STEAM CORNERS, Ohio -- Scott Dixon has earned many nicknames during his highly-successful racing career such as "The Iceman" for his cool demeanor as well as 2008 Indianapolis 500 winner and two-time IndyCar Series champion.
KOONTZ LAKE, Indiana -- When the Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced that it was shutting down the "Brickyard Crossing" motel last week, it drew little attention, lost in the shuffle of other motorsports layoffs, race cancellations and drug testing announcements.
A deal to put the rival IndyCar Series and Champ Car Series into one unified body is as close as it's ever been since the war in open wheel racing began 13 years ago.
As Markus Winkelhock took to the sodden track of last week's European Grand Prix in Nuerburgring he went where one Winkelhock had been before, his father Manfred Winkelhock.
Croatia's Istrian Peninsula, in the northwest corner of the country, is an inviting mix of pungent truffles, Roman ruins, striking hill towns and pastel coastal villages, with a breezy Italian culture (left over from centuries of Venetian rule).
Auto racing is part of the fabric of the United States. As the nation pauses to celebrate its birthday, it is a good time to remember some patriotic times in racing. Here's a list of great red, while and blue moments.
Remember the movie Groundhog Day where the lead, played by Bill Murray, woke up and relived the same day over and over? That's how Denny Hamlin must be feeling these days. Not so much because he has repeatedly been beaten by a Hendrick Motorsports driver, but because he can't seem to escape the pit stop or mechanical gremlins that have kept the driver of the FedEx Chevrolet out of winner's circle this year despite having a competitive car week in and week out.
STEAM CORNERS, Ohio -- Scott Dixon has earned many nicknames during his highly-successful racing career such as "The Iceman" for his cool demeanor as well as 2008 Indianapolis 500 winner and two-time IndyCar Series champion.
KOONTZ LAKE, Indiana -- When the Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced that it was shutting down the "Brickyard Crossing" motel last week, it drew little attention, lost in the shuffle of other motorsports layoffs, race cancellations and drug testing announcements.
A deal to put the rival IndyCar Series and Champ Car Series into one unified body is as close as it's ever been since the war in open wheel racing began 13 years ago.
As Markus Winkelhock took to the sodden track of last week's European Grand Prix in Nuerburgring he went where one Winkelhock had been before, his father Manfred Winkelhock.
Croatia's Istrian Peninsula, in the northwest corner of the country, is an inviting mix of pungent truffles, Roman ruins, striking hill towns and pastel coastal villages, with a breezy Italian culture (left over from centuries of Venetian rule).
Auto racing is part of the fabric of the United States. As the nation pauses to celebrate its birthday, it is a good time to remember some patriotic times in racing. Here's a list of great red, while and blue moments.
Remember the movie Groundhog Day where the lead, played by Bill Murray, woke up and relived the same day over and over? That's how Denny Hamlin must be feeling these days. Not so much because he has repeatedly been beaten by a Hendrick Motorsports driver, but because he can't seem to escape the pit stop or mechanical gremlins that have kept the driver of the FedEx Chevrolet out of winner's circle this year despite having a competitive car week in and week out.
Last week SI writer Richard Deitsch interviewed Eric Bana (Munich) for the magazine's Q&A. The Australian actor plays a professional poker player in Lucky You. Here are additional excerpts from their conversation:
Having fallen in love with a bunch of computer-animated, anthropomorphized vehicles who express emotion with eyes made from windshields and smiles from metallic front grills, I do believe the exemplary Pixar team who made the beguiling comedy adventure "Cars" could draw a mote of dust and a pair of socks and turn them into characters worth caring about.
THE BIGGEST BRUISERS in sports manufacturing battled each other (and a backfield of peewee-size competitors) at last month's Super Show in Atlanta--the biggest sporting goods show in the world and ...
If you tend to drive above the speed limit, hit the brakes before you get hit in the wallet this summer. Speeding fines are accelerating at a frightening pace. Just ask all-American talk-show host ...
DRIVE UP the Chrysler Freeway north from Detroit, and you'll reach the offices of an Italian-American chief executive who is inspiring employees, exciting Wall Street, and dramatically reshaping a ...
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