Motor Sport's Weekly Debrief - October 27
Alonso enters 2018 endurance one-off, Nissan launches major programme, IndyCar and NASCAR teams announce line-ups and more in the Weekly Debrief Kvyat released by Toro Rosso Daniil Kvyat will not…
He's one of the best-ever US racers, but add to that his years as a team owner and innovative car builder and it's clear that Dan Gurney has made a greater contribution to motor sport than any other American, writes Gordon Kirby
Twenty six years ago, on May 28, 1972, a driver with a degree in mechanical engineering from Brown University won the Indianapolis 500. His name was Mark Donohue. It was…
By the end of 1973 Mark Donohue had achieved most of his goals in motor racing. Since 1967 he had worked for Roger Penske, the pair of them synonymous almost…
After leaving BRM at the end of the 1970 season, Jackie Oliver had joined Don Nichols’ Shadow racing organisation in the USA to race its Can-Am sports-racing cars. Jackie was…
Five wins in the last eight Rolex 24 Hour races at Daytona is a pretty impressive record. Chip Ganassi’s IndyCar team has established itself over the past 15 years as…
He may be largely unrecognised in his home country, but Justin Wilson is one of the UK’s finest racing drivers. At Daytona the weekend before last he showed his stuff…
“Racing’s comin’ at ya” proclaimed the headline on the front page of the Daytona Beach News-Journal as I made my jet-lagged journey to work last Friday morning. “Let’s go racin’”…
What a pleasure it was to watch Mike Shank’s team run a faultless race to win the Rolex 24 at Daytona. It was the first major win for Shank’s burgeoning…
As January arrives the torpor of the holiday season begins to fade and in the northern hemisphere we start to enjoy a welcome lengthening of the days. Already our thoughts…
Chip Ganassi’s Grand-Am team added to its already stunning record in the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona last weekend when its pair of BMW-powered Riley Daytona Prototypes finished one-two. Defending…
What a start to the year. The Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona kicked off the 2011 season in incredible style at the weekend. Chip Ganassi Racing’s ‘super team’ took the…
Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas became the first major American racing champions of the year when they scored their eighth win of the year in the Grand-Am race at le…
It was no surprise when the announcement was made last week that this year’s Atlantic Championship has been “put on hold”. Following the demise of Champ Car in the winter…
The first snow fell in New Hampshire on Saturday night. There wasn’t much, only three or four inches, not even a minor hindrance to us Granite Staters. It came a…
The Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series couldn’t have asked for a more perfect start to the season at Daytona over the weekend. A tremendous duel to the chequered flag between…
The American racing season kicks off in just two weeks at Daytona with the Rolex 24-hour race and many of the teams assembled this past weekend for a three-day test…