 | Scott Dixon and his crew celebrate their first victory of the IndyCar season on Sunday at Pocono.... | | Chip Ganassi finally had a reason to smile at an IndyCar Series race this season. That it happened Sunday at Pocono Raceway was a complete surprise. He arrived from Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event in Daytona not expecting much from his three Honda-powered cars. They started slow but finished strong with effective fuel mileage, scoring the organization's first 1-2-3 finish in ... |
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 | | There's one certainty about racing at NASCAR's most unpredictable tracks: a chaotic ending. Jimmie Johnson dominated the latest restrictor-plate race Saturday night, winning at Daytona International Speedway for the second time this year and joining another exclusive list at the famed venue....
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 | | Three-time defending Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel surged ahead in his Red Bull at the start of the German Grand Prix on Sunday and held off a strong challenge from the two Lotus cars to win his first race on home soil. There were no tire blowouts but the race had its share of...
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 | | A lost wheel from Mark Webber's car injured TV cameraman Paul Allen in the pit lane during the Formula One German Grand Prix. Red Bull Racing was subsequently fined for an unsafe pit stop release. Webber was erroneously given the signal to leave the pits after his first stop, despite the...
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 | | An emotional Sebastian Vettel finally won his home Grand Prix in Germany, after holding off the challenge of Kimi Räikkönen in the closing laps. It was also his first win in July, an unusual statistic that has followed him around in recent years. Vettel, who now has a 34-point lead...
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 | | NHRA Funny Car driver Johnny Gray picked up his fourth win of 2013 on Sunday with a victory against Ron Capps at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park. Khalid alBalooshi (Top Fuel) and Mike Edwards (Pro Stock) also were winners of the NHRA...
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 | | Romain Grosjean was one of the stars of the Formula One German Grand Prix, earning third place for the Lotus team. A strong first stint put him into podium contention, ending a run of frustration for the Frenchman. Grosjean led several laps after managing to stay out for 13 laps on the more...
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 | | Sebastian Vettel finally won a Formula One race in front of his home crowd Sunday, winning the F1 German Grand Prix over runner-up Kimi Räikkönen and third-place finisher Romain Grosjean. The three drivers met the media in Germany following the race. Here is the transcript of that press...
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 | | Johnny O'Connell and Jack Baldwin took home wins in GT and GTS, respectively, at the Pirelli World Challengs Cadillac Lime Rock Park Grand Prix on Saturday for Round 9 of the Pirelli World Challenge 2013 season. The win was the third of the season for both O'Connell, in the No. 3 Cadillac...
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 | | Mercedes' hopes of winning its home Formula One race in Germany were over before the first curve. The culprit, according to Lewis Hamilton, were the tires. Hamilton started on pole position but was sandwiched by the Red Bulls of eventual winner Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber before the...
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 | | While Steve Kinser, Sammy Swindell and Doug Wolfgang may always be known as winged sprint car racing’s Big Three, there’s a new Big Three dominating the action in the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series this season. Enter Tim Kaeding, Donny Schatz and Daryn Pittman. ...
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 | | IndyCar is relinquishing control of the struggling Indy Lights series to Dan Andersen, who owns the other two steps in the Mazda Road to Indy development program. Andersen founded the USF2000 series in the 1990s, sold it and bought it back a couple of years ago. He also recently acquired Star...
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 | | Lucas Luhr survived an early torrid battle with Chris Dyson before giving way to co-driver Klaus Graf, who scored the team's third consecutive victory in 2013 American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón competition Saturday's American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock Park. ...
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 | | It had been 31 years since anyone accomplished what Jimmie Johnson accomplished on Saturday night in Daytona Beach. Thirty-one years during which many of NASCAR’s greatest stars reached for and missed the brass ring. Thirty-one years since a host of big-name drivers came agonizingly close to...
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 | | Marco Andretti joined his father and grandfather Saturday as an IndyCar pole winner at Pocono Raceway. Andretti captured the top spot in qualifying for IndyCar's first race at the track since 1989. Danny Sullivan won that race. “It means a lot,” Andretti said of joining the family ...
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 | | Lewis Hamilton gave Mercedes another pole position on the manufacturer's home ground in Germany, but it was a day of mixed emotions for the team as a strategy error in qualifying saw his team mate Nico Rosberg stuck in 11th. The temperatures rose during the day and that contributed to an...
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 | | Ryan Winchester, of Mason City, Iowa, and Joel Lipperini, of Pittston, Penn., captured the Touring Car and Touring Car B-Spec class victories in Round 6 of the Pirelli World Challenge season at the Cadillac Lime Rock Park Grand Prix. Winchester's third win of the season for Karl Thomson's...
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 | | Mike Skeen, of Charlotte, NC, and Lawson Aschenbach, of Jupiter, Fla., took the GT and GTS class wins in Round Eight of the Pirelli World Challenge season at the Cadillac Lime Rock Park Grand Prix. Skeen took his first win of the year in the No. 2 Hawk Performance Chevrolet Corvette for CRP ...
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 | | Man, the challenges continue in this Izod IndyCar Series season for me and the Verizon Team Penske boys. In the Indianapolis 500, we were looking good at one point and then fell back -- and we didn’t get enough fuel in on the last stop so we had to come in again with three laps to go...
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 | | With a push from James Buescher, Matt Kenseth streaked away from the field after a restart with two laps remaining to win Friday night’s Subway Firecracker 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series race in a green-white-checkered-flag finish that took the event one lap past its scheduled distance of 100...
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 | | Last time I checked in, the Indianapolis 500 was just days away, and the entire month of May at the Speedway was a bit frustrating. We never really found the grip we needed in the car, we were always struggling to find a consistent and good setup. I felt OK going into the race, and while I’m...
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 | | Formula One teams admit that they have some work to do in their wind tunnels before Pirelli introduces its revised tires in Hungary. The change to a 2012-style structure means that the tires have a different aerodynamic profile. An interim solution, which does not impact aero, is in use in...
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