Mickey Thompson, the racing innovator from Bradbury who took Baja desert racing and made it a stadium spectator sport, has two new ideas to test Saturday night.
As they prepared to update a legal guide to help recreational vehicle owners fight for the right to park their vehicles at home, editors of Trailer Life magazine did not have to look far for fresh material.
An 18-year-old motor-scooter rider was killed early Friday when he apparently ran a red light and
Brazilian Ayrton Senna said he lost count of the number of times he nearly spun off the rain-soaked track, but led all the way in winning the Portuguese Grand Prix Sunday at Estoril, Portugal, for his first career victory.
The South Bend, Ind., company, the nation's smallest production car company, listed assets of $4.7 million and liabilities of $6.68 million as it filed under Chapter 11 of federal bankruptcy law.
their 28-year-old motor racing facility in 1987, San Bernardino County authorities are pressing for
Speedway motorcyclist Shawn Moran of Huntington Beach feared the worst after his practice session last weekend in Sweden for the InterContinental Final, the last qualifying round for the world championship.
In a deal affecting giants in three separate industries, Ford Motor has agreed to buy First
The Allentown, Pa.
Titan Corp. of Encino announced it completed an agreement to sell its Indiana General Ferrite Products division to the Allen-Bradley Co. of Milwaukee.
In the world of motocross, there is stadium racing, which is preferred by most Americans, and open-course racing, which is preferred by most Europeans.
Drag racing's Snake has gone into hibernation.
Daytona International Speedway's annual midwinter glut of automobile racing, known as Speed Weeks, is becoming more like a squirrel cage than a showcase for the Daytona 500.
Race drivers get used to changing track conditions from race to race but Dennis Aase, Dan Gurney's veteran Toyota test driver, is carrying his to extremes this week.
Motor Co. said Tuesday it has purchased an 11% interest in Costa Mesa-based Ceradyne Inc. for $10 million.
A Porsche 962 driven by defending champions Hans-Joachim Stuck of West Germany, Derek Bell of Britain and Al Holbert of the United States won the 55th Le Mans 24 Hours race at Le Mans, France, Sunday in a near-record performance.
Bobby Schwartz, a Los Angeles beach boy whose dad called him Boogaloo, spent eight years in England, fine-tuning his speedway motorcycling career against the best riders in the world before coming home last year to win the United States Speedway championship.
Jeff Ward of Mission Viejo has regained the Insport Supercross series championship for stadium motocross from Ricky Johnson of El Cajon with the cancellation of the series' final event at Sacramento.
Two European riders, David Thorpe of England and Andre Malherbe of Belgium, will carry their battle for world motocross supremacy to Carlsbad Raceway Sunday in the Nissan U.S.
Ralph Evinrude, head of the famed outboard motor company that his father founded, has died at Martin Memorial Hospital here.