Are races that take place on a full moon ACTUALLY crazier than normal? 🌕 🤔 #f1 #formula1 #motorsporthistory #motorsport #indycar

This week's DPTJ Substack kicks off a multi-part series uncovering McLaren Racing's history as the team pursues its latest #F1 championship. And there's nowhere better to start than with Bruce McLaren himself! deadlypassionsterriblejoys.substack.com/p/bruce-mcla...

Was the Ascari family cursed? 🤔 #motorsport #motorsporthistory #formula1 #f1 #albertoascari

We may see a return of #F1 to Africa in the near future, so let's take a look back in time at the Tripoli circuit that hosted some of the continent's first Grand Prix racing! #motorsport #motorsporthistory #formula1

Time to change the bio to "award-winning podcast"! 🎉 "Deadly Passions, Terrible Joys" has been presented the 2025 E. P. Ingersoll Award by the Society of Automotive Historians, which recognizes the best presentation of automotive history in media other than print.

We're rounding out Jochen Rindt week with an investigation into what happened to his team and loved ones in the wake of his death. deadlypassionsterriblejoys.substack.com/p/what-happe...

The 1939 Belgrade Grand Prix was the last major international race that took place before World War II. #motorsport #motorsporthistory

🚨 NEW DPTJ 🚨 In 1970, #F1 's World Champion Jochen Rindt was awarded his title after his tragic death at the Italian GP — but his legacy is deeply entwined in the professionalization of the sport. But

Meet Pedralbes, the very FIRST circuit to host the #F1 #SpanishGP !

The Monza we know today is very different from what the circuit's founders originally imagined! #ItalianGP #formula1 #f1 #motorsport #motorsporthistory

I read it for the meme and ended up entranced... Our latest DPTJ Book Club read was "Fast and Furious," a retrospective on the 1967 #F1 season written by a journalist who embedded with several teams throughout the year. It's one of the best motorsport books I've ever read.

Anyone who posts a photo of the banking at Monza this weekend calling it the "original" banking is WRONG! A lil banked history for this weekend's #F1 #ItalianGP. 🇮🇹

New Substack! It's IndyCar season finale weekend and I'm taking a trip down memory lane: open.substack.com/pub/deadlypa...

There's one major reason Jackie Stewart was such a success in #F1 : His mechanical sympathy.

L. W. Wright is #NASCAR 's most notorious con artist, but how, exactly, did he manage to convince NASCAR to give him a competition license? 🤔 learn more in the DPTJ episode titled "Meet L.W. Wright, the NASCAR driver that never existed" available wherever you get your podcasts!

Did you know that in 1971, Jochen Rindt was looking at going to NASCAR full time if he won the #F1 championship? Read all about it: deadlypassionsterriblejoys.substack.com/p/jochen-rin...

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Penske Racing's full-time foray into F1, as well as Mark Donohue's death. In this episode of DPTJ, we're exploring that tragedy and wondering what F1 in America could have looked like had Penske remained in the sport.

On this day in 1909, the first motor race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway took place! I've dug into this earlier this year at @deadlypassions-pod.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6F7l...

Aw, nuts! 🥜 This is why you might want to avoid snacking on peanuts at the race track!

New Substack! I had a chance to check out a review copy of Larry Chen's "Life at Shutter Speed"! deadlypassionsterriblejoys.substack.com/p/life-at-sh...

When we talk about great American race cars, we can't forget the original: the Ford 999.

A year in the life of Jim Clark! The Formula 1 calendar only featured 11 Grands Prix back in 1967, but most drivers weren't able to make a living off so few races. So, men like Jim Clark traveled the world to compete in other major racing series.

Imagine waiting 50 YEARS to be crowned the winner of a NASCAR Cup race! Bobby Allison didn't have to imagine: It happened to him at the 1971 Myers Brothers 250.

She might have been the first woman to compete in the Indy 500 and the Daytona 500, and she might have been a pilot with goals of becoming an astronaut, and she may have studied engineering... but if none of that panned out, Janet Guthrie could have found a career as an exceptional writer.

Did you know that Jimmy Hoffa once tried to unionize NASCAR? I'm digging into that exact topic this week on DPTJ — and this episode is streaming live wherever you get your podcasts!

