Get Ready For A Weekend Adrenaline Rush Because Drag Racing Is Back Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?

I Have An Idea For A New Kind Of Racing When you think about it, there’s a hell of a lot of ways to race cars. Drag races, circle tracks, off-road, rallycross, autocross, skid-plate racing, endurance racing, and on and on. The variety is what makes motorsport so great. And now I want to Read more ... help out, by proposing a whole new type of racing, s...

Meet 14 Billionaires In The Business Of Horse Racing Horse racing has been called the "sport of kings" due to its expensive nature. But for some, it's not out of reach. There are at least 14 people out of the world's 1,810 billionaires who participate in horse racing in some form.

Understanding (And Crashing) The Best Cheap Serious Racing Series There Is Now “If you’ve ever been in a race car,” racer Fabian Berger says, elbow-deep in the guts of a BMW E30, “then you know it’s worth wrenching the whole night.” This is the world of AER, American Endurance Racing, a budget racing series that’s Read more ... not for amateurs. I, an amateur, found that out the hard way.

The McLaren 650S Can-Am Is A Throwback To One Of Racing's Most Badass Eras What’s the only thing cooler than auto racing? Auto racing in the 1960s and ‘70s, that’s what. And that era of Can-Am racing produced some of the most memorable events and cars the world has ever seen. Now McLaren has a 650S that salutes this e Read more ... ra, and I want one.

Video compares pit stops in F1 Racing, NASCAR, Indy Car and more F1 Racing is like driving jets on the ground. NASCAR is like racing monster cars in sheet metal around an oval. Indy Car are powerful beasts themselves. Each type of racing has their own unique demands and needs. Here is a video that shows the differ Read more ... ence between pit stops in F1 Racing, NASCAR, Indy…

What If Corvette Racing Ran A Le Mans Prototype? Since Formula One has become a bit stale and stifled by regulations, the World Endurance Championship has emerged as a much more interesting “anything goes” sort of racing series. This leads to bonkers entries like the front-wheel drive Nissan GT Read more ... -R LM Nismo prototype. But if Corvette Racing ran an L…

Yeah This Is Definitely The Best And Worst Way To Drive During A Race There’s many kinds of great racing in this world. Racing of beauty, racing of grace. But very rarely is there racing where the pit crew kicks out the windshield completely, the car drives away, the hood flips up, and the driver can’t see anything Read more ... at all so he does the whole lap hanging ass-out the door.

Al-Anabi Racing's sudden departure causes ripple effects in drag racing In the smoky, greasy world of big-league American drag racing, the Al-Anabi Racing team stood apart.

The problem with stock car racing The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, (NASCAR) is one of the best known stock car racing franchises in the world, but is it really "stock" car racing? Not a single Sprint Cup race car (with the exception of the pace car) is an actual pr Read more ... oduction vehicle. Sure, Toyota might say their cur…