Big Willie Robinson was as much legend and myth as flesh and bone, and at 6’6†300 pounds with 21-inch biceps and a 58-inch chest, there was a lot of flesh and bone. Robinson was more than a drag racer, promoter and sanctioning body president, he was the man who used the power of horsepower to unite people of all colors and creeds under the banner of drag racing, once saying at a race, “Ain’t no colors here, it’s all just engines.†As the founder and president of The National and International Brotherhood of Street Racers, he used racing to bring the races together.
Robinson died Saturday morning May 19 after a long, though undisclosed illness. He was 70 years old  … More
From the time he was a child, Carroll Shelby was into cars. After a brief but understandable diversion into airplanes during World War II, Shelby eventually made his way back to his passion, racing and later building some of the world’s fastest cars.
He touched the lives of many people along the way, so we’ve scoured the internet for what some of them have said, and are saying, about this American automotive icon since his passing on Thursday … More
PLEASE HELP THE FAMILY OF JEREMY McGRATH!
This is a personal note below from the 7-time Supercross champ Jeremy McGrath that he released on twitter a short time ago. Can you help spread the word?
Please do me and my wife Kim a huge favor, please get yourself on the bone marrow registry, it’s as easy as a mouth swab.
Go to www.bethematch.com and they will mail you out a kit or if you live near a big city you can put in your zip code and find out when and where they are having registry drives.
Thx, MC