Johnson brings an end to winless streak
14/05/12
Jimmie Johnson came through to score Hendrick Motorsports’s 200th NASCAR Sprint Cup win last Saturday night at Darlington, South Carolina. …
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For the stragglers, Indy qualifying continues
16/05/08
This weekend should be quite a thrash at Indianapolis as everyone who failed last weekend to make the field for …
Indy qualifying starts amid sadness
09/05/08
The opening weekend of qualifying for this year’s 92nd Indianapolis 500 takes place this weekend. Favourites for the pole must …
An Indy return
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18/04/08
Given the recent merger of the IRL and Champ Car series, what are your hopes for the series? Will you …
“People are loving the fact that we’re all racing together again”
14/04/08
Last week, following Graham Rahal’s (above) inspired victory in his first IRL race in the streets of St Petersburg, team …
Indy car racing’s rebirth slowly begins
04/04/08
The first unified Indycar race of the 21st century took place last Saturday night before a modest crowd at the …
Some good news and some bad
28/03/08
It was sad to talk last week with each of Derrick Walker (above), Paul Tracy (below) and Carl Haas. All …
Busch and Toyota are NASCAR’s hottest combination
14/03/08
Kyle Busch (above) has threatened to win every NASCAR Sprint Cup race run this year and at the high-banked Atlanta …
‘The show’ rolls on
07/03/08
Three races into the world’s longest racing season and NASCAR’s soap opera already is at full cry. In his debut …
Tough choices
29/02/08
This week’s formal announcement of unification between IRL and Champ Car was badly needed, but everyone knows that the next …
Start your engines
27/02/08
What a weekend; annoyingly much of the racing at California Speedway for the NASCAR races was disrupted by the rain …
LA and NASCAR… the perfect weekend?
25/02/08
As this goes live on Monday February 25 I will be 30,000 feet above the Atlantic, returning from the NASCAR …
IRL and Champ Car merger is the first of many steps
22/02/08
As NASCAR’s Big Show moves from Daytona to southern California, news broke this week that IRL and Champ Car are …
At Daytona, it’s all about the show
15/02/08
NASCAR is where the show and entertainment is king and the sanctioning body is in complete control of the entire …
Who’s Franck Perera?
08/02/08
In Champ Car testing at Sebring last weekend, 23-year old Frenchman Franck Perera showed he will be a man to …
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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.
