This photo makes me happy. Team Penske Porsche driver Patrick Long chases Highcroft Racing Acura driver David Brabham at the Mid-Ohio American Le Mans Series round in 2008. Porsche’s RS Spyder and Acura’s ARX-01b became the definitive LMP2 cars during…
In 2011, The Indianapolis Motor Speedway celebrated the 20th anniversary of Willy T. Ribbsâ breakthrough performance to become the first African-American to race at the Indy 500. I wrote a five-part feature to honor the historic event for the…
Originally posted in May, 2011. We left you after Part 1 of Willy T. Ribbs: One Of A Kind with Ribbs at an all-time low after failing to get through the Rookie Orientation Program for the 1985 Indy 500….
Originally posted in May, 2011. We left you after Part 2 of Willy T. Ribbs: One Of A Kind with Ribbs having taken his first laps in the new Lola-Buick just two days ahead of the first of two weekends of…
Originally posted in May, 2011. We left you after Part 3 of Willy T. Ribbs: One Of A Kind with Ribbs ready to qualify for the Indy 500. With a new set of tires bolted onto the Walker Motorsport/Bill Cosby Lola-Buick,…
Originally posted in May, 2011. We left you after Part 4 of Willy T. Ribbs: One Of A Kind with Ribbs at the track on Sunday morning, May 26th, as he prepared to start his first Indy 500. Ribbs was moments…
I grew up in Northern California as the son of an Arkansas-born British and Swedish car mechanic who enjoyed building race cars and driving them in amateur events on the weekends. Many of my earliest memories–somewhere around 1974 or…