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The CLA 45 AMG Racing Series demonstrates our desire to further increase our commitment to customer motorsport. We are also seeking to offer interested customer teams a competitive, near-standard racing car with an excellent level of safety in the popular four-cylinder segment,” says Ola Källenius, CEO of Mercedes-AMG GmbH. “The tremendous success of the SLS […] More »

Red Bull racing confirms that Daniel Ricciardo will drive for the Team in 2014. As Sebastian Vettel is already confirmed for next year, this concludes the Team’s 2014 driver line-up. Christian Horner: “It’s fantastic to confirm Daniel as the team’s race driver for 2014. He’s a very talented youngster, he’s committed, he’s got a great […] More »

Our trusty Teamspeed spies have caught up with another hot-import putting in laps at the ring, this time it’s the all-new GS-F sedan from Lexus. Trademark style Lexus “F” stacked quad-tip exhaust outlets give us the biggest clue that this is no ordinary GS sedan, and is packing some major heat. Looking closer at the […] More »

In celebration of the team’s 50 years, McLaren staff joined together at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, England, to mark half a century of race winning, by one of the most successful names in motorsport. Mirroring the launch of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-28 Formula 1â„¢ car from earlier this year, the celebrations saw […] More »

Germany, the Porsche LMP1 sports prototype race car – which has been completely redesigned – is working its way through a series of functional tests. In the most recent test drives, Neel Jani (Switzerland) took the wheel for the very first time. The former Grand Prix test driver has been part of the pool of […] More »

In today’s Sunday Times Driving, Jay Leno gives his report on the new McLaren P1 supercar. Leno is the first man outside McLaren to drive it, (at the Top Gear test track, no less) and he liked it so much, he bought one.

Last week in Monterey, Frank Walliser, head of the Porsche 918 Spyder program, takes funnyman Jay Leno through the new super sports hybrid that Porsche says will act as the “gene pool” for its sports cars of the future. As a refresher, the 918 project is Porsche’s first foray into the hybrid-hypercar arena. The spyder […] More »