Autoweek Racing Weekend Wrap-up for May 27, 2012 — SPOILER ALERT

HOME   |   CAR NEWS   |   CAR REVIEWS   |   RACING   |   AUTO SHOWS   |   VIDEOS   |   COLLECTOR   |   SUBSCRIBE Sunday, May 27, 2012                  Kasey Kahne is no stranger to winning at Charlotte. He showed this off Sunday night with his third victory at ... Kahne keeps Hendrick success rolling at Charlotte Kasey Kahne powered to victory in the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday night, taking NASCAR's longest race for the third time for his first win with Hendrick Motorsports. Kahne also gave car owner Rick Hendrick his 201st Sprint Cup series victory. Kahne crossed the finish line nearly 5 seconds ahead of Denny Hamlin. Kyle Busch was third and series points leader Greg Biffle fourth....   Webber wins at Monaco Grand Prix to give Formula One six different winners in six races Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber won from the pole at the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday to become the sixth different winner in six races this wild and crazy Formula One season. Webber's victory was his second win in Monaco after his triumph there in 2010. This one, however, was much more difficult...   Franchitti wins Indianapolis 500 for third time after Sato crashes Dario Franchitti on Sunday afternoon won the 96th running of the Indianapolis 500, and he will soon have his likeness featured on either side of the late Dan Wheldon's on the BorgWarner Trophy. Franchitti emerged from a terrific battle with Takuma Sato, Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan to triumph in...   Power, Conway knocked out of Indy 500 in dramatic crash IndyCar points leader Will Power and Mike Conway were both knocked out of the Indianapolis 500 in the first crash of Sunday's race. Conway had just returned to the track after hitting one of his crew members during a pit stop, an accident that broke the car's front wing. It was not fixed...   Tire strategy, late rain added up to challenging day for F1 winner Webber Mark Webber says his second Monaco Grand Prix win in three years was a lot more difficult to achieve than the first one in 2010. Having inherited the pole from Michael Schumacher, who won the pole on speed but was forced to serve a five-position grid penalty after an on-track incident two weeks...   Alonso's third-place finish in Monaco vaults him into F1 championship lead Against the odds, Fernando Alonso has moved back into the lead of the 2012 Formula one world championship points chase after finishing third and ahead of Sebastian Vettel at the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday. Starting fifth on the grid, Alonso gained a place from Romain Grosjean at the start, and...   F1 teams not happy with hole in floor of Red Bull Racing cars; FIA to discuss the issue Protests against the controversial hole in the Red Bull Racing cars' floor failed to materialize after the Monaco Grand Prix, despite rival teams indicating that they are not happy with it. Sources have told Autoweek that the matter will be discussed at a meeting of the FIA Technical...   Record Indianapolis heat takes aim at Indy 500 fans, drivers Tens of thousands of fans glistening with sunscreen and toting coolers filled with ice and water descended on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday for what could be the hottest Indianapolis 500 on record. Temperatures were forecast to climb into the mid-90s during the afternoon's race,...   Penske puts undefeated IndyCar Series season on the line at Indianapolis Marco Andretti knows how much heartache his family has suffered at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He needs no reminders that IndyCar could use an American superstar, and with his famous last name, he is quite aware of the hope that maybe he can be the one to elevate this attention-starved series....   Short-Track Roundup: Video of Hines winning Midget race in Indianapolis; more The days leading into the Indianapolis 500 traditionally feature a handful of the biggest short-track open-wheel races of the season and that was certainly the case this year. Tracy Hines capped it off by winning Saturday night's 67th Night Before the 500 USAC Mopar National Midget Series race,...   Marcus Gronholm rolls to Global Rallycross win at Charlotte Top-seeded Marcus Gronholm took the lead on the first turn of the first lap and drove off to an easy win in Saturday night's Global Rallycross event at Charlotte Motor Speedway. His strategy was spot-on: take the joker “shortcut” on the first lap to open a lead, one he'd never...   Ford boss would welcome Toyota's return to World Rally Championship Ford World Rally Team boss Malcolm Wilson would welcome Toyota to the World Rally Championship should the Japanese manufacturer decide to make a return. Toyota has been absent from the series since the end of the 1999 season but is developing a 1.6-litre turbocharged engine to the Global Race...   Loeb claims 71st career win with Acropolis Rally triumph Sébastien Loeb joined world rally legends Miki Biasion, Walter Rohrl and Carlos Sainz by becoming a three-time winner of the Acropolis Rally following his standout triumph in Loutraki on Sunday. Conditions on the Acropolis Rally this year were even more difficult than usual, with heavy rain over ... You May Have Missed...   Kahne keeps Hendrick success rolling at Charlotte Kasey Kahne powered to victory in the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday night, taking NASCAR's longest race for the third time for his first win with Hendrick Motorsports.Kahne also gave car owner Rick Hendrick his 201st Sprint Cup series victory.Kahne crossed the finish line nearly 5 seconds ahead of Denny...   Webber wins at Monaco Grand Prix to give Formula One six different winners in six races Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber won from the pole at the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday to become the sixth different winner in six races this wild and crazy Formula One season.Webber's victory was his second win in Monaco after his triumph there in 2010. This one, however, was much more difficult as it ...   Franchitti wins Indianapolis 500 for third time after Sato crashes Dario Franchitti on Sunday afternoon won the 96th running of the Indianapolis 500, and he will soon have his likeness featured on either side of the late Dan Wheldon's on the BorgWarner Trophy.Franchitti emerged from a terrific battle with Takuma Sato, Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan to triumph in the...   