One of the great things about traveling is discovering new cultures. One wouldn’t necessarily associate that aspect with going to Indianapolis, located smack in the middle of the American Midwest. But after eating a few burgers too many, I discovered a tiny restaurant called Yat’s. The place serves excellent, uncomplicated Cajun creole food on a […]
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They say Hoosiers, people from Indiana, are some of the friendliest people you’ll meet in the US of A. After spending ten days in the self-proclaimed racing capitol of the world, it is hard to disagree with that statement. Most people I have met, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway staff, IndyCar personnel, my great host in […]
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It is hard to understand what the Indianapolis 500 means until you’ve been there. Unlike Formula 1, which is more or less spread over twenty evenly matched events, IndyCar largely revolves around two weeks in May that are the most important days in the year for hundreds of thousands of fans. Over one hundred years […]
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In May I officially turned freelance as a motorsports journalist, which essentially changed my job description to traveling around the world to write about fast cars going around a track. It sounds like a dream job. And it is. But all dreaming aside, there is work to be done and money to be made to […]
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In the buildup to the Spanish Grand Prix, we went for a track walk on the most famous Spanish circuit of all time. Montjuïc Park in Barcelona. Since 1991 the Spanish Grand Prix has found its home at the Circuit de Catalunya on the outskirts of Barcelona. The track’s construction coincided with that of the […]
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