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Kurt Busch swept the Sprint Cup events at Charlotte Motor Speedway over the past eight days. He won Sunday's...
It certainly wasn't the Memorial Day weekend win that team owner Roger Penske truly wanted, but Kurt Busch's impressive win in Sunday night's Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway wasn't a bad consolation prize. Especially considering who finished second. Busch, in the Penske Racing No. 2 Dodge, led 252 of the 400 laps in beating Jamie McMurray, Kyle Busch, Mark Martin and David...

  Another Indianapolis 500 win on Sunday for Dario Franchitti and Chip Ganassi, and this one is historic. Franchitti scored his second victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and gave Ganassi an unprecedented double: Ganassi's team also won NASCAR's Daytona 500 this season with driver Jamie...

  Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button scored an unexpected one-two finish after a sensational Turkish Grand Prix that saw Red Bull drivers Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel collide while battling for the lead. The Australian managed to recover and take third place, but Vettel was out on the spot. The...

  Red Bull motorsports boss Helmut Marko blames Mark Webber for the Istanbul clash with Sebastian Vettel on Sunday. Marko said that Vettel was under threat from McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, and thus needed to pass Webber. “Vettel was under enormous pressure from Hamilton, he had to...

  Red Bull Racing boss Christian Horner has made it clear that he will not tolerate a repeat of the collision that cost his team a one-two finish in Turkey. He refused to place total blame on either one of his drivers—Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel—and said that they did not give ...

  Michelin competition boss Nick Shorrock met the Formula One team bosses at the McLaren motorhome on Sunday to discuss the French company's bid to win the 2011 tire contract. Although Pirelli appeared to have been the favored choice, Michelin is still in the hunt, and Shorrock insists his company ...

  Red Bull Racing Formula One star Mark Webber is adamant that he was not at fault when he made contact with teammate Sebastian Vettel in the Turkish Grand Prix on Sunday. Webber insisted after the race that Vettel moved into him as Webber maintained course in a straight line, a view that most ...

  Lewis Hamilton's win in Turkey on Sunday was his first of the 2010 Formula season, and it thrust the McLaren-Mercedes driver into the world championship battle: Hamilton is now in third place, just nine points behind leader Mark Webber. Hamilton made his own luck in Istanbul, pushing the Red ...

  Mercedes GP team boss Ross Brawn said on Saturday in Turkey that his organization dropped its appeal against Michael Schumacher's Monaco penalty because it did not feel it could win--and did not want the distraction the case would have brought. Mercedes dropped the appeal a few days after...

  Up-and-coming Frenchman Sebastien Ogier claimed his first World Rally Championship win on Sunday after beating six-time world champion Sebastien Loeb on the all-gravel Rally of Portugal, round six of the WRC. The Citroen Junior Team driver started the third and final day with an advantage of 21.1...

  Saturday afternoon's Tech-Net Nationwide Series 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway came down to this nail-biter: Did leader Kyle Busch have enough fuel and enough grip to survive an overtime finish, and could he steal enough time down the stretch before drivers with fresher tires ran him down. The...

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