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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Former NASCAR driver John Wes Townley was shot and killed in Georgia. He won his lone Truck Series race at Las Vegas on this date six years ago.
Kyle Busch didn’t like what the Talladega track president said about the winning truck crashing across the finish line and he let him know about it.
Seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton set a top goal before the 2001 season that had nothing to do with breaking a major racing record.
Rookie Hailie Deegan, 20, has only one top-10 showing in the NASCAR trucks series and looks forward to practice and qualifying being restored ahead of most 2022 races.
First-year NASCAR Cup Series driver Chase Briscoe will be competing at Talladega just days after the death of mentor Briggs Cunningham III.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. visited with former NASCAR driver Robert Pressley on his podcast and recounted a story where he intentionally crashed into Pressley to quit a race.
Joey Logano knows from his own past feud with Kevin Harvick and warned Chase Elliott that his conflict with the veteran driver is likely not over.
Bobby Isaac won 37 NASCAR Cup Series races and is in the sport’s hall of fame. But it is his mid-race retirement at Talladega in 1973 that the racing world recalls.
International motorcycle racing is reeling from the deaths of three teenage competitors since May, a string of tragedies with parallels to a NASCAR crisis two decades ago.
