Over the years, I’ve attended or covered races at something like 180 circuits across America and around the world. The two most recent additions to the ‘new to me’ list…
Bonneville SpeedWeek is in its 78th year. It possesses a spirit akin to the Isle of Man TT, its sprawling paddock emanating the same camaraderie and robustly mutual respect that…
As Formula 1 continues to grapple with the riddle of how much electrification and road car relevance translates to grand prix racing, American motor sport is faced with its own…
He never pulled up any trees in Formula 1 and, even during his subsequent IndyCar career, Marcus Ericsson has struggled to shake off the ‘pay-driver’ tag – despite his 2022…
The 2025 IndyCar championship was a snoozer, as Álex Palou clinched the title with several rounds remaining. The most compelling storyline in the closing weeks of the season was whether…
Not every round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship features the LMDh prototypes similar to those that star in the World Endurance constellation. This allows the names from other classes to…
Even in the heydays of Formula Atlantic with Gilles Villeneuve in the late 1970s and his son Jacques in the early ’90s, the American open-wheel ladder system never generated the…
Pondering on Kimi Antonelli’s precocious run of early Grand Prix successes this year highlights the Italian’s youth at the time of his first World Championship-qualifying Grand Prix victory at Shanghai,…
May 24, 2026 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, Indiana It was a photo finish in the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500 after a one-lap shootout at the close. Mick Schumacher’s…
Atlantic City Speedway in New Jersey proved ephemeral. Built using 4.5 million feet of timber, on the site of the dismantled Amatol munitions factory, it arrived with a bang in…
It’s never ideal when a racing series generates more attention from off-track legal activity than from its on-track product. But that’s the pattern NASCAR has fallen into recently. Soon after…
5. Will Power With apologies to Palou, Marcus Ericsson, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Alexander Rossi, we’ve plumped for Will Power for the final spot. The Australian veteran’s only win from his…
They like to say everything is bigger and better in Texas, but that hasn’t always been the case for auto racing. NASCAR was historically embedded in the American south-east, IndyCar…
In America, many fans view the Daytona 24 Hours as the event that heralds the start of the new racing season. And it is indeed a fine showcase, with a…
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So here it sits. McLaren M6A-1. Not McLaren’s first effort at building a sports car, nor even its first Can-Am car - that particular honour fell to the M1B -…
Jim Hall is tall for a racing driver — for that's what he was to begin with. He would be taller still but for a knock-kneed stance decreed by injuries…
