When beloved NHRA Pro Stock champion Bob Glidden passed away in 2017 at age 73, it was a huge loss for the straight-line racing community and for Ford Motor Co., with whom “Mad Dog” earned his 85 victories and 10 championships.
“Zippy” has boomeranged back to Don Schumacher Racing and taken on critical duties as crew chief for Tony Schumacher.
When Bryan Herta ended his career as a professional racecar driver, he needed to stay involved in the sport. There is no cure for racing, after all.
When John Force Entertainment, led by daughter No. 2 and company president Ashley Force Hood, also an accomplished Funny Car competitor and winner, began filming the team early in the 24-race 2017 season, she had no idea she and her team would be chronicling the path to a pair of world championships.
Austin Cindric, just 19 years old, will race the entire 33-contest NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) in 2018, working with two different organizations, both winning enterprises.
The first Monday of February, an announcement heralded a new partnership for the IndyCar series: Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan will compete in the series with four-time champion Sebastien Bourdais, securing primary sponsorship from leading pavement sealer company SealMaster.
Mopar has announced Pritchett will contest all of NHRA’s SAM Tech Factory Stock Showdown seven races this year, in addition to her duties behind the wheel of DSR’s Top Fuel dragster.
Following the deaths of INDYCAR standout Justin Wilson and Formula One racer Jules Bianchi, the offered solutions to the once-in-a-lifetime issue were many and varied. F1 is going with a halo device over the cockpit; INDYCAR is checking out a large windscreen next week at ISM Raceway.
As the NHRA race season draws closer, both the sanctioning body and its teams have news to share.
There were multiple milestones at this past weekend’s 56th Rolex 24 at Daytona, the season-starting race for IMSA’s WeatherTech sports car championship.
