Every year, Jeep puts together a collection of awesome concepts for the annual springtime Easter Jeep Safari. Generally, those concepts range from lightly-modded factory Jeeps sporting Mopar catalog items, to extreme one-off concepts. Here's what Jeep has for us this year, including—yes—a Hellcat-powered Wrangler. It's the 50th anniversary of the Easter Jeep Safari, and the 75th anniversary of the Jeep brand, so you know the folks at Jeep went all-out this year.

We knew this was coming based on last week's teaser image. It's here, and it's exactly as radical as we expected. Jeep slammed a 707-hp Hellcat supercharged V8 under a current-generation Wrangler's hood, hooked it up to a six-speed manual with a Hellcat logo shifter, and sent the power to all four wheels. Maybe this is the first Hellcat product that will actually get traction?

The Trailcat is no ordinary Wrangler, though. Stretched 12 inches over a stocker, with a two-inch chopped windshield, it's got wicked proportions befitting a 707-horse off-roader. Sitting on 17-inch beadlock wheels wrapped in 39.5-inch BF Goodrich Krawler tires, you know it's got the grip for low-speed crawling or full-throttle desert blasts. Inside, bucket seats from the Dodge Viper work hard to keep you in place. It's a winner

Imagine that you have an American “shooting brake” Mustang with 435hp, I.R.S., and room for your toys to boot. Sure this could be called the Redneck (Ferrari) FF, but I would call it the sensible “Family Truckster GT”.  With the muscle car game strong, there is no telling if something as unorthodox would show its face at a car show or at least through us here at GearHeads. All we know is that we would be glad to drive this in the Swiss Alps with an American Flag livery and bald eagle head cornices as rear view mirrors.

Sure this car will be $#!t in the snow and ice compared to the FF, but who cares, if you wreck this one you can still buy 6 more (or more) for the price of one Ferrari. So what it all boils down to is if the world and especially America would accept this hunchback of north Detroit or if it would likely end up a marketing disaster.

Lamborghini’s current CEO Stephan Winkelmann will step down from the Italian performance brand next month to take up a new role as head of Quattro, the performance division of Lamborghini’s parent company Audi. Replacing Winkelmann will be Stefano Domenicali who is most famous for running the Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] Formula One team from the end of the 2007 season until midway through the 2014 season. Domenicali will start his new role at Lamborghini on March 15, 2016.
Winkelmann has led Lamborghini for the past 11 years and has been influential in transforming it from a cottage industry to a high-tech, luxury powerhouse. Lamborghini is enjoying its best sales in its entire history and is just a couple of years away from significantly lifting volumes with the Urus SUV.

During Winkelmann’s reign, the sales figures at Lamborghini more than doubled, and the turnover more than tripled. The dealer network has also tripled in size and now encompasses 135 dealers in 50 countries. During this time the number of employees, today 1,300, practically doubled.

The reason behind the shakeup isn’t clear at this point but with Domenicali’s history it may point towards an expanded motorsport program at Lamborghini. A less likely scenario could be the Volkswagen Group getting ready to spinoff the brand in an effort to raise funds in the wake of its diesel emissions scandal.

"Formula One is the worst it has ever been. I wouldn't spend my money to take my family to watch a race. No way." Bernie Ecclestone has sided with Sebastian Vettel rather than reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton over the current state of Formula One.



Ferrari's Vettel declared last week that F1 is no longer "about the sport and which driver is the fastest" amid the new era of "far too complex" technical regulations.The quadruple world champion added: "The dominance of Mercedes has taken away the excitement for many fans." Hamilton, the reigning triple world champion who with Mercedes has dominated the controversial "power unit" era so far, hit back at Vettel."It's pretty funny because he had four years of it and I've only had two," he told Britain's Sky television. "Until I get to his level I won't have bored them as much as he had!"

However, F1 supremo Ecclestone appears to agree entirely with Vettel, pointing the finger directly at teams like Mercedes who are reluctant to agree to sweeping rule changes for 2017.

Ecclestone also said there is "no chance" F1 teams will meet the March 1 deadline to agree to sweeping 2017 changes.

"Most of the participants are only thinking about what's good for them in the short term," he told the Daily Mail. "Long term for most of those people is two or three races.

"The result is that Formula One is the worst it has ever been. I wouldn't spend my money to take my family to watch a race. No way," Ecclestone added."What's the point when you pretty much know - and the bookmakers know, and they're not stupid - that Lewis Hamilton will probably put the car on pole and more likely than not win the race, and the other Mercedes will be on the podium?"

Nico Rosberg - Hamilton's teammate - hit back at the critics by insisting they are not "respectful" enough when it comes to Mercedes' achievements in dominating F1 for the past two years. But Ecclestone is not only critical of Mercedes, as he also pointed a finger of blame at Jean Todt, the FIA president who he says is more focused on road safety than the state of F1.

