Sports Car Racing

They call him the Paddock Playboy--a disgraced Formula 1 World Champion. A tattooed bad boy with a reputation, he has a penchant for supermodels and supercars. An alpha race car driver earning more headlines in gossip magazines than trophies. I was hired to clean up the mess he made. I was his PR professional. He calls me his nanny. I have my own problems I left behind in New York. But I found all new ones on the race track. He thinks his sexy, smart mouth and bad attitude will drive me to quit, send me home packing. He thought wrong. He messed with the wrong woman this time. Oh, and that...

Jerry Crabb and his white and red 12x sprint car were familiar sights at Knoxville Raceway and central Iowa tracks in the 1990s and early 2000s, mainly in the 360 class. He began racing motocross in the ’60s and raced flat-track motorcycles, three-wheelers, four-wheelers, and nearly anything else with wheels, well into the 2010s. However, he didn’t set foot in a sprint car until the age of 47 in 1990, at the spring World of Outlaws race in Knoxville. He was the winner of the 1998 Masters Classic at Knoxville. Learn about the old-school and charismatic Crabb, the interesting cast of ...

Time moves fast on the racetrack. It moves even faster when you’re being chased. Kinsley It’s a transpacific flight, my fresh start thousands of miles away from the danger that’s imprisoned me. Producing a new Formula 1 docuseries is my way out. I’m done cowering, hiding, and being afraid of what lurks in the shadows. Nothing can touch me now. Except maybe him… Embedding with this Texas racing team just became a lot more attractive. The way he’s looking at me, with eyes so blue they should be illegal? I recognize a sexy smolder when I see one. Can sixteen hours on an airplane ...

We’re best friends. The original forbidden fruit. We have to stop this before it wrecks us both. Jo I moved away from my best friend when I was fifteen. It nearly killed me. A decade later, he disappeared after a devastating Formula 1 crash left him a shattered, broken, husk of a man. I had no choice. His demons control him. My wagon has always been hitched to Logan Kendrick, Australia’s sexy hero F1 driver, my boss, and best friend since we were kids. Whether he chooses to drag me up into heaven, or down into darkness, is entirely irrelevant, because that’s where you’ll find me. ...

Twenty-six classic car stories covering a wide array of classic car culture. From racing a rolling restoration 1957 M.G.A. on an off-road rallycross track, to a lively discussion of whether cars should be considered art, the stories cross many sub-cultures. Story topics include: the history of road racing, restoration projects, swap meets, classic car shows, track days, autocross, time-speed-distance rallies, drag racing, adult soap-box racing and more. The stories take place across the nation, from the Portland (Oregon) International Raceway to the Lime Rock Historic Festival in ...

He can’t handle relationships… Julian Murphy is motorsports’ biggest player. Fans want to be him, and the women…they just want him. It’s hard to believe he enjoys friendship with a shy, awkward woman like me. Julian claims he desires more, but the women following him from one track to another give me doubts. Plus, my father, a NASCAR icon, wants him fired, and his boss thinks he’s worthless. Are they right or could Julian Murphy be the one to bring me out of my shell? She’s ten years younger… After my family’s cheating scandal nearly destroyed my career, I decided ...

Everyone had dreams of making it big in Formula 1. Me? This is my F1 nightmare. He was the broken bad boy. He dropped panties with one sexy smirk, a beacon to every girl desperate to land an angsty fixer upper. My first love, my best friend--he stole my heart, my virginity, then obliterated my life when he moved to London to follow his race car driver dreams. I’ve avoided him like the plague, but now I’ve been thrust into his world again. He’s not the same boy I fell in love with. Now he’s all man--a millionaire celebrity athlete. And I’m not the same quiet, nerdy girl he left ...

He thinks he can win the race and claim me for his prize. I’ll show him we’re only on the first lap. He’s my boss… Boone Rivers is NASCAR royalty. When his little sister hires me as his assistant, I leap at the chance. His instant rejection doesn’t frighten me. After all, he needs my help to be the next racing hotshot. It’s not like I’d fall for a grumpy race car driver like Boone, right? There’s only one problem. I’m keeping a secret that could wreck his career. Telling him the truth will destroy us both. She’s my distraction… All that matters is my next win. It’s ...

So you’ve said yes to a track day, you’ve got the car, booked your first session, and have no idea what to expect, what to do now or how to make the most of the money you’ve spent. You’re excited, but nervous about looking like the “newbie” at the track, or worse… upsetting the experienced racing enthusiasts and causing uproar in the pit lane. The problem is, that you couldn’t spot an apex if it leaped out in front of you. You don’t have time to get your head around the mindboggling array of race engineering terms out there, and you certainly can’t justify spending yet ...

