Showtime Motorsports has announced that popular comedian, author, radio personality and podcaster Adam Carolla will make his Trans Am by Pirelli national series debut next month, as part of a new partnership with the Tennessee-based Franklin Road Apparel team led by Ken Thwaits. The race weekend is slated for WeatherTech...

Los Angeles, CA -- A new documentary about the man who broke auto racing’s color barrier is the latest offering from Adam Carolla’s Chassy Media.Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story -- released on Netflix Wednesday (Feb. 5) -- details the career of the first African-American racing driver to win a...

The first round of the 2017 Trans Am West Championship presented by Pirelli is scheduled to kick off at Willow Springs on March 26. This inaugural event at the Southern California road course will feature an weekend of Trans Am racing and vintage SVRA cars.Burtin Racing and GoShare announced that...

The superb 2015 documentary Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman, is ready to be followed by more new films from its creators, including one on the career of Willy T. Ribbs."Adam Carolla and Nate Adams, who did 'Paul Newman's Winning,' they are producing a movie documentary," Ribbs told RACER....

Alfonso Ribeiro won the 2016 Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race, triumphing over the most accomplished field the annual charity racing event has ever seen. An appreciative crowd witnessed the stunning performance by Ribeiro, who started the race in the eighth position and successfully avoided any collisions or walls to take the checkered...

The short film "Indianapolis" will be screened Sept. 26 at the Jalopnik Film Festival in Los Angeles.The stop-motion film created by IndyCar photographer Shawn Gritzmacher from approximately 3,000 still photos taken over the month of May at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, chronicles the 2015 Indianapolis 500 and highlights how current Verizon...

One of the delightful qualities of top-level vintage racing such as that found in the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) is the wonderful high-profile personalities you might bump into in the paddock. RACER reported yesterday how champion road racer Boris Said decided the Coronado Speed Festival was a great place...

Verizon IndyCar Series stars mixed with Hollywood’s racing- and car-loving celebrities during the charity premiere of the documentary “Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman” on April 16 at the El Capitan Theatre.Sebastien Bourdais, who won a history-making four consecutive Indy car championships for the Oscar-winning actor's team and appeared...

Paul Newman had a 50-plus year career as one of the most prolific and revered actors in American cinema. Yet few know the gasoline-fueled passion that became so important in this complex, multifaceted man's makeup. Newman’s racing career spanned 35 years, and he won four national championships as a driver...

Comedian Adam Carolla (LEFT) has bought numerous vintage racing cars from the Bob Sharp Racing stable, most of which belonged to the late Paul Newman, and with his burgeoning media business on the rise, Carolla has now turned his attention to celebrating the actor's life behind the steering wheel. ?I...