"He should carry on with the other stuff, but hand over responsibility for Formula One to someone else," he said. "I am going to speak to him about it."

Lamborghini and its customer teams have been hit with a series of penalties following last month’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, IMSA announced Monday.
All five of the Lamborghini Huracan GT3 entries, fielded by Konrad Motorsport, Paul Miller Racing, O’Gara Motorsport and Change Racing, have been given post-race time penalties equivalent to a stop and hold plus 5-minute penalty. Additionally, Lamborghini has lost all of its GTD championship points from Daytona and has also been given a $25,000 fine.
The ruling comes in the wake of an alleged performance advantage by the Italian manufacturer’s cars in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season-opener.
The four quickest race laps in GTD were all set by Huracan GT3 teams, with Richard Antinucci’s 1:45.873 time in the No. 11 O’Gara entry more than one second faster than the quickest time set by a non-Lamborghini. IMSA said the penalties have been applied under Sporting Regulation Attachment 2, Paragraph 2.9, which states the following:
“Competitors and manufacturers are expected to provide valid data upon request to assist IMSA in the BoP process.
“Any competitor or manufacturer who deliberately gives false information, attempts to influence the BoP process, or displays a level of performance beyond the expected result may be issued a penalty prior to, during, or after a race of a minimum stop plus five (5) minutes. “Penalties assessed after the race are added to the car’s finishing time for the race and may include a lap count penalty.”
The ruling follows the completion of dyno testing of each of the Huracan GT3’s engines at NASCAR’s R&D center in Concord, N.C. All five of the engines, plus the GTD class-winning Magnus Racing Audi R8 LMS powerplant, were impounded post-race for further inspection.
It is the first time IMSA has enacted its so-called “sandbagging” rule, which has been in the rulebook since the start of the 2014 season.
The revised results sees the fifth-place finishing No. 28 Konrad entry drop to 10th in class, with the O’Gara car losing one position (14th to 15th) and the remaining cars maintaining their finishing positions. 

Sometimes, after a long day of testing cars on the dyno, you need to blow off a little steam. For the Sloppy Mechanics guys, that involves sacrificing a car to the car gods. 

This year, the car they chose as their sacrifice was a fourth-generation Buick Regal GS that was headed for the scrap yard. 

When it rolled off the assembly line 280,000 miles ago, its supercharged V6 made 240 horsepower. Stock power is never enough power, so they tacked on a turbocharger, added some NOS, and decided to have a little fun with it.


If you're going to intentionally send a car to the long highway in the sky, that's certainly one way to do it.

Every single video you've ever seen of a Koenigsegg being thrashed at a racetrack has had Robert Serwanski at the wheel. As Koenigsegg's factory test driver, he's had the opportunity to do some pretty sweet stuff, like shatter acceleration and braking run records in the One:1, thunder around Suzuka Circuit, and set a lap record at Spa.

Needless to say, this guy's a good driver.

But when he's not throwing multi-million-dollar Swedish hypercars into corners, he's manhandling something much smaller. Mazda Miatas, to be exact. According to his LinkedIn profile, Serwanski has participated in the Swedish MX-5 racing series before working with Koenigsegg. Here's a video of him flying down the Ring in a Miata. Sometimes you don't always need 1,341 bhp to go fast.

No music; no commentary; no nonsense – just five minutes of aural bliss as a packed field of BMW M1 Procars duke out their 1979 Monaco Grand Prix round.

This is our sort of video.



This fabulous footage comes from the 1979 Monaco Grand Prix round of the 1979 BMW M1 Procar championship. The second round of the season, it would be won by Niki Lauda driving for Project Four Racing.

Lauda went on to take the drivers’ title in the series’ inaugural season, driving for BMW’s factory team for the first round at the Belgian Grand Prix before settling in with Project Four Racing for the remainder of the season. Hans-Joachim Stuck trailed by a handful of points to claim second, with Clay Regazzoni finishing third.

24 hours of le mans 1989
In the years 80, the cars came to more than 400 km / h in the great line of le mans. In 1990, for security reasons, were installed 2 Chicane, the video you check the show that it was at that time

Fast Masters was a made-for-television auto racing series, broadcast on ESPN in 1993 that featured notable drivers over the age of 50, most of whom were retired from professional racing at the time. The Fast Masters series was a summer-long elimination competition, with identically-prepared, $750,000, TWR, Jaguar XJ220s racing on Bridgestone RE71 high-performance street tires. The races took place under-the-lights at Indianapolis Raceway Park, in conjunction with ESPN's Saturday Night Thunder. The cars carried the sponsorship of Havoline, and the series was officially sanctioned by USAC.

Close and intense racing ruled each night as championship winning veterans from Formula One, IndyCar, NASCAR, NHRA, Endurance racing and more, some who were well into their 70's, fought hard for every position. Considerable attention focused on the event, as many came out to witness the impressive and unprecedented lineup of legendary drivers.

Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Unser won the championship, claiming the $100,000 top prize.