With nearly 60 entries and 18 manufacturers entered Saturday’s 12 Hours of Sebring is shaping up to be a beauty of a race, but someone explain to us why these cars, teams and drivers need so much practice. Practice, disguised as “testing,” began Monday and runs daily through Saturday’s race
Lynyrd Skynyrd is playing a pre-race concert prior to the Labor Day weekend Sept. 4 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. We’ve long wondered why the Southern Rock legends aren’t on the bill for every NASCAR weekend? It’s a match made in heaven
Having made more than a few visits to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course during our childhood and young adult years, we were slightly saddened by the news Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course was sold by the Trueman family to Green Savoree Racing earlier this week.
We miss the Copper Classic at Phoenix Int’l Raceway. While we know the fourth Copper on Dirt was last weekend, there was still something about the four-division open-wheel event on the one-mile oval in the desert. But for those who just like Phoenix, four NASCAR stock car divisions will be on track at PIR this weekend
Hendrick Motorsports may have pulled off the coup of the next 20 years when it signed 15-year-old driver Chase Elliott, the son of Bill Elliott, to a contract. Elliott may be the closest thing to a “can’t miss driver” auto racing has seen since Jeff Gordon 20 years ago.
NASCAR has already tweaked the plate size after last month’s test, and has now cut the intake openings to eliminate the two-car trains that we saw Saturday night
Thanks to the late Crocky Wright, a great friend of open-wheel racing, the 64th annual Night Before the 500 midget race at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis is scheduled to pay a whopping $20,000 to the winner
The voices I heard growing up, in order of importance, were my parents, my grandparents and Tom Carnegie. Having been at the Speedway before the gates opened on many a spring Hoosier day, I heard, “Good morning, race fans!” booming out of the millions of speakers. To me, it was sweet music, even if I could barely keep my eyes open
NASCAR historians know Wendell Scott well. A pioneer in every sense of the word, Scott was never the sort to look away from a challenge. Perhaps that is why NASCAR, a strictly white sport during the 1960s, seemed like such an intriguing idea for this African American man from Danville, Va.
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