Insights & Analysis
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INSIGHT: Zanardi's Rolex 24 preparations
Thursday, 19 April 2018Alex Zanardi has accomplished a lot in his remarkable life. From CART championships to Paralympic gold medals to New York City Marathons, life both before and after his accident at the Lausitzring in 2001 has been about competing, and winning. After a few years away from competitive motor racing, he's ready to get back behind the wheel for another big challenge: a tilt at the GTLM class in the 20...
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Robin Miller's Mailbag for April 18, presented by Honda Racing / HPD
Wednesday, 18 April 2018Welcome to the Robin Miller Mailbag presented by Honda Racing / HPD. You can follow the Santa Clarita, California-based company at: hpd.honda.com and on social media at @HondaRacing_HPD and https://www.facebook.com/HondaRacingHPD. Your questions for Robin should continue to be sent to millersmailbag@racer.com We cannot guarantee weâll publish all your questions and answers, but Robin will reply t...
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MILLER: When the rulebook collides with sanity
Tuesday, 17 April 2018What I'm about to say isn't anything personal towards IndyCar's Race Control trio of Arie Luyendyk, Max Papis or Kyle Novak. This is something that's been bugging me for years about what's happened to IndyCar racing. Too many rules. Too much policing. Too much nit-picking. Not enough "let them race". Over the weekend at Long Beach, we had a classic example of letting the rulebook override common ...
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MEDLAND: Verstappen needs to learn from a Red Bull blueprint
Monday, 16 April 2018There was joy and despair etched on Christian Horner's face at various times during the final 20 laps of the Chinese Grand Prix, and not for the first time, each emotion related to a specific driver. As Daniel Ricciardo was scything his way from sixth to win, his pass on Lewis Hamilton had Horner punching the air with both fists as the Red Bull sailed down the inside of one of Formula 1's latest ...
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INSIGHT: How an IndyCar practice session compares to Formula E
Thursday, 12 April 2018This weekend, the Verizon IndyCar Series will take to the streets of Long Beach for the 37th time. Six thousand, three hundred miles to the east, the ABB FIA Formula E Championship takes to the streets of Rome for the first time. The question we put to Andretti Autosport co-team principal and chief technical officer Roger Griffiths is if the two are equally far apart in terms of how a team manage...
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Firestone's tires an ongoing win-win for IndyCar
Thursday, 12 April 2018To appreciate Firestone scoring its 500th IndyCar victory last Saturday night since its return to the open-wheel wars in 1995, you have to revisit how it all came together. And that requires a little trip down memory lane with Scott Pruett. "The way Bridgestone/Firestone came back into Indy car racing was spot-on," said Pruett, whose IndyCar career had stalled out before being hired by Pat Patric...
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Robin Miller's Mailbag for April 11, presented by Honda Racing/HPD
Wednesday, 11 April 2018Welcome to the Robin Miller Mailbag presented by Honda Racing / HPD. You can follow the Santa Clarita, California-based company at: hpd.honda.com and on social media at @HondaRacing_HPD and https://www.facebook.com/HondaRacingHPD. Your questions for Robin should continue to be sent to millersmailbag@racer.com We cannot guarantee weâll publish all your questions and answers, but Robin will reply t...
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CRANDALL: NASCAR is transparent - to a point
Tuesday, 10 April 2018Brad Keselowski unceremoniously dragged NASCAR into the social media age during a red flag in the 2012 Daytona 500. To the sanctioning body's credit, it has since gone to great lengths in not only embracing the medium, but having its teams and competitors do the same. Over the past year, those on Twitter might have noticed that NASCAR president Brent Dewar (pictured above) and executive vice pres...
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MEDLAND: F1 2018 is perfectly poised
Monday, 09 April 2018I'll admit, I'm an optimist when it comes to Formula 1. You've probably already noticed in this column that I like to talk the sport up whenever possible, and this past weekend in Bahrain made it very easy for me to do so. I was genuinely surprised by the reaction to the Australian Grand Prix two weeks ago, even with the acceptance that some in F1 have short memories. Melbourne has always been a ...
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INSIGHT: Was Toyota playing games at the Prologue?
Monday, 09 April 2018With the dust now settling after the FIA WEC Prologue last weekend at Paul Ricard, there's plenty to analyze at the front of the field in the LMP1 class, where fierce competition between Toyota and the privateers is seemingly already in full swing. Toyota Gazoo Racing's technical director Pascal Vasselon made it very clear that he was pleased with the team's progress after its running during this...
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MILLER: Painful reality check at Phoenix
Monday, 09 April 2018I started going to Phoenix International Raceway in 1969, when it was dusty little oval in the middle of the desert that seated 10,000 people and book-ended the IndyCar season in March and November. It had a dogleg that couldn't be taken flat out for several years, and was a racers' track that always played to the strengths of A.J., Mario, J.R., Gordy, Michael Andretti, Mosley, Sneva and the Unse...
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Jim Clark's mechanic Sims recalls the Scot's final race
Saturday, 07 April 2018Dave "Beaky" Sims was 27 years old when his driver, two-time Formula 1 world champion Jim Clark, died in the Formula 2 car he prepared. Today, the veteran mechanic and team manager is better known as the silver-haired man behind Risi Competizione's illustrious sports car operation, and at 76, he owns his years with pride. Despite all he's seen across six decades in motor racing, the shattering ev...
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Memories of Jimmy at the Brickyard
Saturday, 07 April 2018Fifty years ago the unfathomable happened in Hockenheim, Germany when Jimmy Clark lost his life in a Formula 2 race. It shocked the entire racing world â not just in Formula 1 â because the Flying Scot had also left a most impressive mark at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In five starts, he led four races for 298 laps and came close to scoring three wins instead of his lone triumph in 1965. But...
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MEDLAND: Why a fast Kimi could be bad for Bottas
Thursday, 05 April 2018For a sport that places such a high price â figuratively and literally â on performance, Formula 1 is remarkably patient. Bosses at struggling teams are often given the chance to try and turn things around, and past results often buy drivers time even if more recent ones have been poor. None have been more patient than Ferrari has been with Kimi Raikkonen. Kimi remains one of the most popular dri...
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Robin Miller's Mailbag for April 4, presented by Honda Racing/HPD
Wednesday, 04 April 2018Welcome to the Robin Miller Mailbag presented by Honda Racing / HPD. You can follow the Santa Clarita, California-based company at: hpd.honda.com and on social media at @HondaRacing_HPD and https://www.facebook.com/HondaRacingHPD. Your questions for Robin should continue to be sent to millersmailbag@racer.com We cannot guarantee weâll publish all your questions and answers, but Robin will reply t...
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