Coinciding with the first day of practice for the 2013 24 Hours of Daytona (also called the Roar Before 24), a media conference was called to explain how the impending merger between the ACO governed American Le Mans Series and  NASCAR owned Grand Am would come about, effective 2014. With 2013 being seen as a lame duck year, in that until clear technical directions are provided many teams let alone manufacturers would be wary of investing too much. The words ‘work-in-progess’ were bandied around quite a bit without anything really concrete being said, spec wise. But here is the jist of it… The ALMS P1 class is gone. That...

The Foges’ words of wisdom from his latest column in Auto Action magazine. THE REAL JAMIE IS NOT ‘WHINGECUP’ WHILE CATCHING UP WITH THE V8 CHAMP FOR AN EXTENDED CHAT WASN’T EASY, MARK FOGARTY SAYS IT WAS WORTH THE WAIT ONE OF Jamie Whincup’s few misgivings about his life as a now four-times V8 Supercars champion is that he gets very little time off during the season. Whincup doesn’t complain about the demands made on him when he’s out of his racecar, acknowledging that his a privileged life, but he does stress that his job involves a lot more than 16 weekends a year. A lot more. Like the other seven or so V8 drivers with the...

  The Foges’ words of wisdom from his latest column in Auto Action magazine KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES AMONG THOSE WATCHING ALAN JONES ‘RECREATE’ HISTORY TO PROMOTE A FREE-ADMISSION DAY AT THE AGP WAS MARK FOGARTY HE WORE a black fire suit, but silver-haired former world champion Alan Jones left the white full-face helmet sitting on the semi-enclosed passenger seat as he gunned the old racecar along the lakeside path. In unguarded moments, Mark Webber still refers to Victoria as “The Nanny State” – and with good reason – but for last week’s reenactment at Albert Park, Jones was untroubled by the safety police as he...