DUBLIN, OH – I can remember the excitement in my dad’s voice when he called to tell me about a unique prize he’d claimed in a charity auction benefiting the Indiana Golf…
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Words by Dario Franchitti for RACER magazine. I interviewed Dario at IMS Productions in March, 2011 and ghost-wrote this essay. Dario was very happy with it. Now that I’ve won the Indianapolis…
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“And then one day you findTen years have got behind you…” – Pink Floyd For many devotees of modern Indy car racing, October 31, 1999 was the day the music died. On…
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WATKINS GLEN, NY – It was inevitable that Team Penske and Target Chip Ganassi Racing’s 11-month IndyCar Series winning streak would come to an end. It was just unlikely that Dale Coyne…
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The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is always guaranteed to be a major event on the Southern California social calendar. But it’s not always a classic car race. However, the 1989…
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INDIANAPOLIS – The big story at Indy this month (aside from Danica Patrick, of course) is the fact that all of the top drivers and teams in American open-wheel racing are competing…
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WATKINS GLEN, NY – No individual has tried harder over the last few years to unify America’s divergent pair of open-wheel racing championships than Mario Andretti. The 67-year old living legend commands…
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You’ve seen the headline before: “CAR RACE BREAKS OUT AT FIGHT!” But how often has the instigator been a 100-pound bantamweight like Danica Patrick? Danica came off second best in a wheel-banging…
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LONG BEACH – In the spring of 1977, Mario Andretti was a 37-year old racing driver whose career had taken him to a crossroads. I was a 12-year old boy who had…
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This is a column I really enjoyed writing at the time. The “anthem” was a joke, but good ol’ Gene fleeced the IRL for millions – just as he has done to…