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...
This Week in Motorhead History On March 12, 1921, Gianni Agnelli was born in Turin, Italy. He was named for his grandfather who, in 1899, founded Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino, the company we know today as FIAT. He was the son of a princess and an industrialist...
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...
When performance marques started seriously producing sports utility vehicles, there was a collective sense of wonder among enthusiasts. What was a four-door Porsche doing on the road, let alone a raised platform, high-cargo Porsche? Had Alfa Romeo gotten lost on their...
