NASCAR Doubles Down at Pocono

When NASCAR announced its 2020 schedule for the Cup series, it shook things up more than it has since the formation of the “playoffs” (originally called the “chase”) in 2004, and perhaps more than it has since the “modern era” schedule was adopted in 1972. A great...

The Safari Effect

Colton Herta won the NTT Indycar Series’ race at the Circuit of the Americas on March 24, thereby putting himself in the record books not only for the victory, his first in an Indycar and the first Indycar race run at the splashy Texas facility, but also for becoming...

Honey, I Shrunk the Race Track

In 1903, the first automobile race was run on the one-mile dirt oval at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse, New York, and in 2015 the last such race was run.  The track, built originally in 1826 for horse racing, was razed following the 2015 event and the site...

A Big Name in Racing: “Little Al”

The 2019 campaign of the NTT Indycar Series kicks off on March 10 in St. Petersburg, Florida, and in advance of the racing season, we spoke with Al Unser, Jr., the two-time CART Indycar champion and two-time Indianapolis 500 winner. More than a decade after he retired...

Those We Lost 2018

Tatsuro Toyoda, the second son of Toyota Motor Corp.’s founder Kiichiro Toyoda and uncle of current President Akio Toyoda, and who served a relatively short tenure as president of the company in the 1990s.  Toyoda died on December 30, 2017.  His time at the head of...