Car show season is starting up for most of the country and even if it’s still snowy and cold in your home town, it’s never too early to start thinking about the best ways to make your car event bigger and better than ever before. In this latest installment of So You...
Despite significant automotive history in the area, and despite the existence of organizations such as the Madison Avenue Sports Cars Driving & Chowder Society, New York City is not a “car town” and hasn’t been one for a very long time. The roadways are lunar...
In our recent story about indoor auto racing in Syracuse, New York [Honey, I Shrunk the Race Track], we noted how few one-mile dirt tracks remain in operation, when decades ago such tracks were part of the same National Championship as the Indianapolis 500. This May,...
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...
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...
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...