First rule? Don’t sleep with your best friend’s little sister. Second? Don’t sleep with your teammate’s sister. Danica He’s my big brother’s teammate and everything I am not. He’s a rich, arrogant, entitled snob. He lives in an Italian villa, for God’s sake. I live in a hole in Prague. People think he’s hilarious, charming—the smooth-talking, panty-dropping F1 race car driver. Always with a joke, a mischievous, sexy smirk. But nothing about my life is funny, and I’m not here for the reasons my brother thinks I am. Dante If one were paying attention—and I am—...

Jenna inherited two things from her grandfather: her love for mechanics and his 1969 Dodge Charger. She thought the car just had a ‘personality’—until a rival street racer tries to get revenge for his loss against her, and her beloved car transforms into a leather-clad bad boy to protect her.

The Final Lap He’s my boss… Boone Rivers is NASCAR royalty. When his little sister hires me as his assistant, I leap at the chance. His instant rejection doesn’t frighten me. After all, he needs my help to be the next racing hotshot. It’s not like I’d fall for a grumpy race car driver like Boone, right? There’s only one problem. I’m keeping a secret that could wreck his career. Telling him the truth will destroy us both. She’s my distraction… All that matters is my next win. It’s time to create a legacy separate from my famous father. I don’t do girlfriends, and I ...

Written by racing enthusiast Leonard Wibberley (author of The Mouse that Roared) under the pen name Patrick O’Connor, The Black Tiger Series transports the reader back to a golden age of racing and American life to tell timeless stories of courage, teamwork, glory, heartbreak, and the human condition. THE BLACK TIGER BOOK SERIES Book 1: The Black Tiger Book 2: Mexican Road Race Book 3: Black Tiger at Le Mans Book 4: Black Tiger at Bonneville Book 5: Black Tiger at Indianapolis Book 6: A Car Called Camellia Each book in the series is complete to itself and can be enjoyed if read in any ...

Unlock an all-access look inside the thrilling world of Formula One. Formula One is one of the most intense, complex and secretive sports on the planet. Recent documentaries such as Netflix’s Drive to Survive series have given a glimpse of life inside the paddock, but there are so many...

Author Dion von Moltke, has become the preeminent coach in car racing after he retired from professional racing. He founded Blayze Coaching that has gone on to coach more than 3,000 grassroots racers. Dion amassed a coaching team that includes the likes of two-time IndyCar Champion Josef Newgarden, Two-Time Rolex at Daytona 24 Hour Winner Ricky Taylor, IndyCar Podium Finisher, Oliver Askew, and more.

A meaningless tryst with a younger man. A one night stand on the anniversary of a tragedy. That’s all he was supposed to be. I needed him to make me forget. He asked me to give him everything. I’m 38. He’s 26. That’s the least of our problems. The ruthless personal assistant of a top team on the grid, I’m as Type-A as they come. I make the world go ‘round for my athletes. Then I blow off steam dancing my ass off at London punk shows. There was no problem a fierce attitude and big, black boots couldn’t solve, until I met Brodie. Icelandic driver, Brodie Lusk, skated through ...

In Surviving to Drive, Haas team principal Guenther Steiner brings listeners inside his Formula 1 team for the entirety of the 2022 season, giving an unobstructed view of what really takes place behind the scenes. Through this unique lens, Steiner guides listeners on the thrilling rollercoaster of life at the heart of high-stakes motor racing.

No Hollywood scriptwriter could possibly have envisioned the breathless, adrenaline-pumping climax to the 2021 Formula 1 season. On the very last lap of the final race of an unbelievably arduous and controversial season, Red Bull's Max Verstappen nervelessly overtook the seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes to clinch the first place that thrust the young prodigy to the narrowest of victories and to his first World Drivers' title. He followed up by taking the 2022 title as well.

An inspiring biography of Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton's epic rise to glory, from his racing career and beyond. Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton’s journey from remote-controlled car hobbyist to seven-time world champion, knight of the realm, and global superstar is the stuff of sporting...

As featured on Netflix’s “Bad Sport,” the high-octane, Seabiscuit-meets-Scarface story of how Randy Lanier became a 1980s international sports star, soaring through the ranks of car racing while holding a dark secret: he was also one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history As a...