Jim Koscs

One of road racing's most successful drivers retired from a 30-plus-year career to become the new president of Trans Am.   Andy Lally closed his 30-plus-year road racing career at the Rolex 24 At Daytona this past January, a race he has won a remarkable five times. The three-time IMSA champion in prototypes and GTs then stepped into his new role with Parella Motorsports Holdings (PMH) as president of the Trans Am Series Presented by Pirelli. Lally will report to PMH Chief Operating Officer Mich

Trans Am’s new TA2 technical director brings more than three decades of racing and racing-industry experience to the role. When he’s away from his day job, he can often still be found at race events.

The new Juncos Hollinger Racing IndyCar team principal brings decades of open wheel racing experience to this exclusively created role. Dave O’Neill has been working in the world of open wheel racing since his teen years, and more recently building…

Image The SCCA’s new director of road racing brings decades of racing and industry experience to the job, and he’s got a great reason for wearing a black straw Stetson. Jeff Barrow seems to have stepped into a dream job. A racer and Sports Car Club…

A NASCAR technical veteran from America takes on a new international challenge, crossing the Atlantic to become EuroNASCAR’s sporting and technical director. Joe Balash earned the respect of NASCAR racers and teams during 16 years with the…

The Top Alcohol Funny Car double champion who made his mark in Sweden and America joins Paul Lee’s nitro team as crew chief. There’s a new yet familiar face on the nitro scene this season, with Top Alcohol Funny Car champion Jonnie Lindberg now…

Less than a month after retiring from NASCAR, the former president of Watkins Glen International joined Parella Motorsports Holdings as the new president of SVRA. Just before summer 2023, Michael Printup retired from nearly three decades with NASCAR,…

Chevrolet’s recent news laying out a roadmap for the new Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports partnership has both the Corvette and racing communities buzzing. The Corvette Z06 GT3.R customer car program will be a first for the company, going…

Toyota Article QuickTakes: A relative newcomer in motorsports — at least compared with nearly 130 years of organized automobile racing — the tire-smoking spectacle of drifting might have more in common with Olympic figure skating than NASCAR or…

Welcome to Original Owner, a series showcasing—you guessed it—people who bought a classic car new and still own it. The cars don’t need to be factory-original, just still in the hands of the first owner and still getting driven. —Ed. In March 1966,…

Recognizing the many roles she has been filling since starting with WISSOTA in 2001, this upper Midwest track promoter’s association named her director of operations this year. Callie Sullivan should be a familiar face (and voice) to upper Midwest…

The new announcer for the World of Outlaws CASE Construction Equipment Late Model Series has been calling dirt races since he was 12. Needless to say, he’s more than ready for this latest opportunity. The World of Outlaws CASE Construction Equipment…

With its Silver Crown championship enjoying a growth spurt, USAC names a veteran racer and track manager as its new competition director for circle track racing. The USAC Silver Crown Championship has enjoyed a growth spurt in recent years, and for…

The FASTRAK series gets a new VP who loves dirt racing so much that he bought a track in Kentucky. Bill Lupinos turned a lifetime of dirt racing fandom into a new career when he left a marketing position with PepsiCo after 16 years to buy Richmond…

Relying on their expertise in one of the most competitive business segments, the McDaniel family is applying the tenacity learned from the grocery industry to reviving a drag strip on Florida’s Panhandle. Food and grocery industry veterans Kevin and…

Born at the dawn of the ICE age, Holley today has 70 brands that almost exclusively cater to gas performance and racing. With the EV market in its sights, though, the Holley High Voltage Experience scheduled for July is attracting some of the biggest…

The tri-color 1970 Javelin on your screen is not one of the 100 Trans-Am editions that AMC offered to commemorate the carmaker’s successes in the SCCA’s landmark road racing series. But it celebrates the pride in AMC’s seemingly unlikely successes in…

Ask any racer, series director, sanctioning body, or track operator to name the main issue discouraging youth participation in motorsports. Cost is the likely answer. For any kind of auto racing, the dollars multiply quickly when factoring in the…

In the early Seventies, a Cadillac dealership might have seemed a bit of a humdrum place to work for a young tech with hot-rodding heating up his blood. At that point in the brand’s history, its connections to racing and performance were either two…

“Roll racing is not real racing.” Chris Harris bristles when he hears those words, and he hears them a lot. The sentiment reaches him from drag racers and from track operators who question this sometimes controversial motorsport’s credibility and…