Photo Gallery from the 2018 Indianapolis 500 Legends Day demonstration laps, held on May 26, 2018. Subscribers, click here for...
The world of Formula One enjoyed a jolt of much needed excitement during the recent Spanish Grand Prix, when young...
Rick Mears will always be known as one of the few men ever to win the Indianapolis 500 four times, but despite an Indycar career of legendary proportions, the guy once called “Rocket Rick: The Fastest Man on Four Wheels” was no one-trick pony. As we know, he started out...
Michele Alboreto Photo: Maureen Magee Emerson Fittipaldi Photo: Keith Booker 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is scheduled to reopen to the public at 9 a.m. (ET) Tuesday, July 7, following...
The sport of automobile racing is arguably about 130-years old, assuming you subscribe to the notion that the first organized race, using gasoline-powered internal combustion engines, occurred in France in 1887. But looking back across this 130-year history, there are a number of significant events that stand out from the...
This year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, to be held July 6-8 in Chichester, England, will feature over 90 years of...
To have a successful career as a racer and then parlay that into a successful career as a team owner...
Five Team Penske Indianapolis 500-winning cars will form the core of the Silver Anniversary Amelia’s “Penske Indy Winners” class. 1972 McLaren M16B/Offenhauser – Mark Donohue’s record setter and Team Penske’s first of 18 “500” winners 1988 Penske PC-17/Chevrolet – Rick Mears’ Indy pole car and “500” winner 1994 Penske PC-23...
Mario Andretti, one of only two drivers to win both the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500, has been named...
Ken Tyrrell once said that, contrary to what had been written about him, he had no special talent for spotting...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
As a packed house assembled at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last Sunday morning, the hours leading up to the 100th...
When Tom Sneva took the checkered flag on a sun-drenched May afternoon, in 1983, to win the 67th Indianapolis 500...
Formula 1: All the Races, 1950-2015 By Roger Smith With the Formula One World Championship celebrating its 65th year and...
1964 Cooper–Maserati T61P By the time Roy Salvadori chased Bruce McLaren to the checkered flag at the Daily Express International Trophy meeting at Silverstone on May 2, 1964, sports car racing had already begun to change significantly. Roger Penske often gets the credit—or the blame—for what led to the real...
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Former Super Vee champion Herm Johnson has passed away at the age of 63. After winning the SCCA National Championship...
The Midwest Racing Preservation Association, formerly known as the Meadowdale International Raceway Preservation Association, will host its annual Winter Banquet at the Double Tree by Hilton in Arlington Heights, Illinois, on Saturday February 3, 2018. The event will honor three-time Indy 500 winner and 1980 U.S. National Champion Johnny Rutherford...
Al Unser Jr., David Hobbs, and Les Richter (l to r above) headline the 2009 class of inductees to the...
Jim Rathmann’s career in motor racing is marked not only by a hard-fought win in the 1960 Indy 500 but...
Joe Leonard who, like John Surtees, won major championships on two and four wheels, passed away last Thursday at the age of 84 following an extended illness. Leonard, a San Diego native who moved to San Jose, California, as a 16-year-old to chase his racing dream, established himself as one...
It’s 1911 and the first Indianapolis 500 is being won by a Marmon Wasp driven by Ray Harroun. It is...
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and 1980 Indycar National Champion Johnny Rutherford will be the guest of honor at the 10th...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum will honor 1969 Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti and his illustrious racing career with the exhibit, “Mario Andretti: ICON,” presented by Shell V-Power NiTRO+, opening to the public Wednesday, May 1. The exhibit is part of a comprehensive 50th anniversary celebration of Andretti’s dramatic victory at...
The late news—very late—that U.S. open-wheel racing’s long uncivil war has finally staggered to its hemorrhagic conclusion, fell with less...
Jackie Stewart Mario Andretti 1 Gates at Indianapolis Motor Speedway open for practice for the first Indy 500 (1911). 2...
One would expect that winning the Indy 500 and the USAC driving Championship two times, as well as notching up some 26 major race victories, would somewhat inflate a driver’s ego – not in the case of the affable Rodger Ward. In the first of a two-part interview, Ward sat...