Patrick Dempsey: Off The Marquee. Onto the Starting Line.

This piece was written by Taylor Wiseman, one of the participants in the 2015 Risi Competizione sponsored Young Journalist Program at COTA.  Father, actor, racecar driver…Patrick Dempsey is a busy man! Earlier this year Dempsey was killed off of the ever-popular TV show, Grey’s Anatomy. Fans were not particularly happy about the death of McDreamy. …

Seeing It: Photography is Just Point and Shoot,Right?

This piece was written by Taylor Wiseman, one of the 2015 YJP participants at COTA.    Point and Shoot. That was my idea of photography for a long time. Only in recent years have I realized that photography is a much more difficult skill than I could ever imagine. More difficult, that is, if you …

Gallery: FIA WEC 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas

The photos in this gallery were shot by Daulton Venglar and by Taylor Wiseman. This year’s Young Journalist Program was a double-header: cover the IMSA TUDOR 2 hour and 40 minute race in the morning and then the World Endurance Championship 6 Hour race in the afternoon. One of the projects that we asked the …

Dave Sims

Written by Rachel Wenzlaff as part of the Young Journalist Program For a man that says he does as little as he can, Dave “Beaky Sims” sure does a lot.   The drivers ultimately make the car accelerate, turn, brake and stop, but there would be no car to race without Dave Sims.   Simms has been …