Honda in the early ‘90s was so successful building engines for Formula One, it encouraged its engineers to construct an entire F1 car in their spare time. They never even intended to race it. They were just like ‘hey why don’t we build an F1 car for shits and giggles.’...

Last Monday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway was full of surprises, both from Mother Nature’s and in Victory Lane. We spoke with rookie Chris Buescher to how one lucky strategy call gave him the surprise win of the season at Pocono. Buescher was a true underdog heading into...

Rio Haryanto, the now-ex Formula 1 driver backed by a state-owned Indonesian oil company, is out of the backmarker Manor F1 team, per . What happened to all that sweet, sweet oil money, Rio? Haryanto was dismissed for being unable to meet his contractual obligations, which in F1-backmarker-ese means ‘he...

Northern Irish Citroën Racing World Rally Championship driver Kris Meeke just Rally Finland with the fastest ever win there. So, imagine his annoyance when Volkswagen team principal/whiner-in-chief Jost Capito says that Meeke can’t be happy with that win. Dude, what? Capito’s Volkswagen team includes perpetual front-runner Sébastien Ogier, a driver...

Bryan Clauson, winning dirt-track driver , planned to run 200 races this year. Two hundred. When I first heard that number I didn’t wonder why he wanted to, I wondered, how could he? Almost three months ago to the day, I watched Bryan win a 410 wingless sprint race at...

Manor, you chose poorly. After Rio Haryanto’s funding started to run out—the same funding that instead of current Manor reserve driver Alexander Rossi—and Rossi won the Indianapolis 500, Manor offered Rossi the seat, reports , but Rossi turned it down. Haryanto’s F1 seat has been in limbo for quite some...