In 1963, one day after winning the Indianapolis 500, driver Parnelli Jones punched fellow driver Eddie Sachs in a headline-making post-race confrontation. In August of this year, the cars driven by the two men in 1963 were back on track together during the Vintage...
The United States Auto Club’s (USAC) National Midget series endured a painful ten-day period following the tragic loss of Bryan Clauson, but when the cars and drivers got back on the track for the first time since the Kansas heartbreak, a thrilling and uplifting night...
The visit to the Bonneville Salt Flats for Speed Week was everything I imagined and more. Not only is the Bonneville Salt Flats one of the wildest places on earth, it is also impossible to fully describe. The place is a stunningly beautiful contrast of endless flat...
On Sunday, August 7, Bryan Clauson, an Indiana native and a grassroots dirt-track racer who made it to the Indy 500 and who in 2016 set a personal goal of competing in 200 races, succumbed to injuries suffered in a vicious crash during the running of the 39th annual...
Hello again! After discussing the many spectacular muscle cars that were out at this year’s Detroit Autorama, I believe it is now time to dive into the heart and soul of the show: hot rods. A long-standing tradition in the States, hot rodding was really...
Zora Arkus-Duntov was many things. The son of Russian Jews during the rise of communism, Arkus-Duntov was a fast-thinking, smart-talking, brash sort, who reveled in upstaging authority just past the point of acceptable. When he set his mind to a task, it was...
