One day, several months after his Indy 500 win in 2018, Will Power tried to explain just how much the event means for its participants, and how it plays on the mind between races.“It’s easy to look at the list of Indy winners and say, ‘Oh, that’s the year that...

Lotus has unveiled the design study for a next-generation pure electric endurance racer that could be on the starting grid of tracks around the world for the 2030 season.Finished in Lotus's hallmark striking black and gold, the E-R9 features a fighter jet-style canopy centrally mounted in a delta-wing upper body....

Welcome to the first-ever RACER.com Guest Mailbag, presented by Honda Racing/HPD. Follow them at hpd.honda.com and on social media at @HondaRacing_HPD and https://www.facebook.com/HondaRacingHPD.In this inaugural edition of the Guest Mailbag we've gone directly to racing royalty, and are privileged to welcome the inimitable Mario Andretti. As the only living driver...

The best couple hundred thousand bucks ever spent in racing? That's got to be Ford's investment in the Cosworth DFV Formula 1 engine. Bolted to the beautifully sparse Lotus 49, it made its winning debut in the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix and never looked back.Downtown Motown, June 5, 1983: Milan's...

This is the 22nd installment in RACER's ongoing 25th anniversary celebration during which we share the 25 most important issues from our first quarter century.Related StoriesIt's been said you can't go home again, but RACER founders Paul Pfanner and Bill Sparks had the opportunity to do just that when Haymarket...

The spring of 1976: Lotus was in a rut, but thinking big, and Mario Andretti was suddenly out of a drive. Joining forces, they won the '78 championship and changed Formula 1.Two of motorsport's biggest names found themselves in dire need of one another when their situations became desperate at...

Legendary driver and broadcaster David Hobbs shares some fascinating and funny stories about his first Le Mans start in 1962 and many of the 20 runs that followed through 1989. A master storyteller, Hobbs details his time as a driver for the Ford GT40 program, with Colin Chapman's Lotus effort,...

Over 99 runnings, the Indianapolis 500 has become the most famous event in motorsport. That iconic status is built on a bedrock of hundreds of small stories, and to celebrate the centennial race, RACER.com has asked some of the people who are part of Indy's fabric to share a few...

ABOVE: Imperious in his Ford-powered Lotus 38, Jim Clark scythes past Len Sutton’s Vollstedt on the way to victory in the 1965 Indianapolis 500. The Scot led four times for 190 of the 200 laps. It's 50 years since Jim Clark's Lotus dominated the 49th Indianapolis 500-Mile Race. It was...

High-end model maker Automodello has recently released two stunning, resin-cast models – a 1967 Lotus 49 as driven by Jim Clark and the Ford 3.0-liter V8 Twin-Cam that powered it, during its maiden outing in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. Clark won the race, the first of four he...