This week made me think of a Def Leppard lyric, and it wasn’t “Livin’ like a lover with radar phone”. Although your humble host does ponder that one on occasion since I still have no idea what it means. Probably something naughty. No, the one I was thinking of was from “Rock of Ages” that […]
Man, I really thought I was done writing about Danica Patrick. It’s not that your humble host has any animosity towards her, but rather that I (and I’m sure many others) had grown weary of discussing her. When she walked away from Indycar after the 2011 season for tin tops I felt much like my […]
The last two seasons have worked out well for Indycar fans in that the winner of the final race turned out to be the winner of the series championship. That makes the podium celebration a little more festive and a little less awkward for everyone. But this year, thanks perhaps to Team Penske orders, we […]
Like any sport that has been around for decade, Motorsport has many wise sayings. Adages like “To finish first, first you must finish”. And “You can win a race on the first lap, but you can definitely lose it.” And of course, “Don’t every pick a fight with AJ Foyt, even if you’re a swarm […]
Last week someone published a statistic that there were 800 overtakes in this year’s Indycar series event at Pocono. It would be surprising if there were more than 80 legitimate overtakes at Gateway, which is just nuts when you think that short(er) tracks like Gateway and Phoenix are supposed to have more passing. The world […]