by Marshall Pruett | Mar 14, 2019 | Posts, Special Features
Dan Gurney asked his mechanic Terry “Piggy” Malone to make the trip from All American Racers in California to Florida in 1966. As a trusted pair of hands to place on Ford’s new GT race cars at the 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race, Malone was meant to assist the...
by Marshall Pruett | Mar 15, 2019 | Posts
Welcome to the new MarshallPruettPodcast.com site, home to every new episode and the hundreds of podcasts we’ve posted since launching in May of 2016. We specialize in open-wheel and sports car racing, with IndyCar, IMSA, WEC, F1 on occasion, and plenty of...
by Marshall Pruett | Jun 14, 2019 | Posts
I have two thank-you notes to write, and I’ll start with the newest. My wife Shabral and I have been the recipients of two incredible surprises this month, and the latest comes in the form of a sticker created by my friend Andy Blackmore. With our vigilant fight...
by Marshall Pruett | Jun 20, 2019 | Posts
Something fun happened overnight on June 18: We passed the threshold of 3,000,000 downloads for our podcast that launched in May of 2016. Compared to mainstream podcasts that generate those numbers in a week, 3,000,000 for the MP Podcast is utterly meaningless. But in...
by Marshall Pruett | Jul 27, 2019 | Special Features, The Week In IndyCar
Porsche, Holbert Racing, and driver Teo Fabi made history at the 1989 CART IndyCar Series event held at Mid-Ohio where the German manufacturer captured its first win in the American championship. On the 30th anniversary of the achievement, team manager Derrick Walker...
by Marshall Pruett | Oct 17, 2019 | Posts
My friend David Porteous asked if he could follow me during the Portland IndyCar race and put together a short film to showcase his shooting, editing, and production skills for teams that might have a need. His short piece, ‘The Fine Print,’ despite the shoddy central...
by Marshall Pruett | Apr 27, 2020 | Posts
It’s the worst racing movie ever made. So why not spend somewhere between 16 and 18 hours slogging through the two-hour film to document the comedy of errors and ineptitude for future generations in the first Driven Viewer’s Guide? Like the movie written...
by Marshall Pruett | Jun 9, 2021 | Posts
It was the obvious destruction that stood out from across the Texas Motor Speedway garages. As it returned to us on the back of a tow truck, the jarring observation came from what wasn’t there: The front half of our No. 99 Sam Schmidt Motorsports Dallara-Oldsmobile...
by Marshall Pruett | Jul 25, 2021 | Posts
One of my racing heroes, Jimmy Murphy, became the first American to win a Grand Prix on this date in 1921. In 2016, as part of a year-long series of digital features for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the 100th anniversary of the Indy 500, I wrote about Murphy....
