Denver ticket sales up, way up
According to Jim Freudenberg, GM of the Denver event, advance ticket sales are triple last year’s event, which announced a three-day attendance of 112,000. Reports say that some of Cleveland's … Read More
An Inside Look at Motorsports
The cost of defending the anti-trust and restraint of trade suit filed last month by Kentucky Speedway against privately held NASCAR and publicly held International Speedway Corp. over the granting … Read More
Banging those concrete walls in an Indy Car, regardless of the SAFER Barrier is bad for ones health, both physical and mental. There are a litany of IRL drivers that … Read More
UPDATE #2 The Ford Fusion has been unveiled and the new 2006 Chevy Monte Carlo will be unveiled this Thursday at the Indy Motor Speedway. This rumor is now 'fact.' … Read More
Excerpts from a Q and A with BAR Honda's Nick Fry.Q: BAT sells a lot of cigarettes in Brazil… “Yes, and he’s also a friend of Gil’s, so no doubt … Read More
UPDATE #5 Open wheel star Paul Tracy will test August 8-9 at Michigan International Speedway in Richard Childress Racing’s (RCR) No. 33 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series Chevrolet in preparation for … Read More
UPDATE Another reader writes, Should the SJ track be moved? I say no, the railroad tracks were the coolest part of the race. "Holy shit" is an understatement for what … Read More
UPDATE #2 This rumor is upgraded to 'fact' today. See story on Hot News page. 07/31/05 Felipe Massa admitted this Sunday, in an interview with Radio Globo, that his chances … Read More
In 22 years of full-time racing in NASCAR's premier division, Rusty Wallace has seen and experienced plenty, and he feels that's given him plenty of ideas. And he thinks, potentially, … Read More
AutoRacing1.com heard this past weekend in San Jose that there may be just two races that Champ Car and ALMS run together in 2006, Long Beach and Sebring. Whether there … Read More
UPDATE #3 This rumor is downgraded to 'false' today. Hornish told the Dallas Morning News that, "No, I'm not going. Well, I'm not going to run NASCAR full-time next year," … Read More
Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ITO) President Murat Yalcintas and ITO council members have examined Istanbul Park Track where the Turkey Formula 1 Grand Prix will be held. Most of the … Read More
Formula One bosses will introduce a revolutionary knockout qualifying session in their latest bid to make the sport more exciting. Team chiefs have agreed on the big revamp and it … Read More
UPDATE We are hearing that the Cosworth for Williams deal is almost definitely going to happen with an announcement in less than two weeks. 07/29/05 With the July 31 deadline … Read More
Far be it from us to comment on what the other teams get up to. But, given that Christian Klien’s first lap flight in the Hungarian Grand Prix was caused … Read More
August is a good month in Formula One if you enjoy the often whimsically wild and speculative annual 'silly season.' Every year, drivers' contracts run out and their reported direction … Read More
BAR Honda Young Driver Adam Carroll is facing a sponsorship crisis that may see the Northern Irishman forced out of the GP2 race series. Super Nova team boss David Sears … Read More
UPDATE #4 These reports gathered strength over the weekend when Peter Sauber confirmed that Massa will be leaving the team at the end of the season. "I would have liked … Read More
Sunday's crowd was estimated at 35,000 in Michigan. . . . Enge, who fractured bones in his back in an accident two weeks ago in Nashville, Tenn., is expected to … Read More
If you listen to the F1 rumor mill, then a lot of cash could walk out of Frank Williams' office door ahead of the 2006 season. 'FedEx' and 'Petrobras', according … Read More
The ABC/ESPN group, which lost broadcast rights to its competitors after the inaugural NASCAR television contracts were announced in 1999, wants to get back into the racing game. From 1979 … Read More
The negotiations over NASCAR's future television contracts continue out in Beverly Hills, Calif., where Richard Glover reports the process is "right on schedule." NASCAR's energetic vice president of broadcasting and … Read More
AutoRacing1.com has learned that the Mayor of San Jose is very pleased with the success of the first year San Jose race and confident of pushing through changes to the … Read More
"I think street racing is the future of Champ Car," said driver Jimmy Vasser. Vasser is a Las Vegas resident but owns three Napa Valley car dealerships he runs with … Read More