It was four-thirty on Sunday morning, somewhere on the outer edge of the Formula 1 universe. In the little suburb, twenty miles from the nearest city, the streets lie deserted beneath the lampposts. Only occasionally, there would be a vague roar of a...

The following story first appeared on this blog in September 2006. It is republished here with a few modifications. The year was 2014. It was a quiet year for open-wheel racing. The IndyCar Series had folded at the end of 2013 after an unprecedented...

I'm an avid collector of auto racing books. Over the last decade, I have amassed a collection of two shelves full of Autocourse annuals, Indianapolis 500 yearbooks, and many other books on Formula 1, Indy cars, and sports cars. Most of my books came...

A car with three wheels A car with three hundred small wheels A car with no wheels A car powered by batteries A car powered by the sun A car that makes the road ahead of it sticky A car with a radar that signals when a pass is complete A car...

In 1995, I got Papyrus IndyCar Racing for my birthday. It barely ran on my 486 and I had no sound card, but it ran okay if I turned off all the graphics options. I learned all the default circuits (including Long Beach, Milwaukee, Portland, Michigan)...