The Dawn of the Big Time

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The Dawn of the Big Time

2 Comments 15 March 2010

They don’t make them like this any more. Not drivers, not races, not stories.

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Sarah Fisher Racing Picks up Graham Rahal

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Sarah Fisher Racing Picks up Graham Rahal

No Comments 11 March 2010

It took a woman to show the IndyCar Series (formerly IRL) how to do business. For months now, 21-year-old Graham Rahal, widely considered the brightest young open-wheeled American driver in racing, has been unable to get an Indy car ride. He’s watched slow foreigners get seats in competitive cars, because they’ve had the financial backing. [...]

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Sir Stirling Moss Injured in Fall

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Sir Stirling Moss Injured in Fall

No Comments 11 March 2010

I was 10 years old. My father took me to Sebring. We drove more than a thousand miles from Pennsylvania in his silver AC Bristol. Stirling Moss was my hero. He was racing an Aston-Martin DBR1 in the 12-Hour. There he was, across the room at breakfast on our first morning there. I desperately wanted [...]

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Stirling Moss Returns to Racing, 1985

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Stirling Moss Returns to Racing, 1985

No Comments 11 March 2010

The team’s leader and car owner was a burly, drawling, red-bearded fellow who would fit better in a stock car than a sports car. The No. 2 driver was a ribald Scot named Ireland, an erstwhile Grand Prix driver and lobster fisherman. And the main attraction was a living legend, Stirling Moss, one of the [...]

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All Danica All The Time

14 Comments 08 March 2010

You won’t find many old car guys like us who can say: We were there in 1957, at Watkins Glen,when the Danica Patrick of her day, the great Denise McCluggage, was out there mixing it up with the best of the male drivers. It was a time when a thing like Danicamania was unimaginable

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AutoSnark Opinion: Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta

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AutoSnark Opinion: Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta

3 Comments 08 March 2010

Have At It, Boys. NASCAR Gets What It Asked For. Payback’s a Bitch. (Choose your headline.)

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The Return of the Bandit

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The Return of the Bandit

4 Comments 01 March 2010

The rich and rollicking tale of the historic Oldsmobile Bandit, made famous by the book “Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots,” is a long one and growing.

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Dan Gurney- The cars he built, the cars he drove

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Dan Gurney- The cars he built, the cars he drove

No Comments 18 February 2010

The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion enters a new dawn of historic racing by honoring one of the true legends of motorsports–

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Mercedes GP Petronas launch 2010 car

No Comments 25 January 2010

Today, the new Silver Arrows Formula One works team MERCEDES GP PETRONAS was presented at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. Nico Rosberg and seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher along with team management Ross Brawn, Nick Fry and Norbert Haug were introduced to guests with a presentation and press conference. Over 600 guests, including 200 [...]

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NEW YORKSHIRE-BASED “CUSTOMER” AUDI TEAM BIDS FOR EURO TITLE

No Comments 22 January 2010

United Autosports becomes first British team to run spectacular Audi R8 LMS sportscar. Richard Dean managed Leeds-based outfit enters a brace of R8 LMS sportscars in European-based FIA GT3 Championship. A newly-formed motor racing team based in Yorkshire will race a pair of Audi R8 sportscars aiming to successfully defend the FIA GT3 European Championship [...]

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