Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas became the first major American racing champions of the year when they scored their eighth win of the year in the Grand-Am race at le Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal last Saturday driving Chip Ganassi’s Riley-BMW. Pruett has now won a total of 30 Grand-Am… Read more
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First American champions crowned
August 31st, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
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Ganassi reigns, and Dyson delivers
August 9th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 2 Comments
Chip Ganassi enjoyed a clean sweep last weekend as his three teams won races in NASCAR, IndyCar and Grand-Am. It began at Watkins Glen on Saturday when Scott Pruett/Memo Rojas won the Grand-Am event in Ganassi’s Riley-BMW. Then Juan Pablo Montoya drove a perfect race on Sunday at the Glen… Read more
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Indycar rebuild starts now
June 4th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 8 Comments
Following Dario Franchitti’s superb Indy 500 win we were sobered by the dismal 3.8 million TV rating – a new low – and the fact that for all the talk of crowds returning there were large swaths of empty grandstands. These unhappy truths emphasised the point that Indycar’s new boss… Read more
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Ganassi pair prevail pre-Indy
May 5th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 1 Comment
Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti scored a one-two sweep for Chip Ganassi’s team at the Kansas Speedway on Saturday. Until last weekend Ganassi’s IRL team had struggled through an indifferent start to the season, but his drivers were supreme on the 1.5-mile Kansas oval in the last race before the… Read more
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Should F1 be a drag race?
March 29th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 19 Comments
Here’s a lesson for the FIA and Formula 1. In 1998 CART introduced a new rear wing called the Handford Device for its two 500-mile races on the high-banked Michigan and California superspeedways. It was used only at those two tracks and was the result of conversations between Newman/Haas aerodynamicist… Read more
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Mansell’s speed secrets
March 15th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 16 Comments
Jim McGee is happily retired and living in California these days. McGee was one of the most successful Indycar crew chief/team managers. Over the years his cars won more than 90 USAC, CART and Champ Car races.
McGee made his name in the late ’60s as Mario Andretti’s chief mechanic… Read more
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Atlantic series sinks
March 8th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 1 Comment
It was no surprise when the announcement was made last week that this year’s Atlantic Championship has been “put on hold”. Following the demise of Champ Car in the winter of 2007-08, the supporting Atlantic series has struggled to survive, and with fewer than 10 drivers committed to the series… Read more
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First NASCAR, now the world!
March 1st, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 4 Comments
Jeff Gordon has announced that he will keep racing for an undetermined period of time – at least another five or six years. Gordon, 38, is NASCAR’s most successful active driver with four championships and 82 wins to his credit.
He has been racing Sprint Cup cars for 18 years,… Read more
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Johnson back on winning form
February 22nd, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 1 Comment
Order was restored in NASCAR as defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson bounced back from failing to finish the Daytona 500 to score the 48th win of his career in Sunday’s 500-mile race at the California Speedway.
Johnson was the man to beat in California, leading 101 of the race’s… Read more
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Jamie’s magic touch at Daytona
February 15th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
Jamie McMurray scored a surprise win in Sunday’s Daytona 500, following two long delays because of a crumbling track and a series of late-race accidents.
McMurray was in sixth place for two of the last three restarts but was second for the final restart and, helped by Greg Biffle pushing… Read more
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