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…
Ninety years ago, Tommy Milton and Jimmy Murphy were the men to beat in what was then known as AAA championship racing. Blind in one eye from birth, Milton won…
Mike Conway truly arrived in IndyCar racing last Sunday by scoring a convincing win for Andretti Autosport in the Long Beach Grand Prix. The former British F3 champion and Macau…
Will Power scored a dominant win in Sunday’s IndyCar road race at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama. The Penske driver led from start to finish after qualifying on pole, beating…
Now that the May issue of Motor Sport is out, celebrating the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 100th anniversary, I thought I’d take the chance to write about some of the Indy…
After crashing during Saturday’s practice session, Dario Franchitti bounced back to drive a perfect race at St Petersburg on Sunday. The double IndyCar champion took the lead from pole winner…
After a rare week off, NASCAR was back to business last weekend with round four of the 36-race Sprint Cup championship on the half-mile Bristol bullring in the mountains of…
In a remarkable turnaround, Bridgestone/Firestone announced last Friday that the company’s Firestone brand will continue as the exclusive tyre supplier to the IZOD IndyCar Series until 2013. The announcement was…
It’s been rumoured for several months that Bridgestone will pull its Firestone brand out of the IZOD IndyCar Series at the end of this year, and the formal announcement came…
Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon was the man to beat at Phoenix on Sunday. Gordon’s Chevrolet led more laps than anyone else and, with eight to go, passed Kyle Busch’s…
The IZOD IndyCar Series has posted a US$5million (£3.1m) prize for any driver outside the championship who enters and wins its Las Vegas season-closer. The bonus money was announced on…
This year’s 53rd Daytona 500 was a messy, crashed-filled race with a record number of 16 yellow flags. As a result it was the second slowest 500 we’ve seen, but…