Road Racing

  • CART and IRL – Is it a Marriage?

      This could be it folks.  CART teams have been told to stop working on their Panoz chassis and prepare for their new chassis, the Dallaras.  Expect an official announcement of the marriage of CART and IRL soon. Will this… Continue reading

  • Road Trip – VIR

      Yesterday I traveled just across the NC border to Virginia International Raceway (VIR) where the Tar Heel Sports Car Club (THSCC) was holding its first track event of 2008.  It was a beautiful day, weather wise.  Nice and sunny… Continue reading

  • What Has Happened to Racing?

     What has happened to automobile racing?  Like many professional sports it has become focused on the individual instead of the team.  The drivers have become personalities where it is almost more important for them to showboat than it is for… Continue reading

  • Great Drivers – Randy Pobst

    You can debate whether or not great drivers are made or born all you want, but you cannot dispute when you come across one, and Randy Pobst is one great driver.  This year he raced in two championships and nearly… Continue reading

  • Mark Donahue – Early Telemetry

    A friend sent me this photograph of Mark in a test car with what looks like an early attempt to use an on-board computer to gather data.   Does anyone know if this is true? Continue reading

  • The Hard Reality of Time

     With intense determination I had decided to fulfill my dream of driving on a road racing track with a high performance car that I had developed myself.  I had raced in autocrosses when I was much younger, back in the… Continue reading

  • F1 in the Rain

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  • Great Drivers – Who Are They?

    When motorsports caught my attention it was the drivers as much as the cars.  They were like move stars in a way.  The American drivers all seemed to come from a local gas station and the European drivers all seemed… Continue reading

  • Lunch with Chris Szwedo

                          “In the Northwest Corner of Connecticut, far from the pace of the Interstates, is a place that is as private and hidden as its ability to capture the adrenaline in our imagination. Where every year men and women gather… Continue reading

  • Some Samples of Rally Jumps

    Rally WRC Jumping compilation Continue reading