This has been a very tough year for Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing. After winning four consecutive Champ Car titles with Sébastien Bourdais, America’s second most successful open-wheel team has struggled this season,…
Carl Edwards has emerged as the strongest challenger to Kyle Busch for this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup championship. The 29-year old Edwards scored his fifth win of the year at…
NASCAR ran it’s twenty-third consecutive Cup race at Watkins Glen last weekend, drawing the usual huge crowd. Championship leader Kyle Busch emphasised his ability to win on any kind of…
It’s taken NASCAR only twelve months to take centre stage in Canadian motor sport. NASCAR entered the Canadian market last year, debuting a mid-summer, second-division Nationwide Series race at le…
Jacques Villeneuve will try to kick-start his stalled attempt at breaking into NASCAR this weekend. The former F1 world champion, CART champion and Indy 500 winner hasn’t raced in NASCAR…
Against his will, Paul Tracy is sitting on the sidelines this year, a victim of the fall-out from the reunification of Champ Car and IRL. When reunification finally came late…
I’m off to Watkins Glen this weekend for an IndyCar race and because I haven’t been there in sixteen years I’m very much looking forward to it. Back in the…
Retired Ford Racing and Jaguar executive Neil Ressler (above) convenes an industry round table next week to discuss the motor manufacturers’ interest in the IRL’s new IndyCar formula for 2011.…
In Indianapolis last week Tony George (above) and the IRL announced they are convening an industry roundtable to determine the new IndyCar formula for 2011. The roundtable will be headed…
The 92nd running of the Indy 500 takes place on Sunday with Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon favoured to score Chip Ganassi’s first win at the ‘Brickyard’ since Juan Montoya…
This weekend should be quite a thrash at Indianapolis as everyone who failed last weekend to make the field for this year’s 92nd Indy 500 tries to take one of…
The opening weekend of qualifying for this year’s 92nd Indianapolis 500 takes place this weekend. Favourites for the pole must be Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon who have been the…
Parnelli Jones is one of the living legends of American racing, up there in the pantheon with Mario Andretti, AJ Foyt and Dan Gurney. Jones dominated three of the seven…
The inaugural Formula 5000 race in 1975 at Long Beach. I’ve enjoyed the pleasure of covering all thirty-four Long Beach Grands Prix, from the inaugural Formula 5000 race back in…
Last week, following Graham Rahal’s (above) inspired victory in his first IRL race in the streets of St Petersburg, team owner Carl Haas (below) was in the best spirits he's…
The first unified Indycar race of the 21st century took place last Saturday night before a modest crowd at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. There were many good things to see, including…
