Ten years prior to the 1987 edition of the Grand Prix of Long Beach, Mario Andretti dazzled the crowd with a dramatic win in the race’s third edition by taking the lead from Jody Scheckter three laps from the finish. Back then, it was a Formula 1 event, but as the race became a CART/IndyCar [...]

Without getting into the politics of the matter, the public battle that Derrick Walker and Craig Gore are having over the finances of the former Team Australia Champ Car team is just one reminder to the fans about how desperate the times had become for Champ Car. Certainly one of the feel-good stories of 2007, [...]

Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen reversed fortunes from last weekend, with the Finn taking a dominating victory at the Malaysian GP, while Hamilton encountered some problems. So are there really any lessons learned for how the season will unfold? There are more tracks on the calendar that will bear similarities to Sepang than there are [...]

It’s difficult to understand why Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen were on the racing line during their slow down laps at the end of Q3 at the Malaysian Grand Prix. Slow drivers on the racing line are something you’re used to seeing at an indoor kart track, not the top-level open wheel series. Why the [...]

Following two strong seasons in CART, including a second-place finish in the championship in 2001, Kenny Brack moved over to the powerhouse Chip Ganassi Racing team for 2002. The combination appeared to be a favorite to take the title prior to the beginning of the season. However, as the season would unfold, the results were [...]

Lewis Hamilton’s victory, his weekend for that matter, certainly seemed a lot like one of those classic weekends from the most successful of them all, Michael Schumacher. Like Schumi, Hamilton took pole on a strong, relatively mistake-free qualifying, and then dominated the race with a bunch of fast race laps and seeming immunity from the [...]

“I don’t have any doubts that I will do a job this year but that means something different now. It means I want to win the world championship.” McLaren driver, Lewis Hamilton “If the Ferrari is the better car this year, McLaren should be saying to themselves ‘Thank god he is not in a Ferrari, [...]

Going into the 2003 Monterrey Grand Prix, it appeared that the team to drive for was Newman/Haas. The first two years of the race were won by the team and its driver Cristiano da Matta. Although “Shorty” was no longer with the squad for the third edition of the Late Spring contest in northeast Mexico, [...]

“In itself, unification is not some magic formula able to take us forward. It’s going to take an awful lot of hard work.” Champ Car co-founder Kevin Kalkhoven “It really has been 30 years since the sport of open-wheel racing has been unified. There were periods of years where we worked closely together and better [...]