Steps Part 1 Starting With the Basics Race go-karts. Many professional race car drivers started at ages as young as 5 behind the wheel of a go-kart. Karting helps teach you the craft of racing, from control to adapting to the race track for speed. The earlier you start racing, the better your chances will be for cultivating a career later. Learn as much as you…
Audi factory driver Kelvin Van Der Linde, top left, competes against Bono Huis, bottom left, a student. That sort of thing doesnāt happen on the real GT3 grid. Embedding ourselves proved to be a challenge. Online racing is the sort of solitary activity that, like certain other solo passions, is normally pursued in the privacy of bedrooms or dens. But our needs…
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Jeff Gordon has taken a very serious approach to his participation in the weekend s Rolex 24 at Daytona. However, the four-time NASCAR champion was all smiles after climbing out of his Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac DPi following his first stint behind the wheel Saturday evening. He had the ultimate E-ticket ride, taking over the wheel of…
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Nationwide is the official sponsor of the No. 88 Team in the NASCAR Cup Series. There s more to Dale Jr. than driving race cars. He s also a business owner, an animal lover and a guy who dreams about his retirement. As a longtime customer, Dale Jr. looks to Nationwide to protect the many things that are important to him, including his businesses…
Getting a new set of wheels is exciting, especially if itās your first. Hereās how to pick āThe Oneā. You may have seen the recent pictures of 17-year old Brooklyn Beckham learning to drive. Nothing particularly newsworthy in itself. That is, until you see the car he was learning to drive in. A brand new C-Class Mercedes capable of reaching 60mph in eight seconds…
What s it like being a woman in racing? Many people expect (or want) to hear that being a woman at the racetrack is rough and that I face constant sexism. While those elements might exist in racing, I ve never thought of the sport like that. Being a woman in racing is all that I know. I expect the slightly surprised looks when people first see me in my racing…
A memorial was held Saturday for Ana Delfosse, an Ashland resident when she died at age 85, but whom most of the world knows as the Argentine woman who broke speed records and social barriers. She was a famous race car driver in Argentina after WWII and the South American country s first woman Formula One mechanic, possibly the first anywhere. Delfosse was so…
Ethancasey/Wikimedia/CC BY 3.0 A 2014 report by National Public Radio reveals that NASCAR s own market-research data shows that its bread-and-butter fan base is about 60 percent male and 80 percent white, mostly from the Southern and Midwestern states. Notably, the sport has featured very few African-American drivers, although NASCAR has attempted to bring…
They might not be the sportās most popular father-son duo (more on that next), but they were certainly the most colorful and flamboyant. First, there was Richard, racingās James Dean in the 60s and 70s. And then he became The King, with the trademark shades and cowboy hat, a signature look that he still sports at 78. Kyle followed right along in his footsteps…
Some People Collect Artā¦ We Race It As one of the oldest organizations in vintage racing, and the only one with a national presence, SVRA is committed to presenting the best possible experience for our competitors and fans. From 200 MPH Indy and Formula 1 cars to classic Jaguars and Porsches, our events provide a rolling history of motorsport where the cars are…
Related Articles Race car drivers literally sit down on the job as they travel around the track. But drivers still must be fit, particularly in longer and faster races. Anyone whoās taken a long freeway trip without stopping knows how taxing normal driving can be. And racing isnāt normal driving. Road course cars, for example, typically use manual transmissions…
You generally can separate new-car buyers into one of two groups: those who pore over the order sheet with painstaking detail and deliberate over each option, and those who just want the pain to be over as quickly as possible. By default, those of us with tastes that lean toward more sporting transportation are generally forced into the former group, a fate automakersāand…
Mario Andretti will get back into a race car at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to go head-to-head in semi-autonomous vehicles against paralyzed former driver Sam Schmidt. The race will be May 13 on the 2.439-mile permanent road course at Indianapolis. Schmidt was paralyzed from the neck down from a crash while testing an Indy car in 2. He ll drive the Z06 SAM Car…
At 19, she was the youngest driver at the time to compete in an IRL race (Texas, 1) and has the most Indianapolis 500 starts (8) by a female driver. We talk with the 29-year-old racer. C/D: Growing up in Ohio, as an only child, you began racing quarter-midgets at age five and never stopped. What drew you to racing? SF: Itās pretty much all I knew. My parents…
431 shares share tweet sms send DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. ā Locked into the seat of a race car for hours on end, drivers have heat coming at them from all directions. Temperatures inside the cars range from 120 to 130 degrees in early races like the Daytona 500 ā kicking off the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season on Sunday ā and can spike up to 160 in the middle…
The 23rd season of Dancing with the Stars is underway and after Mondayās premiere, weāre eager to find out more about the competitors who will be cutting a rug this season. Here are five things to know about James Hinchcliffe, the 29-year-old race car driver who officially not only tied for the top score after performing the Foxtrot to āLive Lifeā by Zayde Wolf…
Impatient: Daschcam footage shows a BMW driver suddenly accelerate straight into another vehicle while stuck in traffic on the M60 near Manchester The impact causes a van to crash and cars to screech to a halt to avoid further carnage. One person was rescued from their car and needed hospital treatment after the chaos but luckily no-one was killed. The start…
CESENA, Italy - Former MotoGP world champion Nicky Hayden died in hospital on Monday, five days after he was hit by a car while training on his bicycle. Hayden was 35. Maurizio Bufalini Hospital in Cesena, where Hayden had been since the collision last Wednesday, made the announcement. Hayden had severe cerebral damage and multiple traumatic injuries. The medical…
Not-Quite-A-Spoiler Alert: Some general Cars 2 plot points are discussed below, but we donāt give away much. We havenāt seen the movie yet, either. If you saw Pixarās 2006 creation Cars and visit this site, chances are you enjoyed the automotive-themed Disney opus. Kids everywhere loved watchingāand continue to watch, repeatedly, in the back seats of minivans…
Spring Mountain Motor Sports courtesy Spring Mountain Motor Sports Father s Day is fast approaching. You ve already consulted the many useless online gift guides filled with terrible gifts you should never buy Dad. And just when it seems like the Internet is of no help at all in your time of need, coupons for NASCAR-like racing courses are popping up like so…
āThere were enough gay jokes and homophobic slurs to go around, and I felt like if I lifted my head out of the trenches, Iād be immediately annihilated, ā he explained. The highest-profile European driver to come out so far, Wattsā career included Formula First and Formula Renault UK titles, British Formula 3 race victories and top times in the A1 Grand Prix…
Itās 2015 and, just like the past 50 years, thereās still no black driver consistently racing in NASCARās top series. But here is Darrell āBubbaā Wallace Jr. trying to do just that. The 21-year-old driver, who is biracial, has youth, charm and, most importantly, talent. Heās on the cusp of racing at the Sprint Cup level while this year competing on the Xfinity…
Peter Dumbreck didn t start earning any money from the sport until five years after he got his racing licence. It s a long and expensive road to becoming a professional ā and dangerous too. It will be years before you make any money For a man whose Mercedes took off into the air and did a quintuple somersault during Le Mans, Peter Dumbreck comes across as remarkably…
Send Is it really that hard to say the alphabet backward? Apparently, for Team Penskeās NASCAR and IndyCar drivers, that answer is a solid yes. With the exception of IndyCar driver Will Power ā who who impressively rattled off every letter in perfect, backward order ā these guys failed miserably. NASCAR driver Ryan Blaney wasnāt terrible, getting more than halfway…
