Forty years ago Penske Racing was getting ready to run its first full Formula 1 season. Roger Penske debuted his first F1 car, the PC1, at the end of 1974…

It’s a sad truth that in this day and age IndyCar is a deeply devalued commercial property. It struggles in NASCAR’s shadow at home in America and has vanished as a…

Back in the 1960s and ‘70s America’s auto racing writers used to select an annual ‘Driver of the Year’ from an amazingly rich array of stars which the sport enjoyed…

Many fans enjoy vivid memories of the original unlimited Can-Am series. The big sports-racers from that era are also very popular today in historic races around the world and it’s…

Everyone is familiar with the excellent record Roger Penske’s racing team has accumulated over almost 50 years. Since Roger founded his team in 1966 what is now known as Team…

Kevin Harvick took his first NASCAR Sprint Cup championship in style by scoring his fifth win of the year in the season finale at the Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday. Harvick…

There’s little doubt in most of our minds, is there not, that the ‘60s produced the greatest generation of racing drivers we’ve ever had the pleasure to see in action.…

Race fans in America hope Gene Haas’s Formula 1 team will prove a worthy competitor, but many people forget that another Haas F1 team operated for two seasons almost 30…

On Wednesday of this week the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan will present Dan Gurney with the Edison-Ford Medal in recognition of “his ingenuity and innovative achievements in racing…

Back in 1977 Patrick Tambay won the Can-Am championship with Carl Haas’s team, thus earning himself aFormula 1 ride with McLaren for the following year. Tambay drove for McLaren in 1978…

Thirty years ago, in the team’s second year in business, Mario Andretti won Newman/Haas Racing’s first of eight Indycar championships. Newman/Haas competed in Indycar racing for 29 years, establishing itself as second…

Main image: 1909 winner Harry Grant. Courtesy of vanderbiltcupraces.com – The Howard Kroplick Collection This week marks the 110th anniversary of the first Vanderbilt Cup race on Long Island, New York. Through the…