Between November 29 and January 3, we’ll be reviewing the 2012 motor sport season month by month. Along with these features, Ed Foster will be assessing each Formula 1 team’s…
Between November 29 and January 3, we’ll be reviewing the 2012 motor sport season month by month. Along with these features, Ed Foster will be assessing each Formula 1 team’s…
In his understated way, Dario Franchitti scored one of the great achievements of the 2012 motor racing season when he won the Indianapolis 500 for the third time in the…
Brad Keselowski won his and Roger Penske’s first NASCAR Sprint Cup championship at the Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday. Keselowski wrapped up the championship by finishing a conservative 15th after title…
Brad Keselowski put himself in the catbird seat to take his first NASCAR Sprint Cup championship by finishing sixth at Phoenix on Sunday. Keselowski qualified 14th at Phoenix with championship…
Twenty-five years ago I wrote a book with Emerson Fittipaldi called The Art of Motor Racing. It was a how to go racing book featuring Emerson’s discussion about the techniques…
NASCAR’s championship battle has focused itself in recent races on a straight duel between five-time champion Jimmie Johnson and Roger Penske’s exciting new talent Brad Keselowski. In the third-last race…
Let’s get right to the point. Over the last third of a century America’s influence has vanished from international motor racing. Mario Andretti scored the last Grand Prix win by…
A pathetically sad story continues. On Sunday evening Randy Bernard was sacked from his job as the CEO of IndyCar. Bernard was thrown into this lion’s den of a job…
As part of this month’s world exclusive Adrian Newey special, Gordon Kirby traces his roots in America. This early stage of Newey’s career is relatively overlooked in light of his…
Some changes are coming to racing on TV in the United States. Most significantly, NASCAR has completed the first step in re-negotiating its multi-billion dollar, eight-year TV contracts with Fox,…
I had to chuckle when I read Paul Fearnley’s blog last week about Romain Grosjean and the need for bad guys - black characters - in motor racing. Paul’s examples…
The high-banked Talladega Superspeedway is renowned as the ‘Wild Card’ in NASCAR’s championship battle. For the past twenty-five years Talladega and Daytona have been constrained by the dreaded ‘restrictor plates’…
Chip Ganassi’s Grand-Am team won its third straight Daytona Prototype championship last weekend at Lime Rock, the series season-closer. It was the sixth Grand-Am title for Ganassi and the fifth…
Indianapolis Motor Speedway president and CEO Jeff Belskus has denied reports that former IMS and IndyCar boss Tony George is leading an investor group bidding to take over management of…
The Dean of American motor sport journalists, Chris Economaki, has passed away two weeks short of his 92nd birthday. Economaki was publisher and editor of the weekly newspaper National Speed…
