Eric Ehrmann: Brazil's Scofflaw Drivers Put Carnival Tourists at Risk
With Carnival unfolding next month and the World Cup and the Rio Olympics on the horizon there's an accident waiting to happen at the intersection where big business and big party hook up for big profits.
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Dakar Rally Participant Hero After Helping to Save Two from Mineshaft: A Fan’s Reaction
In stage nine of the 2012 Dakar Rally, on January 10, 2012, one rider, Dean Nuttall, took the time to help out two fellow competitors who had gotten into trouble. After being told to go the wrong way, Sebastian Lecoq and Emirati Mohammad Balooshi ended up going down a mineshaft.
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Gurney and Gurney: Father and son appreciate what it takes to win the Rolex 24 at Daytona
If you're a fan of symmetry, of closed circles, the possibility tantalized: Alex Gurney, 37, gunning to win the 50th-anniversary running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona as his 80-year-old father--Dan, who won the first race, in 1962--applauded from the...
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COLUMN: An occasional need for awful scenes
I have a day like Wednesday once or twice a year. This time a Facebook post started it. Someone posted a photo of a driver being pulled out of a flaming crash at Daytona in 1964, and I...
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