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Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - April 16 2025
In this week’s Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com, Dave Mathers updates us on the Dragstrip Memories show, NASCAR’s visit to Bristol, NHRA Las Vegas and more. NASCAR Antitrust Lawsuit: The two teams suing NASCAR for antitrust violations – Front Row Motorsports and 23XI Racing – have petitioned the courts to force Liberty Media, the owners of Formula One, to open their books. Hey, good luck with that. Sounds to me like the lawyers for those two teams are getting a little desperate.
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - April 1, 2025
In this week’s Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com, Dave Mathers chats about some NASCAR news before covering the action at Martinsville and NHRA’s visit to Pomona. Austin Hill will be taking part in five races in the NASCAR Cup Series. He’ll be driving a Richard Childress-owned #33 Chevy. Any bets on how long before Childress removes ONE of those threes?
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - March 25 2025
It appears that Josh Berry was not the only winner at Las Vegas. Denny Hamlin won $126,150 on a slot machine in an unidentified casino over the weekend. Bonus!! It has been reported that all eleven F1 teams (Cadillac is the 11th) have signed the 2026 Concorde Agreement!! See 23XI and Front Row Motorsports, it CAN be done!! How much does it cost to gain entry into Formula One?
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - March 17 2025
Editor’s Note: Playing catch-up on three weeks of Motion Motorsport Reports. The time demands of the recent Motorama Custom Car and Motorsports Expo didn’t allow for posting. But Dave filed the reports. Lots of great insights in all three segments, so please enjoy playing catch-up. Thanks to Dave and all the readers for your understanding and patience! (Greg MacPherson). GREAT news! Reports have it that NASCAR has indicated that they will be returning to Canada next year.
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - February 18 2025
Denny Hamlin continues to make himself the ‘enfant terrible’ of NASCAR. His criticism of the decision to attract ‘world-class drivers,’ – in this case Helio Castroneves for the Daytona 500 – is just wrong. He is now a team owner, and this decision actually increases his team’s value. By bringing in ‘outside talent’ many more viewers are attracted especially from, in this case, the over two hundred million citizens of Brazil and countless IndyCar fans.
If a modern-day Horatio Alger – the famous writer who wrote about American rags to riches stories – were to come to Canada, his first story would be about ‘Fast Eddie’ Ed Hakonson. The businessman and racing enthusiast was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 2019. You would be hard-pressed to find a Canadian racer or fan who hasn’t heard of Ed Hakonson or been touched by his participation in the racing and/or automotive fields.
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - February 5, 2025
It appears that the first run in a Ferrari for new team driver Lewis Hamilton did NOT go to plan. During testing at Catalunya, in Spain, Hamilton stuffed the 2023 model he was driving into the barriers, ending the testing for the day.
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - January 30, 2025
We’re baaaaaaack! The Motion Motorsport Report returns again this year offering you, the fans, a ‘Coles Notes’ summary of what happened in the racing world on each and every weekend. We cover all the major sanctioning bodies and list the races at many of the local tracks. And I do it as a hobby because I love all things motorsport. OH Canada!! Canada was well represented in Florida this year. In the Rolex we had the two Multimatic Mustangs plus Pfaff Racing’s new Lambo ride.
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - November 20, 2024
The FIA has announced Formula 1 Race Director Niels Wittich has left his role with immediate effect to “pursue new opportunities.” Translation: You are no Charlie Whiting so you’re fired. F1 has been in freefall since Charlie died 5 years ago and it will be really hard to recover!! Having said that, the FIA fired the wrong party. They should have terminated their brain-dead, incompetent, inconsistent and destructive Stewards Program. That is the weak link in the chain, not the race director.
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - November 12, 2024
NASCAR did not give itself a good look last week with one of the penalties they issued. Ty Majeski was fined $12,500 for skipping the presser for the four Truck Series finalists so that he could vote, back home in Wisconsin. Voting is a right and a privilege. Could he have voted by mail? Probably. The other penalties, however, were DEFINITELY justified and deserved. Those fines and penalties were to the teams of Ross Chastain, Austin Cindric and Bubba Wallace.
