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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Tracy sets the pace at Indianapolis
07/05/09
The opening rounds of qualifying for this year’s 93rd Indianapolis 500 take place this weekend, with the first 11 starting …
The conundrums of oval track racing
05/05/09
After Carl Edwards crashed into the fence at Talladega last month, with debris injuring seven spectators, the debate began about …
High drama at Talladega
27/04/09
The racing season is on full song these days and almost all the major American series were in action last …
Franchitti wins in Long Beach
20/04/09
Dario Franchitti is happy to be back running at the front of IndyCar racing after a year in the wilderness …
Gordon gets back that winning feeling
09/04/09
NASCAR takes a rare weekend off over Easter, its drivers and teams enjoying a short pause in the 36-race Sprint …
Johnson opens his account for ’09
30/03/09
Defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson scored his first win of the season on Sunday. Johnson came through to win the …
The Sprint Cup’s fast starters
09/03/09
Four of 36 NASCAR races down and the Sprint Cup is wide open. At this early stage four-time champion Jeff …
Justin Wilson gets a ride
23/02/09
After a year with Newman/Haas/Lanigan, Justin Wilson will drive for Dale Coyne’s longtime spear-carrying team in this year’s IRL Indy …
Kenseth wins Daytona 500
16/02/09
Matt Kenseth and Jack Roush’s Roush Fenway Ford team may have been the only happy people in Daytona on Sunday …
Setting the stage for the Daytona 500
13/02/09
Fifty-six cars started Thursday’s pair of 150-mile qualifying races for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup season-opening Daytona 500. The crowd at …
Montoya on why he’s in NASCAR
10/02/09
NASCAR kicked off its season at Daytona with the Budweiser Shoot-out non-points race on Saturday night which was won by …
Donohue beats Montoya at Daytona
26/01/09
The Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series couldn’t have asked for a more perfect start to the season at Daytona over …
Paul Tracy may be back in business
19/01/09
The past year has been very frustrating for Paul Tracy. After Jerry Forsythe decided last winter to pull his team …
Justin Wilson is looking for work
15/01/09
Plenty of drivers are on the market this winter looking for work in a cash-strapped environment. One of the most …
Power replaces Castroneves at Penske
14/01/09
Aussie Will Power has been selected by Roger Penske to replace Helio Castroneves in Team Penske’s two-car IRL team pending …
A NASCAR icon has been saved
09/01/09
Petty Enterprises, NASCAR’s oldest team, has been saved from extinction by merging with Gillett Evernham Motorsports. Petty and Gillett Evernham …
Can anyone beat Ganassi’s superteam?
06/01/09
The American racing season kicks off in just two weeks at Daytona with the Rolex 24-hour race and many of …
Jacques Villeneuve still hopes for a second career in NASCAR
15/12/08
Early this year Jacques Villeneuve tried to break into NASCAR with Bill Davis’s Toyota team. Jacques had a tough time …
Johnson stands shoulder to shoulder with Yarborough
17/11/08
Carl Edwards did all he could to try to steal this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup championship from Jimmie Johnson in …
Jimmie Johnson dominates in Arizona
10/11/08
Jimmie Johnson drove another superb race on Sunday, scoring his seventh win of the year and all but guaranteeing his …
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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.
