1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (853+ words) Backfire News Formula 1 looks like a sport built around lap times and podiums, but every team on the grid is really running a specialized global business. Ten constructors spend a combined multi-billion-dollar budget each season, and that money has to…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1015+ words) Shawn Henry has spent years writing about cars, and it shows—not in a resume kind of way, but in how he talks about them. He's the type who'll notice the weird trim option nobody remembers and actually know why…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (446+ words) That caveat matters less than it normally would, because the pool of candidates is small. There are 63 Sián coupes on the planet. Alonso, who is in his fourth season with Aston Martin’s F1 team, has been repeatedly filmed in Monaco with…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (537+ words) The FIA publishes a boring little PDF before every race weekend called the Technical Delegate’s Report. Almost nobody reads it. This year it’s the most interesting document in the paddock, because it tells you which championship contenders are about to…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (902+ words) Backfire News Image via Oracle Red Bull Racing Trackhouse Racing has made a habit of putting outsiders behind the wheel of a stock car just to see what happens. Kimi Raikkonen tried it. So did Helio Castroneves and, most recently,…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1035+ words) John Lloyd is a staff writer at Backfire News, where he writes about the messier, more entertaining side of the car world—celebrity rides, motorsports drama, and whatever weird automotive thing happened to blow up online that week. He's drawn…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1285+ words) A few weeks ago, I made what felt like a fairly straightforward argument. Atlanta had just hosted one of the biggest sporting events in the world. The FIFA Club World Cup brought hundreds of thousands of visitors into the city,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (819+ words) Backfire News A Track That Has Nearly Died Twice Already Heartland Motorsports Park opened outside Topeka in 1989 as the first brand-new auto racing facility built in the U.S. in two decades, eventually hosting NHRA national events, NASCAR touring series, IMSA, and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (536+ words) Twenty-seven cars, one weekend, and a result that reads like a market survey disguised as a celebrity liquidation. Anthony Hamilton’s collection crossed the block at The Wing on 25 July as part of Iconic Auctioneers’ BRDC Classic sale, staged a few…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (484+ words) Gooding Christie’s has put chassis CSX2300 up as Lot 39 at Pebble Beach with an estimate above $25,000,000. It is a 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, one of six, and the only one Carroll Shelby ever personally owned. Read Gooding’s catalogue entry as a…...