Late Sunday afternoon they were separated by about 50 yards in the pits at Sonoma Raceway as one was celebrating a championship and the other seemed to be reflecting on the reality that his amazing career as a full-time IndyCar driver for Roger Penske was over after 18 years. Josef Newgarden, the new face of IndyCar racing, alternated between the euphoria of the moment and emotional recounting of...

The Pirelli World Challenge 2017 season â which has just the Touring Car classes left to wrap at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca â was one of massive change. The introduction of SprintX as part of the overall championship was the big one, but it also included a new sanctioning body, a new timing and scoring system, new staff and a new track on the schedule. Since its inception as a sprint racing series...

They say never go back. When McLaren and Honda announced their new partnership to begin in 2015, it rekindled memories of Ayrton Senna screaming around Monaco in the red and white-liveried MP4/4, Memories of complete dominance. Memories of the glory days. Now, the mention of McLaren and Honda will evoke images of smoke from the rear of a car, angry drivers and a divided team. I don't think I was ...

Who is going to win the 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series championship? Not even the sport's most outspoken man, 2003 CART title winner and NBCSN commentator Paul Tracy, is willing to guess. With seven drivers in mathematical contention and five in realistic positions to earn the Astor Cup, the best we can do is look back at recent performance trends at Sonoma and tracks like it for the championship ch...

NASCAR's Steve O'Donnell openly admits it was a rough night. "Rough" only begins to cover it. Saturday night's regular season finale at Richmond Raceway will go down as the sport's biggest officiating blunder to date. Not just because of a caution with three laps to go for a car scraping the wall. Or because of the ambulance at the entrance of pit road that made drivers play a real-life game of F...

ABOVE: Alexander and Pieter Rossi, GP3, Istanbul, 2010 I want to take a moment to explore the not-often-discussed topic of family in motorsports. In my first RACER column way back in March, I wrote about how a driver is nothing without his team, and that this is one of the most team-oriented sports an athlete could take part in. But what also defines motorsports is the families behind the drivers...

"If we never have a chance to win, I'd really have to question why we're here." Those were the words of a current team owner that flew somewhat under the radar in the Formula 1 paddock last weekend. As a statement in isolation it is concerning, but then in the Bernie Ecclestone era there were often threats made by senior team members when political machinations were at play. However, this is supp...

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