This girl’s going places. Fast. Milka Duno, Indy Car’s new rookie, has passed her entry exam. In Kansas, of all places, with temperatures barely hovering around 50 (imagine sitting in the cockpit of a car when it’s 50 degrees outside, and the wind is whipping by at, oh, 200 mph!), and with all of Indy [...]
There are some people you can take at their word. JP Montoya has been saying it all along – he’s here to win. So it wasn’t real surprising that, with victory within his grasp, he made a “mistake” and punted his teammate at the end of Saturday’s Mexico City race. A “mistake,” you say? JPM [...]
Much has been ballyhooed on fan forums about the rise of one side of the American formula car war and the demise of its opponent, or whispered about in paddocks and bars amongst worried racers concerned for their jobs. The media has touted its opinions as facts about the state of both sides, and everyone [...]
Recently, the owner of a subscription-only racing web site informed me that Gerry Forsythe told him AJ Allmendinger’s immediate success at FCR opened his eyes to the possibility that “new” is better than “experienced.” This was the supposed reason for sacking nearly half his crew, starting with the most experienced – and expensive – people [...]
Thunder Hill: paradigm of American short-track racing By Lori Lovely I’ve been working in and/or covering CART/Champ Car, IRL and Formula One racing for well over two decades, with the occasional foray into NASCAR territory. After that many years of sharing a paddock with the likes of Mario Andretti, Jacques Villeneuve, Juan Pablo Montoya, Nelson [...]
Rapid Response: My Inside Story as a Motor Racing Life-Saver By Dr. Stephen Olvey, Haynes Publishing, Somerset, UK; $29.95 Dr. Stephen Olvey served as Championship Auto Racing Teams’ medical director from 1979 to 2003. This very moving memoir of his years leading the charge for motor sports safety in the series at the pinnacle of [...]