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1975 Spanish Grand Prix: Formula 1's forgotten disaster and its historic first
Season 3 Episode 3
The 1975 Spanish Grand Prix holds a strange place in the Formula 1 history books. That weekend, drivers boycotted what they perceived as unacceptably…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Breaking the Grid: The Five Women Who Entered Formula 1
For more than 70 years, Formula 1 has been one of the most exclusive — and challenging — arenas in global sport. And while over 1,000 drivers have en…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Breaking the Ban: How Women Fought for the Right to Race
From Formula 1 to the Indianapolis 500, motorsport often presents itself as a meritocracy, but for much of racing history, women were explicitly and …
6 months, 1 week ago
Changing Gears: The Women Who Redefined What a Racing Driver Could Be
While motorsport is often perceived as a man’s world, the history of racing is littered with trailblazing women who refused to accept the rules — bot…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Murder of a Speed King: The fast life and shocking death of Mickey Thompson
Season 3 Episode 2
Some men are born to set land speed records. Others feel their calling is creating ever more technologically advanced machines for the Indianapolis 5…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
From man to myth: How Dale Earnhardt became immortal
Season 3 Episode 1
Twenty-five years ago, the racing world lost Dale Earnhardt at Turn 4 on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, but while the man may not be here phys…
8 months ago
Jochen Rindt: The tragedy of Formula 1's only posthumous World Champion
Season 2 Episode 13
In 75 years of Formula 1 history, only one driver has been crowned World Champion after his death. In 1970, Austrian racer Jochen Rindt was so domina…
1 year ago
The death of Mark Donohue and the fall of Penske Racing in Formula 1
Season 2 Episode 16
August 17, 1975. In warm-up for the Austrian Grand Prix, American icon Mark Donohue loses control of his March 751 after a tire fails. He careens thr…
1 year, 1 month ago
Big Bill vs. the Brotherhood: NASCAR’s War on Unions
Season 2 Episode 15
Unlike the NFL, MLB, or even Formula 1, NASCAR has never had a drivers’ union, but not for lack of trying. In the early 1960s, Hall of Famer Curtis T…
1 year, 2 months ago
Hitler's favorite racing driver and the team that discovered him
Season 2 Episode 14
If Bernd Rosemeyer had not existed, historian Anthony Pritchard remarked, then the National Socialist Party would have had to invent him.
Tall, blond,…
1 year, 2 months ago