Nothing hits like a day at the races — the smell of exhaust, the thumping of engines in your chest, the roar of the crowd. Motorsport has delighted generations for as long as there have been motors.

American performance has always been defined as much by its engines as by its sheet metal. From small-block V8s to high-revving modern powerplants, the country’s most influential motors shaped racing, ...

The street car market has come a long way since it went big-time in 1992, when HOT ROD launched its Top 10 Fastest Street Cars in America. In those 30-plus years there have been thousands of street ...

Proline Racing (PLR), not to be confused with Pro-Line Racing (an RC car parts supplier), builds some of the most renowned drag racing powerplants on the market today. If you watch something like Pro ...

Of the characteristics associated with internal-combustion engine fuels, heat of combustion, BTU/gallon, and rate of burn are particularly important to performance engine builders and enthusiasts.