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The day was the 11th of May, 1966. The clubs Partizan Belgrade and Real Madrid were about to compete in the final of the European Cup, arguably the biggest competition between professional teams in the world. The teams were representing countries that were marred with controversy due to...

The date is December 1st, 2017. Motorsport pundits and journalists are gathered in a ballroom at the Wynn Las Vegas for a press conference by Brian France. The main consensus is that the NASCAR CEO will announce the new premier sponsor for the Cup Series. Speculation has run rampant with rumors...

Grand Prix "Introduction" The year is 1954, and Grand Prix Racing is entering its 8th official season since the end of the Second World War. The Golden Age of Grand Prix Racing had died long ago in 1939 when the War began, and the names of Tazio Nuvolari, Rudolf Caracciola, Bernd Rosemeyer...

So after it's IPO CART was awash with cash and offered to buy Formula 1 from Bernie Ecclestone. https://www.forbes.com/sites/csylt/2020/06/02/revealed-indycar-predecessor-made-bid-to-buy-formula-one/?sh=301163cc241c What if Bernie says yes? Is CART still heading straight for an iceberg? Would...

Inspired by @drcynic 's Run Over By A Bug Eyed Dummy 2001 Daytona 500 In qualifying, Awesome Bill from Dawsonville was able to grab the pole, as he started alongside Stacy Compton. Dale Jarrett and Tony Stewart would start behind them, and to round out the top 5 would be Jeff Gordon. In the...

Organized Grand Prix racing in Europe began in the early 1900s and by the 1930s had taken two main forms, the AIACR European Championship, which was the top flight of open wheel motorsport much as F1 is today with massive factory teams making cars on the very cutting edge of contemporary...

I. The Hare or the Tortoise? ALT TEXT - Mark Donohue and his Penske PC1 at the 1975 French Grand Prix, shortly before its transmission failure. July 6th, 1975 Le Castellet, France Roger Penske was not a happy man. As he stood inside his team's garage at the Circuit Paul Ricard, he pondered...

In 1990 Jean Alesi was the hottest young driver on the F1 grid. Famously he signed with both Williams and Ferrari. Alesi followed his heart and was with Ferrari for 5 painful years. He won only one Grand Prix in those years and retired on many occaisions from the lead. In those same years...

Intro: The year is 2000. Racing is at an all-time high, with the last year seeing the new talent of Juan Pablo Montoya, the rookie who won the CART championship. Greg Ray won the IndyCar championship in 1999. Mika Hakkinen dominated F1, and Dale Jarrett dominated NASCAR. The world saw...

The 1955 Le Mans Disaster was possibly the darkest day in motorsport with how Pierre Levegh's Mercedes was catapaulted into the grandstands, killing 84 people (including Levegh) and wounding 120 others. It would prompt a ban on motorsport in Switzerland and the suspension of motorsport in...

In our world, Danica Patrick ended up in Formula 1 in the 2000s, being the first female winner of a Formula 1 race in our world, so could she have gone to race in IndyCars? I mean, she's an American, so he becoming an IndyCar driver is not as implausible as it sounds at first glance.

Italian Grand Prix in Monza. 3 laps before the end of the race a major collision occurs in at the end of the straight line just before la “curva del vialone”. It turns to a major crash eliminating six drivers. Hamilton McLaren is literally send flying during the global collision. The red flag is...

The OTL Cosworth DFV V8 was the dominant engine in Formula 1 for many years from its appearance in the mid/late-1960s til the early/mid-1980s in terms of both competitiveness as well as the number of teams on the grid over the years which used the engine. The challenge is to increase the...

"If this can happen to Jimmy, what chance do the rest of us have? I think we all felt that. It seemed like we'd lost our leader." - Chris Amon, commenting on the death of Jim Clark at Hockenheim in 1968. Well, what if it didn't happen to Jimmy? What would that mean for Motorsport as a whole...