Let’s get right to the point. Over the last third of a century America’s influence has vanished from international motor racing. Mario Andretti scored the last Grand Prix win by…
It’s been a rough year for Lola. Six months ago the venerable British racing car builder was forced into administration and a search for a buyer for its Cambridgeshire facility…
I had to chuckle when I read Paul Fearnley’s blog last week about Romain Grosjean and the need for bad guys - black characters - in motor racing. Paul’s examples…
The high-banked Talladega Superspeedway is renowned as the ‘Wild Card’ in NASCAR’s championship battle. For the past twenty-five years Talladega and Daytona have been constrained by the dreaded ‘restrictor plates’…
Chip Ganassi’s Grand-Am team won its third straight Daytona Prototype championship last weekend at Lime Rock, the series season-closer. It was the sixth Grand-Am title for Ganassi and the fifth…
Indianapolis Motor Speedway president and CEO Jeff Belskus has denied reports that former IMS and IndyCar boss Tony George is leading an investor group bidding to take over management of…
The Dean of American motor sport journalists, Chris Economaki, has passed away two weeks short of his 92nd birthday. Economaki was publisher and editor of the weekly newspaper National Speed…
Ryan Hunter-Reay drove a perfect race at the California Speedway on Saturday night to win this year’s IndyCar championship after Will Power threw away his chances for the third year…
An announcement is expected in the next day or two that the Nissan Delta Wing will race again this year at the ALMS’s season-closing Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta…
One of the most powerful signs that NASCAR was going to expand into all corners of the United States and dominate America’s motor racing landscape came at Watkins Glen a…
Slowly but surely, amid the continuing development of the internal combustion engine, we’re witnessing the arrival of new power sources in motor racing. Audi pioneered the successful use of diesel…
Fans of the Delta Wing know that designer Ben Bowlby is a big fan of ‘Boundary Layer Adhesion Technology’, or BLAT, which is a feature of the wingless Delta Wing’s…
