‘One of the biggest miracles ever on four wheels took place on March 23, 1997 at Phoenix International Raceway,’ blogs Stephen Cox.
I remember sitting in my living room and watching the entire Indy Racing League Phoenix 200 on ABC, stunned into silence. It was an upset so staggering that it transcended the petty IRL-vs-CART arguments. I bet you remember this race, too. So I called up Jim Guthrie's office last week and asked him to re-live the moment for us. The story goes like this:
Jim G...
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RACING’S GREATEST UPSETS?: MONEY TALKS!
‘Oh wait, there really aren't many great upsets,’ blogs racer Stephen Cox!
Think for a moment about the most famous upsets in sports history.
The New York Giants beat undefeated New England in Super Bowl XLII. Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson in Tokyo, February 1990. The U.S. Olympic hockey team manhandled the supposedly unbeatable Russians in 1980. Every year the major sports magazines print lists of the greatest upsets in sports history, and every year they all have one thing...
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INDYCAR & LUCA FILIPPI: A BRIGHT NEW STAR!
Stephen Cox blogs about what Luca Filippi means for open-wheel racing.
Perhaps I'm the lone voice in the wilderness on this, but I was very impressed with Luca Filippi's IndyCar debut at Mid-Ohio last week. He was fantastic in qualifying. Had he not been penalized, Filippi could have had a starting spot in the first three rows; been a genuine threat on race day.
He ran a conservative, nearly mistake-free race and moved from dead last to as high as 11th during the event. Nearly all of his p...
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MID-OHIO HONDA 200: SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!
Lexington, OH’s Mid-Ohio treats fans to a weekend of wheel-to-wheel racing, covering eight different series from open-wheel IndyCar to tin-top door slammers!
Sunday’s GTS winner was Lawson Aschenbach, Jupiter, FL in the Black Dog Speed Shop Camaro. Here he is dropping downhill in Turn 12, the “Carousel”. This reminds me of the old Trans-Am series where cars you saw on the street everyday ran bumper-to-bumper. If you aren’t familiar with the Pirelli World Challenge, you may want to ch...
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