Sunday, August 26, 2012

Autoweek Racing Weekend Wrap-up for August 26, 2012 — SPOILER ALERT

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Sunday, August 26, 2012                 
Ryan Briscoe won Sunday's IndyCar race at Sonoma, but it was Will Power who may have made the biggest impact....
Will Power took a big step toward his first IndyCar championship Sunday by finishing second at Sonoma Raceway as his title contenders had trouble. Helio Castroneves was penalized for running into the back of Scott Dixon on the first lap. Dixon broke his front wing running into Ryan Hunter-Reay, and Hunter-Reay was spun out late in the GoPro Indy Grand Prix by Alex Tagliani. Power heads to...

  Sebastien Loeb extended his World Rally Championship lead to 54 points on Sunday as he dominated in Germany again for his ninth victory...

  Audi claimed the manufacturers' title in the inaugural FIA World Endurance Championship with victory in the Silverstone 6 Hours The British round of the WEC was won by Andre Lotterer, Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler aboard the Audi R18 e-tron quattro hybrid. The victory combined with Audi's...

  Bryan Clauson controlled the inaugural Sprint Car Smackdown at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway. Clauson banked $10,000 for winning Saturday night’s finale, which concluded three nights of USAC National Sprint Car Series non-winged sprint car racing at the quarter-mile dirt track....

  Denny Hamiln won the Sprint Cup race at Bristol, and Greg Biffle, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. all clinched spots in the Chase. However, the most exciting moment of the short track race came during lap 336, when Matt Kenseth bumped Tony Stewart while the two were jockeying for the lead...

  After each of the four races at Bristol Motor Speedway this week, the winners have used almost the same phrase to express their emotions. In so many words, Modified winner...

  On Friday night, Danica Patrick, a rookie in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, started in 32nd place at...

  The pilot of a corporate helicopter was missing and presumed dead after it crashed near Bristol Motor Speedway following Friday night's Food City Nationwide Series 250 NASCAR race. The pilot – whose name has not been released – was the only person aboard when the helicopter crashed into ...

  Sebastien Loeb kept himself comfortably ahead of the chaos behind on an eventful second day of the 2012 Rally Germany in World Rally...

  There's another Team Penske weekend shaping up in northern California's wine country after Will Power and Ryan Briscoe swept the front row in

  Alex Figge, of Denver, Colo., picked up his second career Pirelli World Challenge Championships victory and Andy Lee, of Colorado Springs, Colo., capped his rookie World Challenge season with a fourth GTS victory in Saturday’s season-ending Cadillac Sonoma Grand Prix. Figge started the ...

  Joey Logano led the first 35 laps, 11 in the middle and the last 35 to win Friday night's crash-filled Food City Nationwide Series 250 at Bristol Motor Speedway. The race was slowed by nine caution periods for 59 laps, season's highs in both categories. Before Friday night, the most caution...

  Danica Patrick channeled her best Austin Powers impersonation to characterize her recent run of bad luck. “Who throws a shoe?” Patrick asked...

  Following its plucky, well-received debut at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans, news about the revolutionary DeltaWing dried up so quickly that some in the industry suspected its debut might also be its finale. But according to unofficial sources, negotiations are underway for the DeltaWing to do...

  NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Carl Edwards, his crew chief Chad Norris and Wood Brothers owners Len and Eddie Wood weighed in on the new 2013 NASCAR Ford Fusion during a test session at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Va., on Aug....

  NASCAR has indefinitely suspended a Nationwide Series crew member for violating the substance abuse policy. Ryan Hess was working with MacDonald Motorsports and driver


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