#F1 and the FIA are negotiating a new Concorde Agreement... but how did the first one come into existence? This clip is pulled from a two-part podcast special titled "Engines of Power: Formula 1's FISA vs FOCA conflict", available wherever you get your podcasts! #formula1

Motorsport is a recent enough invention that you'd think we have a well-documented history of it — but that's far from the case! This is what I do when things are blurry.

Motorsport journalists: if it feels like someone is watching you... it's because they are!

I've got more autographs hiding in a bin somewhere that I should dig out... 🤔 #formula1 #f1 #indycar #indy500 #motorsport #racing

🚨 NEW DPTJ EPISODE 🚨 This week, we're talking about Auto Union, one of two German manufacturers that benefitted from Nazi investment as a covert way to begin rearming the military in anticipation of WWII. #motorsporthistory #motorsport #WWII #formula1

Did you know the first-ever Hungarian Grand Prix took place in 1936? 🤯 #f1 #formula1 #hungariangp

A little blast from the past in this week's Substack: deadlypassionsterriblejoys.substack.com/p/the-blog-p...

Motorsport is one of the most effective ways to advance automotive technology — but war has often served the same purpose! In fact, World War I was probably the most significant factor in transforming the early automobile into the ever-present machines we see today!

Folks in American motorsport have been avoiding the color green for over a century — but where did that superstition come from?

I'm sharing an inside look into my writing process today over on Substack: deadlypassionsterriblejoys.substack.com/p/my-ultimat...

When it comes to iconic American race cars, few have been as transformative as the Ford GT40.

🚨 NEW DPTJ EPISODE JUST DROPPED 🚨 This month, we're exploring the reasons why the Nazi government funded German Grand Prix racing programs in the 1930s in a two-part special — starting with Mercedes. #f1 #formula1 #grandprix #mercedes

James Hunt was caught up in a massive crash at the start of the 1976 #BritishGP, and technically, he shouldn't have been allowed to take the restart. But local fans were so incensed that their hero might be disqualified that they raised such a racket that it forced race organizers to bend the rules!

It's time for another DPTJ Book Club review — and this month, we read "The Last Lap" by William Walker! The very premise of this book is exceptional: An extended family member of former racing driver Pete Kreis tries to find the truth about Kreis' strange death in the build up to the 1934 Indy 500

"F1: The Movie" didn't pass the Bechdel Test. So what? deadlypassionsterriblejoys.substack.com/p/does-it-ma...

I turned my brain off at Pikes Peak and it turned out to be the best choice I could have made: deadlypassionsterriblejoys.substack.com/p/a-mental-r...

Just some vibes from the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this past weekend ✨ There aren't many racing events that have lasted over a century, and even fewer that have managed to preserve the magic and awe of their very first running. PPIHC is one of those events.

In 1957 and 1958, the banked oval track ringing the Autodromo Nazionale Monza played host to an epic showdown between Formula 1 cars and Indy cars that pitted the best drivers from each discipline against one another in a bid for continental supremacy. Its name? The Race of Two Worlds. Live now!!

It's time for another edition of Superstition Saturday, and today, we have a GOOD OMEN for once: rabbits at the #indy500 ! 🐇

NEW SUBSTACK: my review of the new 'Earnhardt' series on Prime deadlypassionsterriblejoys.substack.com/p/earnhardt-...

Mark your calendars for June 24, because you're not gonna want to miss this next episode of "Deadly Passions, Terrible Joys" 🗓️ We're going to dig into the ABSURD Race of Two Worlds — an event on Monza's banked oval track that pitted #IndyCar drivers against #F1 drivers!

Happy #lemans24 weekend to you all! Today I'm throwing it back to one of the craziest Le Mans events of all time: the 1933 race!

There have been a TON of new #F1 book releases lately — but what do they have in common? That's what I'm digging into today: deadlypassionsterriblejoys.substack.com/p/what-kind-...

What made Richard Petty such a damn good driver? Let's find out!

The history of motorsport is rich with fascinating women, and this week on DPTJ, we're digging into Camille du Gast's fascinating life — her racing, boating, ballooning, and activism... with some pornographic scandals and murder plots along the way. Live now wherever you get your podcasts!!