DARLINGTON, S.C. – Danica Patrick received a pleasantly rude introduction Friday to Darlington Raceway.
After being warned for weeks that her first trip to the track “Too Tough To Tame” would be a stiff challenge, Patrick happily earned her stripes — the right-side scrapes that appear on virtually every car during a NASCAR practice or race on the 1.366-mile oval.
“This is a tough place and everything they said about it is true,” Patrick said. “This ‘Lady in Black’ is  … More
Carroll Shelby, the legendary auto racer and car designer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford’s Mustang and Chrysler’s Viper, has died. He was 89.
Shelby’s company, Carroll Shelby International, said Friday that Shelby died a day earlier at a Dallas hospital. He had received a heart transplant in 1990 and a kidney transplant in 1996.
He was one of the nation’s longest-living heart transplant recipients  … More
RACER web editor Tony DiZinno and ace shooter Camden Thrasher each went for hot laps in Andy Pilgrim’s Cadillac CTS-V racecar at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, which competes in the SCCA Pirelli World Challenge. The results, as shot by Camden, speak for themselves