Fred Smith
Motorsports Editor at Road & Track
Motorsports Editor at @roadandtrack.
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3 days ago |
roadandtrack.com | Fred Smith
Alex Palou entered practice for the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500 off a historic streak of four wins in five 2025 IndyCar races, making the Ganassi driver a major contender to win the race despite never winning on an oval in his five previous years in the series. Two weeks later, he attained racing immortality. As Palou told Road & Track, he went into the event knowing that he had an opportunity, but nowhere near confident that he would win the race.
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5 days ago |
roadandtrack.com | Fred Smith
30 years ago, McLaren won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a GT1 car based on the iconic McLaren F1. The brand is still two years out from its next attempt to win the race overall, but in the meantime, the brand is celebrating its past triumphs with a special edition of the 750S. Dubbed the 750S Le Mans Special Edition, the limited-run variant of McLaren's big V-8 supercar is set apart by a high-downforce kit developed by the in-house custom group MSO.
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1 week ago |
roadandtrack.com | Fred Smith
For the past three years, Ford's electric vehicle demonstrator team has made the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb the centerpiece of its year. Le Mans winner Romain Dumas ran an electric Ford shaped vaguely like a Transit van in the 2023 running, and won the 2024 event overall in another electric prototype in the general form of an F-150.
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1 week ago |
roadandtrack.com | Fred Smith
Pierre Gasly has become a constant at the Alpine Formula 1 team since joining in 2023, but the second seat has not been so stable. Franco Colapinto replaced Jack Doohan at the team earlier this month, becoming the third teammate Gasly has worked with in the past 12 months.
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1 week ago |
roadandtrack.com | Fred Smith
Last month, Porsche shared a video celebrating the one-off road-going 917 prototype of the 1970s. That ended with a silhouette of the brand's current 963 prototype, teasing a potential road-going variant of that car. On Thursday, the brand went one step further with another teaser video — one suggesting a reveal of a one-off 963 road car could be imminent. The video names the car as the Porsche 963 RSP, a curious name that falls outside of the automaker's typical collection of abbreviations.
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Spoke to a Cybertruck owner whose roofline trim piece, a huge chunk of stainless steel with pointed edges, flew off on the road. He shared video, and his theory on what he thinks happened:
Owners say Cybertrucks are shedding body panels. One thinks he knows why. https://t.co/MyLAgEB6IB https://t.co/CRytNenjou
RT @RoadandTrack: Ford is aiming to win Le Mans outright in 2027 with a new hypercar. https://t.co/kGqpBr1JEE https://t.co/npDOccDrb6
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