Parnelli Jones is one of the living legends of American racing, up there in the pantheon with Mario Andretti, AJ Foyt and Dan Gurney. Jones dominated three of the seven Indy 500s he started and won the race in 1963, beating Jim Clark. He looked to be a clear winner… Read more
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Parnelli Jones’s radical ideas
May 2nd, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | 7 Comments
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California Dreaming
April 25th, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | 1 Comment
The inaugural Formula 5000 race in 1975 at Long Beach.
I’ve enjoyed the pleasure of covering all thirty-four Long Beach Grands Prix, from the inaugural Formula 5000 race back in 1975 through eight Formula One races from 1976-’83 and twenty-five CART or Champ Car races from 1984-2008. This year’s race… Read more -
IRL and Champ Car merger is the first of many steps
February 22nd, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | 2 Comments
As NASCAR’s Big Show moves from Daytona to southern California, news broke this week that IRL and Champ Car are on the brink of announcing a formal merger. The great chimera of reunification of American open-wheel racing is at hand after a bitterly debilitating twelve-year civil war.
Will this desperate,… Read more -
Latest Issue – March 2008
January 31st, 2008 | Web EditorSenna’s legacy
Away from the track, the Brazilian was determined to make life better at home
Team-mates: Prost on Senna
How years of intense rivalry gave way to friendship, and that weekend at Imola
John Barnard and mario Illien on F1
Respected engineers on how they’d develop the next generation… Read more
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