The venerable Petty Enterprises, which traces its history back to Lee Petty whose first NASCAR race was in 1949, finally closed its doors for good this month. Yes they ‘merged’ with Gillett Evernham Motorsports and changed the name to Richard Petty Motorsports, but there’s not much except the Petty
The Daytona 24-hour race is the traditional kick-off to the new season each year. This year, given all the bad news about the economy, there has been much speculation about the harmful effect this will have on the racing. Indeed, one observer predicted that we might see only a half-dozen or so
Read more: Exciting Daytona 24-hour race a strong kick off to the 2009 season
This winter Bernie Ecclestone has been advocating a new championship schema for Formula One – one that would award the drivers’ championship to the driver who scored the most wins during the season. He calls it a ‘medals’ championship in which the top three finishers (the ‘podium winners’) would be
When the IRL announced plans to broadcast the majority of their 2009 races on the cable network VERSUS last fall – a channel we cannot get here in Canada – Canadian race fans were left wondering how they were going to be able to watch these races on television. This week TSN has answered in the
Read more: Full IndyCar season to be broadcast on TSN and TSN2 in 2009
I’m writing this after today’s time trials for next Sunday’s Daytona 500. Under normal circumstances, the entire 43-car starting lineup for the race would now be set. But the Daytona 500 is different. In keeping with a long-established tradition, we are going to have pair of qualifying races next
The Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame (CMHF) seems like a good idea. It recognizes and honours deserving individuals for their contribution to Canadian motorsports. However, over the years, the Hall of Fame operation has been surrounded by controversy and has seemed to stagger along struggling for
Read more: The Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame? Boom or Bust?
With the world economy in such obvious trouble just now, it was easy to expect the worst for auto racing this year. NASCAR is the big player in America and we started hearing about teams cutting back, laying off people, merging and shutting their doors before the final race was run last fall. It
Read more: NASCAR 2009: Two races down and the sky hasn’t fallen yet.
So the FIA has decided to award the F1 world championship to the driver who wins the most races. This is an idea I have been championing for years, and it will produce a more legitimate world champion.
Racing is about winning races and the whole emphasis of everything should be on that goal. A
Read more: Formula One champion to be based on most wins. A step forward