Anne Proffit traces her love of racing - in particular drag racing - to her childhood days in Philadelphia, where Atco Dragway, Englishtown and Maple Grove Raceway were destinations just made for her. As a diversion, she was the first editor of IMSA’s Arrow newsletter, and now writes about and photographs sports cars, Indy cars, Formula 1, MotoGP, NASCAR, Formula Drift, Red Bull Global Rallycross - in addition to her first love of NHRA drag racing. A specialty is a particular admiration for the people that build and tune drag racing engines.
On Sunday morning before the 85-lap INDYCAR race, a number of celebrities had the chance to ride with Andretti around the Long Beach 1.968-mile, 11-corner street circuit. The final ride went to an older gent named Terry “Piggy” Malone.
Andretti Autosport partner Crown Royal brought their “Live Generously and Life Will Treat You Royally” campaign to Indianapolis Motor Speedway, enabling fans to submit names of their military heroes for display on the Crown Royal Wall of Gratitude.
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports (SPM) has changed a lot over the past few years. While they’ve kept their No. 1 driver, Canadian James Hinchcliffe, as the linchpin of the squad, internally the changes have been extremely interesting.
Speedway Motorsports’ zMax Dragway was first to jump on the Four-Wide bandwagon. One of the company’s western outposts, The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, held its first such contest and it was a rousing success.
Although he didn’t race the final events of 2017, Pro Stock standout and former Auto Club Rod to the Future winner Vincent Nobile earned the tenth spot in NHRA’s Countdown to the Championship.