 | Dario Franchitti's Indy car climbs the fence in Houston on Sunday.... | | Editor's note: IndyCar issued the following statement at 6:15 p.m. ET: Medical update from Dr. Michael Olinger, IndyCar director of medical services: Izod IndyCar Series driver Dario Franchitti was admitted awake and alert to Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center in Houston for a concussion, spinal fracture that will require no surgery and a fracture to the right ... |
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 | | Kevin Harvick crashed the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup party. Kyle Busch simply crashed the party -- at a track that continues to bedevil him. And with a bizarre power failure in the last two laps, Johnson failed to cash in decisively on Matt Kenseth’s skittishness with the new...
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 | | Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti fractured two vertebrae and broke his right ankle when his car went airborne into a fence Sunday on the last lap of the Grand Prix of Houston. The accident showered debris into the grandstand, injuring 13 fans and an IndyCar Series official....
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 | | Formula One's teams received a record amount of prize money last year as the return of races in the United States and Bahrain gave the series its biggest-ever calendar and boosted its fortunes. The Bahrain Grand Prix was cancelled in 2011 due to a civil uprising in the country but it was back on ...
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 | | Sebastian Vettel now has one hand on the Formula One world championship title after securing a fourth straight win with a victory in the Korean Grand Prix on Sunday. With the win, Vettel extended his lead to an almost insurmountable 77 points with five races to go over nearest championship...
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 | | For at least a few Formula One race fans, the best news of the day in Korea on Sunday was that predictions that a typhoon would interfere with or even cancel the Korean Grand Prix were off. No typhoon sighting at the track meant the race would go on, and the grid girls of Korea would not have to ...
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 | | Kevin Harvick cracked the top three in the NASCAR Chase for the Championship points with his win at Kansas Speedway on Sunday, and five-time champion Jimmie Johnson shaved five points off the lead and closed to within three points of leader Matt Kenseth. There are just six races left in the...
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 | | With two races left in the NHRA season, a familiar name has found its way to the top of the Funny Car points as John Force extended his points lead by racing to the win on Sunday at the Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway. Shawn Langdon won in Top Fuel and Jeg Coughlin took care...
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 | | After a similar charge in Singapore, Kimi Räikkönen enjoyed another good run to the podium in the Formula One Korean Grand Prix, coming all the way from ninth place on the grid to finish second. Crucially, he got ahead of Lotus teammate Romain Grosjean just after the first safety car restart....
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 | | The event promoter of the Korean Grand Prix wants to stage it in the future as a night race, and is attempting to renegotiate his contract with Formula One Management to help defray the costs involved. Korea Auto Valley Operation CEO Won-Hwa Park finds himself running a loss-making enterprise...
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 | | Sebastian Vettel had little trouble in winning his fourth consecutive Formula One race when he won the Korean Grand Prix on Sunday. Following the race, Vettel of Red Bull Racing and fellow podium finishers Kimi Räikkönen and Romain Grosjean of Lotus shared their thoughts about the race and the...
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 | | Fred Rahmer, known as “Fast Freddie,” and one of the most successful sprint car racers in the history of the difficult Central Pennsylvania sprint car circuit, finally secured one crown jewel victory that had eluded him during his 30-year racing career. Rahmer, who is planning to...
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 | | Sébastien Ogier marked his maiden World Rally Championship title by clinching his seventh win of 2013 and his second on home soil. Ogier started the final day of Rally France in third overall, 1.5 seconds behind Volkswagen teammate and overnight leader Jari-Matti Latvala, and moved ahead on the...
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 | | An IndyCar season that started with so much promise for Simona de Silvestro finally delivered a payoff for the Swiss driver. She scored the first podium finish of her career Saturday with a second-place finish in the Grand ...
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 | | There was no shortage of drama at the American Le Mans Series race at Virginia International Raceway on Saturday. While Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf got the headlines for winning their eighth straight ALMS race, there was a scary incident when contact between the GT car of Marco Holzer and the GTC ...
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 | | Scott Dixon is squarely back in IndyCar's championship chase after series leader Helio Castroneves had a challenging race at Reliant Park. Dixon won the first leg of the Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston with Castroneves finishing 18th. The separation with two races left is only eight...
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 | | Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf raced to their eighth consecutive American Le Mans Series victory, winning Saturday at Virginia International Raceway. Luhr and Graf co-drove the No. 6 Honda-ARX-03c prototype to a 22.846-second victory over the No. 16 Dyson Racing Mazda-Lola shared by Johnny Mowlem ...
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 | | Matt Kenseth may have won Saturday’s Kansas Lottery 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Kansas Speedway, but Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski provided the most explosive fireworks in a wild race that featured 11 cautions in 200 laps. Kenseth pulled away after a restart with five laps...
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 | | Frank Kimmel put quite an exclamation mark on his 10th ARCA championship. After wrapping it up simply by turning a practice lap earlier in the day, Kimmel raced to his 80th career victory in the weather-shortened series finale at Kansas Speedway. The win allowed him to break a tie with Iggy Katona ...
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 | | Fernando Alonso on Saturday put Pirelli back in the Formula One headlines, after questioning the quality of the Italian marque's tires. The Ferrari driver told reporters in Korea the tires "will not do 5 kilometers" -- not...
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 | | He is on the cusp of an ultra-rare fourth consecutive Formula One world championship, but Sebastian Vettel is not the best driver in the F1 field. That is the view of...
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 | | Formula One team Sauber has ruled out bringing back veteran driver Rubens Barrichello to the sport next season. Team principal Monisha Kaltenborn had left the door open earlier in the week when asked about reports of Barrichello ...
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 | | The Formula One teams have agreed a provisional test schedule for 2014 that includes two sessions in Europe and two in the Middle East. The rules are changing next year to allow a return of in-season testing, with four two-day sessions. The teams had to wait for the race calendar to be announced ...
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 | | Formula One is headed toward a crisis within the next 18 months unless costs are cut significantly, McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh said. Whitmarsh said the introduction of V6 turbo engines next year added even more costs to an already highly expensive sport, and more needs to be...
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 | | Surprise, surprise. Not the part about IndyCar driver and reigning Indy 500 winner Tony Kanaan joining Ganassi Racing -- that's been in the works for a few weeks -- but Friday's Ganassi press conference included a switch to...
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 | | There's no question it's been a tough year for Brad Keselowski. First came two penalties for mechanical violations with his No. 2 Ford in separate races that cost him 31 driver points in the
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 | | Jeff Gordon has 718 Sprint Cup starts, 87 wins and four championships since 1992, so he knows a winning hand when he sees one. Right now, going into Sunday afternoon's 400-miler at Kansas Speedway, the NASCAR icon sees Matt Kenseth, Jimmie...
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