Farewell to Bobby Unser, a Racer’s Racer
Any room was brighter and filled with laughter once Uncle Bobby entered and stayed.
Anne Proffit
INDYCAR Starts its Season with Two Great Road Street Races
Over the course of two weeks, the NTT IndyCar Series has conducted two races: one on a permanent road course (Barber Motorsports Park outside Birmingham, Ala.) and this week’s contest on the streets of St Petersburg, Fla.
NHRA’s Las Vegas Adventure!
After a month-long hiatus between the season-starting NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series race and its second salvo, the schedule is morphing into a more familiar cadence, as teams have two weeks between last weekend’s DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals and NHRA’s final visit to Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, GA for the Lucas Oil NHRA Southern Nationals
Exciting NTT IndyCar Series Season on Tap
It seems the NTT IndyCar Series off-season is longer than its on-track racing activities, in this case going from almost the close of October to mid-April.
Prudhomme Battles Baja Again
Don “The Snake” Prudhomme may have stepped away from professional drag racing, but his competitive juices still fiercely burn. The NHRA standout – in both Top Fuel and Funny Car racing – recently turned his activities to the dirt, where he’s twice raced in Baja, California’s Mexican 1000.
32 IndyCars to Test at Indianapolis Motor Speedway This Week
The 2021 NTT IndyCar Series season doesn’t begin until April 18th at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama, but already everyone is looking toward the series’ crown jewel: the 105th running of the Indianapolis 500.
Angie Smith Builds Up Her Teams Bikes
Not only did team leader Matt Smith earn his fourth NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Pro Stock Motorcycle championship, but one of his teammates, wife Angie Smith earned her second PSM Wally winner’s trophy and joined the 200mph club, while Scotty Pollacheck hit 200 and earned his first-class victory at the most sacred race of all: the U.S. Nationals.
Yes, Volkswagen is Still Volkswagen
The email appeared early in the morning of March 30th and caught my eye, an occurrence fairly strange for someone who’s noticeably not a morning person. Volkswagen is changing its name, the press release said. From here on out, the company wants to be known as Voltswagen.
INDYCAR Tests New Push-to-Pass System at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
The NTT IndyCar Series is moving forward with a new engine spec it intends to introduce for the 2023 season.
No. 5 Cadillac Earns Sebring Victory
Respect the bumps. That’s the mantra for racing on the aged, 3.74-mile, 17-turn Sebring International Raceway in mid-southern Florida.