The Grand Tour – Jim Clark’s Lotus 25
Richard Hammond profiles perhaps the greatest professional race car driver of all-time, Jim Clark – and his Lotus 25 – on last week’s episode of “The Grand Tour” on Amazon Prime.
Richard Hammond profiles perhaps the greatest professional race car driver of all-time, Jim Clark – and his Lotus 25 – on last week’s episode of “The Grand Tour” on Amazon Prime.
Santa has come and gone and you know why that is – because Santa’s Got A Mean Machine, of course [courtesy of JD McPherson]. Happy Holidays!
The official trailer for “Born Racer” the story of IndyCar racing as seen through the eyes of four-time champion Scott Dixon that premieres on DVD and digital on October 2, 2018…
Scott Dixon entered the weekend with the IndyCar championship lead – and he exited with the IndyCar championship – his fifth overall title. Dixon successfully fended off challenges from former Formula One driver, Alexander Rossi, as well as IndyCar challengers Josef Newgarden [the defending champ], and Will Power, in the season finale at Sonoma. But […]
Canadian Robert Wickens was racing alongside the Ryan Hunter-Reay during the seventh lap of the IndyCar race at Pocono in Pennsylvania when their cars touched and the contact sent the front end of Wickens’ car into the catch-fencing where it caught the fencing and was spun in the air like a top before landing back […]
Two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso has announced that he will retire from Formula One racing at the conclusion of the current racing season. The 37-year-old Spaniard will end his F1 career with McLaren after making his debut at the Australian Grand Prix of 2001. “After 17 wonderful years in this amazing sport it’s […]
It would have to qualify as your worst nightmare – crashing the pace car at a major motorsport event – but fortunately for General Motors head of product development, Mark Reuss, the Detroit Grand Prix IndyCar race at Belle Isle is not exactly the Monaco Grand Prix or Indianapolis 500, so at least there is […]
Will Power survived the crashfest that was the 2018 Indianapolis 500 as a series of crashes eliminated a third of the field. Power was followed by Ed Carpenter, Scott Dixon and Alexander Rossi…
After spending 54 years on ABC, the iconic Indianapolis 500 will be moving to NBC in 2019. Currently, the television rights are split between ABC and NBC with ABC televising the Indianapolis 500 and a few other high profile races while the remainder of the schedule is shown on the NBCSN network – but that […]
Sebastian Bourdais took advantage of a late race collision between Alexander Rossi and Robert Wickens to claim the victory in the first IndyCar race of the 2018 season at St. Petersburg…
For their Super Bowl commercial promoting their 2018 Stinger, Kia enlisted Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler and former Formula One and Indianapolis 500 driver Emerson Fittipaldi. But Fittipaldi gets the easy part of just standing around while Tyler has to drive in reverse around a track to reclaim his 1970s youth, which, if the 2018 […]
Danica Patrick announced that she will not be a full-time NASCAR driver in the 2018 season – but will take one more shot at qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 before hanging up her driving uniform…
It’s that time of the year when the clocks move back an hour so you can see your doughnuts on the fake National Doughnut Day [the real one is on June 1, but everybody likes doughnuts, so two doughnut days are okay]…
Simon Pagenaud won the 2017 IndyCar race at Sonoma but it was Josef Newgarden who won the season title with his second place finish being enough points to win the season. Newgarden amassed 642 points to 629 for Pagenaud – with Scott Dixon coming in third with 621 points.
Former Formula One race car driver, Alexander Rossi, won the IndyCar road course race at Watkins Glen…
If you answered – none! – you are correct! It turns out that, of the eight Penske race car team drivers, none of them can accurately draw the state of North Carolina – and some of them cannot accurately draw anything that remotely resembles a U.S. state. Joey Logano drew what looks like Iowa and […]
Josef Newgarden held off Scott Dixon and Simon Pagenaud to win the IndyCar race in St. Louis…
Will Power came from a lap down to win IndyCar’s Pocono 500 while holding off Josef Newgarden and Alexander Rossi…
Josef Newgarden easily wins at the Mid-Ohio 200 with Graham Rahal and Will Power finishing out the podium…
Helio Castroneves won the Iowa Corn 300 Indycar race – his 30th Indycar win of his 20-year career – but his first win since 2014. Castroneves led 217 of the 300 laps and easily fended off the challenge of runner-up JR Hildebrand – finishing nearly four seconds in front of Hildebrand. Ryan Hunter-Reay finished out […]