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Over the Wall
Will I care in 2006?
2005-12-02 F1 MISC MOTOGP SCCA
Burd Phillips
It seems that every 10 years or so something happens that causes me to burn out on motorsport ...
Read the article >Hang 'em all!
2005-06-25 F1
Burd Phillips
This is not a time to calmly sit down and try to figure out which party was logically most at fault -- this is the time to hop over the wall with Burd Phillips and accuse everyone.
Read the article >Trimming the F1 fat
2005-06-11 F1
Burd Phillips
Deep Throat speaks ... on the 2005 F1 championship contenders.
Read the article >To the streets!
2005-04-18 F1 INDYCAR INDYCAR
Burd Phillips
Street course races are an anomaly in modern day open-wheel racing. Burd delves into street racing in his own unique way ...
Read the article >For the fans?
2005-03-25 ALMS
Burd Phillips
Burd's latest goes over the wall on exactly what does "For the fans" mean, but in his usual zany way ...
Read the article >Formula Mosley
2005-03-21 F1
Burd Phillips
The Frankenstein of a lineup after Australia got Burd to thinking and that, as we all know, is dangerous ...
Read the article >F1 nose jobs
2005-02-19 F1
Burd Phillips
Burd takes our readers on a unique tour of nose jobs ...
Read the article >2004 vs. my brain
2005-01-12 MISC
Burd Phillips
Burd's recollection of things is by association or what leading psychiatrists refer to as "moronological mental association." ...
Read the article >F1 Christmas wish list
2004-11-25 F1
Burd Phillips
Dear Santa: For the 2005 F1 season, I would like to see the following things happen ...
Read the article >Dial-a-Bernie
2004-09-29 F1
Burd Phillips
If you had been able to listen in on Bernie Ecclestone's call to Flavio Briatore, this is what you might have overheard ...
Read the article >2004 F1 season wrap-up
2004-09-03 F1
Burd Phillips
Four races left in the season, yet the season is truly over. So let's just wrap up this snoozer of a season 'my way' ...
Read the article >Ralf? No.
2004-07-14 F1
Burd Phillips
As I stared down the long straight at the remains of Ralf Schumacher's destroyed FW-26, a single thought was going through my mind ...
Read the article >F1 driver “rootability”
2004-06-17 F1
Burd Phillips
It has been over a decade since a US-born driver sat on the starting grid at a Formula One event, which means the average American racing fan often has a difficult time deciding who to root for when the USGP rolls around ...
Read the article >Scott Pruett, I forgive you
2004-03-10 GRANDAM IMSA TRANSAM
Burd Phillips
If you were a big fan of Willy T. Ribbs, you were absolutely required to hate Scott Pruett, the racer. Was he really the "bad guy"? ...
Read the article >Armchair Aero
2004-01-26 F1
Burd Phillips
The 2004 F1 launch season is in full swing, and therefore it is time for us to combine all of our considerable aerodynamicalistic knowledge ...
Read the article >Grand-Am, the movie!
2003-12-22 GRANDAM
Burd Phillips
At the beginning of 2003, the outlook for the Grand-American Road Racing Association appeared to be rather grim. The car count for
Read the article >Montoya and the Williams Curse
2003-11-26 F1
Burd Phillips
Juan Pablo Montoya has one last chance to win the Formula One Drivers' World Championship. Once he leaves Williams after the upcoming 2004 season and joins McLaren, it's all over for him...
Read the article >Thank God for privateers
2003-11-02 GRANDAM
Burd Phillips
Thank God for privateers romantic vision of the unheralded privateer being the true backbone of motorsports, but that's not it really. I...
Read the article >Commoners invade F1 paddock
2003-10-07 F1
Burd Phillips
Something terrible happened at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday morning from 8 am to 12 noon, however. Track officials announced that anyone who had purchased a regular ticket for Sunday's United States Grand Prix could take a stroll through th
Read the article >IndyCar Xtreme!
2003-09-19 INDYCAR INDYCAR
Burd Phillips
There is no buzzword in the entire history of corporate sales and marketing in the United States that has been more ruthlessly abused than the word "extreme". The "Xtreme" (as it is often spelled) sports fad...
Read the article >Sportscar episode IV: a new hope
2003-09-12 ALMS GRANDAM
Burd Phillips
Members of the generation that came of age in the late '70s and early '80s have a strong tendency to directly relate everything in life to the movie Star Wars. All forms of conflict are immediately reduced...
Read the article >Why has Formula One improved?
2003-08-15 F1
Burd Phillips
The law of averages tells us that somewhere on this vast planet of ours there is a Formula One fan who refuses to believe that the...
Read the article >Spa, Spa, and more Spa
2003-08-07 FIA-GT
Burd Phillips
This is a detailed account of one American's struggle to follow a somewhat obscure 24-hour endurance race over the Internet.
Read the article >Your CART and IRL questions answered!
