Part one of three of an extract from Gordon Kirby's book Mario Andretti: A Driving Ambition, available here Click here to buy the above image As the 1976 season unfolded Lotus…

The weather at Road Atlanta for this year’s Petit Le Mans, the United SportsCar season finale, was abysmal. Days of persistent rain left the track and run-off areas totally waterlogged.…

Back in the 1960s Jim Hall’s Chaparral Can-Am cars captured many imaginations and revolutionised racing as Hall and his small Texas-based team dabbled in aerodynamics – without the use of…

Scott Dixon and Chip Ganassi’s team provided some great theatre for IndyCar by stealing this year’s championship from Juan Pablo Montoya and Team Penske at last weekend’s season-closing race at…

Justin Wilson was in a great mood this year after Michael Andretti took him on-board without any sponsorship as part of his multi-car IndyCar team. Justin started half a dozen…

Last week we took a close look inside Graham Rahal’s unexpected pursuit of this year’s IndyCar championship. This week we complete our peek at how Rahal/Letterman/Lanigan’s one-car team has been…

After five or six years in the wilderness, Graham Rahal has come on strong this summer and with only two races to go he’s suddenly threatening to steal the IndyCar…

He's one of the best-ever US racers, but add to that his years as a team owner and innovative car builder and it's clear that Dan Gurney has made a greater contribution to motor sport than any other American, writes Gordon Kirby

Roger Penske’s IndyCar team won last year’s IndyCar championship with Will Power and is again enjoying a strong season. Juan Pablo Montoya scored the team’s 16th Indy 500 victory in…

Graham Rahal scored a well-deserved first win with his father’s IndyCar team in last weekend’s California 500. The 26-year-old Rahal’s only other win came back in 2008 with Newman/Haas at…

After 15 of 36 races, NASCAR’s premier Sprint Cup series takes a rare break this weekend. The second half of NASCAR’s marathon season kicks off the following weekend on Northern…

Juan Pablo Montoya’s exciting drive through the field to victory at Indianapolis this year was a great boost for IndyCar and motor racing as a whole. As we all know,…