OK, so it's not factually true but, as race fans, we've always liked the old saying that the first automobile race occurred a few minutes after the second automobile was built. It sums up our deep-rooted need for speed. It's why racetracks get more visitors than car museums and why racecar drivers become our heroes. We want to see racing, passing and uncertainty. In short, we want competition.
The July issue of RACER explores what makes and defines competition in evocative words and images on every one of its 120 pages, printed – as are all issues of the all-new RACER 3.0 – on 80lb paper stock. The full list of features:
• STILL RIDING THE BULL
Red Bull may have lost much of its 2011 competitive advantage
in Formula 1, but don't count out Sebastian Vettel – and Adrian
Newey – just yet
• NEWGARDEN'S HEAD RUSH
IndyCar's latest golden boy and his first “500”
• IN FOCUS: Dallara DW12-Chevrolet
Ryan Hunter-Reay's Andretti Autosport car in
Rick Graves' studio
• FRANCHITTI FIGHTS THE FAME GAME…
…but he's surely an Indy legend now
• CAPTAIN AMERICA
In terms of legendary racing figures, Roger Penske is America's
Enzo Ferrari – the archetypal competitor
• MANAGING THE COMPETITION
How IndyCar keeps team battles within financial reason
• FIGHTING FINISH
The most competitive battles in the history of racing
< THE RACER INTERVIEW
John Force and Tony Schumacher
are NHRA's greatest active racers
• CIRCUIT DU SOLEIL
The ideal track layout, money (and
space!) no object
• THE WORLD'S BEST RACE SERIES
Is there a formula for competition
perfection?
• SEDAN IMPACT
How do the wildly disparate GT cars
of the American Le Mans Series
produce such close racing?
• THE LAND SPEED RECORD
Competition in its purest form
All this, plus Helio Castroneves's driver's column about his Indy 500 and beyond it, and our host of additional departments and features.
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