Power, Conway knocked out of Indy 500 in dramatic crash IndyCar points leader Will Power and Mike Conway were both knocked out of the Indianapolis 500 in the first crash of Sunday's race.Conway had just returned to the track after hitting one of his crew members during a pit stop, an accident that broke the car's front wing. It was not fixed before he...   Tire strategy, late rain added up to challenging day for F1 winner Webber Mark Webber says his second Monaco Grand Prix win in three years was a lot more difficult to achieve than the first one in 2010.Having inherited the pole from Michael Schumacher, who won the pole on speed but was forced to serve a five-position grid penalty after an on-track incident two weeks ago...   Alonso's third-place finish in Monaco vaults him into F1 championship lead Against the odds, Fernando Alonso has moved back into the lead of the 2012 Formula one world championship points chase after finishing third and ahead of Sebastian Vettel at the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday.Starting fifth on the grid, Alonso gained a place from Romain Grosjean at the start, and...   F1 teams not happy with hole in floor of Red Bull Racing cars; FIA to discuss the issue Protests against the controversial hole in the Red Bull Racing cars' floor failed to materialize after the Monaco Grand Prix, despite rival teams indicating that they are not happy with it.Sources have told Autoweek that the matter will be discussed at a meeting of the FIA Technical Working Group...   Short-Track Roundup: Video of Hines winning Midget race in Indianapolis; more The days leading into the Indianapolis 500 traditionally feature a handful of the biggest short-track open-wheel races of the season and that was certainly the case this year. Tracy Hines capped it off by winning Saturday night's 67th Night Before the 500 USAC Mopar National Midget Series race,...   Marcus Gronholm rolls to Global Rallycross win at Charlotte Top-seeded Marcus Gronholm took the lead on the first turn of the first lap and drove off to an easy win in Saturday night's Global Rallycross event at Charlotte Motor Speedway. His strategy was spot-on: take the joker “shortcut” on the first lap to open a lead, one he'd never...   Ford boss would welcome Toyota's return to World Rally Championship Ford World Rally Team boss Malcolm Wilson would welcome Toyota to the World Rally Championship should the Japanese manufacturer decide to make a return.Toyota has been absent from the series since the end of the 1999 season but is developing a 1.6-litre turbocharged engine to the Global Race Engine ...   Loeb claims 71st career win with Acropolis Rally triumph Sébastien Loeb joined world rally legends Miki Biasion, Walter Rohrl and Carlos Sainz by becoming a three-time winner of the Acropolis Rally following his standout triumph in Loutraki on Sunday.Conditions on the Acropolis Rally this year were even more difficult than usual, with heavy rain over all ...   American Conor Daly survives big crash in dramatic video from Monaco GP3 race American driver Conor Daly walked away unharmed from a spectacular crash during a GP3 series race in Monaco on Saturday.The 20-year-old Lotus driver was coming out of a tunnel near Monaco's harbor when he hit the back of Russian driver Dmitry Suranovic as he tried to pass him.Suranovic appeared to...   Jeff Gordon is sixth racer to get a highway named after him in Charlotte Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon has become the sixth stock-car racer to have a section of North Carolina public highways named in his honor. On Friday, the N.C. Department of Transportation dedicated a 1.6-mile stretch of Interstate 85 from Charlotte into Cabarrus County near Charlotte Motor...   Johnny Rutherford schools Guy Fieri on driving Indy 500 pace car Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Johnny Rutherford knows his way around the venerable Brickyard like few other drivers, active or retired.Part of the reason is because Rutherford, 74, has been responsible for training the Indy 500's celebrity pace-car driver since Jay Leno drove the 1999...   Schumacher superb in qualifying but frustrated by penalty at Monaco A buoyant Michael Schumacher says he's ready to fight for a win in the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday despite being demoted to sixth after qualifying on the pole with the fastest car in Saturday qualifying.The Mercedes driver stunned the Formula One racing world by taking top spot for the first time...   Formula One fans rise: Hellmund vs. Circuit of the Americas in session, likely for a while Judging from the bloody legal battle under way in Austin, Texas, between Circuit of the Americas principal Tavo Hellmund and his former business partners in the creation of the road-racing course, a good bet for sponsorship for the Formula One race--which is now less than six months away--might be...   Danica Patrick: Breaking up with IndyCar isn’t all that hard Instead of facing a relatively routine 500 miles on Sunday afternoon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, fan- and media-favorite Danica Patrick faces 900 miles on Saturday and Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. She’ll run Saturday afternoon’s 300-mile Nationwide Series race, then come...   Here's the recipe to make IndyCar relevant beyond the 500 James Hinchcliffe can't understand it. In this sports-crazed nation, there are skilled athletes who willingly get behind the wheel of exotic-looking race cars and risk their lives at more than 200 mph. Yet the interest level in what they're doing 364 days out of the year can be measured on a scale...   Citroen's Loeb reclaims World Rally lead in Greece Citroen's Sebastien Loeb leads the Acropolis Rally – the sixth round of the FIA World Rally Championship - by 6.4 seconds following the first full day of action in Greece on Friday.Returning to the WRC following a skiing injury, Jari-Matti Latvala was on flying form at the wheel of a Ford...   Scott Dixon and Co. win Indy 500 Pit Stop Challenge Target Chip Ganassi Racing and driver Scott Dixon earned a long-awaited victory Friday, May 25 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, winning the IZOD Pit Stop Challenge for the first time in team history.The Ganassi team and Dixon beat Panther/Dreyer & Reinbold Racing and Oriol Servia in the final,... CLICK HERE TO UNSUBSCRIBE from the Autoweek Weekend Racing E-mails or to sign up for other Autoweek e-mail products. 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