Holiday reading from RACER.com

If you’re looking for some racing-related content to enjoy over the holidays, here are a few suggestions from recent posts on RACER.com. Click on the links to read...

Lewis Hamilton earned most of the headlines in Formula 1 this year, but the new world champion wasn’t the only topic of interest on the grand prix trail.

RACER’s resident historian, Robin Miller, continues his video series documenting some of the lesser known heroes of the Indy 500 in his latest offering on the 1952 race winner Troy Ruttman.

A wide group of industry insiders weighed in on the topic of IndyCar 2018, which culminated in former series president of competition Derrick Walker responding to reader questions. Walker’s piece, the final in the series, also includes links to the previous IndyCar 2018 features.

FIA World Endurance Championship star Alex Wurz, who came to the global sports car series after a decade in F1, bid farewell to the cockpit and was celebrated—and lampooned—by some of his friends, including Dario Franchitti, Allan McNish, and teammate Anthony Davidson.

RACER staff reviewed all of the full-time IndyCar drivers, including 2015 champ Scott Dixon, which includes links to all the other driver assessments in the series.

With news reduced to a crawl in recent weeks, we’ve taken a look back at some interesting series and races through the new Reflections series, and added in photo galleries to each story to bring you back in time:

The saga over IndyCar’s year-long (and still ongoing) aero kits wars was encapsulated in Mark Glendenning’s recent piece:

If you want to get ready for IMSA’s new season of WeatherTech SportsCar Championship action that kicks off next month, read the free digital issue covering a look back at 2015 and what to expect in 2016.

IMSA: Always Evolving

IndyCar faces some tough challenges—and questions—during its long offseason. Some have been addressed, a few have been answered, but some await attention from the series. RACER posed 11 questions in September—how many remain with 2016 almost here?

For pure sound quality, the ride with ALMS champion Marino Franchitti from August in the Le Mans-winning 1975 Mirage-Cosworth DFV is hard to beat.

The topic of sports car driver ratings continues to rage on. If you’ve wondered where the ratings come from, and what some of the smartest people in IMSA’s paddock think of them, take a deep dive with:

Let’s close on a heartwarming tale from Oriol Servia who stood in for Justin Wilson just days after his death at Pocono and represented Honda, Andretti Autosport, and the Wilson family behind the wheel of the big man’s Indy car at Sonoma.