Ed Hinton

The poll was informal. The results are profound. This was the question: "Some drivers have safety concerns about New Hampshire International Speedway, where Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin were killed....

If more Formula One team bosses were like Eddie Jordan, Grand Prix racing might be vastly more popular in the United States. He's our kind of guy. He is singularly...

NASCAR doesn't just need a dominant driver down the stretch of this season. It needs Rusty Wallace, specifically, to liven things up. And he stands at the brink of filling...

Well, well. What have we here? A hint of an old-fashioned driver feud? In this day of double-dip vanilla, artificially sweetened, bland-as-a-bowling-league NASCAR--an acronym that now might as well stand...

The quality of restrictor-plate racing (if that isn't an oxymoron) may hinge on a specially convened test session called by NASCAR for up to a dozen Winston Cup teams at...

Just five years ago, $5 million in sponsorship was enough to finance a NASCAR team to a successful season, perhaps even a Winston Cup championship. "[Now] the $5 million mark...

H.L. Mencken wrote in 1926 that "No one in this world . . . has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."...

There is but one common culprit in all five on-track driver fatalities in NASCAR's Winston Cup and Busch series since 1992--and in at least three of the five Indy-car fatalities...

The late Bill France Sr.--"Big Bill," NASCAR's founder and first czar--used to say his organization worked so well because he could hold his board meetings in a phone booth. That...

If NASCAR drivers aren't as accessible as they used to be, a major reason is that fans are becoming more aggressive--"a lot more," says Richard Petty, arguably the most fan-friendly...