Motion Motorsports Report for InsideTrackNews.com - October 22, 2024
In this week’s Motion Motorsports Report for InsideTrackNews.com, Dave Mathers updates us on two weeks of action, as well as commenting on some recent events in the world of racing. This week you get a ‘TWOFER’!! Two weeks in one. The staff at Inside Track was super busy with important meetings about the upcoming and always popular Toronto Motorama Show on March 7,8 and 9, 2025. As a result, the decision was made to not do the report last week but do a double this week.
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - October 8, 2024
In this week’s Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com, Dave Mathers discusses some recent events in the world of racing, before turning his attention to NASCAR at Talladega, Flamboro’s Frostoberfest and much more. Former NBA star turned racing team owner Michael Jordan is suing NASCAR claiming that they are running an unlawful monopoly in the sport of stock car racing. All I can say is good luck with that.
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - September 30, 2024
In this week’s Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com, Dave Mathers touches on NASCAR, F1, NHRA and some of the late-season Canadian racing action still taking place… It sounds like NASCAR was disappointed that the tire wear at the Bristol Cup race was much less than expected. This resulted in far fewer passes on track. Apparently, good tire wear is NOT a positive thing? Who knew? Mark Martin commented this week that they should ‘Move the number (back) to the middle of the door.
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - September 24 2024
In this week’s Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com, Dave Mathers includes the NASCAR Canada Series finale at Autodrome Montmagny and a full slate of other racing action from the weekend. Can somebody explain to me why NASCAR has a ‘Damaged Vehicle Policy’? Is it not better to have as many cars on track as possible as opposed to having cars parked in the garage?
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - September 17, 2024
In this week’s Motion Motorsport Report by Dave Mathers, Dave wraps up the weekend’s racing action and comments on happenings in the world of Canadian and International motorsports… We read on a regular basis about police forces urging wannabe street racers to ‘take it to the racetrack’. So, what do those same forces do when the racers take their advice? They set up ‘safety checks’ right outside the very race tracks they suggested the racers attend. What is wrong with THAT picture?
Motion Motorsports Report for InsideTrackNews.com - September 10, 2024
In this edition of the Dave Mathers Motion Motorsports Report for InsideTrackNews.com, Dave covers all the action from the busy Great Canadian Race Weekend at Delaware Speedway and much more. The NASCAR Cup playoffs are set with 5 Chevs, 6 Fords and 5 Toyotas. Hands up anybody who would like to see Martin Truex win the championship in his final full season? In other Truex news, it has been reported that Denny Hamlin is supplying a car from his team for Martin to run in next year’s Daytona 500.
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - September 3 2024
In this week’s Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com, Dave Mathers wraps up the busy, long weekend of racing at home and around the world… After crashing once too often, American F1 racer Logan Sargeant has been put on the trailer for the rest of the season. The Williams team has selected F2 driver Franco Colapinto to finish the season. Williams sits dead last in the Constructors’ Championship with only 4 points.
Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com - August 27 2024
In this week’s busy Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com, Dave Mathers covers a lot of ground with commentary and coverage of events in Canada and around the world. Denny Hamlin and his Joe Gibbs Toyota team have each incurred a 75-point penalty, 10 playoff points and their crew chief has been fined $100,000.
Motion Motorsport Report on InsideTrackNews.com - August 19 2024
In spite of it being a wet weekend in Ontario, Dave Mathers found a bunch of action and news tidbits for this edition of the Motion Motorsport Report for InsideTrackNews.com. Ah, what an exact science we have in weather forecasting!! With most local racing venues cancelling their races well before the weekend – based on the forecasts of rain, rain, rain – it was frustrating to see the sun come out Friday night, Saturday and Sunday in some areas.
The Motion Motorsports Report on InsideTrackNews.com - August 13, 2024
In this week’s Motion Motorsports Report for InsideTrackNews.com, Dave Mathers wraps up the weekend of racing action and comments on some current events and topics in the world of racing. Apparently Canadian ace Treyten Lapcevich thought he had won the zMAX CARS Tour race at North Wilkesboro Speedway a week ago but apparently not as his team was subsequently disqualified for an unapproved part, reportedly based on a complaint from another team TWO days later. Hmmm.
