But that was the only thing that wasn’t tight and confined as we prepared to head out onto track at Barber Motorsports Park in a Dallara Indy car reconfigured for two seats.
My driver was Indy veteran driver Davey Hamilton, who last year drove at Indianapolis for Vision Racing. I was positioned right behind him and slightly elevated.
Before even stepping into the car I…Â Details
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Stick-in-the-muds worked themselves into a lather over Formula One’s planned reforms — proof, if nothing else, that even in the fast lane, tradition can still be a drag.
And finally, in a stark display of the power that F1 teams wield, they got the sport’s bosses to back off.
The score: teams 1, bosses 0. It’s a result that could bode ill for those — led by Max Mosley, head of F1’s governing body — who want shock therapy to wean the sport off its high-spending habits so that it survives the global credit crunch.
Mosley’s governing body, the FIA, said Friday it would freeze plans to shake up how F1’s championship winner … Details
Jamming the pedal to the metal, the $22-billion-a-year U.S. motorsports business has expanded in strikingly fast-track fashion. And now state and local recruiters have joined in the race, maneuvering to attract and retain major racing-sector operations — and the big clusters created in their wake.
Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Richard Petty, arguably the most famous American automobile racer of all time, has a simple “When did they have the first automobile race?” asked Petty. “Just as soon as they built the second car.”
That’s not literally true, but it’s close. Auto racing in America dates back to 1895. It grew with the domestic automobile industry in the early 1900s, before exploding in popularity after World War II. In the process, different parts of the country became home to different racing segments: On the West Coast, for example, drag racing down the quarter-mile became all the rage, while in the Midwest… Details
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