Dan Gurney died on January 14, 2018, at age 86, and the remembrances and accolades have been pouring in. As they should. Gurney’s name deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as those of A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti, widely considered to be the greatest American...
The Story of the Gilbert Cheetah [The following story was first published by the Classic Racing Times in the Fall of 2017.] George R. Bryant was a somewhat typical Indy Car owner of the 1960s, a successful businessman who, having made his fortune, turned to his...
Verizon IndyCar Series driver Marco Andretti turned laps in a TQ Midget in the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Saturday evening, in an informal test that gave him something in common with his famous grandfather: Mario Andretti won an indoor TQ Midget event...
Nick Arias Jr., a key figure in the Southern California car culture. He built his first hot rod in 1946, at age 17, and went on to spend a lifetime designing and building go-fast parts and the performance products companies that sold them. Carl Jensen, a longtime and...
I will confess to not following NASCAR Cup racing week-in and week-out. NASCAR’s season is a long one, most of the races are too similar to one another, the cars are too generic, and, well, don’t get me started on the overall dreadfulness of restrictor plate racing. ...
