 | Scott Dixon led all 60 laps of the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix on Sunday.... | | Scott Dixon got through the shortened Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by shopautoweek.com in one piece, remarkable given all the pieces flying around. In between the start and the finish was a two-hour delay for a track coming apart, several crashes and light rain. The finish was a reverse of last week's Indianapolis 500, with Dixon holding off 500 winner Dario Franchitti for his... |
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 | | Old’ Mr. Five-Time is looking more and more like a man on his way to pick up a six-pack. Five-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson, that is, and a sixth Sprint Cup seems to be on his shopping list. After opening the season 0-for-10 and 0-for-16 dating back to last fall, the Hendrick...
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 | | The IndyCar Detroit Grand Prix has been stopped because of poor track conditions. A red flag sent drivers to pit row while repairs were made that officials hoped would allow the race to restart. Scott Dixon was leading the race midway through the cheduled 90 laps and IndyCar points...
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 | | The 1959 Le Mans winner and former Grand Prix driver Roy Salvadori passed away on Sunday, at the age of 90. His death comes just a few weeks after that of Carroll Shelby, with whom he shared the winning Aston Martin in the Vingt Quatre Heures in 1959. A moment of silence was held prior to the...
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 | | Steve Torrence raced to his second Top Fuel victory of the season Sunday at the Toyota NHRA SuperNationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in New Jersey. Johnny Gray (Funny Car), Greg Anderson (Pro Stock) and Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also were winners at the NHRA Full...
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 | | Allan McNish topped the times for Audi at the Le Mans Test Day. The Scot, driving the hybrid Audi R18 e-tron quattro, set a best time of 3 minutes, 25.927 seconds in the afternoon session of the eight-hour test. That was one-half second quicker than Andre Lotterer in the second Audi hybrid,...
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 | | IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard took a week to ponder how he wanted to address swirling speculation about discord within the series. Bernard chose to post a message on his Twitter account, two days after a successful Indianapolis 500, to let it be known that a team owner was trying to get him...
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 | | A full house greeted the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards as it made its debut appearance at Minnesota's Elko Speedway, just south of Minneapolis on Saturday. Legends Car graduate Brennan Poole drove a Venturini Motorsports entry to victory on the three-eighths-mile oval, which is the...
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 | | Joey Logano smashed the glass slipper Saturday at Dover International Speedway. Charging forward from the seventh position after a restart on Lap 158 of 200, Logano overtook pole-sitter Ryan Truex for the lead on Lap 195 to win the 5-Hour Energy 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series race, leading a 1-...
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 | | After posting the quickest Funny Car run in NHRA history to claim his first No. 1 qualifying position of the season, Ron Capps will now try to extend his streak of final round appearances to five at the Toyota NHRA SuperNationals. Spencer Massey (Top Fuel), Jason Line (Pro Stock) and Eddie...
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 | | Two General Motors products carried their hometown Pirelli World Challenge race on Saturday, with Johnny O’Connell’s Cadillac CTS-V and Andy Lee’s Chevrolet Camaro winning the Cadillac V-Series Challenge at Belle Isle in a caution-filled race. O’Connell’s No. 3...
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 | | Chevrolet swept both classes in the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand-Am 200 on The Raceway at Belle Isle Park on Saturday. Darren Law and Joao Barbosa drove the No. 9 Action Express Racing Corvette Daytona Prototype to victory in the DP class, and Jordan Taylor and Paul Edwards won in the in the...
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 | | Mark Martin, fastest in a Friday practice session at Dover International Speedway, picked up right where he let off Saturday afternoon. The 53-year-old Toyota driver for Michael Waltrip Racing won the pole for Sunday afternoon’s FedEx 400 at the 1-mile concrete track in Delaware. Last among...
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 | | A pair of Toyotas from Joe Gibbs Racing will start from row one for this afternoon’s 5-Hour Energy Drink Nationwide Series 200 at Dover International Speedway. That’s not altogether surprising since JGR has swept the front row for 13 Nationwide races dating to 1997. But the name of the...
