AutoWeekRacing.com Weekend Wrap-up for February 14, 2010 — SPOILER ALERT

HOME   |   CAR NEWS   |   CAR REVIEWS   |   RACING   |   AUTOSHOWS   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   MARKETPLACE Sunday, February 14, 2010                  Jamie McMurray won the Daytona 500 on Sunday in a race that lasted more than six hours.... Jamie McMurray wins Daytona 500 after long delays NASCAR’s season-opening and biggest event was marked by one of those “good news, bad news” scenarios that so often emerge on Sunday afternoons at Daytona International Speedway. The good news: An utterly thrilling final 45 laps of the Daytona 500. Five drivers swapped the lead nine times, and there were another half-dozen drivers within a half-second of the front pack...   John Force finds his way back to winner's circle in NHRA season opener While expending so much of his energy the last couple of years recovering from injury, launching the Eric Medlen Project and getting his daughter, Ashley, established in the sport, John Force had not visited a Funny Car victory lane in more than a year and a half. Before the start of this year's ...   Hirvonen beats Loeb in WRC opener Before the World Rally Championship got underway in Sweden, Mikko Hirvonen vowed to be braver than ever to stop Sebastien Loeb from claiming a seventh straight drivers' title. He kept that promise by beating Loeb on the snow-coated Swedish stages for his 12th WRC win and his first on the...   Peters outruns Bodine to win truck race at Daytona More than half the field crashed out or was heavily damaged, but NASCAR's Camping World Truck Series had enough survivors to offer another classic finish Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway. Timothy Peters muscled past former champion Todd Bodine in the last turn on the last lap, then...   Tony Stewart wins Nationwide race at Daytona Tony Stewart pulled away from a crowded field in the final laps to win Saturday afternoon's crash-marred NASCAR Nationwide Series 300 at Daytona International Speedway. It was his third consecutive season-opening Nationwide win at Daytona, his fifth in the last six years, and his 15th all-time...   Lewis Hamilton quickest on final day of Formula One test Lewis Hamilton topped the final installment of Formula One’s four-day group test in Jerez, Spain, on Saturday, posting the fastest time of the entire test. The McLaren-Mercedes driver and 2008 world champion set his best time of 1 minute, 19.583 seconds with just minutes remaining in...   Police arrest Henri Zogaib, the Madoff of motorsports Former race-car driver Henri Zogaib, accused last July of involving fellow drivers, crewmen and team owners in a Ponzi scheme comparable to the one launched by New York financier Bernie Madoff, was finally arrested Feb. 12 in Central Florida on an organized fraud charge, Florida Department of Law...   Lotus Racing reveals new Formula One car Lotus Racing unveiled its 2010 Formula One car, the T127, Friday at an event held at London's Royal Horticultural Hall. Team principal Tony Fernandes was joined on stage by chief technical officer Mike Gascoyne and drivers Jarno Trulli, Heikki Kovalainen and Fairuz Fauzy to take the wraps off the... CLICK HERE TO UNSUBSCRIBE from the AutoWeek Weekend Racing E-mails or to sign up for other AutoWeek e-mail products. IMPORTANT: Please add AutoWeek.com to your E-mail Address Book to ensure you will continue to receive our newsletters. Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail. You will not receive a reply if you use this e-mail address. Crain Communications, 1155 Gratiot Ave. Detroit, MI 48207.