The White Alligator Racing NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Suzuki is in pretty damn good company as a Race Engine Technology magazine Race Engine of the Year nominee. Here’s the full field courtesy of RET. If you’re not an RET subscriber, you NEED to be! Check them out HERE As for…
English Beat: Moxley at the ACU Championships Round 4
The STP Green Light Nationals at Santa Pod Raceway were a double header for the bike classes. Round 4 was on Saturday with qualifying in the morning and eliminations in the afternoon. Same format for round 5 on Sunday, which will be covered in a separate article here on Eatmyink.…
Marquez High-Sides, Quartararo Quickest
Fabio Quartararo (Petronas Yamaha SRT) topped timesheet on Day 1 of the PTT MotoGP Thailand Grand Prix, leading a Yamaha 1-2-3 but nearly two tenths clear at the top. But Yamaha’s pace wasn’t the only headline at Buriram, with reigning champion Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) taking a huge tumble in free practice…
Kentucky Kickdown
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…