Sweet Mother of Redemption! After being lambasted from all sides (sometimes with vitriolic hate, as happens today in our world of angry, armchair know-it-alls) and lustily defended by his Rahal/Letterman/Lanigan team, Takuma Sato rebounded with a storybook win at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway. The win came six days…
IndyCar Sparks Sure to Fly at Gateway
After a week of swirling controversy, finger-pointing, and hand-wringing following last weekend’s first lap pile-up at Pocono, drivers away-from-the-fray took the upper hand in qualifying for IndyCar’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway. NHDRO will run their World Finals on the Gateway dragstrip in October.…
Sam Wills Assaults the Salt in Bonneville
story and photos by Adam Weege The Bonneville Salt flats are unlike any other place on earth. If you are from the Midwest, like me, you have probably experienced snow, and if you go to the Salt flats you will expect it to be like snow. But what you have…
Are Two Bumped Teams Better as One?
Former polesitter James Hinchcliffe of the Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team failed to qualify for the 2018 Indianapolis 500 and qualified second-to-last in 2019. Two time F1 champ Fernando Alonso of Team McLaren failed to qualify in 2019. Now these two teams are joining together to share their experience at…
Dixon Survives for .09 second Mid-Ohio IndyCar win
Five-time NTT IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon made sure he remains in the running for this year’s championship by winning Sunday’s Honda Indy 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. But career victory No. 46 required a dramatic last-lap battle with his Chip Ganassi Racing teammate as Dixon drove with spent…
PDRA LIVE from SGMP in Valdosta
PDRA door slammers and pro mod bikes LIVE from SGMP in Valdosta
Krawiec Leads Norwalk Field into Raceday
Defending event winner Eddie Krawiec secured his third low Pro Stock Motorcycle qualifier of 2019 and third at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park at the 13th annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. Eddie rode his Screamin’ Eagle Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson to a lap of 6.843 at 197.45. “I’ve got…
Krawiec Leads Friday at Norwalk
Eddie Krawiec landed atop the Pro Stock Motorcycle order with a lap of 6.844 at 197.08 miles per hour on Friday at the 13th annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at the halfway point of 2019 NHRA season. Hot on his heels are his teammate Andrew Hines in second, with reigning…
Two Straight NHRA Wins for Tharpe and Samson
Two NHRA Top Fuel Harley wins in eight days is a damn good result for defending champion rider Tii Tharpe, associate sponsor Samson Exhaust, and the Jay Turner Racing team. Maybe an even more impressive result is that Tharpe’s win this past weekend at NHRA’s Thunder Valley Nationals was his…
Key Match-Ups Today at Bristol
No matter what happens in round 1 of Top Fuel Harley today at the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway, there will be major championship implications. Last year’s championship came down to the final 660 feet at Indy, when Doug Vancil dropped a cylinder and Tii Tharpe thundered to the…