Category Archives: Racing
Daybreak
Nightshift Sports: Embed from Getty Images The Latest Word: The Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona is currently in progress. The race started yesterday afternoon and will finish this afternoon. The teams who have come through the night unscathed (and many did not) now face the daunting prospect that a third of the race is yet …
The Fastest Lap Ever at Le Mans.
Nightshift Sports: Records are made to broken, and this year at Le Mans, a Toyota Hybrid driven by Kamui Kobayashi broke the lap record at the famed Le Mans track. Even better, there’s terrific footage, great graphics, and very informed commentary. The video is just the thing to get you ready for the 24 Hours …
Flat out: Moto GP, April 21-April 23 at Circuit of the Americas, Austin, TX
There is racing and then there is Moto GP racing. Moto GP racing is the F1 of motorcycle racing. The bikes are extreme, the drivers are absolutely fearless and phenomenally skilled, and the action and visual presentation of the sport is without equal. It is a sport that is visibly, incredibly dangerous. On the weekend …
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The Zen of Street Racing
Editors Note: This post originally ran on the Risi Competizione website in April of 2009. It describes a race meeting at the Long Beach Grand Prix, among other topics. The Long Beach Grand Prix(now known as the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach and also as the Bubba Burger Sports Car Grand Prix) is a …
SEBRING RESOURCES 2017
Paying Attention: Embed from Getty Images The internationally famous 12 Hours of Sebring race is today. The flag drops at 10:40AM and runs until 10:40PM, ET. You can see the race on IMSA.tv, Fox Sports GO (app) and from 2:00PM to 11:00PM (ET) on Fox Sports 1. It’s not an easy race to follow. Our …
Beginnings
Racing: The official testing season for F1 cars is now in progress. Below, a short photo review, courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com of some of the new models for 2017. More on the F1 season later. Embed from Getty Images The Fine Print: Slide Show Embed courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who …
The (Secret) History of Mosport.
This is the second in a series of posts about the histories of various North American and European race tracks.. The first in the series was posted lasted week and covered Watkins Glen. Paying Attention: Canada. Oh Canada. There are a lot of very neat things to like about our neighbor to the North. Here’s …
The 24 Hours of Le Mans: An Entire Race Covered in Just 4 Press Releases
Paying Attention: For over a decade, I have worked at/with/for Risi Competizione, the top American Ferrari racing team. This year, they went, again, to race in France, at the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race, a race they have won three times (1998, 2007, 2008) in two different models of Ferrari race cars …
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The Annotated History of Sebring, Part 3
(Note: the 2016 running of The 12 is over, now, but the series on Sebring’s incredible history continues. Here’s Part 3). The Plastic Fantastic: How Chaparral Changed Sportscar Racing. Continuing our look into the cars, companies, drivers, and personalities who have made the 12 Hours of Sebring a legendary race. Chaparral changed …