Skip Barber Racing School and SimCraft, the leader in motion simulation technology, have announced a new partnership. As part of this collaboration, Skip Barber Racing School has installed 10state-of-the-art SimCraft systems at their headquarters on Long Island, N.Y., offering a new dimension in race preparation and driver development.These advanced simulators,...

Questions submitted from fans via social media make up this week's edition of the podcast. Among the items covered:"Is there concern about starting the season on a high-speed oval? Drivers have been out of cars for a long time. Lots of track time in one day for drivers not race-conditioned....

Cadillac Racing spent Friday night building up its spare car for Johnny O'Connell to use for the remainder of this weekend's PWC round at Sonoma after the primary car was badly damaged in a crash during practice yesterday. The spare – which began the weekend as a display car on...

How does Michelin, which provides tires for 29 cars at Le Mans, plan and prepare 5,000 tires before the 24-hour race?

Winning the Indianapolis 500 was one of the most incredible experiences that I've ever been a part of in my career, but it was also the most exhausting.After the victory banquet, I was flying to New York thinking, "What the hell am I doing; I've spoken to exactly three IndyCar...

Wheel-to-wheel racing (otherwise known as Club Racing) with the Sports Car Club of America is your calling, you say? Well, sit back and relax, while we'll walk you through the process from start to finish.There are a variety of classes to choose from in Club Racing, from lightly modified road...

The focus may be on the drivers, but those maintaining the race cars in the Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich deserve time in the spotlight. Assembling and maintaining a racecar is no easy job. Whether at the lowest grassroots level of the sport, or the most high-profile...

What workout routine do the Mazda drivers go through? In this week’s Behind the Zoom blog, Joel Miller explains what it takes to be in peak physical condition for each race. Many race fans ask about driver fitness and our training routines, so I thought I would give everyone some...

Number 8 in a countdown of the things that racers must do to achieve greatness is to be student away from the track. The key to advancing in any sport – well, almost anything, really – is practice. Practice, though is harder to come by in motorsports. It takes an...

SportsCar magazine’s October 2014 issue takes a look at the upcoming 2014 SCCA National Championship Runoffs, held this year at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca – the event’s return to the West Coast for the first time in more than 40 years. The storied track will see more than 500 drivers...