Racing

Each year, dozens of professional photographers from around the world compete to take the most iconic and most amazing desert images from the most amazing and iconic desert competitions – the Dakar Rally. Here are our picks of the pics.

Dakar Rally participants know what they're signing up for: a gruelling two-week ordeal they have no guarantee of completing. But this storied event was born of an even more extreme and dangerous experience, that one man had to endure all alone...

A tiny New Zealand company run by a 71-year-old billionaire is hard at work bringing his seemingly impossible dream to life: developing a publicly available track car that could go faster than an F1 racecar. And it's awfully close to its goal.

Watching motorsport from the comfort of your own home is all well and good, but there's nothing quite like being there in person. These amazing new residences offer the best of both worlds and overlook the iconic British race circuit Silverstone.

Love racing but not a fan of the sport's carbon footprint? Idemitsu is hoping to bring that down a notch with its new Plantech Racing engine oil, which uses plant-based raw materials for more than 80% of its base oil.

The Pioneer 25 marks a momentous step in the world of motorsports as it passed the mandatory FIA crash tests. Developed solely for Extreme H, the world’s first hydrogen-powered motorsport, the car has a top speed of 200 km/h (124 mph).

When the archetypical energy drink giant unleashes its seemingly unlimited resources to create its first car, expect the extraordinary. Red Bull's RB17 is a low-slung aerodynamic rocketship, making nearly twice its own weight in downforce.

The first autonomous car race will be held at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi on Saturday 27 April 2024. It could be the birth a new TV sport with a fan-base of technophiles drawn by the progress of autonomous capability towards that of a human.

After a hell-raising concept iteration, Alpine's hydrogen combustion fire-and-ice Alpenglow supercar is finally prepped and revved to take the track. It'll make its dynamic debut next month at the Spa-Francorchamps 6 Hours endurance event in Belgium.

Unveiled today at the San Felipe 250 rally, the new factory racing rig from Polaris is a complete redesign. A new one-piece chassis with a stronger, stiffer frame begins those changes.

The Aerohead II is definitely one of the strangest-looking bike helmets ever made. It should be right at home in the world of time trial racing, however, where aerodynamics are king and style just doesn't matter.

The "world's first street-legal hypertruck" gives hard-driving trail blasters a choice of an 1,100-hp supercharged V8, or 1,000 hp of all-electric shunt. Scarbo Vintage's third vehicle is reported to start at a cool $1.5 million.