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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Martin makes his mark at Daytona
February 8th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 1 Comment
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Andretti: why I didn’t like Indy
January 11th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 5 Comments
I had a long conversation recently with Michael Andretti for the book I’m writing about Newman/Haas Racing. Andretti drove for Newman/Haas for 10 seasons between 1989-2000, scoring 35 of his 42 Indycar wins with the team. He won the 1991 CART title with Newman/Haas when Indycar racing was at its… Read more
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Gordon Kirby’s Indy 500 preview
May 19th, 2009 | Gordon Kirby | 4 Comments
After the usual two weekends of qualifying the 93rd Indianapolis 500 takes place on Sunday. This year’s race looks like being another Penske versus Ganassi battle, but with everyone aboard roughly similar Dallara-Hondas there’s sure to be a long line of cars in the hunt. And, of course, almost anything… Read more
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Castroneves puts Penske on pole at Indy
May 11th, 2009 | Gordon Kirby | 1 Comment
Hélio Castroneves and team-mate Ryan Briscoe traded the top spot back and forth during the six hours of Pole Day qualifying at Indianapolis last Saturday. On a windy afternoon nobody could challenge the Penske pair, with Castroneves eventually edging his team-mate by half a second over the four qualifying laps.… Read more
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USF1: team owners unveil plans
February 26th, 2009 | Gordon Kirby | 3 Comments
The new USF1 team owned by Peter Windsor and Ken Anderson was formally announced on Tuesday afternoon on Speedtv in America. USF1 will design, build and race its cars from a facility in Charlotte, North Carolina by 2010 and will be the first American team to compete in the World… Read more
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Sage words from Rick Mears
May 23rd, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | 1 Comment
The 92nd running of the Indy 500 takes place on Sunday with Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon favoured to score Chip Ganassi’s first win at the ‘Brickyard’ since Juan Montoya turned the trick in 2000. Dixon and Wheldon will start from the pole and the middle of the front row… Read more
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For the stragglers, Indy qualifying continues
May 16th, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
This weekend should be quite a thrash at Indianapolis as everyone who failed last weekend to make the field for this year’s 92nd Indy 500 tries to take one of the remaining twenty-two places in the starting line-up. Chip Ganassi’s drivers and team put on a great show last Saturday… Read more
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Indy qualifying starts amid sadness
May 9th, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | 3 Comments
The opening weekend of qualifying for this year’s 92nd Indianapolis 500 takes place this weekend. Favourites for the pole must be Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon who have been the men to beat on oval tracks so far this year in Chip Ganassi’s pair of Dallara-Hondas. Other pole contenders include… Read more
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