Dan Gurney, America’s greatest racing man
One thing that was certain about American automobile racing in the 20th century was that Mario Andretti was rated by many as the USA’s greatest race car driver of all-time.…
Roger Penske’s IndyCar team won last year’s IndyCar championship with Will Power and is again enjoying a strong season. Juan Pablo Montoya scored the team’s 16th Indy 500 victory in…
Graham Rahal scored a well-deserved first win with his father’s IndyCar team in last weekend’s California 500. The 26-year-old Rahal’s only other win came back in 2008 with Newman/Haas at…
Sad to say, there’s just no interest in the IndyCar series anymore. You can’t argue how good the 500-mile race was at the California Speedway last weekend; there were 80…
After 15 of 36 races, NASCAR’s premier Sprint Cup series takes a rare break this weekend. The second half of NASCAR’s marathon season kicks off the following weekend on Northern…
Juan Pablo Montoya’s exciting drive through the field to victory at Indianapolis this year was a great boost for IndyCar and motor racing as a whole. As we all know,…
Read part one of the interview here New South Walian engineer/mechanic Jim Smith had been with Team Lotus for less than a year when he was suddenly allocated to…
Juan Pablo Montoya drove a superb race on Sunday to score his second Indy 500 victory and his first with Roger Penske’s all-powerful team. Montoya thus wrote himself into the…
The month of May has arrived which means it’s Indy 500 time. Practice gets underway this week with qualifying next weekend. IndyCar has run five races so far, all on…
Jim Smith had had a sheltered 1940s-50s upbringing on the remote New South Wales dairy farm run by his Methodist parents. He seldom went anywhere else other than to the…
Main image: IMS Roger Penske’s four Dallara-Chevrolets – driven by three-time Indy 500 winner Hélio Castroneves, 2000 winner Juan Pablo Montoya, defending IndyCar champion Will Power and team newcomer Simon…
After three races Penske drivers Juan Pablo Montoya and Hélio Castroneves are separated by three points at the top of IndyCar’s standings. Long Beach winner Scott Dixon is fourth behind…
On a charge World Endurance Championship The WEC got off to a great start at Silverstone, with Audi taking a close win over Porsche. Audi’s 2014 season got off to…
IndyCar kicks off its new season in the streets of St Petersburg, Florida this weekend. Sunday in St Pete will witness the first race for Chevrolet and Honda’s aero kits…
My question about the 2015 racing season is: will it witness the resurgence of the big, powerful super teams of the past? I’m talking about Penske in America in NASCAR and IndyCar…
Hendrick Motorsports’ fleet of Chevrolets looked darn near unbeatable at Daytona last week but Joey Logano drove a superb race in one of Roger Penske’s two Fords battling hard all…
It’s become part of NASCAR legend that the fist fight between Cale Yarborough and the Allison brothers, Donnie and Bobby, after Cale and Donnie tangled in Turn 3 on the…