Props to NASCAR for not merely thinking outside the box but for also shredding the box into tiny pieces and then incinerating what’s left. Last year, in an effort to…
It's the first major circuit racing event on the calendar but it's often overlooked. Chris Medland details why you shouldn't skip the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona any longer
Two years ago, Taylor Hagler realised suddenly – and sickeningly – that she’d reached the big time as she listened to the “Star Spangled Banner” blasting over the loudspeakers before…
Canadian Robert Wickens, who was paralysed from the chest down in a ghastly IndyCar wreck three years ago, will return to professional racing later this month at Daytona International Speedway…
What started out as a filler event in the winter has turned into a showcase of dirt racing not to be missed
The cut-and-thrust of American racing means that late safety cars are a common feature. So NASCAR and IndyCar have developed ways of ensuring that races rarely end with a procession to the finish line
Porsche’s only American works driver is calling time on his racing career with the manufacturer
The biggest surprise in American motor sports this past year was the monster turnout for the US Grand Prix in Austin – 400,000 fans over the weekend, setting a Formula…
A 'hot' Porsche 935 K3 was supposed to be taken for a leisurely drive at Laguna Seca – little did the driver know, it was only once he was out the car that he was taken for a ride
Young Manhattanite Max Esterson was a complete unknown until he recently dominated the Formula Ford Walter Hayes Trophy – via sim racing, online schooling and the UK junior single-seater ladder
Bob Bondurant, the founder of the eponymous racing school which taught the likes of Tom Cruise, Paul Newman and Christian Bale, has passed away
Set up by Carroll Shelby, run by car designer Peter Brock, with teaching tips from Ken Miles, Preston Lerner tells the tale of the US's very first high-performance driving school
Bernie Ecclestone offered Al Unser Jr a Brabham Formula 1 drive in 1986, according to A Checkered Past. Little Al had just missed out on a first IndyCar title –…
Shortly after the death of his father, Rick Jackson was sifting through some old photographs when he came across a few that dad Len – who had raced in the…
Not too many motor sport autobiographies begin with the protagonist pointing a gun at his own head with the genuine intention of pulling the trigger. Nothing about A Checkered Past…
British fans of American football may have noticed stories last week about Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden, who was forced to resign in disgrace after the publication of emails…
