s New Stage-Break Rule Doesn’t Fix Its Real Time Problem, Says a 23XI Spotter

John Lloyd August 12, 2026

NASCAR closed the book on one of its most complained-about race-day habits last weekend, and the garage...

JCB’s Hydromax Just Set a 406-MPH Hydrogen Land Speed Record With an Engine You Can Still Buy in a Backhoe mountain covered by snow

JCB’s Hydromax Just Set a 406-MPH Hydrogen Land Speed Record With an Engine You Can Still Buy in a Backhoe

John Lloyd August 12, 2026

Andy Green just added a fourth line to a resume that already read “fastest human on land.”...

NASCAR’s Wheatley Vodka Clash Returns To Daytona For 2027, Ending A Six-Year Venue Experiment Stock cars racing side by side on a NASCAR short track

Stock cars racing side by side on a NASCAR short track

NASCAR’s Wheatley Vodka Clash Returns To Daytona For 2027, Ending A Six-Year Venue Experiment

John Lloyd August 11, 2026

NASCAR closed the book on 2027 Daytona 500 Week this week, and the real headline isn’t a...

xAI Sues Its Contractor for $800 Million, Says He Secretly Bankrolled a Drag Strip With the Money Aerial view of a drag strip facility being converted into a motorsports country club

Aerial view of a drag strip facility being converted into a motorsports country club

xAI Sues Its Contractor for $800 Million, Says He Secretly Bankrolled a Drag Strip With the Money

Shawn Henry August 10, 2026

A few weeks ago, we told you that Darana Hybrid, the Ohio contractor owned by IHRA boss...

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Seven Supercars Ran ‘Follow the Leader’ on a Colorado Highway. Deputies Were Already Waiting at the Finish Line

Max Verstappen Will Wear This Suit One Last Time at Zandvoort, Then It’s Someone Else’s

Cédric Sbirrazzuoli, the Ferrari Racer Conquest Only Needed Four Times a Year, Dies at 39 After Cancer Battle

This Daytona Coupe Nearly Doubled the American Car Record — and It Never Won a Major FIA Race

Alex Fiorio, Lancia’s Eternal WRC Runner-Up, Dies at 61 After Stomach Cancer Battle

NASCAR Turns 8/18 Into Kyle Busch Day—and the Numbers Tell the Story

Suspect Charged After Greg Biffle’s NASCAR Rings Surface in Georgia

Fernando Alonso Designed His Own Aston Martin — And Insisted It Keep a Manual Gearbox

Disney and F1 Extend Their Partnership Through 2028, and Lightning McQueen Finally Gets Grid Time

Porsche Built 100 Nürburgring Tribute GT3s, And Americans Can’t Legally Own One Until 2052

Cadillac’s V-ONE Concept Proves Its Le Mans Race Car Has Been Sandbagging All Along

NASCAR’s New Stage-Break Rule Doesn’t Fix Its Real Time Problem, Says a 23XI Spotter

JCB’s Hydromax Just Set a 406-MPH Hydrogen Land Speed Record With an Engine You Can Still Buy in a Backhoe

NASCAR’s Wheatley Vodka Clash Returns To Daytona For 2027, Ending A Six-Year Venue Experiment

xAI Sues Its Contractor for $800 Million, Says He Secretly Bankrolled a Drag Strip With the Money

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