Flying start for Franchitti
After crashing during Saturday’s practice session, Dario Franchitti bounced back to drive a perfect race at St Petersburg on Sunday. The double IndyCar champion took the lead from pole winner…
When Dario Franchitti first went to the Indianapolis 500, he tried to approach it like any other motor race. But as he admits during his lunch interview with Simon Taylor…
After a rare week off, NASCAR was back to business last weekend with round four of the 36-race Sprint Cup championship on the half-mile Bristol bullring in the mountains of…
Well here we are, the March podcast! Dario Franchitti has not only won the IndyCar series three times and the Indianapolis 500 twice, but he is also a great podcast…
In a remarkable turnaround, Bridgestone/Firestone announced last Friday that the company’s Firestone brand will continue as the exclusive tyre supplier to the IZOD IndyCar Series until 2013. The announcement was…
It’s been rumoured for several months that Bridgestone will pull its Firestone brand out of the IZOD IndyCar Series at the end of this year, and the formal announcement came…
Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon was the man to beat at Phoenix on Sunday. Gordon’s Chevrolet led more laps than anyone else and, with eight to go, passed Kyle Busch’s…
The IZOD IndyCar Series has posted a US$5million (£3.1m) prize for any driver outside the championship who enters and wins its Las Vegas season-closer. The bonus money was announced on…
This year’s 53rd Daytona 500 was a messy, crashed-filled race with a record number of 16 yellow flags. As a result it was the second slowest 500 we’ve seen, but…
(Following a crash in Wednesday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice Dale Earnhardt Jr will now start from the back of the grid as he will have to use a different…
Jim Hall (below) is happy to hear that there’s so much interest in his Chaparral Can-Am and long-distance sport cars, as well as in the rapid rate of evolution motor…
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…
NASCAR has announced a new points system for its top three series, replacing the method used for the past 35 years. The new system awards 43 points to the winner…
The IRL is no more. As Randy Bernard promised last summer the Indy Racing League moniker has been euthanized and replaced with the name IndyCar. After becoming CEO of the…
In the spirit of the holiday season, I want to share my best hope for IndyCar racing in 2012 when it adopts its new 2.4-litre, twin-turbo V6 formula with adjustable…
As expected Gil de Ferran has hired Tony Kanaan to replace Raphael Matos as his lead driver at the de Ferran Dragon Racing IndyCar team. Kanaan lost his job with…