Awesome Racing

To celebrate 10 years of timing the World Rally Championship, S1Tec will be releasing an alarm clock that works just like a rally clock, complete with sounds from a rally car’s engine. More here.

Vimeo user Locck9’s compilation of footage from the Isle of Man TT, one of the most dangerous motorsport events in the world. The first-person footage from 4:00 onwards is just frightening.

A life-sized replica of the Porsche 917 used by Steve McQueen in his movie Le Mans. Inside is a 1:32 slot car replica of the Le Mans race track. It comes with 12 slot cars and analog controllers.

Evo editors Tiff Needell and Dickie Meaden track test 10 of this year’s hottest cars – including the Toyota GT86, Pagani Huayra and the McLaren MP4-12C – to determine the magazine’s Car of the Year.

More amazing in-game pre-alpha footage from the crowdfunded racing game, Project CARS. Watch in 1080p and let your jaw drop. Coming mid-2013 to the PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii U.

Take Google Street View, put it on an F1 car and make the cameras record not just pictures but video and what do you get? This awesome interactive joyride made for Red Bull Norway.

An intriguing take on the racing genre, Real World Racing features a photorealistic top-down perspective, real world locations created from actual aerial maps, and realistic car physics.

This crazy-fast ride still has the 2.0L 245 hp engine found in the Atom 3 but there’s now a supercharged variant with 310hp. It has projector headlamps, LED signals, a stiffer chassis and improved suspension.

A limited edition MB SLS AMG GT3 made in honor of AMG’s 45th anniversary. It has matte graphite paint, carbon fiber body and a full race cage. Buyers will also be treated to an AMG factory tour.

As Red Bull promised, here is footage of David Coulthard driving through the 1.5mi Lincoln Tunnel from the New Jersey side to New York and back in an F1 car. It sounded like gigantic mosquitoes.

Made by the developer who gave us the legendary Burnout series. Play in an open world, where all cars are unlocked from the start, so you can focus on upgrades and beating your friends or the AI.

A racing sim with a unique crowdsourced development process. Registrants can play early builds, directly affect the game’s development and get a cut of the game’s profits once it comes out.

F1 racer David Coulthard drove Red Bull’s RB7 Formula 1 race car through the streets of NYC, through the Lincoln Tunnel and into New Jersey in anticipation of 2013’s Grand Prix of America.

Motor Trend’s informal and all too awesome quarter-mile race returns. Will the Nissan GT-R retain its crown, or will the eight other competitors – including the Aventador and MP4-12C – smoke it?

Every time we’ve been through NYC’s Lincoln Tunnel, it’s a parking lot, so we can only imagine that F1 driver David Coulthard sped through in the middle of the night when he hit it at 190mph.

The fourth installment of Mattzel89’s Racing in Slow Motion, a compilation of footage from Formula One and other motorsports in glorious slow motion. Watch the previous videos in his channel.

Renault holds a cat and mouse game between the A110-50 concept car and its inspiration, the A110 in this goosebump inducing video, with Renault WRC legend Jean Ragnotti driving the new car.

NASCAR great Darrell Waltrip on the passenger seat of a V8 Supercar. We’re pretty sure he was hamming it up for the camera, but we can’t help but giggle at his Will Ferrell-ish screams.

The Sauber F1 team cutoff an entire Formula One car lengthwise – guts and all – to give a detailed view of how its parts are arranged. It also reveals that F1 drivers cannot have ticklish butts.

Nico Rosberg of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One team explains the unusual sitting position of an F1 driver inside the race car’s cockpit and the challenges that arise because of it.

A self-contained, portable vehicular motion simulator provides 180-degrees of photorealistic visuals (5760×1200 resolution) and accurately replicates every move of actual race cars.

This is the 1984 Toleman TG-184-2, the exact same car that the legendary Ayrton Senna drove in his debut in Formula 1, the same season where he took second place in the rainy 1984 Monaco GP.

Sony takes Sackboy and pals and drop them into a PS3 Kart racing game, loaded with LBP’s charming style, wit and whimsy. Thought we’re a bit worried that Media Molecule didn’t develop it.