RACING CULTURE

Average four-lap speed around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway circuit; 203.620 miles an hour! A mind numbing speed to contemplate -- yet it seemed an impossible speed to imagine in spring 1978. But it happened, it...

Article by Ben Kuhl. Driving a vintage racecar, at its core, is an expression of passion toward a sport that came long before us and will continue eons past our mortal existence. What amplifies that...

“I’m just a poor chicken farmer from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes,” was Carroll Shelby’s oft-quoted statement throughout a lifetime of racing and car-building successes. True to form, the American iconoclast who burst...

Back in the day, Spa was a winding 15km thread of street tarmac that cut a triangular swath between the villages of Francorchamps, Malmedy and Stavelot; a flat-out blast through the countryside and pine forests...

It’s a fair assumption that most racers and high performance drivers have a good basic idea of visualizing and executing the prescribed line through a turn. But is it the most efficient line? And is...

The year was 1964, I was 23, and my daily driver was a 1960 Triump TR3. Playing in the rain and on dirt, I fashioned myself as quite adept at sliding through turns and smoothly...