Automoto Network

At the 2022 Tokyo Auto Salon, one of the Toyotas we feasted on was the Gazoo Racing GT3 Concept. Born of the Japanese automaker’s belief that it can provide more enthusiast enjoyment by commercializing race cars than by making customer cars racy, the quotes and suggestions at the time were that the GT3 Concept would result […] July 02, 2022 at 12:45AM

Audi R8 LMS GT4 Class victory in the USA: On the seventh race weekend of the Trans Am, Team Ave Motorsports was delighted with a class win. Seth Lucas prevailed in the GT class on the Mid-Ohio circuit in the Audi R8 LMS GT4 with a one-lap lead over pursuer Jack Rinke in a Chevrolet Camaro. […] June 27, 2022 at 05:30AM

The LMDh class created by IMSA in the U.S. and France’s ACO starts racing next year, competing in the both the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the FIA World Endurance Championship. The cars will create a new GTP class populated by Acura, Alpine, BMW, Cadillac, Lamborghini and Porsche. We’ve seen the BMW and the Cadillac. Porsche used the Goodwood Festival […] June 27, 2022 at 02:05AM

Acura is headed to this year’s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with a bevy of race cars. Most notable of all is a Pikes Peak-prepped Acura Integra — yes, Acura is already getting the Integra out there for some racing. Beyond the new hatchback making its motorsports debut, Acura is also bringing two TLX Type […] June 15, 2022 at 12:35AM

LE MANS, France — Toyota won the 24 Hours Le Mans in the classic endurance race for the fifth straight time, with the No. 8 car finishing ahead of the No. 7 in another dominant performance on Sunday. New Zealander Brendan Hartley had clinched pole position and was at the wheel as Toyota Gazoo’s No. […] June 13, 2022 at 12:46AM

Best in Show winners for the 2022 Amelia Concours d’Elegance were just announced, and we were there to see the pair roll up and claim their prizes. The Amelia, like some other concours events, hands out two “best in show” awards. The main (and most prized) award goes to the overall Best in Show, and […] March 07, 2022 at 06:45AM

The successor to the Lexus LFA is beginning to take shape — in unofficial rumors, at least. The firm’s next supercar will reportedly make its debut in the coming years with a V8 under the hood, and it will be followed by a battery-electric model due out at the turn of the decade. Citing anonymous […] March 05, 2022 at 06:10AM

Porsche was out testing its 2023 LMDh racer earlier this week, providing some of the clearest images yet of the complete car. The evaluation, conducted with partner Penske Racing, covered some 1,200 miles over a period of several days at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona. Porsche says that the goal was to hone the […] February 20, 2022 at 07:36AM

The Rolex 24 at Daytona is over, and the pretty pictures are coming in. We’ve assembled a medley of images for you to pore over to see the best of the race. In case you missed it, Acura won the overall race, finishing both first and second and beating out the highly competitive Cadillacs. The […] February 01, 2022 at 06:05AM

Munich. BMW M Motorsport’s real-time video documentary MBEDDED once again offers exclusive insights behind the scenes of the racing programme in the 2022 season, following the main protagonists closely and offering viewers a totally new perspective on the big decision-making process. Episode four shows the new BMW M4 GT3 at its first big test in […] January 26, 2022 at 06:00AM

There’s a new Doctor in endurance-racing town, his name being Valentino Rossi. The 49-year-old Italian motorcycle racer won two World Championships in 125- and 250-cc before ringing up seven top-class World Championships in 500-cc and four-stroke MotoGP over a 26-year professional career. Retiring from the saddle at the end of the 2021 season did not […] January 15, 2022 at 09:50PM

There’s a new Corvette in town, in the form of the 2023 Corvette Z06 unveiled last month. So, it was only natural that a racing version would soon follow. That competition variant has now arrived in the form of the Corvette Z06 GT3.R, which will make its track debut in 2022. A privateer version will […] November 12, 2021 at 06:48AM

Not content with showing off a bunch of modified versions of its lineup at SEMA, Ford has decided to introduce the most outrageous 2022 Ford Bronco you’ll be able to buy: the Ford Bronco DR. The “DR” stands for “Desert Runner,” which is exactly what the truck is built for. It’s intended for the Baja […] November 02, 2021 at 07:03AM

Another famous race car is being brought back to life in continuation form, this one a bit further afield than the Jaguars and Bentleys we’ve seen of late. England’s CNC Motorsport AWS is building three Ford Sierra RS500 racers that campaigned in the British Touring Car Championship in the 1980s. CNC has chosen the 1990 […] October 31, 2021 at 07:03AM

in 2017, Chevrolet teamed with Hall Racing to develop the Colorado ZR2 using a real race team doing hardcore off-road races. In 2019, without anyone realizing, Chevrolet teamed up with Hall Racing again to develop the Silverado ZR2. The full-sized race truck has done 10 races so far, Chevy finally taking its engineering trials public […] September 29, 2021 at 06:48AM

LAS VEGAS — Toyota will use its Tundra TRD Pro in NASCAR’s Trucks Series next season as part of an overhaul to the vehicles used in the third-tier series. The Tundra TRD Pro was unveiled before Friday night’s race at Las Vegas Speedway. It will make its competition debut in next season’s opener at Daytona […] September 27, 2021 at 06:18AM

Audi prepared its personnel, its drivers and its cars for the 2022 edition of the Dakar Rally by carrying out a series of tests in the Moroccan desert. Powered by a gasoline-electric powertrain, the RS Q E-Tron sprinted, braked hard, drifted and spent a lot of time in the air. Dakar legends Stéphane Peterhansel and […] September 22, 2021 at 11:15PM

Fans of Ken Block and the Gymkhana series will have to get used to a new badge adorning the rally and stunt driver’s charismatic automotive creations. Out: One blue oval; in: four silver rings.  That’s right, Block has defected to Audi. Well, “defected” is perhaps being a bit harsh. Block went “free agent” (his words) […] September 22, 2021 at 12:55AM

Cadillac returned to sports car racing back in 2017 with its DPi race car, and it has had a successful run with it. It won four Rolex 24 Hour races at Daytona from 2017 to 2020, and took home two championships. So it’s not totally surprising that it will continue running in the IMSA series […] August 25, 2021 at 06:47AM

The 24 Hours of Le Mans happened over the weekend, and once again, Toyota came out as the big winners. In case you’re counting, that makes it four-in-a-row for Toyota Gazoo Racing — we may finally be forgetting about that last-lap heartbreak loss back in 2016. This year’s win for Toyota came with a new […] August 24, 2021 at 06:17AM