The humorist Jean Shepherd, best known for the movie A Christmas Story and who had a popular and long-running late-night radio show on WOR in New York City decades ago, once said, “Nostalgia is a disease.” I suffer from that disease. Let me explain. Each January, the...
Those We Lost In 2021 John Hogan, a UK-based advertising executive who played a key role in bringing multinational corporate tobacco sponsorship to the major racing series in the 1970s, principally in Formula One but also the CART Indy Car series. Hogan’s death at...
2020 was a tragic and complicated year worldwide, a year in which the overall automotive community did not escape the additional heartbreaking losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether their passing was due to COVID, natural causes or other reasons, here are those...
There is no question that the year 2020 will live in infamy because of the tragic COVID-19 global pandemic. Within the world of auto racing, the year will stand out also for being, um, strange. Most of the strangeness is the result of the pandemic, of course. In...
It’s mid-August as we write, and the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on most car-related events. So we’re looking back one year, to August, 2019, when Ray Evernham set a goal of reaching 200 miles per hour in a 1936 Chevrolet sedan. Of course, it was not...
