The Ford folks quite rightly spared no expense on the launch of their latest and greatest Mustang tonight at Barker Hangar at Santa Monica CA on the eve of the 2008 Los Angeles International Auto Show. Well they actually spared a little—on the food—popcorn and Doritos aren’t the best way to a portly auto journo’s [...]

Looks like Long Beach is getting prepped for the Red Bull Drifting World Championship this weekend. The competition is set to take place on a brand new, high-speed course that should push racers over 100 mph and into a total of six turns. There should be plenty of events leading up to the main event, [...]

If you’ve grown up with a PlayStation controller in your hand like I have, there’s no need to explain just what Need For Speed is all about. The gaming franchise has been at the top of the heap of racing games for years, foregoing the technical aspects of Gran Turismo for flashy graphics and never [...]

Obviously fresh from his European vacation driving Zondas and Reventons that we’ve been covering, Tanner Foust went back to his day job this weekend in style and won the sixth round of the US Formula Drift Pro Drift Championship at Infineon Raceway just outside of San Francisco on Saturday. Foust, at the wheel of his Rockstar [...]

Are you as sick of the RNC convention as I am? Probably not. Anyhow, at one point I was roused from my bourbon-induced half-slumber when a talking head mentioned that Cindy McCain and her sons built a race car, in fact, and even better, a drift car! And she’s learning how to drift. Say what? Yeah, [...]

Just got a quick note from another drifting friend of the ‘fiends, Vaughn Gittin Jr, or JR as he’s known to his buddies. JR is teaming up with one of his sponsors, Bosch, to create some appropriately termed “performance art” with the Falken tires on his Falken sponsored Ford Mustang using the rumored 700 naturally [...]

First and foremost, we’re going to know who this mystery man is tomorrow. Until then, here’s what we do know. Someone other than Bill Sherman was caught (caught!) driving the Braille Auto Formula D 350Z. The mystery man also isn’t Blake Fuller. Wrecked Magazine seems to think that whoever he is, he will be competing [...]

Formula Drift, America’s premier professional drifting promoter and sanctioning body have partnered with Red Bull to create the Red Bull Drifting World Championship. The event, which will feature 32 of the world’s best drifters, will be held on the docks at the Port of Long Beach, Calif., on Saturday, November 15, 2008. It’s the first [...]

There are many reasons to visit England. From stacked stones to crumbling castles to the M25, Old Blighty has it all. And of course, the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Which is currently underway and running through Sunday. For the unfamiliar, Goodwood is an automotive orgy — a bacchanal celebration all things wheeled and motorized. You [...]

Some things you may already know about Tanner Foust: He’s a successful professional racer. He’s the 2007 US Formula Drift champion and currently leading the 2008 championship. Foust contests the US Rally America championship and won the 2007 X-Games Rally Super Special beating action sports super star, Travis Pastrana and World Rally Championship legend, Colin [...]