Henry “Smokey” Yunick, an innovative stock car mechanic and owner who helped develop Chevrolet’s original small-block engine in 1955, died Wednesday in Daytona Beach, Fla., of complications from ...

Author's note: InPart Iof this little expose', we discussed Smokey's conception and follow-through on the 40th celebration of this engine at the '95 PRI Show. This month we expand the horizon a bit to ...

We’re now less than two weeks away from the 59th running of the Daytona 500, which takes place Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. ET on FOX. And with the Daytona 500 a mere 13 days away, we look back on the only time ...

Germain Racing and driver Casey Mears will pay homage to the late, great mechanic and crew chief Smokey Yunick in the Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on Labor Day weekend. At that race, ...

Of the twenty-three remaining engineers that Smokey and I were able to contact and speak to, the principal one was not available. Even so, I was fortunate to have landed a conversation with his son, ...