 | Jenson Button, winner of the Belgian Grand Prix, right, does the honors on third-place Kimi Raikkonen and... | | Belgian Grand Prix podium finishers Jenson Button (McLaren), Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing) and Kimi Raikkonen (Lotus) met the media following the race on Sunday. Here is the complete transcript of that press conference, as released by FIA: PODIUM INTERVIEW (conducted by Jacky Ickx) Jenson, the last few races were not really easy for you. Today... |
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 | | Martin Truex Jr. was a few laps from snapping a 191-race winless streak on Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway. With the flagman almost ready to grab his white and checkered flags, Truex Jr. was comfortably ahead of Jeff Gordon in the AdvoCare Sprint Cup 500. Only a few moments stood between the ...
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 | | The restart of Ryan Hunter-Reay's IndyCar life Sunday to win the Grand Prix of Baltimore. That kept the Andretti Autosport driver in the hunt for the season championship that will be decided Sept. 15 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Caliif. The restart came with six laps left. Ryan Briscoe was...
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 | | Jenson Button showed that he is not yet out of the Formula One World Championship fight by taking a superb win in Belgium, to add to the success he scored at the first race of the season in Australia. The other big winner was Sebastian Vettel, who recovered from a poor qualifying session to...
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 | | Romain Grosjean won't be taking part in the Formula One Italian GP for Lotus after receiving a one-race suspension for his role in the first corner crash in Spa. He has also been fined 50,000 euros ($62,900). Grosjean made...
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 | | IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard said Sunday that he met in Baltimore over the weekend with Dodge/SRT officials about possibly joining IndyCar in the future. IndyCar is soon to be down to two engine manufacturers (Chevrolet and Honda) once an exit settlement with Lotus is reached. Bernard said there ...
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 | | What a weekend it was for Michael Andretti. Not only did Andretti successfully pull together the promotion of the Grand Prix of Baltimore, but race winner Ryan Hunter-Reay is a member of Andretti's team. "It's been a crazy weekend," Andretti said, and it was not an overstatement....
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 | | The sponsorship picture has taken another bad turn for owner/driver Tony Stewart at Stewart-Haas Racing. Several months ago, the U.S. Army said it won't return next year as partial sponsor of the No. 39 Chevrolet of SHR driver Ryan Newman. And on Sunday, at Atlanta Motor Speedway, officials of...
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 | | Jenson Button made up for a poor first half of the season with a brilliant win in Spa-Francorchamps as the McLaren driver dominated from the pole position and dodged the first-lap pileup that swallowed up many contenders. The win leaves Button
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 | | Romain Grosjean says he did not deliberately try to block Lewis Hamilton in the Formula One crash at Spa-Francorchamps that caused the first-corner crash, but says he respects the stewards' decision of suspending him from the upcoming Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Grosjean has been involved in a...
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 | | Persistent rains have forced NHRA officials to cancel the final two qualifying sessions for the Mac Tools U. S. Nationals presented by Auto-Plus at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis on Sunday. The fields for all the Full Throttle Drag Racing Series categories, including Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro...
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 | | Local racer Travis Jacobson shocked big boys of the traveling World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series, winning Saturday night's race at Skagit Speedway in Burlington, Wash. The Lake Stevens, Wash., native led all 35 laps and banked $12,000 for his first victory with the world's most famous sprint-car...
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 | | Level 5 has a new number, and it's No. 1. That signifies the overall winner in an American LeMans Series race as Christophe Bouchut drove the No. 055 HPD ARX-03b first across the finish line Saturday in the Baltimore Sports Car Challenge, giving the team its first overall victory in the sport....
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 | | The American Le Mans Series and the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series may be close to a merger that could mix existing racing classes from both of the series beginning as early at 2014. Speed.com is reporting that an announcement of the racing marriage could come on Wednesday in Daytona Beach,...
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 | | A long season that has been largely a bitter disappointment for Kevin Harvick may have reached a new low Saturday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway. After leading four times for 157 of the 195 laps and leading on two late-race restarts, he lost the lead on the last lap and finished third behind Ricky ...
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 | | Sébastien Bourdais said he is nearing a deal with Jay Penske to return to Dragon Racing in 2013. “He sent me a draft of the contract, pretty much same as last year,” Bourdais said Saturday after qualifying in the fourth spot for Sunday's Grand Prix of Baltimore. Bourdais noted...
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 | | Just when you thought Sprint Cup drivers (and visitors) never say anything interesting during media Q&A sessions on race weekends. These snippets are from Friday's session at Atlanta Motor Speedway: “[Fighting among drivers] is always fun to watch. I hate being involved in it and don't...
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 | | Matt Kenseth enjoys a good helmet toss as much as anyone else--as long as it's not directed at him. But that was the case last Saturday night after Kenseth and Tony Stewart wrecked while fighting for the lead on Lap 332 of the Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Stewart...
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 | | Jenson Button came out on top at the end of an exciting Formula One Belgian Grand Prix qualifying session in Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday, made even less predictable than normal...
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 | | In only his 17th career start, rookie Ty Dillon ran down, passed and drove away from Kyle Busch in the final laps of Friday night's Camping World Truck Series Grit Chips 200 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Busch, by the way, has run 102 Truck Series races and won 30 of them, which perhaps why Dillon,...
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 | | Formula One representatives Paul Hembery (Pirelli), David Greenwood (Marussia), Mattia Binotto (Ferrari), Ross Brawn (Mercedes) and Paddy Lowe (McLaren) met the media on Friday of the Belgian Grand Prix weekend at Spa-Francorchamps. The discussion ranged from the cool, wet weather in Belgium to the ...
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 | | With Dodge no longer a possible partner--if it ever was, that is--Richard Petty Motorsports will stay with Ford for the 2013 Sprint Cup season. Team owner Richard Petty reportedly is close to settling on a deal that will provide less financial support from Ford Racing. (With Roger Penske...
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 | | Toyota driver Martin Truex Jr. and team owner Michael Waltrip confirmed their multi-year contract extension with NAPA Auto Parts today at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Truex Jr. is into his third season with MWR, where he's 0-for-96. His lone Cup win in 249 starts came at Dover in June of 2007 for Dale...
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