 | Smoke from the Williams F1 Team garage fills the paddock area in Barcelona following the Spanish Grand Prix.... | | The Williams Formula One team has issued a statement about Sunday's garage fire in Spain, confirming that four team members were hurt in the incident after the Spanish Grand Prix. The team also thanked other paddock personnel for their help in fighting the fire. The blaze started when a fuel rig appeared to explode not long after Williams driver Pastor Maldonado won the race. The Caterham... |
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 | | Pastor Maldonado scored an amazing victory for Williams at the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona after a faultless performance by the young Venezuelan. Williams became the fifth different team to win in five races in an eventful 2012 Formula One season. Maldonado resisted enormous pressure from...
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 | | Lewis Hamilton put his qualifying frustrations behind him with a charging drive in Spain, one that saw him the only driver to make it to the flag on two pit stops. The strategy helped Hamilton roar from the 24th starting spot all the way to his eighth-place finish and the four hard-earned points....
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 | | Pastor Maldonado pulled off one of the biggest surprises in recent Formula One racing history when he won in Spain on Sunday. The Venezuelan may have had a helping hand from a penalty handed out to Lewis Hamilton--one that dropped him from the pole to the back of the starting grid--but he did...
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 | | NASCAR officials are trying to sort out exactly what happened on pit road between crewmen from Ryan Newman's team and Kurt Busch's team in the chaotic moments after Saturday night's Bojangles Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Several of Newman's crewmen approached Busch's car after he did a...
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 | | Sixteen people were injured, with one person being flown to hospital with severe burns, after a fire erupted inside Formula One team Williams' garage after team driver Pastor Maldonado won the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday. Catalonia's regional government said in a statement that one person...
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 | | McLaren team principle Martin Whitmarsh's misunderstanding of Formula One rules may have ultimately cost Lewis Hamilton a chance of winning the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday. Whitmarsh told Hamilton to stop on the Catalunya Circuit track after winning pole position in Saturday's qualifying,...
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 | | Podium finishers Pastor Maldonado, Fernando Alonso and Kimi Räikkönen met the media following the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona on Sunday. Here is official transcript of that press gathering as released by the FIA: Pastor, your first victory, brilliantly judged – describe...
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 | | When Donny Schatz and Sammy Swindell each had bad luck Saturday night at Pennsylvania's Williams Grove Speedway, it created a three-way fight for the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series championship. Swindell and Schatz had traded the point lead in seven straight races heading into the finale of...
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 | | Kimi Räikkönen came close to victory for the second time this year in Spain--and the Finn admits that had it got everything right, Lotus could have won the race. Räikkönen finished in third place in Barcelona having reduced the gap to winner Pastor Maldonado from 18 seconds down to 3 seconds...
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 | | Max Angelelli and Jeff Segal, both made passes for the lead with 15 minutes remaining and held on to win Sunday's Global Barter 250 presented by Susan G. Komen for the Cure at New Jersey Motorsports Park, with both scoring their second consecutive Grand-Am Rolex Series victories. Angelelli...
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 | | An unlikely driver kicked up the speed number Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and it wasn't an Izod IndyCar Series regular. No, this was a full-timer in the Firestone Indy Lights series. Sebastian Saavedra, the second-youngest driver participating in this Indianapolis 500 event ran a...
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 | | Lotus GP driver Conor Daly of Noblesville, Ind., captured his first GP3 victory on Sunday in Barcelona, Spain. Daly, who started third, moved up one position early in the race, beating pole-sitter Robert Visoiu through turn one. Tio Ellinas, who started second, took the lead but was ruled to...
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 | | Admittedly, there wasn’t much pressure since everyone knew it eventually would happen. If not this weekend, then probably in two weeks at Charlotte. If not then, probably the week after at Dover. If not then…well, it was simply a matter of time. Even so, Jimmie Johnson was relieved...
