 | Helio Castroneves, shown turning laps with the famous grandstands of Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the... | | Helio Castroneves became the fourth driver to win at least four Indianapolis 500 poles with a dominating effort in Saturday's new qualification format at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Castroneves delivered a four-lap average of 227.970 mph in the first attempt of the new shootout involving the top nine drivers. The Brazilian sat in his car as the rest of the 90-minute segment expired.... |
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 | | One of the wildest bump days in recent Indianapolis 500 memory came to an end Sunday with a pair of puzzling decisions. Paul Tracy and then Jay Howard had their cars withdrawn from the field to make additional runs, and those runs backfired, costing them spots in the 33-car field. Instead,...
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 | | While no one disputes the skill and bravery of those behind the wheel of today's Corvette C6.R Le Mans race cars, technology certainly shares the driver's seat. Things were much different a half century ago, as evidenced by the retelling of early Corvette ventures to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in...
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 | | Pro Stock driver Mike Edwards has won a lot of races in a lot of places, so firsts are becoming rare for the veteran driver. On Sunday, Edwards collected a first that hit close to home at the O'Reilly Auto Parts Summer Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka (Kan.). "Mamma and dad were...
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 | | The “Mayor of Mosport” ruled once again on Sunday, as sports-car stalwart Ron Fellows won the SCCA World Challenge GT race at Mosport International Raceway. John Heinricy, the former director of General Motors' Performance Division, and Robert Stout captured the GTS class and Touring...
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 | | Randy Pobst scored his 24th career SCCA World Challenge win in his 100th start, taking the GT class victory Saturday at Mosport International Raceway. Former General Motors Performance Division boss John Heinricy, and Chip Herr, earned the GTS and Touring Car wins, respectively. Pobst led flag-...
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 | | Patrón Highcroft Racing went from nearly last to first place on Saturday with a thrilling victory in the American Le Mans Series race at Monterey. The HPD ARX-01c of David Brabham, Simon Pagenaud and Marino Franchitti won a grueling six-hour race at Laguna Seca, the second straight victory for...
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 | | As the popular old blues song suggests, NASCAR’s Sprint All-Star race will “give ’em something to talk about” for a while. Just as promised, the 26th annual event delivered almost everything any hard-core Saturday night race fan might want. Typically, the 100-lap, 150-...
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 | | Toyota driver Martin Truex Jr. led the final eight laps of Saturday night's 40-lap NASCAR Sprint Showdown to advance into the Sprint Cup All-Star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Greg Biffle, in a Ford, finished second to also advance into the four-segment, 90-lap feature that pays $1.018 million...
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 | | A heavy rainstorm Friday afternoon interrupted on-track activities at Charlotte Motor Speedway and forced track and NASCAR officials to juggle the evening's crowded schedule. The Camping World Truck Series 201, scheduled for 8:20 p.m., began at 11:00 and ended at 12:49 a.m. The handful of...
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 | | As first suggested Friday afternoon, Kevin Harvick has signed a multi-year contract extension with Chevrolet-based Richard Childress Racing. Harvick and owner Richard Childress have been together since 2000, when Harvick first drove for Childress in the Nationwide Series. He moved to Cup in...
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 | | Nobody's ready to call it industrial sabotage, but lug nuts were mysteriously found loose on two NASCAR Camping World Truck Series machines Friday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. A crewman on race winner Kyle Busch's No. 18 Toyota found 11 loose lug nuts (out of 20) moments before roll-...
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 | | One of the preliminaries to Saturday night's Sprint All-Star race was a frontstretch burnout competition among seven drivers in driving school cars. Joey Logano scored 67 of 70 points to beat David Reutimann (61), Clint Bowyer (55), Kevin Harvick (54), Jamie McMurray (48) and Ryan Newman (20). Kyle ...
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 | | Last weekend, 198 cars raced in the 38th Nürburgring 24-hour race in Germany. AutoWeek motorsports editor Mac Morrison was on the ground there soaking it all in, and came back with this outstanding on-board video shot from the cockpit of a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. The car--co-driven by racing...
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 | | Formula One's future in the United States is once again on the front burner, and the latest rumblings suggest that a most unlikely venue could become host to the first U.S. Grand Prix since F1 last raced at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2007. According to a letter written by Ari Strauss--...
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