 | Sebastian Vettel continued his quest for a fourth Formula One championship on Sunday. He won the Bahrain GP.... | | Sebastian Vettel won an intriguing Bahrain GP for Red Bull as once again tire strategy made the race into a game of chess. There were winners and losers as some teams did a much better job than others of making the Pirelli tires work in the baking hot conditions at Sakhir. Vettel became the first two-time winner of 2013, and heads into the break before the first European race in Spain next... |
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 | | None should dare call last winter's Matt Kenseth-to-Joe Gibbs Racing move a reclamation project. Granted, Kenseth won only six times for Roush Fenway Racing in his final three years and had two winless seasons in his last five. But JGR didn't hire Kenseth because he needed a change as much...
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 | | Takuma Sato finally put his troubles behind him, winning a race in a major series. Sato not only won his first Izod IndyCar Series race, he became the first Japanese driver to win in this series. Sato’s previous best finish was...
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 | | A star was born Sunday at the Red Bull MotoGP race at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, when rookie Marc Marquez took the pole and the victory, becoming the youngest rider ever to win a Grand Prix race. His far more experienced Repsol Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa finished second, and last...
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 | | Matt Hagan ended a 17-month winless drought by racing to the Funny Car victory Sunday at the Dollar General NHRA Four-Wide Nationals fueled by Full Throttle at zMAX Dragway in Charlotte, N.C. Spencer Massey (Top Fuel) and Mike Edwards (Pro Stock) also were winners of the only NHRA Mello...
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 | | Sebastian Vettel was dominant in his victory in Bahrain on Sunday, and after the race, he sat down to talk to the press. Vettel was joined in the press conference by fellow drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean. The transcript from the press conference is below:
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 | | Fernando Alonso's Formula One title challenge suffered a blow when his Bahrain Grand Prix was ruined by an unexpected Drag Reduction System glitch. Alonso was running second when his DRS flap stuck open on lap seven, forcing him ...
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 | | Sebastien Loeb has admitted that competing at this year’s Pikes Peak Hill Climb is the realization of his American Dream. The June 30 event will be only the second time the reigning World Rally Champion has competed in the United States, after he won X Games first time out last season....
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 | | Inspectors confiscated the fuel cell from Truck Series points leader Johnny Sauter this weekend at Kansas Speedway and will review it the first part of next week. NASCAR did not say what issue was found with the fuel cell,...
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 | | A vocal Jenson Button criticized McLaren Formula One teammate Sergio Perez after the pair made contact more than once during a fraught battle for position in Bahrain. Button was heard complaining to the team during the race, and afterwards Martin ...
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 | | Sebastian Vettel admitted that he hadn’t expected to be able to win so easily in Bahrain Sunday, given the level of competition. Vettel led from the third lap, having quickly disposed of Fernando Alonso and Nico Rosberg....
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 | | Two famous racecar drivers, will be the first guests to drive a V8 Supercar on American soil when they team up with V8 Supercar championship contenders James Courtney and Fabian Coulthard at the Circuit of the Americas on Tuesday. Former NASCAR
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 | | Scott Speed has mostly been known as a "start and park" driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. In other words, he rarely is still on the track when the race ends, let alone in position to win. However, the driver may have found a new...
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 | | Audi and Lamborghini shared out the honors at the second round of the new FIA GT Series at Zolder in Belgium. The local WRT Audi squad won the opening race on Saturday, but Reiter drivers Peter Kox and Stefan Rosina claimed a narrow victory in the full-points race on Sunday. Their Lambo...
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 | | Tim Kaeding watched and waited and came away with his third World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series victory of the season Saturday night at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Ind. Kaeding sat behind Joey Saldana and Cody Darrah as they battled for the lead for 24 laps of the quarter-mile dirt track....
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 | | Fans escaped serious injury when the body of Funny Car driver Robert Hight's car exploded and parts of the car flew into the stands near the finish line at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals in Charlotte, N.C., on Saturday. The carbon fiber body went high in the air and came down in a walkway in...
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 | | Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr won for the third straight year at Long Beach as Muscle Milk Pickett Racing cruised to its first victory of the season in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón on Saturday. Graf beat Rebellion Racing’s Nick Heidfeld by 36.329 seconds in the P1 class ...
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 | | Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas combined to score a dominant victory in Saturday’s Visual Studio Ultimate Grand Prix of Atlanta, the first Rolex Series race at Road Atlanta. Pruett beat
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 | | Two hundred and fifty career IndyCar starts and now 30 poles. That's Dario Franchitti's qualifying effort so far, and he said Saturday after taking the top spot for Sunday's Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach that each feels terrific....
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 | | Matt Crafton withstood a furious late-race charge by fellow Toyota driver Joey Coulter to win Saturday afternoon’s SFP Camping World Truck Series 250 at Kansas Speedway. It was the California native’s third career Truck...
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 | | Roger Penske maintained Saturday his team was working in a gray area of the rule book when NASCAR confiscated parts from the cars of defending Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski and teammate Joey Logano. "I certainly...
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 | | Oriol Servia thought it was an easy call by IndyCar’s race control, but he was surprised it took as long as it did Saturday. Servia initially was penalized for causing a red-flag situation in qualifying by running into the tire barrier...
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 | | Marc Marquez of Spain earned his first career pole position at the Grand Prix of the Americas on Saturday, setting up the 20-year-old to become the youngest winner of a MotoGP race. The day's fastest run came after Marquez tumbled off his motorcycle in a scary-looking crash in the morning...
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 | | Jeff Gordon learned his lesson over time. So did Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth. It's the same lesson learned by every young driver who finally achieves stardom:...
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 | | Rookie Funny Car driver Chad Head raced to his first career No. 1 qualifying position Saturday at the Dollar General NHRA Four-Wide Nationals fueled by Full Throttle. Shawn Langdon (Top Fuel), Mike Edwards (Pro Stock) and Hector Arana Jr....
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 | | Denny Hamlin could return to the Sprint Cup Series next weekend at Richmond for the first time since a crash March 24 at California left him with a compound fracture in his back. Doctors told Hamlin he would miss at least five races...
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 | | Out of a ride at the start of the year, Ryan Briscoe is in position to pull off a prestigious sweep. Chip Ganassi Racing last week hired Briscoe to run the Indianapolis 500 next month, giving him a ride for one of the biggest auto races in the world. He's also scheduled to run the 24 Hours...
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 | | For seven minutes down the stretch, John Edwards held off steady pressure from Andy Lally to retain the lead in Saturday’s PricewaterhouseCoopers 250, the first race for the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge at Road Atlanta....
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 | | Nico Rosberg won just the second pole of his career on Saturday during qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix. He was followed closely by Sebastian Vettel. The drivers met with the press after the qualifying session to talk about...
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 | | A quartet of newcomers to Global Rallycross dominated the first day of practice at the 2013 season opener at the X Games in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. Former Formula 1 and current NASCAR driver Scott Speed made his Global Rallycross debut in the #77 Ford Fiesta Star Car from Rdio and OMSE and...
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