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Allan McNish drove a superb race at Road Atlanta last Saturday to win the Petit Le Mans for Audi with team-mates Dindo Capello and Emanuele Pirro. The Scot made a grievous error on his out-lap on the way to the grid, losing control on cold tyres and crashing into the…
Gordon Kirby
He’s been there and seen it all, but GK’s finger is still very much on the pulse of modern US racing. After over 30 years as the American editor of Autosport, he remains one of the most outspoken and authoritative voices on the US scene. Gordon is now Motor Sport’s US editor and monthly columnist, shedding light on everything that is happening on the other side of the Atlantic.
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Oct 6 2008
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Oct 2 2008
Big names at Petit Le Mans
The Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta has become one of America’s biggest sports car races. Next weekend’s eleventh running of the 1000Km or 10-hour enduro is expected to draw more than 100,000 people over three days, with fans from 18 countries buying tickets to this year’s race. Peugeot is…
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Sep 29 2008
Appreciating Paul Newman
Paul Newman passed away at the end of last week after a battle with cancer. Newman, 83, spent his last days at his home in rural western Connecticut. About a month ago he took his SCCA-spec Corvette up to Lime Rock, his local track, to enjoy some laps on a…
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Sep 22 2008
Steve Hallam’s move to NASCAR
It was confirmed last weekend that Steve Hallam (below) will leave his post as McLaren’s head of race operations at the end of the F1 season to join Michael Waltrip’s Toyota team in NASCAR as director of race engineering. Hallam has worked in F1 for 27 years, first with Lotus,…
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Sep 17 2008
Does Chris Pook have an American F1 revival plan?
Long Beach Grand Prix founder Chris Pook (below) visited last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. Pook kept a low profile at Monza but fierce rumours erupted this week that Pook is pursuing a plan to create a new United States Grand Prix somewhere on or near the west coast. When I…
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Sep 15 2008
The Sprint Cup’s chase for the title is underway
NASCAR’s ‘Chase for the Cup’ championship playoff was designed to shake things up and that’s exactly what happened at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway last Sunday in the first of ten ‘Chase’ races. Championship leader Kyle Busch lost his long-held position atop the points to Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards…
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Sep 9 2008
America’s sad decline in international motor sport
Both of last weekend’s Indycar and NASCAR races featured fierce, side-by-side duels to the flag, with Hélio Castroneves shading new IRL champion Scott Dixon at the Chicagoland Speedway and defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson beating Tony Stewart in a similar battle on the tighter, slower Richmond Raceway in Virginia.
In the…
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Sep 3 2008
Franchitti to replace Wheldon in Ganassi’s ‘09 IndyCar team
Chip Ganassi (above with Franchitti) announced on Tuesday that Dario Franchitti will replace Dan Wheldon in his Indycar team next year. Ganassi had decided to drop Wheldon (below) after a disappointing year and move Franchitti from his NASCAR team to his IRL squad. Wheldon sealed his fate by qualifying in…
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Sep 3 2008
Justin Wilson’s first IRL win
This has been a very tough year for Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing. After winning four consecutive Champ Car titles with Sébastien Bourdais, America’s second most successful open-wheel team has struggled this season, like all the former Champ Car teams, in making the eleventh-hour switch to the IRL. Minimal testing, a serious shortage…
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Aug 20 2008
Can Carl Edwards beat Kyle Busch?
Carl Edwards has emerged as the strongest challenger to Kyle Busch for this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup championship. The 29-year old Edwards scored his fifth win of the year at the high-banked Michigan superspeedway last Sunday, beating championship rival Busch who again led his share of the race and came…
