Sunday, April 14, 2013

Autoweek Racing Weekend Wrap-up for April 14, 2013 — SPOILER ALERT

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Sunday, April 14, 2013                 
Brad Keselowski accused NASCAR of going overboard in its scrutiny of Penske Racing's cars leading up to the...
An unusual drama played out Saturday evening even before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series NRA 500 took the green flag on Saturday evening at Texas Motor Speedway. Both Penske Racing's cars, the No. 2 car of 2012 Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski and the No. 22 of Joey Logano, failed an inspection of their Ford's rear-end...

  Allan McNish made up a deficit of nearly 30 seconds over the final 40 minutes of the 6 Hours of Silverstone to claim a thrilling victory for the No. 2 Audi he shared with Tom Kristensen and Loic Duval from the marque's sister car. The winning Audi R18 e-tron quattro passed the second-place...

  Ferrari's Fernando Alonso took care of business in a big way in Shanghai on Sunday, winning the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix by 10 seconds over runner-up Kimi Räikkönen. Lewis Hamilton finished third and points leader Sebastian...

  A medical examiner says a man who died in the infield during a NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway shot himself in the head. The Tarrant County (Texas) medical examiner's office on Sunday said the death of 42-year-old Kirk Franklin of Saginaw, Tex., was a suicide. Fort Worth police...

  Kyle Larson held off a furious late-race charge by Joey Logano to win the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 in dramatic fashion at Rockingham Speedway on Sunday. Saving a set of fresh sticker tires for the end of the race nearly paid off for Logano, but Larson was able to hold him off on ...

  Of the six second-place finishes Martin Truex Jr. has posted since winning his first and only NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race back in 2007, the runner-up result Saturday night at Texas Motor Speedway was the toughest to take. In reality, though, Truex's failure to win in a superior car was no...

  Mark Webber’s frustrating weekend at the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix left him a three-place grid penalty for next week's race at Bahrain following his collision with Jean-Eric Vergne After his qualifying penalty in China which sent him to the back of the grid, Webber opted to start from ...

  Lewis Hamilton earned his second consecutive third-place finish with a third-place effort at the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix, but denied that he was disappointed given that he'd started from pole. Hamilton lost out to both Fernando Alonso and Kimi Räikkönen, but did at least just manage to...

  He may come from a famous family, but Ben Kennedy is making a name for himself in stock car circles. The grandson of Bill France Jr. and son of International Speedway Corp. executive Lesa France, Kennedy earned his first NASCAR K&N Pro Series East victory Saturday night at Florida’s Five...

  Sebastien Ogier has made it three wins out of four in this year's World Rally Championship with his win at Rally of Portugal on Sunday. Ogier, dogged by a viral infection throughout the event, suffered a scare on Sunday morning when a clutch glitch left him fearing that he'd be forced to retire his ...

  Fernando Alonso put the disappointment of his early collision and retirement in Malaysia behind him by securing a superb Formula One racing victory in Shanghai at the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday. Alonso didn't put a foot wrong all ...

  Red Bull Racing driver Mark Webber and Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez were penalized for causing collisions at Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix, and handed grid penalties for next Sunday's Formula One race in Bahrain. Webber was given a three-place penalty for colliding with Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric...

  Fernando Alonso's win at the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday announced the Ferrari driver as a strong contender for the Formula One championship after a comfortable victory in which he claimed to have plenty to spare. Alonso took the lead for good with 13 laps to go and won by 10 seconds from...

  Kyle Busch owned Texas Motor Speedway this weekend, with a win Friday in the NASCAR Nationwide series, a pole in the Sprint Cup race, and a win Saturday night in the NASCAR Sprint Cup NRA 500. It was Busch’s first Cup win in 16 starts at Texas, and it was also his 300th career start....

  Shortly before it was time to grid the NASCAR Sprint Cup cars on pit lane for the NRA 500 race at Texas Motor Speedway, NASCAR inspectors decided they didn't like the looks of the rear end housing on the Penske Fords of Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski. Thus began a scramble to replace the rear ends,...

  At the opening round of the FIA World Endurance Championship this weekend, the Six Hours of Silverstone, Aston Martin Racing and longtime team sponsor Gulf are launching a competition to design the livery for the team's No. 97 Vantage GTE as it competes at the

  The checkered flag had barely fallen on the O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 NASCAR Nationwide race when NASCAR and Texas Motor Speedway informed the media that two Nationwide series Texas track records were set during the race -- most leaders (11), and most lead changes (22). You’d think...

  Universal Pictures has released the U.S. version of the trailer for the movie "Rush" and confirmed that the movie's release date in the U.S. will be Sept. 20 -- one week after its European debut. The European trailer was...

  The relationship between Red Bull Racing drivers Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber is not the only question being asked around the Red Bull garage this week at Shanghai on the eve of the Chinese Grand Prix. Team principal Christian Horner faced questions about his control of the team after team...

  Kubica not discouraged after failing to finish first stage of Rally Portugal Richard Rodgers Ex-Formula One racer Robert Kubica says he has no reason to be disappointed despite failing to go the distance on day one of Rally Portugal. Kubica is tackling his first event on gravel ...

  In today's “a story with more questions than answers” file, we offer you an item first reported by wbtv.com out of Charlotte, N.C. Apparently, early Monday morning, a naked man...


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