Tag: Keith Waltz
Forty-two years ago this month there was a seismic shift in the American motorsports landscape when Gordon Johncock won the first race organized by the new Championship Auto Racing Teams car owners group.
As someone who has written about auto racing for nearly four decades, I have a genuine concern for the long-term future of the Daytona 500
During an interview for a feature story that appears elsewhere in these pages, we learned about three-time USAC sprint car champion Brady Bacon’s plan to race in this year’s Little 500 at Anderson (Ind.) Speedway.
With basketball legend Michael Jordan becoming a NASCAR Cup Series car owner, the number Jordan wore during much of his playing career will return to America’s premier racing series following a brief hiatus.
The motorsports industry is known for its charitable endeavors, from foundations organized and guided by racers to nonprofits like Speedway Children’s Charities and the NASCAR Foundation.
Early this year, before COVID-19 altered our way of life and up ended the racing industry, I used this space to list the 10 most-talented individuals I had watched wheel a race car.
Forget social media and forget the office watercooler. In our world, the best barometer to gauge what’s happening in the wide world of sports is to spend some time in the barber’s chair.
In more than 35 years of writing about auto racing, we’ve seen plenty of teams unload and prepare a backup car, but this is the first time we’ve ever had to write a backup column.
The first six months of this year were unlike any other period in our lifetime.
In an earlier era of auto racing, it was virtually unheard of for an aspiring young driver to fully pursue his passion before graduating from high school.
