Ambrose celebrates breakthrough win
Marcos Ambrose joined an elite group when he won Monday’s rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen, becoming only the fourth foreign-born driver to succeed in the US series’…
The IndyCar Series has confirmed that it is delaying the introduction of its much-discussed aero kits for the new Dallara Indycar until 2013. The organisation made the decision after team…
Maybe it was the full moon. Maybe it was the fact that 13 years had passed since Indycars last raced at the one-mile New Hampshire Motor Speedway. But the Izod…
You have to tip your hat to Brad Keselowski. The 27-year-old from Michigan scored an impressive win in Sunday’s NASCAR race at the 2.5-mile Pocono tri-oval in Pennsylvania. Five days…
Sunday’s IndyCar race at Mid-Ohio was dominated by Chip Ganassi’s team, with Scott Dixon winning convincingly from championship leader Dario Franchitti. Dixon was the man to beat all weekend, scoring…
Paul Menard scored a memorable first NASCAR Sprint Cup victory in last Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Menard won the race by staying on track when most…
Last weekend’s Edmonton IZOD IndyCar race was exactly what Will Power needed following collisions in Toronto two weeks earlier with Dario Franchitti and Alex Tagliani. Power rebounded from that unhappy…
Last weekend NASCAR ran the first of two Sprint Cup weekends at my local track, New Hampshire Motor Speedway. NASCAR comes to New England in July and September each year,…
Dario Franchitti added to his IndyCar championship lead in Toronto as he scored his fourth win of the year, with team-mate Scott Dixon right there in second. This was Dario’s…
Among the many delights at this weekend’s 19th Goodwood Festival of Speed will be the sights and sounds of 33 Indycars running up the hill. Some of the cars will…
Dario Franchitti led most of the IndyCar Series race in Iowa on Saturday night, but a slow late pitstop dropped the Scot down the order and opened the door to…
At the historic Milwaukee Mile on Sunday, Dario Franchitti scored his third win of the year and the 29th of his career, moving him into a tie with Rick Mears…
This year’s 100th anniversary Indianapolis 500 turned into one of the most exciting races anyone has seen at the historic track. The outcome was impossible to predict through the closing…
Without doubt the most accomplished driver of modern times at Indianapolis was Rick Mears. Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s Mears was considered the maestro of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.…
Alex Tagliani has qualified on pole for Sunday’s 95th Indianapolis 500. The Canadian narrowly beat 2008 Indy winner Scott Dixon to the top slot, averaging 227.472mph. The 38-year-old has been…
The first triple winner of the Indianapolis 500 was Louis Meyer, who won the great race in 1928, ‘33 and ‘36. In fact, he started a dozen 500s between 1928-39.…
In April I wrote about Bill Vukovich and Parnelli Jones, two of the greatest Indy 500 winners in one hundred years of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This week I write…