"The Story" blog

Prologue: My phone rang in early May of 1999, and my friend Steven Cole Smith was on the line. Steven was an editor at Car & Driver maga

He was a badass racer, so it’s only fitting that they’re honoring Tom Bigelow this weekend at one of America’s great badas

Scott Bloomquist is on my mind. Despite the bright sunshine and the beautiful summer breeze that washes through the open windows, I’m

Tragedy does not play favorites. He was a rising star, a young racer with unlimited potential and a great accomplishment on his side of th

It is chaos. A good kind of chaos. If you’ve witnessed the Little 500, you know what I mean. 33 sprint cars on a quarter-mile track,

What kind of guy sets himself on fire? Let me rephrase that. What rational person douses himself with gasoline and sets it off with a match