 | John Force, right, won the NHRA Funny Car title on Sunday with the win at Las Vegas. The title is his 16th... | | John Force won his record 16th Funny Car title Sunday, beating daughter Courtney Force in the final round in the NHRA Toyota Nationals. Force, 64, has won three consecutive NHRA Funny Car events and has four wins for the season and 138 for his career. He won the final with a 4.062-second run at 310.63 mph. Antron Brown beat Clay Millican at 3.782 and 324.51 to win the Top Fuel event, and... |
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 | | Sebastian Vettel spent some of his first moments as a four-time world champion in the Formula One stewards' office after Sunday's Indian Grand Prix. After wrapping up his 2013 title campaign in style with a third...
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 | | Jeff Gordon wasn’t thrilled that his No. 24 Chevrolet team made the 12-driver Chase for the Championship as -– gulp! –- the lucky 13th team. But once he and crew chief Alan Gustafson made the cut with a special dispensation, they vowed to make the most of their second chance to...
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 | | It wouldn't be a race at Martinsville Speedway without some heated words exchanged afterward. This time, drivers Greg Biffle and Jimmie Johnson lobbed the verbal bombs at each other following the Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 on Sunday. Biffle spent several laps dueling with Johnson late in the...
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 | | Despite rumors that suggested the races would be cancelled or moved to another NASCAR-affiliated short track, the “Battle at the Beach” will return to Daytona International Speedway in 2014 as part of Speedweeks. Debuting last year, the Battle was a way to generate some excitement at ...
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 | | You don't see donuts -- or burnouts -- after wins in Formula One very often. Then again, you don't see four-time champions very often either. Sebastian Vettel broke ranks a bit on Sunday in India when he celebrated with a burnout in front of the main grandstand on Sunday. While the fans loved it,...
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 | | With a night to think things over -- and, one suspects, some time with Sprint Cup team-owner Richard Childress -- a contrite Kevin Harvick apologized on Sunday for his remarks in the final moments of Saturday afternoon’s...
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 | | Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel claimed his fourth straight Formula One championship Sunday after turning in a trademark clinical performance to win the Indian Grand Prix. Starting from pole, Vettel dominated the Buddh International Circuit to join F1 greats Juan Miguel Fangio and Michael...
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 | | The first of two major civil actions against Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone -- and others -- over the sale of Formula One to a private equity firm almost eight years ago, has opened in the London High Court. The judge has heard preliminary statements from barristers acting for Constantin...
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 | | Darrell Wallace Jr. said he would win at Martinsville Speedway, and then he went out and did it. He simply had no idea how big his victory was in Saturday's NASCAR truck series race. "And then the remark and everything starts flowing in after about the history and the record set and Wendell...
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 | | Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel captured his fourth Formula One championship and 10th victory of the 2013 F1 season on Sunday in India. Following the win, the podium finishers -- Vettel, runner-up Nico Rosberg of Mercedes and Romain Grosjean of Lotus -- met the media at the Buddh...
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 | | Sébastien Ogier made it eight wins from 12 starts in the World Rally Championship with arguably his best victory yet as Rally Spain reached a dramatic climax in the heat and dust of Catalunya on Sunday. Ogier began Sunday's mainly gravel stages in fourth place and 46.5 seconds behind...
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 | | Fernando Alonso refuses to speculate on whether Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull car has been the difference between the two men in the drivers' title race this season. While Vettel celebrated his fourth straight Formula One world...
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 | | Christian Horner has made it clear how much a fourth set of double World Championships means to Sebastian Vettel and the Red Bull Racing team -- and admits that he thought the achievement would be out of reach. “Sebastian is very emotional and I'm sure every member of the team is...
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 | | Basking in the euphoria of his fourth straight Formula One world championship title, Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel moved toward making peace with fans from other teams who have booed his wins at several races. Vettel, who...
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 | | Sergio Perez on Sunday hinted the decision about his Formula One future with McLaren has now been made. Until now, McLaren has only said that Perez, who switched from Sauber at the end of last year, is likely to remain Jenson Button's teammate in 2014. Perez, 23, has had a difficult year for ...
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 | | Sammy Swindell turned 58 on Saturday and celebrated in typical Swindell fashion -- in victory lane. Swindell won the 26th annual COMP Cams Short Track Nationals for 360 sprint cars Saturday night at I-30 Speedway in Little Rock, Ark. While the event drew 105 competitors from 21 states to the...
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 | | Truck Series championship contender Ty Dillon (until Saturday, that is) and Sprint Cup driver Kevin Harvick may face rough driving penalties from NASCAR for their actions late in Saturday afternoon's Kroger 200 at Martinsville Speedway. They crashed into each other in the 200-lapper, then continued ...
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 | | NASCAR finally got its long-awaited second minority victory on Saturday, when Darrell Wallace Jr. won the Kroger Camping World Truck Series 200 at Martinsville Speedway. On a picture-perfect fall afternoon, the 20 year-old graduate of the Drive For Diversity program became only the second African-...
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 | | As a new 'silent' Formula E racing series gears up, Formula One is on a mission to stay as loud as it can in a new, greener world. The last scream of a normally-aspired V8 engine will be heard after the checkered...
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 | | Developmental driver Corey LaJoie was put on indefinite probation and ordered to undergo sensitivity training by NASCAR after sending out an "insensitive and intolerable" tweet, according to ABC News. The tweet, since deleted, suggested that the TSA conduct cavity searches on men wearing...
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 | | An upbeat Fernando Alonso says Ferrari managed to get the maximum out of his car this season, despite Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel racing away toward the drivers' title. "This season was fantastic for me again," Alonso said Saturday after managing just eighth in qualifying for the Indian ...
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 | | This NASCAR streak-ending season carries an asterisk: Denny Hamlin missed the Chase for the Championship for the first time since going Sprint Cup racing in 2006. But here's the catch: he missed the four April races after being sidelined following a crash at Auto Club Speedway in March. By the time ...
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 | | With two races to go in the NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car championship Countdown, I am staying focused but also enjoying myself. Heading into Las Vegas this weekend, I have a little lead over Matt Hagan, but Robert Hight and Jack Beckman ...
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 | | Ferrari is preparing to build a new state-of-the-art Formula One factory at its Maranello headquarters near Bologna, Italy, according to a report in a German newspaper. Bild reports that the dedicated factory will have three stories to accommodate about 700 staff working exclusively on F1. It...
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 | | Lotus team principal Éric Boullier said that 2014 is not the right time to be bringing on a rookie, and he made it clear that his team does not intend to hire an inexperienced driver any time soon. That revelation means that there's little chance of untested reserve driver Davide Valsecchi...
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 | | Toro Rosso will prepare Daniil Kvyat for his 2014 Formula One debut by giving him time at the wheel during Friday practice sessions yet this season. The first step for the teenage Russian, who is replacing the Red Bull-bound ...
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 | | Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn has called for smaller teams to have a bigger say in the future of Formula One. Kaltenborn said on Friday her team is uncomfortable with the makeup of the series' new Strategy Group that will work on rules...
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 | | The revolutionary Nissan ZEOD RC electric racer, sporting a look similar to the DeltaWing, made its public on-track debut over the weekend at Fuji in Japan....
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