Sunday, May 5, 2013

Autoweek Racing Weekend Wrap-up for May 5, 2013 — SPOILER ALERT

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Sunday, May 05, 2013                 
David Ragan defied the odds to win at Talladega on Sunday....
David Ragan led the final 2 miles late, late on Sunday afternoon to win the chaotic, wreck-filled, weather-delayed, breathtaking Aaron's 499 at cold, dark and wet Talladega Superspeedway. Driving for underfunded and generally overlooked Front Row Motorsports, the 27-year-old driver from Georgia went from 10th to first in the green-white-checkered restart for only his second career

  James Hinchcliffe on Sunday delivered the move of the race -- and the year so far -- on IndyCar's final lap in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Hinchcliffe swung his car inside of Takuma Sato's as the Japanese driver got sideways under braking in the Sao...

  Takuma Sato's defensive moves at the end of Sunday's Izod IndyCar Series race in Brazil have his rivals buzzing. And tweeting. “Quick look at Twitter,”

  The main stakeholders in the upcoming Formula One Spanish Grand Prix on the Circuit de Catalunya, near Barcelona, still do not know if they will have the race in 2014. It remains possible that they will have to give way next year if Valencia returns...

  After fighting weather through much of the early season, Ohio’s Eldora Speedway had near-perfect conditions for its two nights of World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series competition May 3-4. Australian Kerry Madsen picked up his first victory of the season on Friday night with points leader ...

  Sebastien Loeb marked what's set to be his penultimate appearance in the World Rally Championship by winning Rally Argentina for an eighth consecutive time with a measured performance on the demanding South American gravel tracks. With nine...

  Regan Smith roared out of the pack during the final 400 yards of a green-white-checkered-flag finish and won Saturday's Aaron's 312 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Talladega Superspeedway as a last-lap multicar wreck erupted behind him....

  Andre Lotterer, Marcel Fassler and Benoit Treluyer led home an Audi one-two-three victory at the Spa round of the World Endurance Championship in Belgium. The winning trio and the reigning world champions had to fight back from two early setbacks, but they had the pace to overcome both two...

  The three-time series runner-up failed to advance in the first round, the first time that's happened to him since IndyCar adopted the stepladder qualifying system. Before today, Power had never failed to advance to the second round. (Last year,...

  Persistent rain showers at Atlanta Dragway and a forecast for more heavy rain throughout the remainder of the weekend forced NHRA officials to postpone the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals until next weekend, May 10 – 11. Two sessions of qualifying for the seventh of 24...

  Winners again! We had a great race for the TELMEX Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates BMW team at Road Atlanta, round four of the Grand-Am Rolex Sport Car Series. Frankly, we crushed it! We had a rainout for the qualifying secession so...

  Josef Newgarden, at just 22, is one of the new young guns of the Izod IndyCar Series. See some of the excitement of an IndyCar race weekend in this video produced by sponsor Oakley and One Icon Productions during IndyCar's recent trip to Long...

  NASCAR is coming to Indianapolis. all right, but this will be in the former of former Sprint Cup Series champion Kurt Busch testing an Indy car next week at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Busch will drive a car of Andretti Autosport, which...

  Cruz Pedregon is scoring a point, make that a lot of points, for the little guy in the NHRA Funny Car class this season. That's not to say that Pedregon hasn't been there before -- he's a two-time NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series champion ...

  For a couple of weeks, the most important people in NASCAR -- at least to two of the top teams -- may be names you have never heard: The people who are hearing the appeals of major sanctions against Penske Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing. So...

  Reality TV star Jesse James has built, driven and ridden some wild rides in his time, but he now has added a whole new experience to the list - sitting in the right hand side of a V8 Supercar for laps at Circuit of The Americas. The former star of Monster Garage on Discovery Channel and...

  On Thursday, the pace car for the Indianapolis 500 was announced, and if you are one to get excited about pace cars, it's time to get excited. This year, "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" will be paced by the

  Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series driver Christian Fittipaldi was in Detroit promoting the upcoming May 31-June 2 race weekend on Belle Isle, and he stopped by the Autoweek office to talk with editor Wes Raynal. The race on Belle Isle is the next race on the Grand-Am schedule. Check out the...

  Three races into the Izod IndyCar Series season, the Midas/Big O Tires Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing crew certainly had some mixed fortunes. In St. Petersburg to begin the year we didn't get off to the best of starts for the weekend, we were ...

  Audi has had a pretty solid run at the 24 Hours of Le Mans over the past decade, but we're glad they keep pushing the envelope. That's how they keep devising road-going spaceships like the staggeringly fast

  And then there were four. Detroit; Austin, Texas; Charlotte, N.C.; and Chicago have been named finalists for a three-year run of Summer X Games competitions, which includes Rallycross racing, beginning in 2014. The ...


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