WALTZ: Even The Best Racers Are Still Human
Something very rare happened Saturday — and we’re not talking about North Carolina beating Duke for the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season basketball championship.
Something very rare happened Saturday — and we’re not talking about North Carolina beating Duke for the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season basketball championship.
Family has long been a cornerstone of the auto-racing industry, especially on the track side where families such as the Deerys, the Agajanians and the Nuckles have set the standard for promotional excellence.
Each time we begin to think auto racing has been completely overrun by lawyers, corporate executives and integrated-marketing-communications specialists, we come across someone who is a true racer.
One simple sentence speaks volumes about how Performance Open Wheel Racing, Inc., the sanctioning body known to short-track race fans as POWRi, has rejuvenated midget racing in the St. Louis area.
On Monday evening following the Indianapolis 500, participants gather for the annual victory celebration where prize money and post-race awards are distributed.
HARRISBURG, N.C.
This definitely isn’t going to be your father’s Daytona 500. In fact, Saturday night’s Budweiser Shootout told us the 53rd running of the “Great American Race” will be unlike anything seen since drivers first navigated the high banks of Daytona Int’l Speedway in 1959.
A.J. Allmendinger’s journey to America’s top open-wheel racing series started while pedaling BMX bicycles at age 5.
With the dawn of a new racing season literally just days away, this is a unique week for the motorsports community as drivers, team owners and crew members across the country are overflowing with optimism.
HARRISBURG, N.C.
It has long been our belief that in order to understand where auto racing is headed, you have to know where it’s been. Holding true to that theory, the announcement of NASCAR’s new point system sent us to the history books and the old issues of this publication in an effort to learn about the various systems the sanctioning body has used to crown its champions.
After last week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series testing session at Daytona Int’l Speedway, we have a real concern that the 53rd running of the Daytona 500 will end up being racing’s most expensive demolition derby.