Defending world champion Lewis Hamilton has thanked his father Anthony for steering him through the greatest ordeal of his motor racing career.
Hamilton has this year been trapped in a roller-coaster of troubles due to his involvement in the infamous ‘Liar-gate’ episode, his struggle with his McLaren car’s lack of performance and then a fall-out with the British media.
On the circuit the Englishman’s title defence has faded in the face of stiff competition from compatriot Jenson Button, who has surged ahead in the championship race in a Brawn GP car.
Hamilton is adamant, however, he has emerged from …Â Details
Just when it seemed like following a broad, corporate-management style and using incremental improvements had become the best way to make a Formula One car, radical new technical regulations this year have brought a sudden return to an old approach.
With the series driven by car-manufacturer teams in recent years, the best cars were created by evolving from a fixed design, with a huge staff contributing various elements to the whole. In the past, however, the best cars and teams had been made by brilliant minds and strong men like Enzo Ferrari, Colin Chapman of Lotus or John Barnard at McLaren…Â Details
Racing at more than 200 mph is tough enough. No one wants to find themselves wheel-to-wheel with someone who’s under the influence of drugs.
“If we’re out there driving at those speeds,” said Ryan Hunter-Reay, who will start from the final row in Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, “it’s good to know everyone has a clear head.”
The Indy Racing League conducts random drug testing under a policy that was beefed up before the 2008 season. But the drug-testing debate was stirred up again this month when NASCAR racer Jeremy Mayfield was suspended over a positive random test that remains clouded in secrecy. Mayfield was the first driver to be …Â Details
Tradition looms large at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home to the race as big as any in the sport and marking a key milestone.
Reporting from Indianapolis — In 1958, a budding race-car driver named Mario Andretti first laid eyes on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
His family, which had arrived from Italy three years earlier, had driven from its Pennsylvania home so that Andretti could watch the Indianapolis 500.
After the race, the 18-year-old made it to the infield to walk on the famed 2.5-mile track, which includes a narrow front straightaway lined with grandstands on both sides.
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