With the help of race car designer and former Formula 1 team owner Nick Wirth in 2014, RACER celebrated his driver Roland Ratzberger (pictured at left, above, with Wirth) on the 20th anniversary of his loss at the San Marino Grand Prix. In the intervening years since the story was...

Andretti Autosport will partner with ex-Formula 1 firm Wirth Research for its Formula E program. Michael Andretti's team and Nick Wirth's company have previously collaborated in sports car racing, with what was then Andretti-Green running the Wirth-designed Acura LMP2 car in the American Le Mans Series from 2007-'08. Wirth also...

Contesting just his third Grand Prix weekend, Roland Ratzenberger's fatal crash during qualifying at Imola was hard to process and even harder to rationalize. Formula 1 certainly wasn't prepared to bid farewell to the Austrian, and his team, the brand-new Simtek Grand Prix outfit, never imagined it would have to...