mark-donohue Stories - Pop Off Valve
Moving on: the virtue of letting the past inform, not dictate, the future
Time is a crazy thing. The recent announcement that the IZOD IndyCar Series will be returning to Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., after an absence of seven years - coming as it did just prior to this weekend's race in Toronto, Ont. - naturally had many of us thinking of Greg Moore and his...
"Out of the box" driving: Multi-discipline racing in a specialized world
Danica Patrick was not grinding her teeth. Not physically, anyway. But if her imagination had teeth, they had been worn down to the roots by now.Sitting in the media center at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, she was near the limits of her patience. It was not because of the bright glare of the lights...
Twenty meeeeeeellion dollars
You've probably heard all about this by now - if you hadn't heard it from the Internet buzzwire, you heard it Sunday on FOX's NASCAR broadcast from Dover, Delaware. There's a proposal floating around to hand out $20 million to the first driver who can win the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600...
The SBNation Indy 500 Primer: The Brickyard and the 500-Mile Race
Perhaps all you need to know about just how long the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been around is that in 1909, the year when the facility opened, the Pittsburgh Pirates were the World Series champions and the best college football program in America resided at Yale University.Or maybe you might...
The Anonymous Championship: IndyCar season title lacks name, meaning
The Borg-Warner Trophy. One of professional sports' most storied and famous awards. Do you know who wins this? Of course you do. The Indianapolis 500 champion, of course. Now, here's the $64 question: what's the name of the IZOD IndyCar Series championship trophy? I'll give you a minute. Time's up....
