Logan Sargeant, the only American driver in Formula 1, is zipping around the narrow streets of Baku, Azerbaijan, at roughly 200 miles an hour. His head bounces inside the cockpit […]
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Back to news homeNetflix Shuns Live Sports but Embraces Sports Documentaries
By the fourth season of Netflix’s documentary series about Formula 1, “Drive to Survive,” the streaming company had plenty of evidence that it was onto something: Ratings and attendance for […]
Brandon Just Wants to Drive His Racecar
My colleague, the columnist John McWhorter, a trained linguist, noted in a recent essay that the catchphrase was an American instance of a euphemistic language practice known in South Africa […]
NASCAR Bets on Next Gen Car to Draw New Crowds and Shift Fortunes
When the checkered flag drops at NASCAR’s Cup Series Championship on Nov. 7 in Phoenix, it will end a season, and an era.It is the last race for NASCAR’s sixth-generation […]
Crackdown on Emissions ‘Defeat Devices’ Has Amateur Racers Up in Arms
SEMA frames the federal position as a frightening recipe for overreach, in which the E.P.A. doesn’t allow any street car to become a racecar. That would end amateur racing, and […]
Breaking the Garage’s Glass Ceiling
Graduating in 2012, Ms. Holler became a full-time mechanic for Subaru Motorsports USA. Between events, she helped build a rally car for Bucky Lasek, a top racer. She was also […]
The Races Are Digital, and So Are the Ads, but the Money Is Real
It takes more than gasoline to make a racecar run.It requires money. And money requires sponsors. And sponsors require spectators who they hope will become customers. Which became a problem […]