They don’t make them like this any more. Not drivers, not races, not stories.
Continue ReadingThey don’t make them like this any more. Not drivers, not races, not stories.
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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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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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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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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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Have At It, Boys. NASCAR Gets What It Asked For. Payback’s a Bitch. (Choose your headline.)
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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.
Continue ReadingThe Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion enters a new dawn of historic racing by honoring one of the true legends of motorsports–
Continue ReadingToday, 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 [...]
Continue ReadingUnited 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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