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MARTIN: IndyCar’s Best Rivalry

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — The best rivalry in the NTT IndyCar Series isn’t between drivers behind the wheel of race cars. It’s not Alex Palou versus Josef Newgarden, or Romain Grosjean versus Alexander Rossi or Pato O’Ward versus Marcus Ericsson. The best rivalry in IndyCar is between Chip Ganassi and Zak Brown, two of the most […]

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FERNS: Giving Back

Read below or listen to the full column, read by Taylor Ferns. It’s no secret the number of responsibilities I have and the roles I’ve taken on — race car driver, team owner, law student, Women in Motorsports North America founding member, SPEED SPORT columnist, mentor and ambassador. That’s not to mention the […]

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KERCHNER: Friday Morning Heat Race

It’s time for our weekly Friday morning tour around the racing world. From hot laps to the main event, here’s what’s on our mind this week.

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HOLLAND: A Rainy, But Competitive PA Speedweek

DRUMS, Pa. – Pennsylvania Sprint Car Speedweek presented by Red Robin featured some great racing and the worst weather in the history of the event. It was the 33rd year for PA Speedweek and there were 10 nights of racing scheduled to be run over 11 days. When it was all finished, six of the […]

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KERCHNER: ‘Cooler Every Year’

KNOXVILLE, Iowa — First run in 1961 and long recognized as the most prestigious sprint car race in the world, the Knoxville Nationals continues to get bigger and better. The enthusiasm among racers and fans was greater than ever during this year’s 62nd running of the event at Knoxville Raceway, and new promoter Jason […]

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WALTZ: Who’s Trending In Motorsports?

HARRISBURG, N.C. – The AP Stylebook puts a modern spin on the definition of trending: “Used to indicate that a particular topic, word, phrase or piece of content is getting a lot of attention on a social network, search engine or website. But for our purposes, we’ll take an old-school approach and refer to an […]

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KERCHNER: Friday Morning Heat Race

Forty-six non-winged sprint cars were on hand for the opening night of the Kokomo Smackdown at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway.

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WADE: Let’s Keep The Emotion In Racing

MESA, Ariz. — The NHRA fined Top Alcohol dragster drivers Matt Cummings and Taylor Vetter $5,000 each July 6 for a series of physical skirmishes in the pit area during the late-June Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio. Their crew chiefs and crew members repeatedly roughed up each other in a manner the sanctioning […]

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BOURCIER: Through Fresh, Wide Eyes

INDIANAPOLIS — It doesn’t matter when it happens or where it happens, only that it does happen. And when it does — when you first see that racing is not a game of machines, but rather of people — that is when the hook is set. From there, racing just pulls you in, as deep […]

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SHEHEEN: A Trip Back In Time With ASA

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — The American Speed Ass’n has been a big part of my broadcasting career since the early 1990s when the series aired live for the first time on TNN. I was the pit reporter on that hot afternoon at the old Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway. It ended up being arguably the greatest stock car […]