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Jordan Bianchi reports this morning that the self-named (how yucky is that) Rowdy Busch has sold his racing team to Spire, who seems to need a more spacious shop. As for KDB's motivation to sell, it seems that life as a team owner is a lot more difficult when the Toyota gravy train ceases to...

I've seen a lot of glowing posts on here about how admired Kurt Busch is, even revered, and perfectly the opposite of how he used to be. I'll admit I don't abhor the man like I used to do, but at the same time I can't (and won't try to) forget the first dozen or so years of his NASCAR career...

JR Motorsports' move into the Cup Series remains stalled by "analysis paralysis," where it has been bogged down for the last two years. In 2020, Dale Jr. said all they needed was a charter to pull the trigger for launching a Cup team when the Next Gen car was introduced, but charters were going...

The Race Teams Alliance wants more than 25% of the media rights, and are unhappy with NASCAR's initial response to their offer. This will be a negotiation of paramount importance to the future of the sport, I believe. Basically, they teams are squeezed financially, while the sanctioning body and...

Most everyone here on R-F loves to dump on Texas Motor Speedway. I harbor no illusions about changing their minds, but personally I think it's a bum rap. My #1 criteria for a race - any race, every race - is always the same... Is it a stern test of driving skill with results typically...

Fifty years (!) after the birth of Supercross, it looks like AMA Motocross and Supercross are finally going to collaborate for the mutual good of both forks of the motocross industry. Yikes, it comes with a playoff... three races in the fall to crown the SuperMotocross Champion... and they are...

Watkins Glen race day attire... "The Ice Man" won 21 F1 races from 350 starts, including the 2007 F1 championship driving for Scuderia Ferrari. His F1 record is impressive, but could have been even better. He was hampered, in my opinion, by a poor work ethic and surly attitude toward his team...

The largely-spec Next Gen car represents a new competitive philosophy and a new business model of team ownership. It came about because the team owners pushed for it, realizing that the prior mode of operating was non-viable economically. Engineering and development efforts approaching F1 levels...

What is it that makes a good or great race, compared to another that's only mediocre or worse? Certainly, the answers are personal opinions and inherently subjective. I'm interested to hear YOUR opinions. Let's start with some actual data, borrowed from the stellar work done every week by...

Rather suddenly in 2022, MotoGP has been sucked into the aerodynamics black hole, and all players in the MotoGP circus are beginning to wonder if there is a way out, or will the racing spiral downward as F1, Nascar, and really just about every other major league form of motor racing has done...

So sad to hear of the passing of Big Al, one of my favorite racers ever. https://apnews.com/article/sports-auto-racing-new-mexico-indiana-indianapolis-500-5cffca745f53486792d1a3b49e152b5e

If there is any major form of motorsports that is more perilous than NASCAR in terms of team ownership depth and long-term viability, surely it would be NHRA drag racing. So it's gotta be good news to drag racing fans to hear that Antron Brown has put together a deal to form his own team...

Legendary American motorcycle racer Dick "Bugsy" Mann passed last week at age 86. Mann won the AMA Grand National Championship twice, in 1963 and 1971. He also won the Daytona 200 twice, in 1970 riding the brand new four cylinder Honda CB-750, and again in 1971 on a BSA Rocket 3 triple...

A few months ago, in the context of a political discussion downstairs in the Podium, I wrote about my Aunt Zhanna, who as a young girl in 1941 escaped from a Nazi death march, and survived the Holocaust by literally "hiding in the spotlight." After the war, she was aided by an army captain (yes...

Most Nascar fans have seen this movie before... new team owner arrives on the scene all full of piss and vinegar... only to fizzle out as the bills pile up (or even worse, as the FBI shows up with search warrants.) I'll admit to having a flashback or two as I've watched the impressive progress...

Welp, I've heard of road course ringers in Nascar, and I've heard of "mistaken identity" at the Chile Bowl, so why not iRacing ringers in Formula E? That seems to be what Audi factory team driver Daniel Abt thought too. Alas, the clever sleuths from Mercedes were on the case. They protested that...

Nascar is expected to announce later today how they plan to resume the 2020 season, according to Adam Stern and Bob Pockrass. Well, I for one am wondering if there is any way to get cars on track ASAP to offer racing action to a public that is starved for live sports action during the...

When Kurt Busch split with Stewart-Haas Racing a year ago and signed with Chip Ganassi's two car team, there were two common sentiments expressed here and elsewhere in social media... First, it was a downward move, not a lateral one, as SHR was a top tier outfit at the top of its game, while CGR...

Alopecia Areata is an autoimmune condition that attacks hair follicles. It's fairly common, afflicting about 6.8 million people in the U.S. Joey Logano has discovered that he is one of them after undergoing tests in the last few weeks. He is rapidly developing bald patches on the back of his...

The buzz and excitement level in the cup series garage is palpable as the 2nd annual Crown Jewel Challenge will be decided in the next two weeks at Darlington and Indy. And the race for the coveted prize is wide open as the winners of the first two legs both failed to score any points in the...