 | Matt Kenseth celebrates his NASCAR Chase win at New Hampshire. Kenseth leads the series with seven wins in... | | Matt Kenseth put himself in some pretty heady company on Sunday afternoon at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Prior to the Sylvania 300, this cat named Richard Petty -- perhaps you've heard the name -- was the only NASCAR driver to have won in his 500th career start. The seven-time champion did it in a family-owned Plymouth, leading 134 of 200 laps at the 1-mile Trenton (N.J.) Speedway in July of... |
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 | | Director Ron Howard’s upcoming movie “Rush,” chronicling the famous 1976 Formula One World Championship rivalry between drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt, premieres nationwide on Sept. 27. In anticipation of the release, Autoweek revisits the 1976 F1 season, as it happened. We...
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 | | Fans, drivers and Formula One teams aren't the only ones who come out on race night in Singapore, as the grid girls also helped brighten the circuit during the weekend. The post-race podium had room for the top three finishers at this year's race -- Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso and Kimi...
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 | | Michael Waltrip Racing is still seeking a sponsorship boost from 5-Hour Energy. The president of the energy-shot company refused Sunday to give a firm commitment that 5-Hour Energy would remain with MWR and sponsor Clint Bowyer's car in 2014. "We'll see how the year plays out," company...
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 | | Mark Webber has a 10-place grid penalty for Korea after flagging down Fernando Alonso following the checkered flag at the Formula One Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday. Webber, who retired from the race on the last lap, was given a lift back to the pits by the Ferrari driver. However, Webber...
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 | | Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel recorded yet another start-to-finish win at the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday to further extend his lead in the Formula One championship. The German was in a class of his own under the Marina Bay lights, winning by a massive 32.6 seconds over Fernando Alonso ...
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 | | Matt Kenseth took the upper hand in the NASCAR Chase for the Championship with the win at New Hampshire on Sunday. Kyle Busch finished second as the two sit 1-2 in the overall points standings with eight races remaining in the season. Here's the top 13 in points after New...
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 | | After five consecutive wins, a third place on Sunday by Toomas Heikkinen was enough to claim the 2013 Global Rallycross Championship at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Heikkinen, driver of the Bluebeam OlsbergsMSE Ford Fiesta ST, needed two points to clinch the title, and he continues to be the...
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 | | Doug Kalitta is hoping that he's peaking at the right time. Kalitta ended a 71-race winless drought by racing to the Top Fuel victory Sunday at the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex near Dallas, and he moved into a share of first place in the championship chase with Shawn Langdon....
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 | | Nine additional national champions were crowned on the track and John Heinricy became a 12-time champion in the tech shed on Saturday from the 50th SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Road America. Andrew Aquilante earned his second national championship of the event, and Tim Kautz won...
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 | | Audi trio Loic Duval, Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen claimed victory in Austin, Texas, at Circuit of the Americas on Sunday to extend its World Endurance Championship lead. The No. 2 Audi R18 e-tron quattro triumphed by 23 seconds over the second-place Toyota TS030 Hybrid shared by...
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 | | Three of the Northeast's most popular stock car divisions took to the 1-mile New Hampshire Motor Speedway Saturday with a teenager and two veteran drivers taking victories. Fifteen-year-old Cole Custer, the son of Stewart-Haas Racing executive Joe Custer, earned his second NASCAR K&N Pro Series...
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 | | Sebastian Vettel took another major step toward the 2013 Formula One championship with a superb victory in Singapore on an evening when he was in a class of his own, but he was once again booed on the podium by a section of the crowd. Vettel built up a lead in the opening laps and then did it...
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 | | Caterham has confirmed a three-year powertrain supply with its current partner Renault. The news leaves Lotus and Sauber as the only teams yet to officially confirm their 2014 deals with their current suppliers. Although there was never any question of the team taking any other route, given...
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 | | Sebastian Vettel continues to pull away in the Formula One points race and appears well on his way to a fouth consecutive Formula One championship. On Sunday, Vettel took care of business in Singapore, winning by a whopping 32.6 seconds over runner-up Fernando Alonso. After the race, Vettel,...
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 | | The days of constantly changing helmet livery designs in Formula One could be coming to an end. This weekend, world champion Sebastian Vettel, who regularly changes the design of his helmet, is wearing a livery that shines like a disco ball under the Singapore lights. Even Lewis Hamilton,...
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 | | To no one's surprise, the Muscle Milk Honda ARX-03c of Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr dominated the 83-lap American Le Mans Series race in the International Sports Car Weekend Presented by Continental Tire at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Consistently the only car in the field of 33 to lap...
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 | | Regardless of what happens in the coming months, this much is a virtual certainty: Martin Truex Jr. has elevated himself enormously in the eyes of most NASCAR-watchers by being brutally honest, unfailingly accessible and politely patient during the most stressful time of his professional life. ...
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 | | Multiple sources have reported that James Warburton, the new head of the Australian V8 Supercars series, has cancelled the 2014 appearance at Circuit of the Americas, following what most considered a successful first trip to the track in 2013. Warburton apparently considers the lone trip to the U.S....
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 | | It wasn't a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competitor that the NASCAR Nationwide Series field had to worry about at Kentucky Speedway. Instead, it was a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series standout in Ryan Blaney who stole the show and won Saturday night's Kentucky 300. Blaney's first career...
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 | | Porsche AG and Porsche Cars North America announced that it will field a two-car factory team named Porsche North America in the 2014 Tudor United SportsCar Championship's GT Le Mans class. The effort will utilize the new Porsche 911 RSR, the same as the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans LM GTE-Pro class-...
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 | | Nine national champions were crowned on Friday on the opening day of the 50th SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Road America. Among the highlights, Lawrence Loshak captured two titles, one each in Formula 1000 and H Production, to become just the fourth person to win the Runoffs in four...
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 | | Brian France didn't expect to spend his 10-year anniversary as chairman of NASCAR sorting through the biggest credibility crisis in the sport's history. As he waded through the intricate layers of race teams manipulating the outcome of a pivotal event, France was forced to make unprecedented ...
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 | | Formula One team bosses say the rapidly escalating costs of the sport -- set to climb even higher next season -- mean there is something "fundamentally wrong" with the sport which must be corrected. The switch to V6 turbo engines next season, along with the re-introduction of in-season...
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 | | Lotus team boss Eric Boullier says that Kimi Räikkönen will be paid, claiming that the delay is just down to cash flow issues. Boullier also denies that the story of the Finn's salary has hurt the team's image. “I don't think it's damaging the brand of the team, to be honest,” he...
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 | | Beleaguered team owner Michael Waltrip hopes to field three NASCAR Sprint Cup teams next year, but whether Martin Truex Jr. is one of his drivers remains to be seen. Waltrip, owner of Michael Waltrip Racing, wants Truex back, but will not stand in his way if another team offers a better deal while...
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 | | NASCAR recently said overt cooperation among teammates would not be tolerated and “finish-fixing” and blatant manipulation of the spirit of competition would result in major penalties. That warning and the accompanying edit that “you must give 100 percent effort” came after...
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 | | Felipe Massa says that he can bring a financial boost to a team that keeps his Formula One career on track in 2014. The Ferrari refugee has been linked with moves to Lotus or possibly McLaren, but the Brazilian was quoted in Singapore as also mentioning Williams, Force India and Sauber....
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 | | “Rush” -- the much-anticipated new movie chronicling the 1976 Formula One championship battle between McLaren's James Hunt and Ferrari's Niki Lauda -- opens in New York and Los Angeles on Sept. 20, and nationwide on...
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