The state of IndyCar
It was good to watch a hard-fought IndyCar season-closer in California with Scott Dixon taking a very deserving third championship. Dixon has now won three IndyCar titles in 2003, ’08…
Scott Dixon took his third IndyCar championship after a furiously competitive, crash-filled 500-mile race on the high-banked California Speedway oval last Saturday night. The race was won by Will Power with…
There have been moments throughout racing history where drivers have been lauded for their courage in stepping out of the cockpit rather than their acts in it. Niki Lauda at…
When I wrote a few weeks ago about Mario Andretti and other drivers who achieved success across a wide variety of motor racing categories driving I neglected to properly credit…
Scott Dixon and Chip Ganassi’s team turned the table on Hélio Castroneves and Team Penske last weekend in a pair of races on a typically rough, bumpy IndyCar street circuit…
If there’s one thing most racing fans agree on about motor sport today is that it’s become too specialised, lacking the variety and versatility the sport once enjoyed. One of…
One of America’s most successful chief mechanics passed away last Friday. George Bignotti, 97, was a renowned IndyCar crew chief through the '60s, '70s and '80s. Bignotti’s cars won seven…
A few weeks ago a reader asked our editor-in-chief Nigel Roebuck if it was true that Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell didn’t like each other. The answer is, yes, it’s…
Everyone was caught by surprise with Roger Penske’s announcement on Monday that Juan Pablo Montoya will join his IndyCar team next year in a three-car attack with current drivers Hélio…
An ugly, crash-filled IndyCar race last Sunday on a crude, bumpy street circuit in downtown Baltimore was won by Frenchman Simon Pagenaud. It was Pagenaud’s second win of the year…
Scott Dixon looked like he was on his way to the fifth win in a row this year for Chip Ganassi’s IndyCar team last weekend at the Sonoma road course…
Last week I touched on some of the reasons why the 1960s was such a great decade for Formula 1 and motor racing in general. Your enthusiastic responses prompted me…
While early leaders Ryan Hunter-Reay, Will Power and Scott Dixon took conservative strategies, trying to save fuel so they could run the race with two rather than three pitstops, Charlie…
Scott Dixon dominated both street races in Toronto last weekend, scoring his second and third wins in a row. Dixon led a 1-2-3 sweep for Chip Ganassi’s team in the…
Scott Dixon led a Ganassi 1-2-3 sweep of Sunday’s Pocono 400, the first time in 24 years that Indycars have raced at the Pennsylvania tri-oval. After looking like non-contenders through…
For the first time in 24 years Indycars will race next Sunday at the 2.5 mile Pocono Speedway in the Pocono Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania. Pocono is a very fast,…
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