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A record-tying 28 drivers for the IndyCar Series at the racetrack totaled 1,436 laps, with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing’s Buddy Rice putting in a field-high 72. TrackSide Online is a subscription service. You’ll need to login or subscribe to read the rest of this article. We don’t cover every series out there - we focus [...]

This mixture was even less functional than it sounds; when racing started several drivers suffered fatal crashes due to the unstable track. In 1996, Nascar driver Dale Jarrett and his crew gave birth to a new tradition when they kissed the bricks after winning the Brickyard 400, the tracks premiere stock-car race. Indy 500 preparations [...]

Dixon, driving for Target Chip Ganassi Racing, took advantage of Indys unique qualifying format, which allows each entry up to three tries each day. That came only moments after Ryan Briscoe, the first driver to qualify on Saturday, withdrew his earlier speed of 224.833 and put his Team Penske entry on top with a run [...]

And, if you happen to be a race car driver there’s no victory so sweet, so memorable, as whipping Darlington Raceway.” Brasington’s dream, a wild one indeed, was for tiny Darlington, South Carolina, located about 70 miles from anywhere, to have its very own world-class speedway, a track to compare to Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He [...]