Because it almost never works out, most NASCAR drivers don’t want to be the leader going into the final lap in a race at Daytona International Speedway. But Denny Hamlin led the field to the green flag in a two-lap overtime shootout in Sunday’s Daytona 500 and made it work, playing the ultimate game of defense to win…

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series racing at Daytona International Speedway in the series’ opening week has been characterized by an abundance of caution—not cautions. Cars have mostly run single file, not risking much leading up to the Daytona 500. But this is the big day, and the big day means big crashes.

There are a few tricky aspects to racing in what have historically been known as restrictor-plate races in NASCAR, like tandem drafting, running in three-wide packs and slowing down by about 150 mph in order to hit pit road. Sometimes, it doesn’t exactly go as planned.

NASCAR driver Corey LaJoie, who entered this year’s Daytona 500 with a team called Go Fas Racing and a car that looks suspiciously like himself, blew a tire a few handfuls of laps into the race. That’s when LaJoie just had to face the facts: His car was torn up, and he was about to lose some laps.

Following yesterday’s confirmation that the Opel-based Buick Cascada would exit production, and the plant that produces the LaCrosse closing, Buick is down to only the Opel-based Regal and three crossovers to fill dealer showrooms. While sedans aren’t exactly netting foot traffic to dealerships, they are kind of…

There was a point somewhere in the last two years that the folks at Bring a Trailer sat down, had a meeting and said “Screw it, we just sell the craziest shit you ever heard of.” and that has been their company mission statement ever since. That may be a slight dramatization, but I imagine a similar conversation must…

In a twist that literally everyone saw coming, Rolls-Royce is working at capacity to fulfill orders for its new gargantuan SUV the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan. Sales keep rolling in to dealers, so much so that Rolls has had to increase its staff to 2000 total employees (up 200 from last year at this time) to deal with…

My favorite thing is seeing former Formula One champions racing in other disciplines. First it was Kimi Raikkonen trying his hand at NASCAR trucks, then came the big one when Fernando Alonso sat out the Monaco Grand Prix last year to put in a really epic showing at the Indy 500. Well, this week 39-year-old 2009 World…

Alfa Romeo’s Sport Zagato is a weapon. I don’t mean that it’s good on track or particularly fast, though it’s no slouch at either. No, I mean it’s a weapon in the sense that it’s been well trained and it’s full of sharp edges. This thing is one of Zagato’s more holy-shit-1990s designs, and it all culminates in a car…

In 1981 Dodge entered a pair of Ramchargers in the Safari Rally. They finished 1-2 in class, driven by Malcolm Smith and Rod Hall, 9th and 10th overall. Pretty rad if you ask me. 

General Motors’ new e-bike brand ARIV will, ahem, arrive on the scene in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands later this year with two models, called Meld and Merge. Each is powered by a compact electric motor, which assists pedal power with four different modes to move riders up to about 15 miles per hour with a 40…

When I watch this video, I turn into a little kid again. It’s hard to fathom the ability to go this fast with this much attack, but Ronnie Bratschi seems to have a keen ability to go fast and not crash. This Evo VIII is fast. Like really fast.

The 1950s were an incredible time of ingenuity in the motorsport world. Guys in sheds were building incredible contraptions that were capable of speeds never seen before. Take the Super Shaker streamliner seen here for example. It started life as a Cooper sports racer chassis, and then the original builder/racer Bill…