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Ingram's Flat Spot On by Jonathan Ingram Over The Hill Gang Rides Again A different former Washington Redskin football coach came to mind at Richmond after Denny Hamlin won the race in the Toyota of car owner Joe Gibbs, the three-time Super...

Rien ne va plus No further bets please, teams and wannabe teams can no longer submit their entry for the FIA Formula One 2010 championship. All we can do now is wait until June 12 when the FIA will reveal which teams have been selected for the...

A month has passed since the final checkered flag of the IndyCar Series season. There have been several newsworthy developments since Dario Franchitti captured his second series championship at Homestead and we now take a look at ...

Just like so many times before, many are turned away for sins of the past, not meeting expectations in junior formulae. But even the lucky few who are granted access to the forbidden land called Formula 1 paddock can find that the glitz and...

DC's ROLEX 24 SLEEP PARTY TRADITION The Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16, undertakes its 2009 season in traditional manner with the Jan. 24-25 Rolex 24 At Daytona. The party even begins at an "old" time,...

FOR SYLVAIN In an annual New Year's rite that kick-starts the motorsports season, the Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 annually starts the racing world's motor oil pumping with its early January Test Days at Daytona...

The Prancing Horse is threatening to leave the barn unless the controversial budget cap of only ?40M ($62M) per year is removed. Mosley and his merry men claim this is required to help new entrants into the sport. As the deadline to register for...

After seven races this season, Brawn Grand Prix and Jenson Button are still on top of the charts and firmly in control of this season's Formula One World Championship. It seems nothing can stop the white-yellow Mercedes propelled Brawn cars, many...

It seems the FIA was in such a hurry to change the points system for this year's Formula One season that they completely forgot about their own rulebook. On Friday, completely out of the blue, the FIA produced a press release which stated that if...

Ingram's Flat Spot On by Jonathan Ingram Return of The King Evidently, the demise of Atlanta as a NASCAR hub is greatly exaggerated. How fitting that Richard Petty, one of the men who helped build the sport, ended up with driver Kasey Kahne in...

Giancarlo Fisichella must be the happiest guy in Formula One these days, his life-time ambition has been fulfilled, he has won a contract to race the last five races of the season for the legendary Ferrari team. And the timing couldn't be better:...

After five races, and back on European soil again, Ross Brawn and his team are still in command in Formula One. Jenson Button has won four out of five races, and is still the leader in the Drivers Championship with 41 points. Teammate Rubens ...

Ingram's Flat Spot On by Jonathan Ingram The Best Ever? On a weekend when Tony Schumacher clinched his sixth straight Top Fuel championship at Pomona, Jimmie Johnson put himself in line to win his fourth straight Sprint Cup title after leaving...

Ingram's Flat Spot On by Jonathan Ingram France Jr. A Year Early After his victory in Charlotte on Saturday night, Jimmie Johnson appears to be on his way to a fourth straight Sprint Cup championship. But will he be able to get into the NASCAR...

The shock-announcement of mother company Renault that managing director Flavio Briatore and executive director of engineering Pat Symonds have left the ING Renault Formula One team does not mean the case is closed. Briatore and Symonds were ...

With six races to go, the battle for the 2009 championship isn't as clear as it was in the beginning of the season. The supremacy of the Brawn- Mercedes team has slowly decreased and Ross Brawn has, apart from a still very strong Red Bull team, ...

It seems all a bit confusing, but if you look at it in the right way, the silly season somehow does make sense. Hold on, here we go. Williams has something McLaren wants: Nico Rosberg. And McLaren has something Williams wants: a Mercedes engine.

After months of wrangling, accusations, claims and rumors about the impact of KERS, the arguments are finally about to be settled. In less than twelve hours, the 2009 Formula One cars will turn their wheels in anger for the first time, and the ...

Flat Spot On by Jonathan Ingram Penske Power Kurt Busch may have backed into Atlanta's victory lane by taking a celebration lap aboard his Dodge in reverse. But judging from Busch's dominating performance in the race, Penske Racing certainly...

Ingram's Flat Spot On by Jonathan Ingram DANICA GAINING MO' The reason I like Danica Patrick is because she's talented, ambitious, gutsy and different. She's like a savvy quarterback in the NFL, a brilliant point guard in the NBA or a showboat...

After the Paris agreement on June 24, we thought the problems in Formula One were solved, the teams were happy, the fans were happy, the drivers, the sponsors, everyone was happy and we were all stupid enough to believe we could return to the one...

Ingram's Flat Spot On by Jonathan Ingram Monaco or Bust Monaco. It's like no other city -- or country -- and no other race. All the Grand Prix greats have raced in Monaco since the first race in 1929 and most of them have won on the streets...

Flat Spot On by Jonathan Ingram End Of An Era There have been many calamitous moments in the history of Petty Enterprises. But the recent dramatic changes, leading to the de facto end of the team, are unmatched in their frequency and ...