Motorsports
Motorsports have been around for nearly as long as motors have been inside cars. Two of the most famous racing circuits are NASCAR in the United States and the intercontinental open-wheel F1, though motorsports also include off-road rally-car racing, drag racing, and motorcycle racing.
NASCAR was founded in 1948, began contesting races in 1949, and held its first Daytona 500, one of the most prestigious and famous events in North American racing, in 1959. NASCAR contests Cup Series, Xfinity Series, and Camping World Truck Series races across the United States. Star drivers such as Cale Yarborough, David Pearson, Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon, Darrell Waltrip, Dale Earnhardt Sr., and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Year founded: 1948
President: Steve Phelps
Winningest driver, races: Richard Petty (200)
Winningest driver, cup titles: Richard Petty, Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Sr. (7)
Formula 1 started racing in 1950 and has since become the premier racing series in the world. F1 contests more than 20 races on five continents each year, with the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) serving as the governing body. Renowned drivers such as Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, and Ayrton Senna starred on the F1 circuit.
Year founded: 1950
FIA President: Mohammed Ben Sulayem
Winningest driver, races: Lewis Hamilton
Winningest driver, championships: Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton (7)
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Clint Bowyer had one crazy plan for his final race. He wanted to pay all the drivers back who had wrecked him during his career.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been racing once per season in the Xfinity Series since his NASCAR Cup Series retirement and will do so again in 2021. The venue had been a closely guarded secret until recently.
Three-time NASCAR Cup Series winner Robby Gordon lost his father and stepmother in a horrific murder-suicide in 2016.
As broadcasters for NASCAR coverage on FOX, Jeff Gordon (now the Hendrick Motorsports vice chairman) and Clint Bowyer seemingly have a pretty solid relationship. But that certainly wasn’t always the case when both were still behind the wheel. Things reached a boiling point in 2012 in Phoenix at the AdvoCare 500. Gordon purposely wrecked Bowyer, […]
Kyle Busch’s tough start to the 2021 NASCAR season took a nasty turn during a hostile exchange with a reporter where the driver repeatedly answered a question with the same four-letter word.
While Dale Earnhardt Sr. found plenty of NASCAR success, no amount of championships could change the biggest regret of his life.
Although he was from a huge racing family, Dale Earnhardt Jr. said his role models growing up weren’t drivers.
NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Jr. made plenty of friends in his career, but a specific assumption involving him and his father bothered him for years.
