The conundrums of oval track racing
After Carl Edwards crashed into the fence at Talladega last month, with debris injuring seven spectators, the debate began about the state of safety on high-banked superspeedways. Edwards’ accident was…
The racing season is on full song these days and almost all the major American series were in action last weekend. At Talladega, the giant 2.66-mile superspeedway in Alabama, 25-year-old…
Dario Franchitti is happy to be back running at the front of IndyCar racing after a year in the wilderness in NASCAR. The Scotsman confirmed that he’s going to be…
NASCAR takes a rare weekend off over Easter, its drivers and teams enjoying a short pause in the 36-race Sprint Cup championship. After seven rounds, four-time champion Jeff Gordon leads…
Defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson scored his first win of the season on Sunday. Johnson came through to win the sixth Sprint Cup race of this year, run on the…
Four of 36 NASCAR races down and the Sprint Cup is wide open. At this early stage four-time champion Jeff Gordon leads the series from Clint Bowyer and last weekend’s…
After a year with Newman/Haas/Lanigan, Justin Wilson will drive for Dale Coyne’s longtime spear-carrying team in this year’s IRL Indy car series. Lack of sponsorship meant Wilson lost his ride…
Matt Kenseth and Jack Roush’s Roush Fenway Ford team may have been the only happy people in Daytona on Sunday night. Kenseth scored both his and Roush’s first Daytona 500…
Fifty-six cars started Thursday’s pair of 150-mile qualifying races for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup season-opening Daytona 500. The crowd at Daytona this week is down substantially this year and many…
NASCAR kicked off its season at Daytona with the Budweiser Shoot-out non-points race on Saturday night which was won by Kevin Harvick and pole qualifying on Sunday for next weekend’s…
The Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series couldn’t have asked for a more perfect start to the season at Daytona over the weekend. A tremendous duel to the chequered flag between…
The past year has been very frustrating for Paul Tracy. After Jerry Forsythe decided last winter to pull his team out of the reunified IndyCar series Tracy raced only a…
Plenty of drivers are on the market this winter looking for work in a cash-strapped environment. One of the most notable is 30-year old Brit Justin Wilson who has proved…
Aussie Will Power has been selected by Roger Penske to replace Helio Castroneves in Team Penske’s two-car IRL team pending the outcome of Castroneves legal battle with the Internal Revenue…
Petty Enterprises, NASCAR’s oldest team, has been saved from extinction by merging with Gillett Evernham Motorsports. Petty and Gillett Evernham have been trying to make a deal for the best…
The American racing season kicks off in just two weeks at Daytona with the Rolex 24-hour race and many of the teams assembled this past weekend for a three-day test…
Early this year Jacques Villeneuve tried to break into NASCAR with Bill Davis’s Toyota team. Jacques had a tough time and was left on the sidelines after just half a…