Sunday, September 30, 2012

Autoweek Racing Weekend Wrap-up for September 30, 2012 — SPOILER ALERT

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Sunday, September 30, 2012                 
Brad Keselowski used a slick fuel strategy to steal a Sprint Cup win at Dover. He now has two wins in the...
Has NASCAR’s 12-driver Chase for the Championship already become a three-man scrap? The bottom six in Sprint Cup standings are probably done after three of the 10 Chase races. The sixth-, fifth- and fourth-place drivers barely are clinging to whatever hope they can find. That leaves only the top three still solidly in the hunt. The points took another hit on Sunday afternoon, when

  Antron Brown raced to his sixth Top Fuel victory of the season Sunday at the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park and in the process increased his championship points lead. Jack Beckman (Funny Car), Erica Enders (Pro Stock) and Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycle) ...

  With a first-place finish at Global Rallycross Championship Round 5 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Tanner Foust clinched his third podium this season in the Rockstar Energy Etnies / OMSE Fiesta and secured the Discount Tire-America's Tire Cup. “The win was good, it's a load off my...

  Donny Schatz stormed to his fifth Morgan Hughes National Open victory Saturday night at Pennsylvania's Williams Grove Speedway and virtually put the lid on a fifth World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series championship in the process. Schatz passed local racer Brian Leppo on a restart and pulled away...

  Formula One CEO Bernie Ecclestone has reignited the debate about turbo engines by suggesting that the changeover from V8s should be postponed or even abandoned. The new formula is due to start in 2014, having already been postponed once. Jean...

  Nelson Piquet Jr. converted a last-ditch, last-lap pass for the lead Saturday night at

  Joey Logano took Dover International...

  It was a miserable day for the Ganassi Racing BMW Riley of Scott Pruett and

  Antron Brown raced to the No. 1 qualifying position in Top Fuel on Saturday, capping a record-setting two days at the NHRA Midwest...

  NASCAR is ready to relax its testing policy next year, giving each Sprint Cup organization four tests, plus the annual “free” test at Daytona International Speedway in early January. Since 2008, as a cost-containment move, Cup...

  Sports psychologists from coast to coast are saying, 'See, we told you so.' Of course, whether they still feel so cocky after Sunday afternoon's AAA Sprint Cup 400 at Dover remains the weekend's most important question.

  Danica Patrick appears set to work with Ryan Newman's crew for her fulltime Sprint Cup ride in 2013....

  Audi returned to the FIA World Endurance Championship winner's circle in Bahrain as Andre Lotterer, Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler claimed victory to increase their lead at the head of the title race. The two-time Le Mans-winning trio led home an Audi one-two after six hours of racing on...

  Joel Lipperini made his first Grand-Am Total Performance Showcase start a special one. The Pennsylvania driver took advantage of a slip from pole sitter Johan Schwartz on lap six and went on to hold him off in a thrilling 30-lap duel for the...

  Top Fuel racer Antron Brown led a record-setting day of qualifying Friday at the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park. Brown and the rest of the NHRA teams took advantage of cool fall temperatures in the St. Louis area that led to a parade of track records in all...

  Second-generation driver Corey LaJoie survived a two-lap overtime to win Friday afternoon’s K&N Pro Series 150 at Dover International Speedway. It was the fourth win in 12 starts for the son of former two-time Nationwide Series champion Randy LaJoie. Earlier this season LaJoie won at Winston-...

  The 2012 Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Street Tuner (ST) season came down to a winner-take-all battle for the championship between Pierre Kleinubing and Andy Lally on Friday afternoon during Grand-Am Championship Weekend at Lime Rock Park. In the end, that battle was decided by...

  Scott Tucker, driver and team owner of Level 5 Motorsports, announced today that Dario Franchitti and his brother Marino Franchitti will join the team for the season-ending Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta next month. With a second-consecutive American Le Mans Series LMP2 Championship hanging in the...

  Engineers are testing the Nissan-powered DeltaWing at the Road Atlanta track, site of the U.S. Petit Le Mans. The event is at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Ga., on Oct. 20, and covers a maximum of 1,000 miles or 10 hours, whichever comes first. And after an early exit at Le Mans this past spring,...

  By moving from McLaren to Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton is taking a gamble that could define his career in Formula One. McLaren is a team that consistently wins races. Mercedes believes it can become such a team, but has yet to prove that on the track. If Mercedes is right, Hamilton will have...

  Grand Prix of America promoter Leo Hindery Jr. says he’s proud that the race has appeared on the 2013 Formula One race scheduleFIA 2013 Formula One race schedule published on Friday. Hindery made no comment on the...


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