NASCAR’s long season kicks off next Sunday with the 55th running of the Daytona 500. Practice and qualifying started last weekend and continue this week with a pair of 150-mile…
Master fabricator Phil Remington passed away over the weekend at his home in California. Remington was renowned as one of the finest fabricators the sport has ever seen. He worked…
Last week Paul Fearnley offered some warm reminiscences about the 1973 motor racing season. For my part, that year has an equally strong hold on my heart and mind because…
The New York media are renowned for their lack of interest, if not outright disdain for motor sport. NASCAR is covered sporadically at best by New York’s newspapers and a…
Mario Andretti was less lucky in the Daytona 24 Hours than he was at Sebring where he won three times in 1967, ‘70 and ’72. Andretti started eight long-distance races…
Brian Redman won the Daytona 24 Hours three times. He co-drove a John Wyer Gulf Porsche 917 in 1970 to win with Pedro Rodríguez and Leo Kinnunen, won for a…
In Motor Sport’s January issue Michael Green writes from California in the Letters column about Dan Gurney’s unhappy episode testing one of Tony Parravano’s Ferraris at Willow Springs in the…
The Grand-Am has made a wise choice in selecting Roger Bailey to be the new chief appellate officer of the American sports car series. Bailey replaces highly respected IMSA co-founder…
We reported a couple of months ago on the likelihood of Lola uniting with Multimatic in Canada and Carl Haas Auto in Chicago to revive the Lola brand. The deal…
I know NASCAR leaves many of you cold. You believe it’s a mere ‘show’, a subversion of motor sport’s true spirit. Show or motor race, it’s hard to dispute Tony…
In his understated way, Dario Franchitti scored one of the great achievements of the 2012 motor racing season when he won the Indianapolis 500 for the third time in the…
It was great to see the first United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin get off to a resounding start. Everyone seems to have enjoyed…
