Most halfway serious race fans know that the inaugural Long Beach Grand Prix – technically the US Grand Prix West – ushered in the age of modern street circuits in…

Phil Remington was the Paul Bunyan – the US superhuman lumberjack folk hero – of American motor sports. During a career that stretched from pre-war hotrods to the carbon-fibre DeltaWing,…

The biggest surprise in American motor sports this past year was the monster turnout for the US Grand Prix in Austin – 400,000 fans over the weekend, setting a Formula…

Álex Palou looked like a sitting duck. The IndyCar Series world had been shocked when Chip Ganassi Racing hired Palou after the little-known Spaniard’s nondescript rookie season in 2020. Yet…

“Dave Kaemmer is God!!!” Such was the overheated fanboy title of a thread that appeared more than a decade ago on Race Sim Central, a site that catered to the…

There was life after Le Mans for the GT Mk IV in the hands of the Agapiou brothers – but it was far from invincible The Mk IV was all…

Bob Riley is the greatest American racing car designer of the postwar era, full stop. His portfolio bulges with drawings for cars stretching from the Coyote that AJ Foyt drove…

When 18 dirt Champ Cars took the green flag at the California State Fairgrounds in Sacramento in 1970 and arced through the first turn in long, graceful power-slides, it marked…

The Bloodhound speed team has gone from bankruptcy to brilliance in record time with a successful testing programme that has put the entire project back on track. Just 12 months…

First, the facts: 40 years ago on 17 December, Barrett – a Hollywood stunt man with no motor sport experience – wriggled into the cramped cockpit of a long, slender…

Fans of the Porsche 917/30 lionise the car because it was so fast and capable that it effectively killed the Can-Am series. Haters villainise it for the same reason. The…

Racing cars normally progress by evolution. But Jim Hall took the 'blue sky' approach for his new car. Preston Lerner explains how composites and aero expertise created the Chaparral 2…