Joining the elite world of the FIA’s Formula One World Championship requires, first of all, wheelbarrows filled with money, investors who realize a lot of that money will never be seen again, a willingness to work with people who really don’t want to work with you at all and, yes, passion for motorsports in general and F1 in particular.
The 36th annual Fabulous Fords Forever took place on April 24th, filling the huge parking lot of Irwindale Speedway and Event Center with all number of Ford, Mercury, Lincoln, deTomaso, Shelby, Saleen and other Ford-powered products, whose owners arrived early and stayed late to celebrate love of the Blue Oval cars they cherish.
There’s no time like the present to pay attention to one’s body. Even racers have to listen to the aches and pains that may seem trivial at first but have a way of catching up with all of us.
Remember “Thursday Night Thunder”, ESPN’s orgy of mostly short-track racing that hit the air waves to give racing fans a mid-week fix for so many years?
Next year’s season finale of the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series will be both competitive and tasty, with the announcement that California’s original drive-thru hamburger stand is the new title sponsor of the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals.
The Coronavirus pandemic that began in the spring of 2020 and uprooted the world has caused complex issues for people around the globe.
Kyle Busch is moving on. After 15 years and two championships with Toyota and Joe Gibbs Racing, the Las Vegas native is welcoming a change.
Since taking his first NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship in 2014, Team Penske’s Will Power has been in the mix each season looking to earn his second title.
NHRA’s U.S. Nationals have always been the biggest and best gathering of drag racers in the United States.
Formula One will have immense changes in four years’ time, with new cars, new power units and, Stefano Domenicali notwithstanding, perhaps a new team or two?
