The star of RACER’s annual Champions Issue that’s now heading to mailboxes and available for digital subscribers is Formula 1 dominator Max Verstappen. For us, there’s something refreshingly old school about the three-time champ and shatterer of F1 records.
After finishing second in September at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Robert Wickens joined a crowded podium ceremony with co-driver Harry Gottsacker. Wickens had little ceremonial joy to offer.
After what felt like an endless IndyCar silly season that provided more weekly twists, turns, and lawsuits than we could keep track of, I’m happy to say the first stretch of the offseason has downshifted a few gears.
Robert Wickens is looking back on a successful 2023 racing season. The Guelph, Ont. driver won his first championship five years after an IndyCar crash left him partially paralyzed.
Each year in mid-October, I can’t help but think of two star race car drivers who lost their lives in separate racing incidents, more than a decade apart.