Motion Motorsports Report for InsideTrackNews.com - August 6, 2024
NASCAR and F1 were off, but there was still plenty of racing on tap this past weekend, in Canada and elsewhere. Dave Mathers gives us his take on all the action in this week’s Motion Motorsports Report for InsideTrackNews.com. With F1 on its summer break and NASCAR and some other series staying quiet during the Olympics, it was a very light weekend of racing on the international scene.
Motion Motorsport Report - July 30, 2024
In this week’s Motion Motorsport Report, Dave Mathers covers some recent events in the world of motorsports, as well as a ton of local and international action from this past weekend. Oh baby, the conspiracy theorists sure came out of the woodwork after last Sunday’s Brickyard 400. They are saying, possibly correctly, that Kyle Larson jumped the restart after the second-last caution and was not penalized for it.
Motion Motorsports Report - July 22, 2024
In this week’s Motion Motorsports Report, Dave Mathers celebrates Kyle Steckly on his big win in Indiana, and recaps the Toronto Indy, NASCAR Canada Series in Saskatoon and much more. Kyle Steckly won the Redbud 400, an ASA All Stars series touring race, at Anderson Speedway, Indiana on Saturday night. The track is a high-banked, 1/4 mile and is very fast. Maritime driver Cole Butcher was 7th after starting from the pole. More news from the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Motion Motorsport Report - July 15, 2024
In this week’s edition of the Motion Motorsports Report, Dave Mathers talks about racing EVs and wraps up a busy weekend of racing on both sides of the border, and more. NASCAR introduced its prototype EV racer last week at Chicago and it had, reportedly, 1300 horsepower at its disposal. I will guarantee that the horsepower will be way less than that if and when the cars get to race.
The Motion Motorsports Report - July 10, 2024
In this week’s Motion Motorsports Report, Dave Mathers looks at the issue of car counts, including a recent Facebook post on the issue by recent Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame inductee Derek Lynch. Dave also summarizes some of the top local and international racing action from this past weekend. CAR COUNTS: Next to bad weather, car counts are the kryptonite for all race promoters. What affects car counts? Overzealous tech officials and over complicated/strict rule books?
InsideTrackNews.com: Motion Motorsport Report - June 25, 2024
What a weekend for bad weather. Rain interrupted the IMSA race at Watkins Glen, the NASCAR Cup race at Loudon as well as both Cup and Xfinity qualifying, the NHRA race at Virginia and even Friday night at Delaware. Gene Haas has decided to stay in NASCAR after all. He will retain one Cup charter as well as running two Xfinity teams. The new team will be known as the Haas Factory Team. Drivers have not yet been officially named.
Motion Motorsport Report - June 18 2024
In this week’s Motion Motorsport Report presented by the Inside Track Canadian Racing Guide Schedule Issue, Dave Mathers cheers the new IndyCar TV deal, notes some hiccups during Montreal’s F1 weekend, documents some highlights by Canadian oval racers competing stateside, and much more. AWESOME news from IndyCar!! They have signed a deal starting next year that will see ALL their races broadcast on Fox and the Fox app.
The Motion Motorsport Report - January 26, 2024
We’re back! There will be a slight change to the Motion Motorsport Report this year. Instead of coming out sometime at the start of the week we will now publish later in the week (Thursdays, in most cases), during the racing season. This will allow time to gather all the photos, etc. as well as let readers know what is coming up on the weekend in their favourite series. IMSA is the first to open the season with their Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona this weekend.
Motion Motorsport Report - October 5 2023
BREAKING NEWS: NASCAR has announced its 2024 race schedules for its three major touring series. Many were shocked to see that Montreal will not get a Cup Series race next season, which was widely assumed to be a given. It was also somewhat of a surprise that the always well-sponsored and well-attended Truck Series race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park will also not be happening, again, in 2024.
Motion Motorsport Report - September 6 2023
In this week’s Motion Motorsport Report by Dave Mathers for Inside Track Motorsport News, Dave wraps up last weekend’s racing action, including NASCAR, F1, NHRA and much more. News reports have the 2024 Williams FW46 being produced by, and I quote, “a committee of senior managers in the absence of a technical director.”’!! What could possibly go wrong with that? Wow. Could they be getting cocky after a Williams finally made it to Q3, this time at the Dutch Grand Prix?
