Category: Auto Racing

Greetings from upstate, where some friends and I are spending a long weekend eating, drinking, thrifting, lake-swimming, bowling, attending a lumberjack festival, and so on. Drove up last night, will …

By Phil Hecken If you’re an auto racing fan, today’s your Super Bowl. Even if you’re not, it’s still a pretty major day in terms of American sport, for today …

By Phil Hecken It’s Memorial Day weekend here in the States, and aside from the knowledge that MLB teams will be wearing flag desecration Amateur Pacifist getups on Monday (a …

The 2013 F1 season begins on March 17 — a week from this Sunday. The bad news is that I don’t know jack about F1; the good news is that …

Click to enlarge My friend Matt and I — both non-religious Jews — like to play a game called “Jews Don’t Do That,” which basically entails creating a running list …

By Phil Hecken The Daytona 500, one of the most famous of all the American stock car races, is today. In fact, the Daytona 500 is often referred to as …

[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest-written column from David Firestone, who’s going to take a close look at a auto racing suits. Enjoy. ”” PL] By David Firestone The …

[Editor’s Note: Instead of Phil’s usual Sunday grab bag, we have something special for you today. With the NASCAR season kicking off with today’s Daytona 500, reader Jory Fleischauer has …

By Phil Hecken Today is the Indy 500. That’s pretty much all you need to know. But if you want to know more, then you need to read the following …

By Phil Hecken Back in August, I ran an entry with today’s “guest submitter,” Rob Caplette, who posts in our comments as “Inkracer.” That article focused on the much-overlooked “Black …

By John Ekdahl Last year’s Daytona 500 was plagued with track problems that forced the race to be delayed multiple times. It was brutally cold (for Florida) and an overwhelmingly …

By Phil Hecken with Rob Caplette Back before Paul began his month-long R&R away from Uni Watch, I asked of the readers if they were interested in having any topics …

Paul’s obviously still in Scotland, but he wanted me to run the following column this week. I’ll be back with a very special Benchies and the ticker below. Cheers. — …

Greetings from Duluth, where I arrived last night. Newly crowned national curling champion Tyler George picked me up at the airport, so of course I was all set to pay …

I never thought we’d see this happen, but the DIY bug has spread to the world of Formula 1 fans, or at least to reader Mark Clemence. He was recently …