According to Wikipedia only two funerals, in recorded history, have had greater attendance by free will than Ayrton Senna’s. They were the funerals of Pope John Paul II, who was recently beatified as a saint, and the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Let that settle in for a minute.

Mini-Rok racing karts can hit 70 m.p.h, pull three mechanical gs in corners, accelerate like a cat that fell in a bathtub, and stop like the Radical Vertical Impact Simulator in Spies Like Us. They're stupid crazy Wile E. Coyote Acme Rocket fast. And they're typically driven by ten-year-olds. And sometimes they flip.

The Nurburgring isn't so much a race track as it is an insane German roller coaster that you can fall off of at any moment. My wife, Kelty, sitting next to me, screaming for 11 minutes straight intensified this effect. Except, instead of a roller coaster scream she was screaming like she suddenly found herself on the…

An American F1 team! Or the next best thing; a rich American with FIA permission to field an F1 team. USF1 taught us those are not the same thing, but if successful Haas Formula will need a pair of (hopefully American) drivers. Like NASA, the F1 skillset required to ride the rocket is extremely specific, leaving…

The waiting and discouraging missives by Bernie Ecclestone (replaced at a later scheduled time by encouraging missives) are over. At the FIA meeting today in Marrakech (Why there? Because Morocco.) Gene Haas and Haas Formula, LLC became Formula One's newest entry and could be on the grid as early as the 2015 F1 season.

This is what happens when a sanctioning body actually tries to make stars out of it's drivers, and in 2002 it worked rather awesomely for CART. The whole commercial probably took a day to shoot and didn't require much of a budget, but it was expertly conceived and executed. Boom.

A basic prerequisite for becoming a professional Indycar driver is winning junior level championships, right? Not so much. With the exception of SCCA amateur racing or a Skip Barber regional series, eight out of the 25 drivers listed on the Indycar site as competing this year have never won an automobile racing…

I've seen racing karts with goofy wings before, but these 250 SuperKarts are going fast enough that the wings might actually be doing something besides providing a convenient place for livery. Think about that for a minute. No cage, no harnesses, the runoff area is a stone fence, and they're going fast enough to…

15 Year-Old Niokoa Johnson of Micanopy, FL died while trying to qualify for her first race at Bubba Speedway in Ocala, FL last Sunday. She lost control and hit an unprotected concrete wall, head on. She was not wearing a HANS device.

"We were quickest car on track until I started barrel rolling."

Historic auto racing has always been a curiosity for me: rich, typically older, amateur drivers racing each other in very fast, very expensive vintage race cars without mechanical parity, at well less than the car's potential, for little to no reward. On the surface it makes less sense than Amanda Bynes.

If you didn’t know Winter Park, FL had a Concours D’ Elegance, or for that matter even that Florida had a Winter Park, here’s a primer: Winter Park is basically Westport, CT minus blue blazers, ships, nine months of bad weather and Martha Stewart, but plus everything else. Including Carrot Top, a Winter Park local.

Part two of my quest to win the 2013 Skip Barber Indycar Academy takes me to Sebring International Raceway for the qualifiers- the Skip Barber 3-Day Racing School and the 2-Day Advanced Racing School. You can find part one here.

So you want to be a professional race car driver, but you don’t have actual racing experience, there are no billionaires in your family and a fracking company didn’t just knock on your door. I’ve got just the thing for you, and it’s not a psychiatric evaluation. It’s called the Skip Barber Racing School Indycar Academy