 | NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points leader Jimmie Johnson added to his margin with a win at Pocono on Sunday.... | | Haters wishing to finally climb aboard the “Jimmie Johnson Six-Pack Bandwagon” are now officially welcomed to do so. Your copy of the “Party in the Poconos 400” result sheet will allow you to join the growing legion of fans and NASCAR-watchers fully expecting JJ to win his sixth Sprint Cup title this season after a stunning two-year drought. On Sunday afternoon,... |
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 | | Sebastian Vettel won the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday, leading almost the entire way to extend his lead in the Formula One points race. Starting from the pole position, the Red Bull driver finished 14.4 seconds ahead of Fernando Alonso's Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton, the 2012 winner, was third...
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 | | Audi driver Loic Duval bounced back from a heavy crash in the morning to jump to the top of the times right at the end of the Le Mans Test Day on Sunday in France. Duval crashed the No. 2 Audi R18 e-tron quattro he shares with Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen at Tertre Rouge in the morning...
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 | | Marriage hasn't slowed down Trevor Bayne. The 22-year-old joked over the radio that he should have gotten married a long time ago after he concluded a stunning and exciting late-race comeback Sunday. Bayne exchanged vows with new wife Ashton on Tuesday and celebrated their honeymoon by...
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 | | Arguably the most successful dirt late model driver of all-time, Scott Bloomquist had gotten off to an uncharacteristically slow start to the 2013 racing season. That all ended Saturday night as Bloomquist dominated the Dirt Late Model Dream XIX at Ohio's Eldora Speedway. It was Bloomquist's...
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 | | Complaints about officiating are starting to mount in the IndyCar Series. E.J. Viso added his name to the list of those unhappy with officials after race control penalized him for hitting Ryan Hunter-Reay's pit equipment in the Firestone 550K at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night. “I...
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 | | After winning Saturday night's Firestone 550k at Texas Motor Speedway, Team Penske's Helio Castroneves owns a 22-point lead in the IndyCar Series standings as the season's halfway point nears. Pursuit of a season...
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 | | NASCAR's next scored an ARCA first on Saturday, as 17-year-old Chase Elliott became the youngest superspeedway winner in ARCA Racing Series when he won the Pocono ARCA 200 at Pocono Raceway. Elliott, in the No. 9 Aaron's Dream Machine-Hendrickcars.com Chevrolet, raced his way from the 32nd...
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 | | Was that really an IndyCar Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, and was it what we want? The Firestone 550K didn't have the two-wide, often three-wide, racing that's existed at this track in the past. There was significant,...
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 | | Part-time NASCAR and IndyCar racer A.J. Allmendinger will run as many as five Sprint Cup races this summer and fall in the No. 47 Toyota normally assigned to 2000 NASCAR champion Bobby Labonte. Allmendinger may debut with the JTG/Daugherty...
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 | | It is always very tough to compare competitors from different eras in any sport. Things change over time in all sports. But comparisons are inevitable, and fans will always have those conversations wondering "who was better?" Whether it is Babe Ruth vs. Hank Aaron vs. Barry Bonds or Wilt...
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 | | Finally, Team Penske has won an IndyCar Series race this season. Roger Penske's team had been winless in seven races -- in nine over two seasons -- but Helio Castroneves ended that Saturday night with a dominating victory in the Firestone 550K at Texas Motor Speedway. Castroneves became the...
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 | | The Sebring 12 Hours-winning ORECA organization from France is designing and developing an all-new LMP1 prototype for the privateer Rebellion Racing team ahead of the 2014 World Endurance Championship. The Anglo-Swiss team, which is contesting the American Le Mans Series this season...
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 | | Here's a sampling of what they're talking about in and around the garages ahead of Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono: News Item: Ford has won only two of the year's first 13 Sprint Cup races, Carl...
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 | | In Iowa on Friday night, officials unveiled the latest roster in the “NASCAR Next” program that aims to identify and promote the next generation of stock car racing stars. It is different from NASCAR's ongoing “Drive For Diversity” which is designed specifically to find,...
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 | | Rain, rain, rain. That has been the topic so far in Montreal along with the “secret” Mercedes tire test. Everyone has one eye on the weather report and one eye on Mercedes and their comments about the test. But one very clever Formula One driver told the gathering media and teams in...
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 | | It's not every day you're offered a 1,000-hp ride in a dragster, so when the NHRA offered me a rip-roaring experience of a lifetime, it was impossible to turn down. The ride occurred in a two-seater version of their Super Competition dragsters,...
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 | | Rookie Jeb Burton added another chapter to his family’s racing history Friday night when he won the 17th annual WinStar World Casino 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. Burton, the 20-year-old son of 2002 Daytona 500 champion Ward Burton, posted his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory ...
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 | | Formula One team representative Martin Whitmarsh (McLaren), Christian Horner (Red Bull Racing), Stefano Domenicali (Ferrari), Monisha Kalteborn (Sauber) and Ross Brawn (Mercedes) met the media in Montreal on Friday on the eve of the Canadian Grand Prix weekend. Among the topics was the...
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 | | Helio Castroneves drives for Roger Penske, the promoter of last weekend's Dual in Detroit, IndyCar's first doubleheader. Castroneves enjoyed the event, but he didn't sound completely in favor of the doubleheader format when asked about it on Friday at Texas Motor Speedway. “The...
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 | | Plans for a Formula One Bangkok Grand Prix, scheduled for 2015, were dealt what could be a death blow by local government officials, who have voted to ban racing in the downtown district where the race was to be held under the lights.
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 | | The Formula One Grand Prix of America at Port Imperial on Friday named Marty Hunt as director of race operations and the newest member of its senior executive team attempting to bring F1 to New Jersey. Hunt joins the team that recently added motorsports business veteran Christopher Pook. Other...
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 | | On a cold and rainy Friday when absolutely nothing happened on-track at Pocono Raceway, the hottest topic was last weekend's controversial late-race restart that likely cost Jimmie Johnson a win in the FedEx 400 at Dover. He...
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 | | Turner Sports has confirmed its on-air talent and starting times for the six NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races it'll televise this summer. FOX Sports got the first 13 points races and ESPN/ABC will get the final 17, including all 10 of the season-closing Chase for the Championship races. Turner gets...
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 | | Dale Earnhardt Jr. Tony Stewart. Jeff Gordon. Jimmie Johnson. All four are huge stars within the NASCAR stratosphere, and they've been on top for the better part of the past decade. But as with any sport, there will be turnover at the top, not only in the standings but also in the race for...
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 | | Toyota Racing Development USA announced on Thursday that senior vice president David Wilson, has been named acting president and general manager of TRD. In this role, David will be responsible for all of TRD's day-to-day operations and activities, including engineering, manufacturing, engine...
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