Sunday’s 106th running of the Indianapolis 500 paid a record purse, with race winner Marcus Ericsson taking home $3.1 million from a total load of $16,000,200. It’s the largest purse ever in the century-plus history of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” The Chip Ganassi Racing driver’s prize is also the largest…
Rough and Ready Gateway Gets it Right
photos by Stephen Taylor, facts by IndyCar, opinions by Tim Hailey World Wide Technology Raceway—AKA Gateway—is a rough and ready oval, dragstrip, road course and go-kart track rebuilt in the ’90s with tax breaks. It lies between a swamp and landfill, in a notorious Illinois suburban St. Louis area more…
Vintage Indy Car Photos from Gateway
The Motorsports Project photographer Stephen Taylor is off his leash and roaming World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, capturing cool vintage Indy car shit and more for Eatmyink. Check out this gallery: GALLERY LINK
Thank You, Takuma Sato, for the $800
“In all the pre-race talk, few were mentioning Taku (Takuma Sato) as someone to keep an eye on,” Robin Miller wrote on Racer.com Seriously? How recent winner (knows how it’s done), front row starter (very fast), and drama-free-in-August (smooth Carb Day with all the right things to say afterwards) Sato…
EatmyinkTV is Back Online!
Global pandemic quarantining got you down? Tired of looking for individual clips to play? Let Eatmyink VJ a playlist of classic racing and interviews for you. Lay back, work in the garage, stream it on the dash of your truck—whatever works for you! Hit play and let it roll! …
Godspeed Bill Simpson
One of the highlights of my PRI show this year was sharing Bill Simpson stories with Del Flores—a fellow former tenant of Lord of the Land Simpson. To know Simpson is to have Simpson stories. Neither of us knew that Bill had a second—and ultimately fatal, I guess—stroke on Friday.…
WAR Suzuki an RET Race Engine of the Year Nominee
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…
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.…
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…
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