Sunday, October 14, 2012

Autoweek Racing Weekend Wrap-up for October 14, 2012 — SPOILER ALERT

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Sunday, October 14, 2012                 
Sebastian Vettel won the Korean Grand Prix for the third time in a row Sunday, giving him the World...
Sebastian Vettel moved into the Formula One World Championship lead after scoring his third consecutive victory in Korea, following on from his earlier successes in Singapore and Japan. Vettel now leads Fernando Alonso 215...

  Bobby East drove his Tony Stewart Racing Beast to victory in Saturday night's season finale for the USAC Traxxas Silver Crown Series at Indiana's Terre Haute Action Track. The victory helped East secure the series championship by 12 points over Jerry Coons Jr., who finished second at the half-...

  Fernando Alonso insists that his Formula One World Championship challenge is still very much alive, despite Sebastian Vettel surging into the...

  Toyota claimed a second FIA World Endurance Championship victory in five attempts in a thrilling battle with Audi at Fuji in Japan. Alex Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima took the win aboard their TS030 HYBRID at the end of six hours of racing by just 11 seconds. They beat the Audi R18 ...

  Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton suffered a rear anti-roll bar failure in the first third of the Korean GP, which badly upset the handling of his McLaren, and accelerated tire wear. Having previously run fourth he slipped down the order and made an early second stop, and was ultimately forced...

  A fourth win of the season for Sebastian Vettel in Korea has moved him into the Formula One World Championship lead and has...

  On Saturday, after the Korean Grand Prix, Formula One stars Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso all spoke to the media. The transcript from the press conference is as follows: Sebastian, you've got to be happy with the way it's gone. Perfect start, perfect race, third...

  Denny Hamlin has been in enough fuel-economy races to know he doesn't like them. Never has and never will. No way, no how and no matter what. Even when he wins one–which isn't often–he doesn't always feel like a true racer should. “Anyone can save fuel and be efficient,” the ...

  Champion race car driver Paul Brown, of Covina, Calif., passed away Saturday morning after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 43. Highlighted by the 2011 Pirelli World Challenge GTS Drivers' Championship, Brown started his racing career in 1992 in SCCA Club Racing. He made his first...

  Though Regan Smith is one to downplay the pressure of stepping into Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s ride, there's no mistaking the breadth of the opportunity for the 29-year-old driver. Recently ousted from Furniture Row Racing in favor of veteran Kurt Busch, Smith was hired to replace Earnhardt when...

  Formula One driver Fernando Alonso was surprised to be as high fourth on the grid in Korea, having expected to be worse off. Alonso starts alongside

  As expected, Red Bull swept the front row in Korea–but against the odds,

  Mark Webber surprised his Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel with a superb performance to steal pole position qualifying for Korea's Formula One...

  After Saturday's Formula One qualifying in Korea, Mark Webber, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton met with the press to talk about their performances. The transcript of the press conference is as follows: Mark, well done, how did you feel about the lap? Mark Webber:...

  Joey Logano has won eight Nationwide Series races in only 18 starts this year, twice as many wins as series point-leader Elliott Sadler. To Logano, that's a far better choice than winning only a few races while running for championship points. Regardless of how well he does, the Joe Gibbs Racing ...

  Next weekend’s Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta will be the first race in North America for the Nissan DeltaWing. It won’t be the last. The American Le Mans Series sanctioning body IMSA confirmed that on Friday with an announcement that the revolutionary prototype would compete as a ...

  The cream that rose to the top in Thursday night qualifying at Charlotte Motor Speedway was still at the top after Friday afternoon’s two Sprint Cup practice sessions. The 55- and 60-minute sessions were the last on-track activities for Cup teams before Saturday night’s Bank of American ...

  The McLaren Group has successfully argued that the fine levied against it by the FIA five years ago, when its Formula One team was caught with Ferrari's intellectual property, was a tax-deductible business expense. After Ferrari design documents were found in the possession of Mike Coughlan, ...

  Ken Stout Racing Inc. (KSR) Friday announced plans to race a Scion FR-S in the Pirelli World Challenge GTS class in 2013. Robert Stout, the 2010 Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car Champion, has been retained as a Scion factory driver and will pilot the car in a factory-supported effort in...

  Ford has announced that it will be an official partner of Formula Drift and the 2013 Formula Drift championship. “Our involvement with Formula Drift is not new, but we are taking it to the next level with this announcement,” said Jamie Allison, director, Ford Racing....

  The Greek government’s decision to invest heavily in the construction of a new Formula One circuit, near the port of Patras, has sparked a furious response from the business consortium behind a similar project in Piraeus, an Athens suburb....

  We all know the saying, “Where there’s smoke there’s fire.” Now we’ll see if it applies to the IndyCar Series. We’ve been hearing all summer of a possible takeover of the Indianapolis-based sanctioning body, and there have been various reports, most with no...

  Dale Earnhardt Jr. ran six races in September and October after suffering what has since been diagnosed as a concussion. He crashed hard during an Aug. 29 Goodyear tire test at Kansas Speedway, but despite saying he felt “about 80 to 90 percent,” he didn't seek medical attention in the...


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