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  5 Celebrities who had careers in Auto Racing By Brian Cotnoir Auto Racing is a sport driven (no pun intended) by two things: Passion and Money!    To make it in Auto Racing you have to have a passion for driving.   Many drivers like Tony Stewart, Lewis Hamilton, and Jeff Gordon started out as young kids racing go-karts and quarter midgets.    By the time they were 25-years-old, they had almost 2 decades of experience driving behind the wheel of various forms of racing, however, passion & talent alone unfortunately aren’t enough: in many cases your seat and team you drive for depend on how much money you bring in sponsorship. Celebrities and Pro-Athletes have a lot of disposable income.    Michael Jordan recently teamed up with NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin to launch 23XI Motorsports which will debut in the 2021 season.   Coach Joe Gibbs won 3 Super Bowls as head coach of the Washington Red Skins, and is now a 5-Time Cup Series Championship winning owner.    Most famously, Holl

  5 of the Most Important Crashes in Racing History By Brian Cotnoir In 2020, we’ve seen a lot of scary accidents: Ryan Newman’s flip at the end of the Daytona 500, Maverick Vinales having a motorcycle fly over his head at over 200KM/h and losing his brakes the following race, and most recently Romain Grosjean’s fiery crash at the Bahrain Grand Prix.   The fact that all three of these men walked away with only minor injuries is a testament to the safety and improvements racing his endured over the years.    A decade ago we probably would have been mourning Ryan Newman and Romain Grosjean this year because of those horrendous accidents, but due to safety improvements in racing over many decades and good grace of God, they are still here with us today. All three of these accidents are sobering reminders of how dangerous motorsports truly is, and it’s because of previous accidents that we’ve seen these improvements made, and that got me thinking that some of these racing accidents a