 | Simon Pagenaud celebrates his first IndyCar win with a victory in Sunday's race on Belle Isle in Detroit.... | | Welcome back, Honda. A day after Mike Conway dominated the first Detroit race at Belle Isle Park, Simon Pagenaud gave the engine manufacturer a second consecutive weekend race win. Honda did more than that. It got a podium sweep with James Jakes finishing a career-best second and Conway in third. The victory was the first in two IndyCar seasons for Pagenaud, a former American Le Mans Series ... |
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 | | Panther Racing has moved into a new era with its release of driver J.R. Hildebrand. Team owner John Barnes has Ryan Briscoe in the car for this weekend's IndyCar Series race at Belle Isle Park, but Briscoe isn't available...
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 | | Ryan Hunter-Reay and Justin Wilson gave IndyCar fans an insight Saturday into what it's like to drive one of their cars on a bumpy street circuit like the one at Belle Isle Park. And to think, they have to do a second consecutive race Sunday in IndyCar's Dual in Detroit. “Anyone that...
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 | | A.J. Allmendinger had a weekend on Belle Isle that he would just as soon forget. After getting an opportunity to drive for team owner Roger Penske in Detroit, Allmendinger managed to crash out in the first lap of both races at the Dual in Detroit. Allmendinger gave Penske -- Detroit's...
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 | | Nobody except perhaps Jimmie Johnson himself thinks he didn't jump the final restart and thus gift-wrap the FedEx 400 for Tony Stewart on Sunday afternoon at Dover. On a day when Johnson was the class of the field and had the race in-hand, he simply choked it away with a controversial -- to him,...
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 | | Ten years after making his debut on the Acropolis Rally as a fresh-faced teenager, Jari-Matti Latvala has claimed his maiden victory on the World Rally Championship's toughest event. Latvala's success over the rock-strewn gravel stages west...
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 | | IndyCar has targeted the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 in 2016 as the place to break a record that's stood since 1996. That point was driven home Sunday as Derrick Walker, the new president of competition and operations, laid out a gradual plan to get speeds at Indianapolis Motor...
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 | | New IndyCar president Derrick Walker gave a state-of-the-series address at Belle Isle in Detroit on Sunday, a few hours before the second race of the historic Dual in Detroit weekend doubleheader. Walker talked about his vision for the future of the cars, the speed and the series. The following...
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 | | After a short-lived protest of Volkswagen's win by Citroën, the results Acropolis Rally have become official.. Citroën submitted a protest to the event stewards following Sunday's final stage of the rally against the three...
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 | | Randy Pobst, of Gainesville, Ga., and Dean Martin, of nearby Westland, Mich., took home wins in the second race of the Pirelli World Challenge Cadillac V-Series Challenge at Belle Isle, part of the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix, in the GT and GTS classes, respectively. Pobst, who...
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 | | Shawn Langdon won the NHRA Summernationals on Sunday for his third Top Fuel victory of the season, beating teammate Khalid alBalooshi in the final at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. Langdon had a run of 3.853 seconds at 316.38 mph in the final. He took the season points lead with his...
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 | | The TRAXXAS USAC Silver Crown Series visited the 1.25-mile oval at Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Ill., Saturday in the first race at the track since 2010. It was also the first Silver Crown race at the facility since 2001. Bobby Santos III held off Kody Swanson by .04 seconds to win the...
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 | | Johnny O'Connell, of Flowery Branch, Ga., and Mark Wilkins, of Toronto, were the winners of Round Six of the Pirelli World Challenge GT and GTS Championships in the Cadillac V-Series Challenge on Saturday, part of the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix. As reported on the Pirelli World ...
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 | | Hoonigan Racing's Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino took their first overall win of the season at the Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally (STPR) -- round four of the 2013 Rally America National Championship -- held May 31-June 1 in Wellsboro, Penn. The victory marks the duo's second STPR Rally overall ...