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 | | Muscle Milk Pickett Racing cruised to its second straight victory in the American Le Mans Series on Saturday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. But another fabulous GT battle stole the show as Corvette Racing’s Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner also took their second consecutive class win. The...
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 | | Spanish hero Fernando Alonso received a massive bonus Saturday when Lewis Hamilton's penalty promoted him to the front row for his home Grand Prix in Barcelona. Alonso has often punched above his weight in his front of his home fans when he didn't have a great car, and from second place he looks ...
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 | | Tonight’s 63rd annual Bojangles’ Southern 500 is the ninth time the legendary 500-miler at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway has been run on a date other than Labor Day weekend. For its first 54 years it was run on that holiday weekend. For its first 34 years, it was run at high-noon on Labor...
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 | | Saturday could have been called Kids Day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as three of the youngest drivers in the field posted the three fastest laps of opening day. Rookies Josef Newgarden and Bryan Clauson were first and third for Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing with second-year driver JR Hildebrand ...
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 | | Pastor Maldonado had a little good fortune when Lewis Hamilton was excluded from qualifying in the Spanish GP and he was gifted pole position on Saturday, but the Venezuelan still managed to beat the rest of the field fair and square to earn his initial second place. The unexpected pole came on...
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 | | Ricky Taylor picked a fine time to return to his pole-winning ways for the first time in the 2012 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series as he claimed the inaugural TOTAL Pole Award in qualifying for Sunday’s Global Barter 250 presented by Susan G. Komen For The Cure at New Jersey Motorsports Park...
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 | | The pole-winning teams in both GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge classes completed clean sweeps in the B+ Heroes 200 presented by BCKSTGR at New Jersey Motorsports Park by going on to take their class victories. Bret Spaude and Andrew Aquilante overcame two significant pit-road ...
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 | | Randy Pobst, of Gainesville, Ga., led all the way to win the Pirelli World Challenge Cadillac Sports Car Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, piloting his Volvo S60 to the GT class win. Peter Cunningham, of Milwaukee, Wis., captured the GTS win, while Todd Lamb, of Atlanta, Ga., won in Touring...
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 | | Auto legend Carroll Shelby died Thursday night at Baylor Hospital in Dallas at the age of 89. Carroll Shelby's shadow stretched out Texas tall across nearly the whole of the world's automotive landscape. A natural as a race driver, he won three U.S. sports-car championships in Ferraris and...
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 | | With the Izod IndyCar Series boasting multiple engine manufacturers for the first time since 2005, the field has transformed into a class system. There are Chevrolets, Hondas and probably one Lotus scattered through big teams, smaller teams, veteran teams and newbies. How this will translate ...
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 | | Joey Logano knocked leader Elliott Sadler aside on a late-race restart, then beat new leader Denny Hamlin on the subsequent restart to win Friday night's feast-or-famine VFW Sports Clips Nationwide Series 200 at Darlington Raceway. After 140 mostly-dull and uneventful parade-like laps, the final 11 ...
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 | | Izod IndyCar Series driver Tony Kanaan paid a visit to the Autoweek offices on May. 9. In an interview with Autoweek senior motorsports editor Mac Morrison, Kanaan talks about Indianapolis, some differences between Formula One and IndyCar and the IndyCar Series's upcoming return to...
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 | | The final ruling in IndyCar's “Turbogate” has been issued: A former Indiana Supreme Court justice upheld the sanctioning body's decision to allow BorgWarner to modify the compressor cover on its single-unit turbocharger used in the series by Honda. Chevrolet, which had appealed last...
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 | | The marriage between Mazda and Laguna Seca will last at least another five years. Mazda North American Operations on Thursday announced that it has extended its naming-rights agreement for Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca with the Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula (SCRAMP) for...
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 | | Eric McClure is a college graduate, his wife is a nurse and they have four daughters who are younger than five. He’s a middling stock-car driver with not even one top-10 finish in his 179 NASCAR Nationwide Series starts. McClure spent last weekend and part of last week in a Birmingham, Ala....
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