David Malsher-Lopez

1 week ago | racer.com | David Malsher-Lopez

Former IndyCar ace Paul Tracy is confident that his “Racers Unchained” podcast, announced earlier this week, will prove a hit with listeners and viewers. Addressing the media at this weekend’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, the 2003 Champ Car title winner said: “Last week we recorded a couple of podcasts, and while I was researching, there was a lot of stuff I knew about the guys and a lot of stuff I didn’t that was really fascinating – their own personal life stories.

2 weeks ago | racer.com | David Malsher-Lopez

When a pack of Formula 5000 cars bellowed into life on Friday, Sept. 26, 1975, somewhere around 1:15pm PT, then rumbled out of the pits to embark on their 80-second, 90mph route around the streets of downtown Long Beach, it was the penultimate step in a dream sequence initiated, devised and delivered by California-based Englishman, Chris Pook.

2 weeks ago | racer.com | David Malsher-Lopez

A 212mph crash at Pocono Raceway in his 2018 rookie NTT IndyCar Series season left Robert Wickens with a thoracic spinal fracture, a neck fracture, tibia and fibula fractures to both legs, as well as fractures to both hands, a forearm, an elbow and four ribs. Through a long period of rehab, the Canadian was a model of determination, motivation and guts, but that’s hardly a surprise: he’d always combined abundant talent with an exceptional work ethic.

3 weeks ago | racer.com | David Malsher-Lopez

Just before the 2020 season, Will Power provided some observational evidence that Rinus VeeKay’s career momentum was set to continue unabated as he moved up to the “big cars.” The former karting sensation had finished runner-up in USF2000 in 2017 — the year he changed his last name from the Dutch original, van Kalmthout — while driving for Pabst Racing.

2 months ago | racer.com | David Malsher-Lopez

Time it was, and what a time it was,It was a time of innocence, a time of confidences. Long ago, it must be… I have a photograph. Preserve your memories; they’re all that’s left you. The words are Paul Simon’s and sung by he and Art Garfunkel in ‘Bookends’. I find myself humming Simon’s simple but beautiful accompanying melody whenever I sift through pictures from the 1950s and ’60s, despite being aware that the era’s ‘innocence’ didn’t run as deep as one pretends.