 | Ashley Force Hood hadn't won a race all season--but emerged on top in Funny Car at the the U.S. Nationals.... | | Heading into the 56th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals, Ashley Force Hood was all but left for dead. She'd qualified for the Countdown to the Championship eighth, hadn't won a race all season and had been eclipsed by John Force Racing teammates John Force and Robert Hight. But on Monday at O'Reilly Raceway Park, Force Hood announced she wasn't going to go quietly by guiding the... |
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 | | Tony Stewart called his Sunday night victory in the Emory HealthCare 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway among the best of his 38 wins in his 12-plus years at NASCAR’s highest level. “I’ve never been this happy to win a race in my life,” the owner/driver said after leading eight...
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 | | For once, a Team Penske driver won an Izod IndyCar Series race without having anywhere near the fastest car on the track. In fact, Helio Castroneves was one of the slowest at Kentucky Speedway, but he still won. Saving fuel from the final pit stop, the Brazilian stole the Kentucky Indy 300 by ...
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 | | Jamie McMurray did something Saturday night no other Nationwide Series driver has done this year: He's the first man to beat Kyle Busch on a night when Busch led the most laps and seemingly had the fastest car. McMurray led the final 23 laps of the Great Clips 300 at Atlanta Motor Speedway for...
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 | | Roger Yasukawa, who has 39 IndyCar Series starts in his career, will return to the cockpit later this month as he drives the car of Conquest Racing at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Japan. Yasukawa, a U.S. citizen of Japanese descent, has been working as a spotter for Japanese driver Takuma...
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 | | Bruton Smith expects the Izod IndyCar Series to end its 2011 season at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which he owns. “I'm anxiously anticipating that, and I certainly think it will happen,” Smith said of an IndyCar/LVMS pairing. IndyCar officials will announce next year's schedule on...
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 | | Pippa Mann became the second woman to win a Firestone Indy Lights race Saturday at Kentucky Speedway as her Sam Schmidt Motorsports teammate, J.K. Vernay, all but secured the season championship. Mann follows Ana Beatriz, who won two races in the series (at Nashville Superspeedway and Iowa...
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 | | NASCAR has filled the “TBA” on next year's Camping World Truck Series schedule with a race at Kentucky Speedway on July 7. The race--its distance and name have not been determined--will be on the Thursday night of the 1.5-mile track's first-ever Cup Series weekend. The Nationwide Series ...
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 | | The National Motorsports Press Association has named former NASCAR Sprint Cup champion (and Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 winner) Dale Jarrett, legendary engine-builder Waddell Wilson and retired journalist Tom Higgins to its Hall of Fame. They'll be inducted during pre-season ceremonies in...
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 | | When Rick Hendrick and Mark Martin summoned the media to a Saturday afternoon gathering, talk swept the garage that it might involve major personnel changes or maybe even sponsorship changes for 2011. Instead, it was simply another limited-schedule sponsorship announcement for the NASCAR Sprint Cup ...
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 | | The good folks at International Speedway Corporation want you to know that the $1.5 million it’s giving Martinsville Speedway is not to create a new entranceway from nearby Route 58. That capital improvement project will come from a $1.5 million grant recently given from the Tobacco...
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