 | Crews for Clint Bowyer and Jeff Gordon following a late-race crash at Phoenix.... | | Jeff Gordon got into Clint Bowyer on the track. Bowyer's crew got into it with Gordon in the pits. Bowyer made a WWE-like dash through the pits and garage to find Gordon. The championship race heated up in the desert Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway and it had nothing to do with the weather. Boys, have at it? They sure did. "There's a lot of tension out there when... |
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 | | Sunday afternoon's AdvoCare 500 at Phoenix was a runaway snoozer until it suddenly morphed into one of NASCAR's most chaotic and controversial finishes since—well, it's hard to remember when. Instead of being a ho-hum Kyle Busch romp, the year's next-to-last Sprint Cup race ended with
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 | | Antron Brown won his first season championship Sunday when he took the back door to grab the Top Fuel title at the Auto Club NHRA Finals in Pomona, Calif. Brown, who lost in the opening round of eliminations, had to wait until the final round before he could grab the championship trophy,...
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 | | Brad Keselowski leads five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson by 20 points going into Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Keselowski clinches his first NASCAR Sprint Cup championship with a finish of 15th or better; or 16th and at least one lap led; or ...
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 | | Dylan Kwasniewski made history again. The 17-year-old Las Vegas driver, who became the youngest race winner and youngest pole winner in NASCAR K&N Pro Series West history a year earlier, finished second in Saturday's season finale at Phoenix International Raceway and became the youngest champion in ...
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 | | The organizers of Rally Mexico have confirmed they will change the course next year in an attempt to avoid the danger of fans throwing rocks at the cars on the March event. The culprit of the rock-throwing on this year's event lives along the route for the Ortega stage and event director Patrick ...
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 | | Citroën driver and nine-time World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb has concluded his final full season in the series in style, winning the Rally of Spain for the eighth time. His winning margin ended up being just seven seconds over a hard-charging Jari-Matti Latvala. “Next year, I will...
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 | | A standoff is developing in the World Rally Championship as the FIA (world motorsport's governing body) seeks increased commitment from manufacturers involved in the WRC next season. The governing body proposed a new commercial rights agreement for all entrants in the world championship at a WRC ...
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 | | NASCAR's 2013 race cars are, quite literally, down to the nuts and bolts. With all three manufacturers—Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota—having hit the hard points with respect to the cars' bodies, it's simply a matter of defining the bolt-on parts. On second thought, it's not quite...
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 | | Yes, Allen Johnson, it really happened. Saturday afternoon, the first NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series world championship title of his 17-year drag racing career finally secure, Johnson sat in the Shav Glick Media Center at historic Auto Club Raceway at Pomona and talked about “a dream...
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 | | The Nationwide Series championship picture changed considerably on Saturday afternoon when Joey Logano dominated and won the Great Clips 200 at Phoenix International Raceway. Perhaps the bigger story, though, was the third-place finish of Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who went from tied with Elliott Sadler...
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 | | Kyle Busch set a track record in winning the pole for Sunday afternoon's AdvoCare 500-K at Phoenix. His lap of 138.788 mph in a Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota easily beat the 137.279 mph that Carl Edwards ran in February of 2011 in a Ford for Roush Fenway Racing. "It was good," Busch said. "Dave...
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 | | Jimmie Johnson is closing in on his sixth Sprint Cup Series championship. On Friday, Johnson met the media in Phoenix to talk about his thoughts heading into the final two races of the season and about his place in NASCAR history as he closes ...
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 | | There were times in mid-summer when Aric Almirola couldn't wait for the Sprint Cup season to end. He was struggling in the iconic No. 43 Ford with crew chief Mike Ford and was unhappy with just about everything about the team. But things changed so much when Todd Parrott replaced Ford in mid-...
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 | | The Indianapolis 500 is fading into the background for Danica Patrick, who has decided not to attempt the race next season, after all. Several people familiar with her plans told The Associated Press that Patrick has decided against trying to run at Indianapolis Motor Speedway next...
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 | | When James Buescher blew a right-front tire and wrecked late in Friday night's Camping World Truck Series 150 in Phoenix, the series' championship battle suddenly became considerably more interesting. Before that moment, Buescher...
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 | | Circuit of the Americas has produced a video series showing off the 3.41-mile race track on the eve of the 2012 Formula One United States Grand Prix, which is scheduled for Nov. 16-18. Here is the first video in that series that takes a closer look at the track layout and the work that went into ...
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 | | Michael Schumacher's final retirement from Formula One racing will be marked during the season-closing Brazilian Grand Prix meeting by a...
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 | | The company behind the controversial Formula One circuit project in Greece, near the port city of Patras, has made it clear that it has no plans to stage a Grand Prix anytime soon. In response to media criticism of the scheme, Avtokinitodromio Patras executive Evangelos Floratos said that the track ...
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 | | An exemplary performance from Mads Ostberg has rewarded the Norwegian with an early lead after the first day of thrilling action at Rally de Espana, the closing round of this year's FIA World...
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 | | WC Vision today announced the Pirelli World Challenge will race at Lime Rock Park, July 4-6, 2013. The series returns to the scenic 1.5-mile track having last raced there in 2008. Over the three days,...
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 | | The Formula One team principals have been warned to instruct their drivers not to swear during media interviews, after Abu Dhabi Grand Prix winner Kimi Raikkonen said “s***" when responding to David Coulthard on the podium immediately after the race,...
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 | | Formula One impresario Bernie Ecclestone says that, if and when the teams have to operate within a "budget cap," a substantial financial incentive will be offered to potential whistle-blowers. The new Concorde Agreement—the sport's governing...
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 | | Italian F3 racer Eddie Cheever, son of the former Champcar and Formula One driver of the same name, tested a Ferrari F60 at Vallelunga today. Cheever's test, arranged by the Italian sporting authority ACI as reward for coming second in the national...
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 | | According to several sources in the Sprint Cup garage, Kevin Harvick has already agreed to drive for Stewart Haas Racing in 2014. Harvick currently drives for Richard Childress Racing, which fully expects to have Austin Dillon, the eldest grandson of team owner Richard Childress, in a Cup car in...
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 | | All along, Richard Childress Racing planned a gradual path from NASCAR's lower ranks into Sprint Cup for the Dillon brothers, Ty and Austin. That path included...
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 | | Seabass will be back in IndyCar in 2013. The news Friday was the Dragon Racing has finalized the details to have four-time Champ Car World Series driver Sebastien Bourdais back behind the wheel of its Dallara/Chevrolet. Bourdais will again drive...
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