Sunday, April 28, 2013

Autoweek Racing Weekend Wrap-up for April 28, 2013 — SPOILER ALERT

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Sunday, April 28, 2013                 
World Rally Championship legend Sebastien Loeb will be tackling Pikes Peak in this Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak....
Nine-time World Rally Championship title winner Sebastien Loeb tested his Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak in Paris for the first time last week. The 208 T16 Pikes Peak hit the road for the first time on April 12, before being driven by the WRC legend last week -- both times at a private test track in Paris. This week, endurance racer Greg Guilvert takes the wheel at a test track near Pau, France....

  Ex-Formula One star Robert Kubica said his second appearance in the FIA European Rally Championship was a “good lesson” after he finished sixth overall on Rallye Azores in the mid-Atlantic on Saturday, May 27. The F1 race winner had led after seven stages but dropped out of...

  Cruz Pedregon became the first two-time winner in the Funny Car category in 2013 by racing to the victory Sunday at the O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA SpringNationals at Royal Purple Raceway. Bob Vandergriff Jr. (Top Fuel) and Jason Line (Pro Stock) also ...

  Call it a photo finish, an unbreakable tie or perhaps the rarest of situations where both sides are right. That's how I see the dispute between NASCAR and team owner Joe Gibbs, driver Matt Kenseth and crew chief Jason...

  Kevin Harvick won his 20th career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Saturday night with a win at Richmond. The win moved him up two notches, to ninth, in the...

  Kurt Busch ran up front all night, and even led 36 laps of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond on Saturday night. Then came the finish, which he described as a free-for-all, and with him right in the middle of it....

  Ryan Gifford won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East race on the three-quarter-mile oval at Richmond International Raceway on April 25. It was his first victory in the series. The 24-year-old from Winchester, Tenn., outran Brandon Gdovic and third-place Cole Custer on a late-race restart in the Blue Ox...

  No matter how it happened, it was a stunner: Winner Kevin Harvick led only one of the 400 laps in the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Raceway -- lap 397. He did, however, lead lap 405 and 406, winning the race in overtime. He was followed by Clint Bowyer, Joey Logano and Juan Pablo...

  Two Richard Childress Racing crewmen were arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault after an altercation that started during Friday night's Nationwide Series race continued in the motor home lot outside the track. Michael Searce, known in the garage as “Big Mike,” and Thomas...

  Nelson Piquet Jr. did his best to try to get a leg up on the competition when he kicked fellow NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Brian Scott below the belt following the race at Richmond on Friday night. Piquet, Scott and their crews got into a tussle on pit road after Piquet and Scott banged cars ...

  Brad Keselowski beat fellow NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch in Friday’s ToyotaCare 250 Nationwide race at Richmond International Raceway, but it wasn’t easy. Keselowski finished 0.718 second ahead of Harvick,...

  Formula One is, as most fans know, one of the most expensive sports to compete in -- but it isn't until you break down its blockbuster costs that the scale of the spending becomes clear. Last year's championship winner, Red Bull Racing, had a $270.2 million season-long budget for a $13.5 million-...

  The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series has raced at California, Martinsville, Texas and Kansas since my last blog, and the Penske Racing Miller Lite Ford Fusion sits third in points after eight races. Not bad. Over the last few weeks, we've had good speed -- not great -- but very good speed in our...

  Did you ever wonder what it would be like to get a backstage pass to a really big show? Well, Autoweek is giving away a VIP pass for two to the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix Weekend Experience May 31-June 1. In addition to two tickets to BOTH...

  David Gilliland thinks Danica Patrick should "shut up and race." Patrick wants Gilliland to race her the same way he races other drivers. Patrick vented over her in-car radio April 21 at Kansas about the way Gilliland was racing her, which led to Gilliland's sharp post-race reply. On Friday, ...

  Denny Hamlin wishes he didn't need medical clearance to race. The 32-year-old NASCAR star drove himself to Richmond International Raceway on Thursday, but was begrudgingly preparing for another weekend watching someone else drive his familiar ...

  Audi will race a revised aero package aimed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on one of its trio of R18 e-tron quattros at next month’s Spa round of the World Endurance Championship. The car, dubbed the R18 “long tail,...

  Kyle Busch is turning Denny Hamlin's Short Track Showdown into his personal showcase. Busch, a teammate of Hamlin's with Joe Gibbs Racing, grabbed the lead before the five-minute pit stops that came after 46 laps Thursday night, then pulled away when the race went back to green, easily holding off...

  For the second time in two years, Oriol Servia has been told his race team is closing. Dennis Reinbold told Panther DRR employees and Servia this week he and co-owner Robbie Buhl will have to close the IndyCar Series team after next...


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