By Donald M. Lugars

Editor’s note: Donald Lugars of Windsor, Ontario has contributed this story recounting his travels to Montreal and Indianapolis in 2004 to see his first live Formula One races.

Ever since the age of nine I’ve been a Formula 1 fan. Growing up in the southern-midwest, it wasn’t always easy to follow it on television. Occasionally there would be a race on The Wide World Of Sports, out of a St Louis station. Jackie Stewart was my favorite driver at the time, it must have been around 1970. My mother loved racing, and used to take me to the dirt-oval sprint-car races that she found so exciting. I soon found them boring; driving around in a circle until they wrecked didn’t hold any allure for me, but what did was the fact that there would be strange girls my age there.   read more »

By Danny Burton

Danny Burton’s Hoosier Race Report appears courtesy of OpenWheelRacers.com

Columbus, Indiana - Cabin fever was reaching a fever pitch and yours truly was more than ready to hit the road. And the St. Patrick’s Day weekend was the perfect time to do just that. I’d planned for some time a visit to my favorite race car owner, Rich Boteler and also to my baby niece, who is a freshman at Purdue University. And then my buddy Rich Hollmayer invited me to come over to a fish fry at the Hoffman Family Farm on Cincinnati’s east side; this would be on Friday, March 17th. And off I went.   read more »

Applications are now available for one of the greatest deals in racing: the Indianapolis 500 Bronze Badge credential, which grants you gate admission and garage access at the Speedway from May 7th - 27th, 2006. If you purchased a Bronze Badge last year, you should be receiving an application in the mail (I got mine a few days ago).   read more »