daytona

A Daytona package hasn't been available for the Dodge Charger since 2009, but for 2013, its coming back. For an extra US$2,500 (CAD pricing not yet available for the Daytona but the MSRP of the R/T Road/Track is CAD$39,345) on top of the price of a 2013 Charger R/T Road & Track, customers ...

As a car manufacturer, you have spent literally thousands of person-hours engineering a vehicle that is not quite entirely dreamy nor utterly practical, but some magical balance of the two that should sell by the trainload. Small problem: the folks in marketing have decided to name the car the ...

By the early 1950s, Alfa Romeo had grown tired of dominating (and spending huge sums of money on) grand prix racing, and shut down its program. Along with it, a program to develop a small-displacement two-litre V8 was aborted. But Alfa couldn't keep away from racing altogether for very long, and ...

Daytona International Speedway is one of motorsport's cathedrals, and when we think of grueling races on the 5.7 kilometre circuit, the Rolex 24 immediately comes to mind. In 2012, 59 teams participated, and after 24 hours of racing, only six seconds separated first and second place. Helping to ...

If "rubbin is racin'!", an incident during the Gatorade Duel races to determine starting spots for this weekend's Daytona 500 NASCAR race also proves that rubbin' is wreckin'. With just two corners to go, Danica Patrick was running near tenth place down on the inside of a tightly packed field. ...

At this year's Rolex 24 at Daytona, Brumos Racing driver Leh Keen wore a camera strapped to his chest. But he didn't just wear it for the race, he wore it for the entire event, from the plane ride in to the post-race press conference. Brumos Racing won last year's GT championship and it started ...

When you're young, no one tells you marriage is really about finding some one to have, hold and torture 'til death do you part. From playful infractions like forgetting whether your significant other hates pickles, onions or both to more serious matters like who uses more paper towels, matrimony ...

You'll want to skip the next post if you haven't unwrapped the weekend's Rolex 24 at Daytona awaiting you on your (apparently very capacious) DVR. For the rest of you, the 50th running of the event that commences Speedweeks and the sports car racing season saw David trounce several Goliaths: the ...

Legendary driver A.J. Foyt has been hospitalized after suffering complications from knee surgery. The 77-year-old Foyt had the surgery two weeks ago and was slated to serve as the grand marshal for the 50th anniversary of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Jackie Stewart stepped in to handle those duties in ...

Now that you have an idea what all the fuss is about down in Florida this weekend, we thought you might like to know who to cheer for at the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Here at Autoblog Canada, we're going to bypass the obvious choices like TV superstar Patrick Dempsey and keep tabs on the Canadian ...