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Endeavor For Sale
Readers familiar with Formula One air racing may have been wondering where F1 racing standout Endeavor has been this year.
The short answer is Endeavor...
Turbo Glamour
Imagine if you had this pile of custom-built turbo plumbing to put on your airplane. How long do you think it would take to...
Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert, designer and builder of current Formula One front runner Fraed Naught among others, unexpectedly passed away at home yesterday of an aneurysm.
The...
And We’re Racing (for awhile)
With 10 miles of visibility today the pylons are getting dusted today at Reno. Or were until our early afternoon deadline when the smoke...
A Report From the Smokehouse
Today has been an unusual day at the air races, if only because wildfire smoke has taken over the schedule. Visibility has ranged from,...
Formula One First Report
Going into todays heat races, which will get underway when the smoke permits, the story in Formula One is a brewing shootout between defending...
A View From the Pylons
The Reno Air Races have had a few days of qualifying for the various race classes and had their first day of actual heat...
Settling In For Sport Gold
After being coerced into driving to the races this year (weather and can’t miss obligations immediately after so I have to get home) it...
Reno Diaries 2022 – Ep. 4
Hi, happy Wednesday! I spent the morning laying in the back of the Raptor truck, recovering from having woken up at 5:15 A.M. Jeff...
Reno Diaries 2022 – Ep. 3
We got to Reno-Stead early this morning so that Jeff could make his mandatory 7:45 A.M. Sport brief. I ran into Mark Voss, Andrew...