2003-07-19 INDYCAR INDYCAR
Burd Phillips
Fans of open-wheel racing in the United States are afraid to discuss the races with friends or buy a ticket to their local track. How they can properly support either CART or the IRL without humiliating themselves in front of their more knowledgeable peer
Read the article >The "Over the Wall" mid-term awards
2003-07-04 ALMS F1 GRANDAM INDYCAR INDYCAR TRANSAM
Burd Phillips
This is the time of year when nearly every motorsports broadcaster and writer on the planet does a piece where they hand out "mid-term grades"....
Read the article >Technology versus road racing
2003-06-25 NASCAR-CUP ROADRACING SCCA-WC
Burd Phillips
The wife was out of town, the doors were locked, the curtains were drawn, the phone was off the hook, and I don't have any kids yet so I didn't have to worry about shipping the little punks off to their...
Read the article >Gordon, Montoya in Days of Thunder II
2003-06-13 F1 NASCAR-CUP
Burd Phillips
Multiple-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion Jeff Gordon and former Indy 500 winner and current F1 star Juan Pablo Montoya recently heheld a joint press conference at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to announce that they will be sharing the bill in ...
Read the article >Grand-Am swims for shore
2003-06-02 CAN-AM GRANDAM IMSA ROADRACING
Burd Phillips
The division in American sportscar racing, by comparison, was like the capsizing of a rusty old rowboat. By the late 1990s it seemed that no one really cared about the sport anymore, and those few who still did were left on their own to either swim for sh
Read the article >Scheckter a "Wreckter" no more?
2003-05-28 INDYCAR
Burd Phillips
There is simply no way to candy-coat the truth when talking about Tomas Scheckter. It is true, for example, that during his brief IRL career the young South African driver has spent more time on the wall than the Mona Lisa. It is true that he has crashed
Read the article >Carb Day Scavenger Hunt
2003-05-24 INDYCAR
Burd Phillips
Carb Day is the occasion of the Annual Carb Day Scavenger Hunt. This hallowed event was held for the 43rd time in 2003, and as a
Read the article >The ALMS strikes back
2003-05-20 ALMS
Burd Phillips
One can therefore only imagine my surprise when I opened my mailbox recently and found a letter from none other than Dr. Don Panoz,....
Read the article >Roger Yasukawa, all-American racer?
2003-05-17 ATLANTIC INDYCAR
Burd Phillips
In 1983, the vastly different cultures of southern California and Japan came together in an inspiring union to form a champion. If
Read the article >Indy's "chosen one"
2003-05-13 INDYCAR
Burd Phillips
The question is, what can the IRL marketing department do to keep butts in seats at the Brickyard in May? The answer is, as always, extremely simple. They can construct a 50-foot altar using old Firestone tires, douse it in...
Read the article >Formula One drivers are girls
2003-05-12 F1 INDYCAR
Burd Phillips
Andretti Green Racing's Dan Wheldon, a relatively unknown English newcomer who is running in his first Indianapolis 500, came to my...
Read the article >The wrath of Kanaan
2003-05-06 INDYCAR
Burd Phillips
In the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Ricardo Montalban triumphantly returned to his role as Khan Noonian Sing
Read the article >Hey mister, how much for the Multimatic?
2003-04-26 GRANDAM
Burd Phillips
Buying a car can be hell. There's a very good reason why "used car salesman" ranks right up there with "lawyer," "TV evangelist" an...
Read the article >A guide for non-NASCAR fans
2003-04-17 ALMS F1 GRANDAM INDYCAR INDYCAR TRANSAM
Burd Phillips
There are essentially two types of motorsport fans in the United States today: NASCAR fans, and everyone else. While there are a few people who cling to one brand and shun everything else, most fans
Read the article >Too Early for the Indy 500?
2003-03-28 INDYCAR
Burd Phillips
There are three F1 races, three FIA-GT races, two JGTC races, three CART races (maybe), one Grand-Am race, about 500 NASCAR races, and even another IndyCar race at Motegi that will take place before a single wheel turns at the Brickyard. Besides, if I was
Read the article >Can't weight for Sebring!
2003-03-10 ALMS
Burd Phillips
As I prepare to watch the Joest Audi team win the 12 Hours of Sebring for the fourth consecutive year, I must admit I am more than
Read the article >Dear Mr Mosley
2003-02-20 F1
Burd Phillips
I am writing you this letter concerning your recent operation of the Formula 1 World Championship because, quite frankly, I think you could use a little help ...
Read the article >Grand-Am's new baby takes its first steps
2003-02-07 GRANDAM
Burd Phillips
On one side of the room stood Mother, the Grand American Road Racing Association, holding her new baby, the Daytona Prototype....
Read the article >The greatest ALMS movie: Encino Man?
2003-01-30 ALMS GRANDAM
Burd Phillips
A few nights ago, I found myself lying awake in bed trying to think of the best way to tackle a piece about the upcoming 2003 season of the American Le Mans Series. After a couple hours of staring....
Read the article >Grand-Am's Daytona Prototype: Is it the racing or the racecar?
2002-12-26 GRANDAM
Burd Phillips
If you are a fan of prototype sportscar racing, it is almost a given that certain combinations of words and/or numbers will cause an immediate misfire in your brain,
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