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It's about the money, isn't it?
Editor's Note: The fifteenth and final season of the American Le Mans Series comes to an end with the Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda at Road Atlanta on Saturday, Oct. 19. Petit Le Mans will mark the...
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Racing to oblivion.
By Peter M. De LorenzoDetroit. After another tedious NASCAR restrictor-plate race at Talladega, an almost spectator-less finale for the INDYCAR season at California Speedway, and a fitting swan song...
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A glimmer of fun breaks through the soulless enterprise called F1.
By Peter M. De Lorenzo Detroit. When 26-year-old Sebastian Vettel clinched his fourth straight Formula One World Driving Championship by winning the Indian Grand Prix last weekend (see more coverage in...
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Chip Ganassi Racing turns to Ford EcoBoost Power for the 2014 United...
By Peter M. De LorenzoDetroit. Chip Ganassi, whose teams have not only won the Daytona 24 Hour sports car race five times, but seven of the last 10 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype...
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The chill of an early fall.
By Peter M. De LorenzoDetroit. With the last NASCAR race of the year coming up this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway, a familiar sense of finality wafts over the American racing season. I keep...
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Six-time. All time.
By Peter M. De LorenzoDetroit. With Jimmie Johnson's sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship in hand, not only is the hand-wringing over about who is the best NASCAR driver of his era, the debate about...
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The Autoextremist Racer of the Year.
By Peter M. De LorenzoDetroit. I've awarded the Racer of the Year periodically over the 14-year run of this publication. To some out there the pick should always be obvious, at least obvious as to...
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RACING TO OBLIVION.
Editor's Note: When Peter first wrote this column back in October, it resonated throughout the racing industry, drawing favorable - albeit sobering - comments from far and wide. We felt it was...
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THE AUTOEXTREMIST RACER OF THE YEAR.
By Peter M. De LorenzoDetroit. I've awarded the Racer of the Year periodically over the 14-year run of this publication. To some out there the pick should always be obvious, at least obvious as to...
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The New Reality.
Editor's Note 1/15: Peter will return with a new "Fumes" column next week. - WG By Peter M. De LorenzoDaytona Beach. The pretesting for the Daytona 24 Hour sports car race went down over the weekend...
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Memo to the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship: Image is absolutely everything.
By Peter M. De LorenzoDetroit. This isn't going to be a column about the competitiveness of the entries for this weekend's Daytona 24-hour (Rolex24), the opening round of the new TUDOR United SportsCar...
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The "NASCAR-ization" of major league sports car racing? A bitter, unwanted pill.
By Peter M. De LorenzoDetroit. Oh, how we all wanted it to be so different. Major league sports car racing in this country, which had become a mere blip on the radar screen in terms of media interest,...
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The doomsday scenario facing Jim France.
By Peter M. De LorenzoDetroit. Now that the dust has begun to settle from the fiasco at the Daytona 24 Hour (Rolex24) race, it's clear that major league sports car racing in this country has gone from...
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A Force to be reckoned with, still.
By Peter M. De LorenzoDetroit. That John Force is still a fiery competitor in the NHRA in a Funny Car is no surprise. Force, whose exuberance is well documented and who embraces life to a degree that...
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Taking the pulse.
By Peter M. De Lorenzo Detroit. In reading Gordon Kirby's excellent piece about the golden era of American racing (See "The Line" - WG), it would be easy for me to echo his column because I share his...
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The fundamental problem facing the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship.
By Peter M. De Lorenzo Detroit. As I've said repeatedly in the last few Fumes columns, wanting the "whys" and the "wherefores" of the new TUDOR United SportsCar Championship to be different is...
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The TUDOR United Sports Car Championship looks to starts anew at Sebring.
By Peter M. De Lorenzo Detroit. Now that the dust has settled from Daytona, road racing enthusiasts in North America are looking ahead to the Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring. The most historic and...
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The legend lives on.
By Peter M. De Lorenzo Detroit. I first attended the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1968. My most vivid memory of the event was standing next to the pit wall while giving my brother Tony pit signals in his No....
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Another "Powered by Ford" victory and a glimmer of progress for IMSA at Sebring.
By Peter M. De Lorenzo Sebring. Despite the endless hand-wringing and rancor that have roiled major league sports car racing in this country over the last eighteen months, in some respects it was good...
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Racing? It's about the money, honey.
By Peter M. De Lorenzo Detroit. Last week a column was floating around that attached great umbrage and outrage to the current state of Formula 1, with the obligatory hand-wringing passed along with it....
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