Category: Editorials

Newgarden takes checkered flag Well, there’s only one place to start with Saturday evening’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at Gateway Motorsports Park: the lap 218 contact between Team Penske teammates … Read More

Pocono 500 winner Will Power I know this is supposed to be a look back at Sunday's ABC Supply Co. 500 at Pocono Raceway, and we’ll get there. However, during … Read More

Speaking to NAPA guests Sunday morning, when I saw the media availability schedule at Watkins Glen, to my complete and total surprise was the name Alexander Rossi. The 2016 Indianapolis … Read More

Josef Newgarden On the one hand, I can sit here and wax poetic about Newgarden’s very impressive drive to victory in Sunday’s Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio. The pass on … Read More

Newgarden and Rossi finished first and 2nd as a result of a lucky timed pitstop Whenever watching a motor race, I almost always keep a notepad handy. And the item … Read More

IndyCar Racing on high-banked ovals without a canopy over the driver is a fatal disaster waiting to happen Other commitments and responsibilities of late have left little time for thinking … Read More

Rahal dominated in Detroit We've seen impressive drives before from Graham Rahal. One that comes to mind for me actually is not one of the 4 wins he recorded prior … Read More

Takuma Sato "No attack, no chance," has long been Takuma Sato’s mantra. And while the friendly, diminutive 40-year-old Japanese driver has always been fast, let’s be honest: "no attack, no … Read More

Race winner Will Power leads from pole If you take pleasure in the triumph of the little guy then you surely enjoyed the opening two rounds of the 2017 Verizon … Read More

Turn 1 at the start Heartwarming is not a word I would immediately associate with American Championship Racing. However, following two 2017 races, which have produced two feel good winners, … Read More

They are magic together – Sebastien Bourdais and Craig Hampson Allow me to briefly go back in time. It was nearly two years on the final weekend of March that … Read More

When the checkered flag flew at Watkins Glen, the storylines continued I have to admit: I had it wrong. Entering this weekend's race at Watkins Glen, it was my general … Read More

Tony Kanaan leads in Texas I'm going to do something a little different today. Typically, in these postscripts I elaborate on a number of the subjects du jour in the … Read More

Will Power busted the championship wide open by winning at Pocono In early June, it had all the makings of a runaway snooze fest. By mid-July there was some faint … Read More

Power takes the win in Toronto There was intrigue aplenty oozing out of the concrete canyons and reconfigured circuit at Exhibition Place. Today, in AutoRacing1’s Honda Indy Toronto Postscript, I … Read More

Newgarden completely dominated Iowa The Verizon IndyCar Series made its 10th annual pilgrimage to picturesque Iowa Speedway this past weekend. With its progressive banking and multiple grooves, the unique bullring … Read More

Will Power takes the checkered flag I don’t really have a ton to add to what has already been said about this Indy Car racing’s return to Road America this … Read More

Bourdais took the win in race No.1 After a rather festive month reveling in the pomp and circumstance of the 100th installment of The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, a sense … Read More

Alexander Rossi shocked the world last Sunday "No chance." Having started this article with the questionable tactic of quoting myself, that was my reply to the suggestion from a prominent … Read More

Pagenaud wins again. Too bad there was hardly anyone there to see it After his victory three weeks ago in the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama, we took an … Read More

Simon Pagenaud finally getting the respect he deserves Well, it's Simon Pagenaud's world right now. A week after scoring a somewhat controversial victory at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long … Read More

Simon Pagenaud Lesley Ann Miller/LAT for GM On the one hand it was your typical fare. The glorious cacophony of California sunshine tempered by the soothing Pacific breeze glistening off … Read More