NASCAR at Pocono
11/06/13
Highlights of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Party in the Poconos 400 at Pocono Raceway
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Tony Kanaan wins the Indianapolis 500
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After 12 years of trying Tony Kanaan finally put it all together to score a very popular win in Sunday’s …
Tom Sneva finally wins at Indy, 1983
24/05/13
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Ed Carpenter takes pole at Indy
20/05/13
Ed Carpenter is playing David versus the Goliaths of Penske and Andretti at Indianapolis this year. The 32-year old Carpenter …
The long career of Dick Trickle
17/05/13
1989 NASCAR Rookie of the Year Dick Trickle has died at the age of 71 from an apparent suicide. Racing …
Derrick Walker takes on a new challenge
13/05/13
You have to tip your hat to Derrick Walker and wish him the best of luck. The 68-year old Walker …
James Hinchcliffe wins again
07/05/13
A chaotic, crash-strewn IndyCar race in the streets of Sao Paulo on Sunday got its act together in the closing …
More on Formula 1 and Long Beach
29/04/13
My blog in this space two weeks ago – about the possibility of Bernie Ecclestone and some partners making a …
Takuma Sato wins at Long Beach
22/04/13
There was no catching Takuma Sato in the closing stages of this year’s Long Beach Grand Prix. The Japanese driver …
Will Bernie buy the Long Beach GP?
15/04/13
Next weekend in the heart of the Los Angeles basin I’ll have the pleasure of covering the 39th Long Beach …
Grand-Am: highlights from Barber
11/04/13
Next year, Grand-Am and the ALMS will combine under the banner of United SportsCar Racing, bringing together the two major …
Ryan Hunter-Reay wins in Alabama
08/04/13
IndyCar champion Ryan Hunter-Reay bounced back from a poor result in the season opener two weeks ago to score an …
Tony Bettenhausen and his sons
02/04/13
Tony Bettenhausen was one of America’s greatest racers who twice won the IndyCar championship under the AAA in 1951 and …
NASCAR to bring DTM to US in 2015
27/03/13
Can the DTM work in America? The idea has been bandied about for five years by the DTM and NASCAR’s …
Hinchcliffe takes maiden IndyCar win
25/03/13
James Hinchcliffe has been knocking on the door the past two years and scored an excellent first win in Sunday’s …
Nigel Mansell at Surfers Paradise
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For 10 or more years through the ’90s into the new century Australian race fans enjoyed a thriving CART IndyCar …
NASCAR title run takes shape
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It’s always said that NASCAR’s marathon season gets underway not at the traditional Daytona 500 season-opener, but at the year’s …
Bumping into Kenny Bräck
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I could hear my name being called, but it was tricky to pinpoint the source. There was plentiful ambient noise, …
Jimmie Johnson wins Daytona 500
25/02/13
Any thoughts that five-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson might be past his prime were dispelled at Daytona on Sunday as …
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Gordon Kirby started covering Indycar racing, the original Can-Am series, the American Formula 5000 series, the Daytona 500 and the long-distance sports car races at Daytona, Sebring and Watkins Glen in 1973 when he began his work as Autosport‘s American correspondent. Over the years he’s covered more than 650 Indy car races and 35 Daytona 500s. Looking back, he feels lucky and pleased that he was able to cover the final two years of the great Can-Am series and enjoy the rich variety of American racing (The US Scene), changeable as its been, over four decades and more.
