Racing

Race over 450 cars in picturesque Britain in the latest installment of the Xbox and Windows exclusive series. Forza Horizon 4 features a new dynamic season system, up to 72-player multiplayer and support for 4K and HDR video. The game drops 10/2/18.

We’ve seen lots of POV footage shot from cameras mounted inside race cars, or even on the outside of a helmet. But during the 2018 Monaco Grand Prix, driver Pierre Gasly wore a special helmet with a camera and microphone inside, for an even more immersive experience.

Take a trip back more than 55 years to the 1962 running of the famed Monaco Grand Prix. The in-car footage was shot long before GoPros and other action cameras existed, and required mounting a large 70mm film camera to one of the cars. From the German film Flying Clipper.

Our friends at Michelin recently sent us to the famed Sebring International Raceway to experience the 12 Hours of Sebring – America’s greatest endurance race. Rather than bore you with words, here’s a little taste of what we saw and heard on the track and in the pits.

The PlayStation 4-exclusive enhanced collection of WipEout games now supports the PSVR virtual reality headset. Not only does it make the game more immersive and runs smoothly, it’s also the most natural way to play, letting you look around and ahead of corners.

The lightning fast and well-supported open world arcade racer Burnout Paradise is coming to the PS4 and Xbox One with remastered visuals, with up to 4K resolution and 60fps frame rate on the PS4 Pro and Xbox One. A Windows version is coming as well.

A series of snap back hats inspired by The Great American Off-Road Race – a 400 mile mad dash across the desert outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. We love the gradient and trail of dust on the Mojave horizon hat and the racer taking flight on the black-and-white “Send It” hat.

In this unusual and long-running European sport, racers tether an insanely fast, motorized hydroplane to a center point and let it spin around wildly in a pool of water. Apparently, these things can reach speeds over 135 mph.

A must-own print for any fan of motorsports. DNBK. cataloged and digested down 69 iconic race liveries into a bold, colorful, and dynamic piece of wall art. Measures 18″ x 24″ for easy framing, and printed on acid-free archival stock. (Thanks Chris!)

More in-car footage of a Roborace prototype autonomous car as it flies through the twisty, turny street circuit set up for the Hong Kong E-Prix 2017. When you’re done with that pro driver Nicki Shields compete against the self-driving race car here.

Nowness presents an excerpt from Christopher Kippenberger’s upcoming documentary Kart Kids. The film, which Kippenberger has been shooting for the past decade, follows three kids in Germany’s go-kart racing scene. We can’t wait to see more of it.

Motor Trend held its annual quarter-mile drag race on Vandenberg Air Force Base’s 15,000ft.-long runway. The 12 competitors are the site’s favorite cars for 2017, including the Mercedes Benz AMG GTR, the Ferrari 488 GTB, and the Tesla Model S P100D.

You’ll be holding on for dear life watching this POV footage captured from inside driver Rhys Millen’s Hyundai Genesis Coupe as he took a Time Attack Class 1 victory in the 2017 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Shout out to Will Roegge for the awesome 4K footage.

The classic top-down toy car race game is coming back bigger and better than ever. This time out, there’s online and local multiplayer, a weapon-filled battle mode, and games like Capture the Flag and King of the Hill. Drops 6/30/17 on PS4 and Xbox One.

Roborace is knee-deep in the development of cars for its fully-autonomous racing series, and they just dropped some amazing footage that shows one of their test cars running a lap of Berlin’s Formula E track. Top speed for the test lap was 124 mph, but their goal is 190 mph.

The best of Sony’s dizzying anti-gravity battle racing game in one interface. WipEout Omega Collection for the PS4 and PS4 Pro contains all of the tracks, ships and soundtracks from WipEout HD, Fury and 2048, with splitscreen offline and up to 8 player online racing.

The latest entry in EA’s arcade racer is clearly inspired by The Fast and The Furious. Climb up the world of street racing across five car classes – race, drift, off-road, drag, and runner – pick up abandoned vehicles and turn them into beasts using aftermarket parts.

The surprise expansion for the Xbox One and Windows exclusive Forza Horizon 3 adds a whimsical island fillled with life-size Hot Wheels tracks. Loop and jump with 10 crazy Hot Wheels cars, make your own Hot Wheels tracks and more.

Exomotive’s Exocet body kit lets you turn a ’90s Mazda Miata into a budget Atom. Choose from a casual, sport or a racing kit with a full roll cage and steel floors. It also has optional wing, windshield and fender mounting kits.

The legendary British racer is back as a street legal car. So faithful is Lister to its manufacturing process that the chassis numbers on the new Knobblys simply count up from the original batch. Available with either a 3.8L 6-cylinder or a Corvette V8 engine.

The long-awaited installment of the premiere rally racing sim is almost here. DiRT 4 features over 50 vehicles, simulation and arcade modes, more rallycross levels and a level creator for infinite replayability. Drops 6/6/17 for Windows, Xbox One and PS4.

A special racing derivative of the phenomenal Audi R8 V10 Coupe, wrapped in track aero, tuned to produce 495 horsepower, and kitted out with a roll cage, and all the requisite safety gear for amateurs to race in the GT4 class.

Director Roger Donaldson’s documentary tells the story of the late, great Bruce McLaren, the man who started from humble beginnings, and went on to found the incredible McLaren Motor Racing team, leaving behind a true motorsports legacy after his death at age 32.

Racing seats improve safety and stop your body from jostling around when cornering. ChrisFix recently went out to buy a racing seat and used it as an opportunity to explain the basics of the equipment: their types, materials, how it should fit you and your car, and more.

“Use the word by its definition: reduced to a state of ruin.” An amateur short track racer receives an unnerving offer: an anonymous benefactor will give him a new car if he causes a wreck on the track. This well-shot short film builds up to an intense resolution.