The Dean of American motor sport journalists, Chris Economaki, has passed away two weeks short of his 92nd birthday. Economaki was publisher and editor of the weekly newspaper National Speed…
Bridgestone/Firestone’s American racing boss Al Speyer has expressed his disappointment to Motor Sport about strong rumours that IndyCar will switch to another tyre supplier in 2015 rather than agreeing to…
After running out of fuel on the last lap at the Chicagoland Speedway the previous Sunday, Denny Hamlin predicted he would bounce back and win NASCAR’s next race at the…
Ryan Hunter-Reay drove a perfect race at the California Speedway on Saturday night to win this year’s IndyCar championship after Will Power threw away his chances for the third year…
There was a glimmer of hope and we all prayed that Alex Zanardi… might save his Formula 1 career. I was editing a sister magazine, now a rival, at the…
After Saturday night’s 400-lap race on the half-mile Richmond, Virginia oval the field of twelve drivers for this year’s NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup has been set. The Chase…
After months of rumours it’s finally happened. The American Le Mans Series and the Grand-Am Series have agreed to merge and run a single American sports car championship in 2014.…
Going into Sunday’s penultimate IndyCar race of the year in the streets of Baltimore it looked like Ryan Hunter-Reay’s championship chances were fading fast. The previous weekend at Sears Point…
Top drawer executive jets are essential tools for the world’s top racing team owners. In America, guys like Roger Penske and Chip Ganassi damn near live in their aircraft as…
Roger Penske’s team dominated IndyCar’s third-last race of the year at Sonoma in California on Sunday. Will Power and Ryan Briscoe swept the front row with championship leader Power starting…
There was racing aplenty across North America last weekend. MotoGP was in action at Indianapolis, NASCAR Sprint Cup ran at Michigan, the American Le Mans Series was at Elkhart Lake,…
Jerry Grant passed away last week. Grant, 77, was renowned as a nearly man who threw away the 1972 Indy 500 when he made a confused, unscheduled pitstop with a…
If any one man personifies historic and vintage racing these days it’s Brian Redman. Between 1968-’81 ‘Our Brian’ won seventeen World Championship sports car races driving for Porsche and Ferrari,…
One of the most powerful signs that NASCAR was going to expand into all corners of the United States and dominate America’s motor racing landscape came at Watkins Glen a…
It was no surprise that Dodge announced this week it is pulling out of NASCAR at the end of the season. In recent years Dodge has been reduced to being…
IndyCar’s championship battle got a little tighter at Mid-Ohio last weekend as Scott Dixon kept his title hopes alive by scoring an excellent win while Will Power retook the points…
