Pocono Raceway has launched ‘50 Years of The Tricky Triangle’ in celebration of the first race to take place on their 2.5-mile, triangular shaped track in 1971. This golden jubilee will include stories from motorsports’ most significant figures, a podcast series, a blog series, a collaborative website where fans can contribute photos and a special,...
RACER magazine’s Robin Miller shared some financial figures on what it cost to go IndyCar racing. They are some amazing numbers. In 1974, a big crew was three of four full-timers, with some weekend warriors occasionally thrown in for 500-milers. Bill Finley, the jack-of-all-trades who built his Indy cars from scratch in the garage behind...
An interview with JOSEF NEWGARDEN, NO.2 TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET,TWO-TIME NTT INDYCAR SERIES CHAMPION: THE MODERATOR: Josef Newgarden, the No. 2 Hitachi Chevrolet, Team Penske Chevrolet. Don’t like that number, do you? JOSEF NEWGARDEN: You know, we seem to win championships in the 2. Hopefully it’s a good year for us, though. THE MODERATOR: What is...
An interview with JOSEF NEWGARDEN, NO.2 TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET,TWO-TIME NTT INDYCAR SERIES CHAMPION: THE MODERATOR: Josef Newgarden, the No. 2 Hitachi Chevrolet, Team Penske Chevrolet. Don’t like that number, do you? JOSEF NEWGARDEN: You know, we seem to win championships in the 2. Hopefully it’s a good year for us, though. THE MODERATOR: What is...
Reigning Williams Grove Speedway track champion Freddie Rahmer may only be 25 years old as he embarks on the 2021 racing season, but he has the perspective of a driver twenty years his elder as he eyes the oval’s season opener. The Cumberland County track will open the new season with a 410 sprint car...
Brian Carber has teamed with Hayward Motorsports to compete in selected events throughout the 2021 USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget season starting with the pairing’s first outing in the April 9-10 T-Town Midget Showdown at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Port City Raceway. Carber, from Pipersville, Pa., has been a standout in micro sprints, recently reigning victorious...
With the recent announcement by NASCAR, weekly racers at Grandview Speedway will have something more to race for in 2021 as part of the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series when the season gets started officially on Saturday, April 10th for the T.P.Trailers Modifieds and T.P.Truck Equipment Sportsman. The sanctioning body is re-introducing regional championships...
Twenty years ago, the world of racing lost one of its biggest stars when Dale Earnhardt died during a crash on the last lap of the Daytona 500. In a new special, ESPN’s E60 will take viewers back to that fateful day to explore the legacy of Dale Earnhardt and the effect his loss has...
NASCAR and iRacing today announced the longest-running officially sanctioned esports racing series will return for its 12th season with an increased championship purse, new teams and an elevated playoff format to conclude an 18-race schedule, which will mirror some of the real-life NASCAR schedule enhancements. “After more than a decade of iRacing competition, the 2021...
The confirmation that NBC Sports Network is going away after 2021 was hardly shocking to Racer’s Robin Miller. It had been rumored for months. But the immediate reaction of gloom and doom is hardly justified, especially when you examine the facts, think about the past three years, and try to gauge the future of IndyCar...