Jim Smith: Clark's Indy mechanic, part 2
Read part one of the interview here New South Walian engineer/mechanic Jim Smith had been with Team Lotus for less than a year when he was suddenly allocated to…
Juan Pablo Montoya drove a superb race on Sunday to score his second Indy 500 victory and his first with Roger Penske’s all-powerful team. Montoya thus wrote himself into the…
The month of May has arrived which means it’s Indy 500 time. Practice gets underway this week with qualifying next weekend. IndyCar has run five races so far, all on…
Jim Smith had had a sheltered 1940s-50s upbringing on the remote New South Wales dairy farm run by his Methodist parents. He seldom went anywhere else other than to the…
Main image: IMS Roger Penske’s four Dallara-Chevrolets – driven by three-time Indy 500 winner Hélio Castroneves, 2000 winner Juan Pablo Montoya, defending IndyCar champion Will Power and team newcomer Simon…
After three races Penske drivers Juan Pablo Montoya and Hélio Castroneves are separated by three points at the top of IndyCar’s standings. Long Beach winner Scott Dixon is fourth behind…
On a charge World Endurance Championship The WEC got off to a great start at Silverstone, with Audi taking a close win over Porsche. Audi’s 2014 season got off to…
IndyCar kicks off its new season in the streets of St Petersburg, Florida this weekend. Sunday in St Pete will witness the first race for Chevrolet and Honda’s aero kits…
My question about the 2015 racing season is: will it witness the resurgence of the big, powerful super teams of the past? I’m talking about Penske in America in NASCAR and IndyCar…
Hendrick Motorsports’ fleet of Chevrolets looked darn near unbeatable at Daytona last week but Joey Logano drove a superb race in one of Roger Penske’s two Fords battling hard all…
It’s become part of NASCAR legend that the fist fight between Cale Yarborough and the Allison brothers, Donnie and Bobby, after Cale and Donnie tangled in Turn 3 on the…
Jeff Gordon started racing in his native California when he was just a kid and moved east to Indiana with his father when he was a teenager to race midget…
From an Allan McNish $10 bet to Formula E, via testing F1 cars for McLaren and Jaguar – there wasn't much we didn't cover during the hour with three-time Indy…
I’ve been reading everything motor sport-related over the last couple of months – lots of interesting stuff – but some recent news has had me virtually crying with laughter. What…
As scalps go, they don’t come much bigger than AJ Foyt. He’s been on our ‘Lunch with’ target list for years, but getting to the legendary Texan all-rounder – the…
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…