Roger S. Penske is easily the winningest and most important car owner in the history of motorsports. A perfectionist who always seems to be one…
Harry Caray was a larger-than-life character, a Chicago icon, and a superb baseball announcer. Caray covered five major league teams in a broadcasting career that…
“Super Tex” turns 82 today. In a driving career that spanned four decades, Anthony Joseph Foyt won 14 national titles and 172 major races. He…
Michael Schumacher is, statistically, the greatest driver the sport of Formula One has ever seen. Formula One, also known as F1, is the highest class…
Number Two turns 41 today. Juan Pablo Montoya Roldan was born in Bogota—Columbia’s capital and largest city–on this date in 1975. His father Pablo was…
“The Intimidator” backed down to no one. Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina—a cotton mill town outside Charlotte—April 29, 1951. He…
Today is a special day for the Unsers, one of the most prominent families in the history of auto racing. Robert William Unser was born…
The Andretti Family is motorsport racing royalty. Mario Gabriele Andretti was born February 28, 1940, in what is now Croatia. His family, which includes twin brother Aldo…
NASCAR is the only sport that kicks off the season with its most prestigious event. The Daytona 500 is a 500-mile-long, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series…
Darrell Lee Waltrip is NASCAR’s first “Total Package” driver. Born in Owensboro, Kentucky—“Barbeque Capital of the World”—on February 5, 1947, Waltrip started racing go-carts at…