Dario Franchitti announced his retirement from the IndyCar Series on November 14, 2013. A legend to the sport, Franchitti has 3 Indianapolis 500 wins, 31 Indy car wins, 4 IndyCar championships, and is tied for 8th on the all-time win list. He will forever be regarded as one of the sport’s best drivers. Thank you, Dario.
World’s top kiteboard racers enjoy a packed day of competition on day one of the championship making its inaugural stop in China.
Boao, Hainan — Reigning kiteboard racing world champions, Johnny Heineken and sister Erika, continued where they left off the at last year’s finals in Italy. The siblings proved they were the duo to beat, scoring bullets in all their races on the first day of competition at the course racing championships being hosted by China for the first time.
We probably talk about bikes way too much in the Dirt office. Sometimes it’s about a new product that’s just turned up, other times it’s about a rider or a photo, and then occasionally we get all nostalgic and start rabbiting on about various random things from the past. I think it was one of those occasions that led us to discuss what products or innovations we thought had changed mountain biking and helped turn it into the sport that it is today. We could think of loads of great products over the years, but had they changed our sport? The answer was no for most of them, but in the end we came up with this list of 15 which we think really have had a strong influence on our sport. Can you think of any we’ve missed? … More
Despite growing up at a time when excursions to the salt flats of Bonneville and El Mirage were chronicled in Hot Rod and the other magazines we picked up when two quarters rubbed together in our jeans, the actual experience remained elusive. Occasional drives across interminable I-80 gave a brief hint of it, a chance to pull up at a rest stop and feel the texture of the medium, but not the sights, sounds and smells.
When Barrett-Jackson arrived in Reno in 2013 during Bonneville Speed Week it created a small window of opportunity. With a couple of days before the Monterey action got hot and heavy, Speed Week at Bonneville was just 350 miles out and back.
The actual experience proved more than … Pictures and more