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…
I enjoyed a couple of very pleasant days last weekend at Lime Rock in North-western Connecticut. Lime Rock is the only remaining serious road course in New England or the…
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.…
On Monday after the Canadian Grand Prix, our editor in chief Nigel Roebuck and I drove south from Montreal through the Adirondack Mountains to Albany. After dinner and an overnight…
After a nine-year run at Indianapolis, we are once again without a United States Grand Prix. As we all know, the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal this weekend will be…
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…