US Car News

Undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr's new NASCAR team will attempt to qualify for this year's Daytona 500

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…

Two-time Indy 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya will get behind the wheel of a McLaren IndyCar for his seventh start in the American classic

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

Dario Franchitti MBE (for services to motor racing) is an American idol whose heart remains firmly in his native Scotland where he is a patron of the Jim Clark Museum…

Romain Grosjean is a happy man. He’s alive for a start. A year on from that terrifying crash in Bahrain – if the barrier-splitting impact didn’t kill him, the inferno…

Former Chaparral mechanic Hywel Absalom recalls to Paul Fearnley his friendship with Unser and how he could have challenged the best in F1

Al Unser Jr, one of only four people to win the Indy 500 four times and member of the Unser dynasty, has died aged 82

McLaren has committed to its IndyCar return and taken a controlling stake in the team

February 18, 1979. Notionally the focus should have been on Richard Petty as he extended his Daytona 500 victory tally to six in the first full NASCAR race broadcast live…

A phone call from Frank Williams cracked the F1 door open but the test wasn't what Al Unser Jr had hoped it would be

It might have taken him 13 years, but Jacques Villeneuve is a race-winner again, after taking two victories in two days at the weekend

Tempers flared at Martinsville after the final cut-off race for the 2021 season was won by Alex Bowman

Nico Hülkenberg is contemplating life across the pond after undergoing a McLaren IndyCar test, but the authentic driving experience of Barber was a stark reminder of US open-wheel racing's contrast with F1

With F1 race seats a rarity, Callum Ilott has turned to IndyCar and the minnow Juncos team to keep chasing his racing dream – the unlikely pairing is not to be underestimated

Ten years after his tragic passing, Dario Franchitti and Bryan Herta remember what made Dan Wheldon such a formidable force on the ovals

Memo Gidley’s racing life has played out in three acts. In Act I, he was the young IndyCar supersub, filling seats vacated by injured or fired drivers and nearly scoring…