Wiring harnesses are one of the unsung heroes of motorsport. These complicated nests of wires basically make the…
Anyone pretty familiar with racing knows that starting a race car isn’t anything like starting a road car—in fact,…
This weekend, like most weekends, there are drivers in cars trying to go faster than one another. You can watch…
I think it must be impossible to be a race fan without frequently imagining yourself behind the wheel of the…
While the World Rally Championship is switching to hybrid engines for the 2022 season, rally driver Hayden Paddon and…
Here we see what is both speed and metal together with humans, cast aloft in celebration of speed and metal together…
Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing,…
Six-time WRC world champion Sebastien Ogier has never been quiet about the fact that he intended to end his rally…
A new dawn breaks. The world is as it was yesterday, and yet, not, for there is more Big Speed, and sideways action,…
The World Rally Championship’s highest class will move to incorporate hybrid electric drive in two seasons time. The…
While chasing down Sebastian Ogier for third at Rally Chile, Hyundai driver and current WRC points championship leader Thierry Neuville and co-driver Nicolas Gilsoul clipped a ditch drifting wide over a crest during SS8 on Saturday. The resulting crash ended after a violent half dozen or more somersaults, rending the…
Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing,…
Tommi Antero Mäkinen capped off four World Rally Championship drivers titles in a row twenty years ago in 1999. He won eighteen rallies in four years to win four titles from 1996 to 1999, a then-impossible feat. Juha Kankkunen had four titles, but took eight years to complete the task, and three different… Read more
Rally is one of the last forms of motorsport left where fans get close to the cars—out past small, regulated…
This is the speedy young Finnish driver Esapekka Lappi in his Citroën C3 WRC car at the recent Rally Sweden. Yes, he…
Rally is a pretty down-to-earth sport. It’s not pushing the boundaries like Formula One tries to do, and it’s not…
The Monte was this past weekend, with a startlingly close finish and even more startlingly fast driving from the top…
There are days you may wonder: What is the real speed? What is the fast that frightens and thrills? Is it here,…
At least, it’s as good a time as any to sit down and see how the great world rally cars of the early 1990s drove on…
The dirt roads of Rally Australia have given the eternal would-be-boy-king of rallying Jari-Matti Latvala another…