Ryan Briscoe boosted his hopes of beating Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon to this year’s IRL IndyCar Series title by scoring his third win of the year at the Chicagoland…
Dario Franchitti was the man to beat in Sunday’s IRL IndyCar Series race at north California’s Infineon Raceway. The Scot qualified on pole at the road course and led all…
Last Friday Gil de Ferran announced his plan to retire from driving at the end of this year. He then went out and won the following day’s American Le Mans…
Dario Franchitti qualified on pole and led most of Sunday’s Indycar race in downtown Toronto. Franchitti scored his third win of the year and the second of his career on…
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced on Tuesday that veteran IMS executives W Curtis Brighton and Jeffrey G Belskus have replaced Tony George running the Hulman-George companies and the Indianapolis Motor…
When Toyota arrived three years ago in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series it signalled the beginning of big changes for American stock car racing. Led by enfant terrible Kyle Busch and…
The first NASCAR ‘Strictly Stock’ race: unruly gathering for 1949 Charlotte meet
I was going to write a lament about the loss of Montréal’s Canadian GP and the absence of Formula 1 from North America for the first time in 50 years.…
Traditionally the Milwaukee Mile follows the week after the Indy 500. It’s quite a contrast from the big Speedway to the humble one-mile oval in suburban Milwaukee which is the…
Helio Castroneves scored a true storybook victory at Indianapolis on Sunday. The 34-year-old Brazilian led away from the final restart with just 18 laps to go and quickly built a…
What a weekend we have in store. The Indianapolis 500 and the Grand Prix of Monaco. I do like the month of May. So much is good about both Indy…
NASCAR’s most popular driver is having a tough year. When Dale Earnhardt Jr is introduced before the start of any NASCAR Sprint Cup race he enjoys more raucous cheers than…
Hélio Castroneves and team-mate Ryan Briscoe traded the top spot back and forth during the six hours of Pole Day qualifying at Indianapolis last Saturday. On a windy afternoon nobody…
The opening rounds of qualifying for this year’s 93rd Indianapolis 500 take place this weekend, with the first 11 starting positions determined on Saturday and the next 11 on Sunday.…
After Carl Edwards crashed into the fence at Talladega last month, with debris injuring seven spectators, the debate began about the state of safety on high-banked superspeedways. Edwards’ accident was…
The racing season is on full song these days and almost all the major American series were in action last weekend. At Talladega, the giant 2.66-mile superspeedway in Alabama, 25-year-old…
