What is to be made of Cup racing at the moment? From a distanced perspective, it is a wild hodge-podge of things, full of positives that run along with various questions. The aero package introduced this year has looked to be a wonderful improvement over the past couple years, though it hasn’t changed the fact …
As Formula 1 is set to have back-to-back race weekends before the summer break, here’s a look at what’s happening at this week’s Hungarian Grand Prix. – Mercedes and Nico Rosberg tested the limits of the radio rules governing F1 this year at Silverstone, giving with the team giving him coaching which resulted in a …
What to do, what to do? One of the things that Bill France decried when shepherding the sport of NASCAR was that the fans should walk away knowing who won the race. Apparently that meant that the fans knowing something equated to cementing the results and tinkering with infractions later. Matt Kenseth failing laser …
Welcome back to some more Formula 1. In previous years it was rare to have back-to-back race weekends, but this year there’s five, with this one being the second. Then again, there’s also 21 races this season which seems to be the series at its threshold with regard to the number of events it should …
This past weekend highlighted how the concept of racing can go awry. At its most basic, racing seems to focus on the idea of trying to outrun other people and/or teams. To go with that wonderful staple, Merriam-Webster sees things like this: race a competition between people, animals, vehicles, etc., to see which one is …
The last Formula 1 race, the first on the Baku Street Circuit in Azerbaijan, highlighted one of the problems with the current rules governing the sport. Now, it’s rather easy to find faults with a litany of rules that oversee everything from the car to the pits to the helmets. That the drivers are prohibited …
Road course racing has gained in popularity over the past few years. One of the reasons for this shift is that the races have supplanted the smaller tracks as the place for action, or more specifically, the proverbial beatin’ and bangin’ that so many fans enjoy. When Bruton Smith tinkered with Bristol Motor Speedway (over …
This weekend Formula 1 will race on the streets of Baku, Azerbaijan, a new track to the schedule. The addition provides another tight challenge to the calendar as the track features some of the same unforgiving aspects of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. There had been a slight possibility that the series might visit Baku last year …
This column has pointed out some of the silliness surrounding how drivers can make the Chase in the first weekend of racing and then be able to cruise or test for a good portion of the season. That’s not to say that drivers don’t want to win on a weekly basis, but holding the big …
1) IndyCar postponed the conclusion of the Texas race until Aug 27 where the race will resume on lap 71 as things were. Did they make the right decision? What should they have done? Aaron Bearden (IndyCar/NASCAR): I’m not certain of the date, but there wasn’t too much that INDYCAR officials could do given the …
After a weekend off, Formula 1 has jumped across the Atlantic Ocean and landed in Montreal, Canada at one of the more tricky tracks on the schedule. That kind of comment seems silly. All of the tracks have their peculiarities that make them difficult; be it the turns, the elevations, the straights, or how any …
One of the things this column attempts to do is to point out reasons to be happy about what is going on in racing. At times this seems like a difficult task; notably when a race is a dud or NASCAR makes another decision that seems either nonsensical or contradictory. That other racing series like …
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