Parnelli Jones: a true hero from a deadly era of racing
Parnelli Jones • 1933-2024 This article was first published in the March 2010 issue of Motor Sport If anyone defines the American racing driver of the 1960s it’s Parnelli Jones.…
Through most of 1958, ‘Big Bill’ France worked flat-out to build his long-planned dream of a race track called the Daytona International Speedway. France spent more than five years trying…
On the grid just before the command was given for the drivers to start their engines for this year’s revived Pocono 500, veteran Penske mechanic Jon Bouslog said he was…
The parallels are obvious: Al Unser Jnr and Michael Andretti, sons of IndyCar legends and born within a year of each other, each take the CART title and a great…
The Verizon IndyCar series is in the midst of a frenetic sprint to an early close of its season at the end of August with eight race weekends over the…
Jim McGee is one of the most successful crew chiefs in the century-old history of Indycar racing. At Indianapolis last month I had the pleasure of joining him to launch…
There’s no greater contrast between the sublimely fast, ultra-smooth environs of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the brutally bumpy, stop-and-go confines of Detroit’s Belle Isle park circuit. Detroit is hard…
Ryan Hunter-Reay drove an excellent race on Sunday to score his first Indy 500 win. Hunter-Reay had a tough time in qualifying and started deep in the field down in…
For the second year in a row hometown favourite Ed Carpenter is on the pole at Indianapolis. Carpenter, 33, is Tony George’s adopted son and came up through midgets and…
IndyCar’s first race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course started badly with a multi-car shunt and turned into a murky fuel conservation run won by Simon Pagenaud. The Frenchman…
For many decades the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s ‘Gasoline Alley’ was packed with cars during the month of May but in recent years the Indianapolis 500 has struggled to fill the…
After making a rare mistake and causing a multi-car crash at Long Beach two weeks ago Ryan Hunter-Reay bounced back in style at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama on Sunday.…
“I can’t believe it. I can’t believe we’re actually here. It’s so cool to win a second time in Long Beach.” So said Mike Conway who came through to score…
Next weekend we’ll have the pleasure of enjoying the 40th Long Beach Grand Prix. Long Beach of course, is America’s most successful, longest-running street race and is the prototypical example…
Will Power was on the pole the last four years for IndyCar’s season-opening street race in St Petersburg and has established himself as the man to beat on the Floridian…
The best news for IndyCar in quite a few years came two weeks ago when Verizon announced it has signed a long-term agreement to sponsor the series. In recent years…
America’s oldest long-distance sports car race takes place next Saturday at the old Sebring airfield circuit in central Florida. The Sebring 12 Hours was run for the first time in…