Awesome Racing

Forza Motorsport 6 promises 1080p/60fps graphics, 450 cars including the new Ford GT, all tracks from Forza Motorsport 5 plus five new environments including Daytona and Rio de Janeiro. Uncompressed gameplay video here.

YouTuber Rdwomack2 presents examples of pit stops across different motorsports: Formula One, Indycar, Formula E, NASCAR and the WEC. The transition from the deathly silence of Formula E to the chaos of NASCAR is hilarious.

Look around from the roof of a Nissan GT-R as it races around the Le Mans track, first on its own then against a GT-R Nismo in this 360º video. You can watch it on Chrome, but it’s way more fun on the official YouTube (iOS/Android) app.

EA continues to amp up the style of its popular arcade racer. Here’s pre-alpha footage of a tricked out BR-Z as it tears through a graphically impressive cityscape. The game offers modes for racers, builders, drifters, co-opers and outlaws.

The already incredible 600+hp, carbon fiber 2016 Ford GT will be getting a track-ready variant to mark Ford’s return to Le Mans in 2016, 50 years since it handed Ferrari a spanking. Can Ford beat the dominant European racers again?

Bartosz Ostałowski lost both of his arms in a traffic collision in 2006. But that didn’t stop him from becoming a professional drift racer. He has a custom setup in his race car, but his daily drivers are unmodified.

SMS Racing is a virtual reality parody racing game for the Samsung Gear VR and Galaxy Note 4. During the race, both you and the AI racers are sent silly text messages that you have to reply to within 10 seconds. Non-VR version here.

Codemasters brings its racing series back to its rally roots with this hardcore sim. The Windows beta of DiRT Rally has 17 cars, 36 stages in 3 locations, day and night and weather conditions, tuning and team management.

A look at the Career mode in the much-awaited crowdsourced racing game Project CARS. Unlike its competitors, all races in the game are unlocked right away. Work your way up, hop around or stay on one tier – it’s all up to you.

Part of Racing Gold’s Infiniti Red Bull Racing collection, this floor lamp is made from the exhaust system of one of Infiniti Red Bull Racing’s F1 cars. You’ll even get a certificate stating the source car’s history.

Face-melting onboard footage of English racer Guy Martin and his Tyco Suzuki GSX-R 1000 superbike as he chases Michael Dunlop on the Isle of Man TT course. These guys must be trained not to blink – or have their eyelids glued open.

At the Runni Rock Ralli, Jari Huttunen and Marko Vartiainen hit a snowbank, sending their car into a double barrel roll. The pair didn’t seem to notice. You can skip to 2:50. They say the car is an Opel Astra, but we bet it’s actually a Nokia 3310.

Amazing footage from the 73rd Members Meeting races at England’s famous Goodwood Road & Racing course, as a small open-wheeled single-seater rides up over another race car and they somehow both manage to keep going.

For passionate – and rich – Formula One fans. The one day experience at Circuit Of the Americas begins with lessons and warm up rides on go karts, sports cars and supercars. You’ll then ride along on an F1X3 and finally go 3 laps in an F1 car.

LEGO’s Speed Champions sets feature Ferrari, McLaren and Porsche race cars and supercars, including the LaFerrari, the Scuderia Ferrari team, the McLaren P1, the McLaren Mercedes team, the Porsche 918 Spyder and the 911 GT team.

Xbox talks to Ford about the 2016 Ford GT, which will be one of the drivable cars in the Xbox One exclusive Forza Motorsport 6. The video is bursting with self-congratulatory babble, but even when muted it’s still worth watching.

YouTuber Miran Dilberovic captures the past year in Formula One with this intense highlight reel. See the thrills, skills, heartbreaks, escapes, winners and losers of F1 2014 set to Ctrl-Z’s remix of Dies Irae.

Motorhead Magazine assembled cars and drivers from various motorsports on the Mazda Turnpike in Hakone, Japan, where drifters and enthusiasts hone their craft. Masato Kawabata and his Nissan GT-R paid homage pretty damn well.

Evo took 10 cars to the Scottish Borders to determine their top pick for 2014. Can the little guys like the VW Golf R and Renault 275 Trophy-R unseat the likes of the Jaguar F-Type R, McLaren 650S and Ferrari 458 Speciale?

This on-car footage features racer Frank Stippler driving a 1958 Maserati 250f at the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco. Frank competed with other pre-1961 cars and drove the prizewinning Maserati to second place.

Unlike previously unveiled Gran Turismo 6 concept cars, the Chevrolet Chaparral 2X VGT is as fictional as it gets. It’s powered by a non-existent laser-based engine and is worn like a wingsuit, with the driver lying on his belly.

The new Atom 3S has a turbocharged 2.4L Honda engine gets up to 365hp, allowing it to go from 0 to 60mph in just 2.8s. Adjustable 5-stage traction control and dampers will help keep you from flying off the face of the Earth.

Free-to-play tank MMO World of Tanks has a new racing mode. Tank Rally pits you in 3 vs. 3 battles aboard 1000hp tanks that go up to 56mph. Win by getting to the base at the end or by blowing up your opponents.