Dave Mathers' Motion Motorsport Report - June 27 2023
In this week’s Motion Motorsports Report, Dave Mathers addresses some speculation about Joe Gibbs Racing taking on a new partner, the prospects for Red Bull’s continued domination of F1, and the busy race weekends at Nashville, Watkins Glen, Newfoundland, Norwalk and more. Reports have Joe Gibbs selling a minority share of Joe Gibbs Racing to Josh Harris, the rumoured new owner of the Washington Commanders (formerly the Redskins).
Dave Mathers' Motion Motorsport Report - January 31, 2023
We’re BACK!! Once again we are pleased to present the weekly Motion Motorsport Report on InsideTrackNews.com. Why the name? In 1986 I bought Westmount Lincoln-Mercury, renaming it Motion Lincoln-Mercury. Due to the lack of coverage of any motorsports in the local paper I decided to create and sponsor a weekly report known as the Motion Motorsport Report. Thus the name, as many racers still remember it and still talk about it as that was way before the internet and instant access to everything.
Dave Mathers’ Motion Motorsport Report - July 4 2022
In this edition of Dave Mathers’ Motion Motorsport Report, Dave reminisces about a road trip to Florida, before commenting on the weekend in NASCAR, IMSA, F1 and more. NASCAR CUP SERIES: Boy, I do miss the traditional Firecracker 400 at Daytona that used to run every July 4th weekend.
Dave Mathers: Monday Morning Motormouth!! (June 21, 2021)
FORMULA ONE: Pirelli has determined that the tire failures at Baku were caused by – wait for it – ‘the way the tires were being run.’ AND, ‘the tires were not being run properly while out on track.’ Huh? Political doublespeak perhaps? The high ‘kerbs’ at the Paul Ricard Circuit for the French Grand Prix seemed to have damaged several cars during practice. As an interesting aside, you can virtually ‘drive’ the circuit on Google Earth Pro Street View.
Dave Mathers: Monday Morning Motormouth!! (June 14, 2021)
FORMULA ONE: In F1 news, it appears Spa-Francorchamps suffered a major flood recently. And the irony is that Eau Rouge got flooded... except the ‘Eau’ was not ‘Rouge’ but just normal rain water and overflow from a nearby river. The track immediately began repaving of the damaged surfaces. More F1 - TIRES!!: Baku was not nice on the Pirelli tires. I don’t recall these types of problems with Michelin and Bridgestone, both of which dropped out of F1.
Dave Mathers: Monday Morning Motormouth! (June 7, 2021)
BIG NEWS about Delaware Speedway, just outside of London, Ontario. From Norm De Bono, London Free Press: “The new owners are the Delaware Group, made up of London businesspeople Walt Spivak and Jon Aarts and the United Racing Series, including Ivor Jones, John Jones, Steve Drake and Ramsay. "Russ Urlin will continue in the role of General Manager and Darryl Timmermans the Competition Director.
Dave Mathers: Monday Morning Motormouth! (May 31, 2021)
The Indianapolis 500 – the biggest race in the world – sure lived up to its reputation on Sunday. And Hollywood couldn’t have written a better script. Helio Castroneves, in the AutoNation Sirius XM car won for the fourth time, got a big kiss from Mario, and was followed by Palou and Pagenaud. The old adage, ‘and the crowd went wild’ has never been more appropriate!! Once again, the start was brutal and too many drivers had trouble on pit road, with several spinning out.
Dave Mathers: Monday Morning Motormouth
First the bad / sad news! Jukasa Motor Speedway – Canada’s most beautiful racing facility – has made the decision to cancel racing this year due to the pandemic restrictions and it will most definitely be missed. And, on a personal note, I am rather upset that Formula One decided to run the Monaco Grand Prix a week early.
Dave Mathers: Monday Morning Motormouth!
Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame member Dave Mathers recently began telling stories about racers and other characters in Canadian motorsports, in a column in Inside Track Motorsport News. But as an avid fan, we thought we'd also give him a chance to talk about current events in the world of racing, and do it online every week on InsideTrackNews.com. Titled, "Monday Morning Motormouth," Dave will share his thoughts. Welcome aboard, Dave! (Greg MacPherson).
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