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Fast Horses and Faster Cars: How Texas Learned to Race

By Selin Soyer Racing in Texas began long before anyone built a track. It began with a bet between two people who each thought theirhorse was quicker. Spanish and Mexican ranchers worked this land first, andearly Texans inherited their horse culture. The distances were huge, the cattle were stubborn, and a good horse could makeor break a year. So people raced, usually a quarter mile downa road or across a pasture on a Saturday afternoon. Those sprints are the roots of the American Quarter Horse. Nobody needed a grandstand. A crowd gathered on its own, and money changed hands. Organised horse racing grew with the towns, along with the gambling fights that came with it. Texas legalized pari-mutuel betting in the early 1930s, repealed it a few years later, andspent decades in a gray zone of informal match races. Votersfinally brought legal racing back in the late 1980s, and the1990s brought Sam Houston Race Park, Retama Park, and lone  Star Park. Lone Star hosted the Breeders’ Cup in 2004. That is the horse story in brief, and it matters mostly becauseit taught Texans to love speed and to gather around it. Then the engines showed up, and Texas found its true calling. The state turned out two of the great names in American motorsport. Carroll Shelby, a chicken farmer from Leesburg with a bad heart and a lot of nerve, won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1959. After his driving days ended, he built theShelby Cobra, one of the most famous cars ever made. A.J. Foyt of Houston won the Indianapolis 500 four times, took Le Mans in 1967, and added a Daytona 500 in 1972. He raced theway he lived, with a short temper and no apologies. Plenty of Texans still measure every other driver against him. The inventors came from Texas too. Jim Hall, an oil-family kid from Midland, built the Chaparral sports cars in the 1960s, and they were wildly ahead of their time. His cars experimented with big wings and aerodynamic downforce years before the rest of racing caught on, and you can see theirinfluence on race cars today. Meanwhile Terry Labonte, fromCorpus Christi, quietly became a…

Verstappen ready to fight out front again?

By Mya Nyka-Szewczyk New wins, new prospects, and new hopes. Will Max keep up the pace in this last stint of the season?  Recent poles from Malaysia and Singapore have reopened Red Bull’s hopes to the final stages of the 2026 season, as Verstappen’s dominant streak for pole position shifts the course of the driver’s championship ever…

Kimi on BRINK of title as George and Lando Falter

By Joe Murphy Kimi Antonelli claimed pole position for the United States Grand Prix with a lap of 1:34.035 at the Circuit of the Americas, denying Max Verstappen and putting himself in prime position for a first attempt at the world championship. The Mercedes driver set his decisive time on his first run in Q3…

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