It’s easy to make jokes about Texas and Formula 1. Even the local press in Austin have been having some fun with the story. At the end of last month John Kelso, a columnist for the Austin American-Statesman, drove to Elroy, the largely uninhabited little burg 15 miles southeast of downtown… Read more
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A few words about Texas and F1
August 20th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 22 Comments
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Remembering Gilles at play
May 6th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 19 Comments
Saturday is the anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve at Zolder in 1982. I still recall Gilles’s four years in Formula Atlantic, and his 1976 season in particular when he won all but one race and began his leap to Formula 1 legend status with Ferrari. Back in 1976… 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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New hope for Donington
April 30th, 2010 | Damien Smith | 2 Comments
The future of Donington Park looks brighter following yesterday’s announcement that plans are in motion for the circuit to re-open this summer. The news has been greeted with a collective sigh of relief within the sport as many of us had begun to fear we were about to lose this… Read more
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Martin makes his mark at Daytona
February 8th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 1 Comment
NASCAR’s season kicked off on Saturday with qualifying for this Sunday’s Daytona 500, followed by the Budweiser Shootout 75-lap non-points-scoring sprint race under the lights. Qualifying was swept by Hendrick Motorsports as veteran Mark Martin took pole and team-mate Dale Earnhardt Jr qualified on the outside front row. Thursday’s pair… Read more
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A classic Daytona win
February 1st, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
This year’s Rolex 24 hours at Daytona produced a similar result to last year with a Brumos Porsche winning from one of Chip Ganassi’s two cars, but without 2009’s drama when Juan Pablo Montoya battled fiercely with David Donohue. The closing hours of this year’s race were disappointingly flat as… Read more
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Jimmie Johnson does it right
November 16th, 2009 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
You have to give it to Jimmie Johnson. The guy is going after an unprecedented fourth consecutive NASCAR championship in the best possible way by racing to win and trying to score the maximum points possible. At the one-mile Phoenix oval on Sunday afternoon Johnson scored his seventh NASCAR Sprint… Read more
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Johnson stumbles, Kurt Busch wins
November 9th, 2009 | Gordon Kirby | 1 Comment
Over the last few weeks Jimmie Johnson has won three of the last seven Sprint Cup races and darn near everyone has been hailing Johnson as the first man to win four consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup championships. But Johnson’s coronation parade stumbled on the second lap of Sunday’s 500-mile race… Read more
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Johnson sprinting into history
October 21st, 2009 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
Defending NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson scored his sixth win of the year on Saturday night at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, pulling 90 points clear of closest challenger Mark Martin in the title race. It was Johnson’s 46th Cup win and his first in four years at Charlotte as… Read more
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Four American champions crowned
October 12th, 2009 | Gordon Kirby | 7 Comments
Championships were decided last weekend in four major American racing series. Dario Franchitti won the IRL’s IndyCar title at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, David Brabham/Scott Sharp wrapped-up the ALMS P1 championship for Highcroft Racing at Laguna Seca, Alex Gurney/Jon Fogarty sealed the Grand-Am title on the road course at Homestead-Miami, and… Read more
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