| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTO SHOWS | VIDEOS | COLLECTOR | SUBSCRIBE |  Wednesday, November 21, 2012 | Thanksgiving is a great time to reflect on how lucky we are, or how lucky we were as in the case of seven drivers who had particularly harrowing brushes with fate in 2012. As many of us head off into the holiday season, here's seven of our favorite crash videos of the year. All of the drivers survived these crashes to race another day: 1) Jeremy Foley, Pike Peak, Aug.... |
|  | | Jacques Grelley has experienced and witnessed many significant historical events—and been friends with the people making history—in his 72 or so years, and his eyes hold the intensity of a man who is still living life fully. Grelley is the owner of Racing Posters (
|  | | General Motors CEO Dan Akerson is selling his 1958 Chevy Corvette to benefit Habitat for Humanity...
|  | | It was raining, one of the world's toughest road courses was pretty wet and all the cars had 640 hp at the rear wheels. What could possibly go wrong? “Um, er, uh…” said various SRT execs when confronted with the potential of a
|  | | Jaguar and Land Rover will debut three new vehicles at the LA Auto Show later this month. The...
|  | | No one at Lincoln minimizes the importance of the 2013 MKZ. The sedan is the first of four new Lincolns debuting over the next three years, and the...
|  | | EXECUTIVE EDITOR BOB GRITZINGER: I'd been looking forward to driving the Dart since the car was revealed—this marks my first impression, if you don't count drives of the
|  | | The Anglo-Swiss Rebellion Racing LMP1 team will race full-time in next year's American Le Mans Series in the wake of its victory in the season-ending Petit Le Mans enduro at Road Atlanta last month. Rebellion, which was the top P1 privateer in...
|  | | Formula One Bernie Ecclestone is still under criminal investigation in the aftermath of Germany's biggest corruption scandal since World War II, it has emerged. Thomas Steinkraus-Koch, the chief public prosecutor in Munich, has confirmed that his office could yet file charges against the F1...
|  | | Want to have some input as the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series and the American Le Mans Series—along with help from SME Branding--search for a new name for their combined racing...
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|  | | Inventor, race-car driver, fighter pilot and friend John Fitch passed away on Oct. 31. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. (Eastern) on Saturday, Dec. 1, at Trinity Church—directly across from Lime Rock Park—in Lakeville, Conn. You can read our take on the life of John Fitch here....
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|  | | Fans of the Wankel engine who are torn between mourning the late RX-8 and holding out hope for a new RX-7 have a third option: embracing vintage Mazda rotary power. And while there's certainly nothing wrong with a clean, track-ready RX-7, there's half a century of other Wankel-driven vehicles to...
|  | | The Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series and the American Le Mans Series on Tuesday moved another step closer to defining their upcoming merged series. The two organizations announced they have hired SME Branding “to develop the new identity for the combined sports-car series” which will...
|  | | Bluewaters Communications Holdings, a New York City-based financial company, has launched a $650 million lawsuit against Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone.The suit, filed in the Supreme Court of New York State, targets defendants Ecclestone, CVC Capital Partners, Ecclestone-run companies Alpha...
|  | | Mark Miles, the chairman of Indianapolis’ 2012 Super Bowl host committee, was named Tuesday to lead Hulman & Company, a holding company with assets including the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the IndyCar Series.Miles, 59, will be the overall leader of Indy-car racing, with Jeff Belskus, the ...
|  | | Also in this episode: The first U.S.-market Ferrari F12 sells for $1.125 million, and the East Coast collector car community comes together in the wake of Sandy.TRANSCRIPT-- Ford announces a three-cylinder for the American market.-- The first Ferrari F12 sells for more than a million dollars.-- And ...
|  | | Semi trucks are ever-present—and crucially important—fellow travelers on our nation's highways and byways. Still, it's amazing how many car drivers don't know how to behave around tractor trailers, and blind-spot awareness stickers don't always seem to do the trick. We hope this blunt...
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