On one of my rare weekends off from the race track last year, I stopped in on the Kentucky Kickdown festival at American Turners in Louisville. With bikes, music, food, burnouts, stunts, and mud drags, it was a cool scene. I took a bunch of pics, but got busy with…
Sato Superb at Great Gateway
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.…
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…
DME, Teasley on Top as Pro Street Unchained
Orient Express Racing Pro Street records fell again this past weekend as hard work, exploiting the advantages of racing a 1000cc bike, new tires, and relatively recent rule changes continue to revolutionize the class—to the delight of some and the discouragement of others. At the beginning of this season, riders…
Strategy Nets Newgarden Texas Win
Josef Newgarden came seemingly from nowhere to win the IndyCar Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. The 2019 championship leader fended off Alexander Rossi in a thrilling duel over the final 10 laps to capture the DXC Technology 600. “I didn’t see him up front all day,” said Rossi. “All of…
Juncos Partners Send McLaren Knocked Out and Loaded
I’m sure you’ve seen this somewhere before, but we’ll talk a lot more about it here: two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso and Team McLaren will not race in the 2019 Indy 500 after failing to qualify. Returning to the 500 for a second time in a bid to…
Webb extends Supercross lead with Houston win
The thirteenth round of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross also held within it the third and final round of the Triple Crown series, and the racing could not have been much more exciting for the 49,183 fans packed into NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. In the 450SX Class, Red Bull…
Race 2 at Kuwait Motor Town
Pro Bike winner Mohammed “Big Mo” Al-Awad and American Richard Gadson in Super Street Bike led winners at the second International Drag Race at Kuwait Motor Town. BIKE PHOTOS FROM RACE 1 CANDID PHOTOS FROM RACE 1 CAR PHOTOS FROM RACE 1
Kyle Wyman wins 78th running of the Daytona 200
The American Motorcyclist Association congratulates rider Kyle Wyman on winning the 78th edition of the Daytona 200. The Walworth, N.Y., resident and MotoAmerica AMA Superbike Class competitor rode a Yamaha YZF-R6 to his first career Daytona 200 victory. The event took place Saturday on the 3.51-mile road course at Daytona…