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If ever there was an example of the perfect tribute paid to a hero it was Vancouver's Champ Car round of 2000. Giant TV screens ran clips of the city's…
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The day I first met David Pearson, I was enquiring at his motel room door if he was available for an interview. He said sure, walking into the parking lot…
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In 1993, Michael Andretti and Nigel Mansell exchanged addresses: Michael, then near the peak of his career in CART, crossed the salt pond for Europe and a season of rumbling…
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Through most of 1958, ‘Big Bill’ France worked flat-out to build his long-planned dream of a race track called the Daytona International Speedway. France spent more than five years trying…
On the grid just before the command was given for the drivers to start their engines for this year’s revived Pocono 500, veteran Penske mechanic Jon Bouslog said he was…
The Verizon IndyCar series is in the midst of a frenetic sprint to an early close of its season at the end of August with eight race weekends over the…
Jim McGee is one of the most successful crew chiefs in the century-old history of Indycar racing. At Indianapolis last month I had the pleasure of joining him to launch…
There’s no greater contrast between the sublimely fast, ultra-smooth environs of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the brutally bumpy, stop-and-go confines of Detroit’s Belle Isle park circuit. Detroit is hard…
Ryan Hunter-Reay drove an excellent race on Sunday to score his first Indy 500 win. Hunter-Reay had a tough time in qualifying and started deep in the field down in…
For the second year in a row hometown favourite Ed Carpenter is on the pole at Indianapolis. Carpenter, 33, is Tony George’s adopted son and came up through midgets and…
IndyCar’s first race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course started badly with a multi-car shunt and turned into a murky fuel conservation run won by Simon Pagenaud. The Frenchman…
For many decades the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s ‘Gasoline Alley’ was packed with cars during the month of May but in recent years the Indianapolis 500 has struggled to fill the…
After making a rare mistake and causing a multi-car crash at Long Beach two weeks ago Ryan Hunter-Reay bounced back in style at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama on Sunday.…
“I can’t believe it. I can’t believe we’re actually here. It’s so cool to win a second time in Long Beach.” So said Mike Conway who came through to score…
Next weekend we’ll have the pleasure of enjoying the 40th Long Beach Grand Prix. Long Beach of course, is America’s most successful, longest-running street race and is the prototypical example…
Will Power was on the pole the last four years for IndyCar’s season-opening street race in St Petersburg and has established himself as the man to beat on the Floridian…
