In ‘Surprise of the Decade,’ a Formula One Dynasty Collapses Amid Rule Changes
In 1929, Enzo Ferrari started the venture that bears his name to race cars, not to sell them. And he definitely didn’t start it to finish fourth.
But that’s where Ferrari stands now, a distant fourth, as the Formula One season passes the halfway point on Sunday with the German Grand Prix. The top team in F1 history, and arguably the only dynasty in a major sport today, is in the midst of a shocking collapse.
The Scuderia Ferrari team—winner of eight team championships in the past 10 years—can hardly compete this season, let alone win. The best showing by either of Ferrari’s drivers through eight races was a third-place finish. Which happened once.
“They’re basically not competitive,†says former Ferrari driver Mario Andretti … Details
Scott Sabin is a small-town guy hoping to impress the nation.
The Plainwell resident is one of more than 400 drivers scheduled to compete Saturday in “Pinks All Out” at US-131 Motorsports Park.
The popular amateur drag racing event has been a staple on Speed TV in recent years and the network, with host Rich Christensen, will be on hand to tape Saturday’s finals for an upcoming airing.
“Every local guy at this level of racing would love to be on TV…Â Details
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Bill France Sr. and his willing partners — some more willing than others — created NASCAR in an art deco inn right across the highway from Daytona Beach’s surf.
When they left the Streamline Hotel that December day in 1947, the makeshift masters of stock-car racing didn’t own a map nor possess certainty that the unpaved road would lead to anywhere special.
The loosely arranged sport needed rules. The ambitious France concluded that racing needed a ruler to impose a tire-iron grip on maverick promoters and the rowdy cowboys slinging their souped-up street cars around the South’s dirty curves.
The France gang started NASCAR history. Some 62 years later, as NASCAR prepares to capture the echoes and trinkets of that history in a $195 million Charlotte museum financed by hotel taxes…Â Details