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 | | Oriol Servia, who finished fourth at Indianapolis, talks about the Indy 500 and his IndyCar career in this exclusive Autoweek video interview....
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 | | The FIA has clamped down on the controversial Red Bull floor by stating that the holes in front of the RB8's rear wheels are not permitted. The ruling, which was sent to all the teams, applies to the upcoming Canadian Grand Prix and going onward. It does not affect past results, which is normal...
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 | | Five-time world champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. is ready to go back to the drawing board after failing to qualify his JEGS.com/Mopar Dodge Avenger for Pro Stock eliminations at this weekend's 43rd annual NHRA SuperNationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in New Jersey. "We had a tough run...
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 | | Takuma Sato said he's spent the week thinking through the emotions of last week's Indianapolis 500, which ended with his last-lap crash trying to pass Dario Franchitti in turn one. He talked to reporters about it during the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix: Question: Can you talk about...
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 | | If the race for the Izod IndyCar Series championship goes through points leader Will Power, Scott Dixon figures he needs to beat him as much as he can in the season’s final 11 races. Dixon got his start on that Saturday by edging Power for the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix pole at Belle...
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 | | Jon Fogarty made the most of the first dry track conditions of the day Friday, padding his Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series record by earning the top starting spot for Saturday's Chevrolet Grand-Am Detroit 200 at Belle Isle. Fogarty, the Rolex Series' all-time leader in poles, notched his...
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 | | There is little in NASCAR that is more important than driver safety, an issue that has come to the forefront of the sport over the last decade. With innovations like the HANS device and SAFER barriers, the sport's governing body has made strides to keep its drivers as safe as possible, however,...
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 | | Autoweek senior motorsports editor Mac Morrison interviews Takuma Sato and Bobby Rahal. Sato talks about his crash at the 2012 Indianapolis 500, the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix on Belle Isle and more....
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 | | The American Le Mans Series announced on Friday that its 2013 season will include a race at Circuit of the Americas--the soon-to-be-completed motorsports, entertainment and business development complex in Austin, Texas. The ALMS event will take place during the spring portion of the 2013 race...
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 | | Roger Penske was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, but feels a kinship with Detroit. He's loved it (and the private sector) through prosperous times and bad, and there was a lot of bad—very, very bad—in the last decade. With the cradle of American auto manufacturing finding its...
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 | | We're pretty excited here at Autoweek because this weekend, the IndyCar series makes a stop in our backyard for the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix, sponsored by our very own
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 | | Todd Bodine overcame a non-contact spin and made a late-race pass to win Friday afternoon's rain-shortened Lucas Oil Camping World Truck Series 200 at Dover International Speedway. It was the two-time champion's 22nd career win and his first since Kentucky Speedway in September of 2010--his second...
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 | | Audi driver Timo Bernhard will not race in the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2012. Bernhard, who suffered a cervical vertebrae injury in a crash during testing at Sebring in March, continues his rehabilitation and will be replaced for Le Mans by reserve driver Marc Gené. Gené teamed with Romain Dumas and...
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 | | Spencer Massey and Ron Capps raced to the quickest runs in NHRA history in their respective categories to lead qualifying Friday at the Toyota NHRA SuperNationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, N.J. Jason Line topped the Pro Stock field in early qualifying at the NHRA...
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 | | Mazda will be bringing clean diesel engines to the race track in 2013. Mazda Motorsports announced on Friday in Detroit that it will be supplying racing versions of its Skyactiv-D clean diesel engines to teams that will be competing in the Grand-Am Racing Series' new GX class for advanced/clean...
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 | | Back on a street circuit after a month at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Izod IndyCar Series points leader Will Power returned to the top. Team Penske driver Power led the afternoon practice session for the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix on the demanding Belle Isle circuit with a lap of one...
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