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 | | Mike Conway on Saturday proved he's the Izod IndyCar Series' new king of street-circuit racing by putting in a dominating performance to win race one of the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit – IndyCar's first doubleheader race weekend. The win ...
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 | | They can stow the broom until September, when NASCAR returns for its fall tripleheader at Dover International Speedway. Ford driver Joey Logano ensured that by winning Saturday afternoon's 5-Hour Energy Drink Nationwide Series 200 at the 1-mile track in Delaware. He thus kept Kyle Busch from being...
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 | | Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon didn't fully understand why he was so sore and aching after crashing during last weekend's Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Only later did he realize he'd hit the stretch of outside wall approaching turn one that isn't protected by SAFER (Steel and...
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 | | Backers and developers of the hydrogen-electric GreenGT H2 prototype have decided that the car will not be ready for this month's 24 Hours of Le Mans, after all. The Franco-Swiss racer was expected to follow in the tire tracks of the Nissan-powered DeltaWing and fill the designated...
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 | | Calling it a “mandatory” victory in the shadow of Chevrolet headquarters in downtown Detroit, Max Angelelli on Saturday drove the No. 10 Velocity Worldwide Corvette Daytona Prototype across the finish line 0.486-second ahead of 2012 Detroit winner Joao Barbosa to win the Chevrolet Grand-...
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 | | IndyCar has rescinded the $10,000 in-race fines levied against Graham Rahal and James Jakes from the Indianapolis 500. IndyCar president of competition Derrick Walker, though, told The Associated Press both drivers have ...
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 | | Denny Hamlin's quest to make the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, despite missing four races because of a compression fracture to his first lumbar vertebra, is one of the most compelling stories of the 2013 racing season....
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 | | A.J. Allmendinger is getting back in a stock car. Penske Racing announced Saturday it plans to put Allmendinger in Nationwide Series road course events at Road America and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. "With his stock car experience and his road course experience, we think this is the perfect...
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 | | Remember the movie Stroker Ace? In it, Burt Reynolds was a top-tier NASCAR driver trying to get out of a terrible contract with a businessman named Clyde Torkle. Ace, not the greatest at contract negotiation (obviously), was forced to...
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 | | The Ferrari Formula One team finds itself drawn into the FIA's inquiry into in-season tire testing, alongside the Mercedes team. In-season track-testing is banned in Formula One, to help reduce costs, and Ferrari joined Red Bull in filing a formal protest with the FIA after Mercedes had...
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 | | Five-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson spent part of this week in Moore, Okla., visiting with victims of Monday's killer tornado. Friday, at Dover International Speedway, the Hendrick Motorsports star and father of a 3-year-old daughter spoke about his visit to Oklahoma and the most searing...
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 | | There was no last-lap swoon this Friday afternoon. No late-race fueling problem, no uncooperative hood pins, no blown right-front tires and no leaky transmission. In fact, other than a handful of late-race restarts that put him in momentary peril, nothing truly bothered Kyle Busch in the final...
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 | | Derrick Walker has a lot of issues to get up to speed with now that he's officially IndyCar's new president of competition and operations. Walker, who guided the pole-sitting effort of Ed Carpenter in Sunday's Indianapolis...
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 | | Pirelli responded on Friday to this week's criticisms of how it has acted over the “secret” Mercedes Formula One tire test at Barcelona, which has angered rival teams. While the protest from Red Bull and Ferrari is aimed at Mercedes,...
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 | | Scuderia Ferrari has now been brought into the FIA’s investigation into the Mercedes Pirelli test. The FIA confirmed that both teams have been invited to reply to a disciplinary inquiry – one instigated by a protest from both RBR and Ferrari itself in Monaco. As outlined here...
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 | | Fox Sports will soon depart NASCAR for nine months, leaving after Sunday afternoon's race at Dover and not returning until the 2014 season-opener in Daytona Beach. The network gets the first 13 Sprint Cup races each season, TNT gets the next six -- from next weekend at Pocono through July 21 at...
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