Racing

Whatever they're smoking at Indian Motorcycle, we want some! The company's doing a limited production run of race-spec Challenger R cruisers, complete with carbon fiber saddlebags, celebrating one of the flat-out wackiest races on two wheels.

Polaris believes performance side-by-side UTV racing is ready to step up a level. So it's launching the "first full-fledged UTV class factory racing program," complete with a purpose-built race vehicle, a full-time crew and a dedicated workshop.

We'd all like to think we go fast on the weekend, but Polaris sales manager Eric Borgen's got the ultimate proof. Roped into co-driving the storied Baja 1000, he discovered he's been mucking about with his friends in the desert at a race-winning pace.

Lightning Motorcycles has unveiled the Tachyon Nb, a modified, streamlined version of the Strike electric sportsbike designed to take aim at the electric motorcycle land speed record, targeting speeds over 250 mph (400 km/h) in the process.

Ducati has finally put a set of numbers around the cutting-edge electric motorcycle it's developing for the FIM MotoE World Cup from 2023 onwards. The V21L prototype and eventual racer will inform the electrification of the brand in the coming years.

It's been over 40 years, but the fan car is back. The McMurtry Spéirling became the first fan car to race in sanctioned motorsport since 1978, winning this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed and becoming the fastest car to ever tackle the hillclimb.

The 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans happens this weekend, but Cadillac has us more interested in the 2023 event. This week, it previewed the Project GTP Hypercar it will be running in next year's FIA World Endurance Championship series, and it's an absolute stunner.

An autonomous race team from the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) has set a new land speed record for driverless cars, recording a two-way average of 192.2 mph (309.3 km/h) over a flying kilometer on a space shuttle airstrip at the Kennedy Space Center.

Yamaha is sending a motocross racing team into battle this year equipped with prototype power steering systems that also act as steering dampers. It might look crazy at first glance, but there's fascinating implications for future motorcycle design.

We first got wind of Ducati's ebike aspirations in 2018 with the EICMA debut of a pedal-assist mountain bike developed in collaboration with Thok. More ebikes have followed since, and now the company has announced its first road racer, the Futa.

Supercross racing made a modern stadium sport out of dirt bike racing in America, and now an Australian company is set to launch a truly international, FIM-endorsed supercross world championship, supported by an unprecedented financing deal.

The Extreme E electric off-road race series is either going to expand to include an Extreme H hydrogen-powered zero-emissions race series, or flat-out switch to hydrogen-only from 2024. It's quite an announcement from a one-year-old championship.