It was a special night of career-firsts in Martin, Michigan, over the weekend as No Prep Kings held its final regular season event at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park. The battle for the final few spots in the No Prep Elite playoffs reached a fever pitch, with multiple bracket-setting round matchups on Friday night having massive…
The mysterious fate of Captain John Franklin’s doomed 1845 voyage into the Arctic to find a way through the Northwest Passage has captured imaginations for over a century and a half. A recent scientific paper shed light on the gruesome ends for the expedition’s sailors, confirming that James Fitzjames, the captain of… Read more…
Williams Academy driver Jamie Chadwick has maintained that progression to IndyCar is a “realistic possibility” after completing her maiden test with the Andretti Global team.Registering 87 laps in foggy conditions, Chadwick – who finished seventh in the Indy NXT standings this year – was positive of her overall first impression of the machinery, but conceded…
Formula 1 and LVMH have inked a 10-year deal that will see the luxury conglomerate become a global partner for the series.The deal will involve several of LVMH’s high-profile brands, including Louis Vuitton, Moet Hennessy and TAG Heuer, from the 2025 season onwards, and is said to include limited editions of its products, hospitality options…
Port workers on the East and Gulf Coast officially went on strike early on October 1 after the union and a port operators alliance couldn’t come to an agreement on pay increases and automation. Now, container traffic is halted from Maine to Texas. This – as you may have imagined – could spell disaster for…
A Toyota dealership in Mississippi may find out the hard way that customer safety is important even if they’re not in a car. A court of appeals cleared the way last month for a man’s negligence suit against J. Allen Toyota in Gulfport, Mississippi to move forward. The suit stems from an incident that happened…
Four-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Nicolas Lapierre has retired from the cockpit with immediate effect to concentrate on running his Cool Racing team.The announcement from the Frenchman, 40, on Wednesday means that last month’s Fuji round of the World Endurance Championship, in which he finished third with Alpine, was his final race. “It is…
The internal combustion engine certainly has its strengths, but even the most efficient engine is far from good at turning all of the energy contained in gasoline into power. As a result, your engine tends to get pretty hot while it runs even with the help of a radiator. Does it really get hot enough…
On Wednesday morning, two NASCAR teams — Front Row Motorsports and 23XI (co-owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin) — filed a joint antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR accusing the sport’s governing body, run by the dynastic France family, of “anti-competitive and monopolistic control of the sport.” Both teams had publicly stated issues with NASCAR’s new…
The famed Renaissance Center in Detroit has been the hive where GM houses its most important worker bees since it acquired the building in 1996, but lately the building is feeling more like an empty nest. The complex comprises six giant office towers, a 73-story Marriott hotel, and a pair of shorter 21-story buildings… Read…
