 | Jamie McMurray avoided a late wreck and coasted to victory at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday afternoon.... | | Leader Jamie McMurray had no idea what he’d do with Dale Earnhardt Jr. when they got around turn four on the last lap of Sunday afternoon’s Camping World RV 500. As for Earnhardt: He didn’t expect to still be running second when the lead pack reached the frontstretch at Talladega Superspeedway. Indeed, Earnhardt figured third-running Austin Dillon would already have pushed him... |
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 | | Take a dozen university students, five professional photojournalists, 45 lenses, 24 strobes, 15 cameras and six computers to Braselton, Ga., in October and you get an experiential learning event unlike anything else in the country. For eight years, students in the Advanced Photojournalism...
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 | | Talladega County authorities say a suspected carbon monoxide leak has killed a Tennessee man who was camping out for a NASCAR race. Sheriff Jimmy Kilgore says friends of the man and his wife found the couple unresponsive inside their motor ...
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 | | Scott Dixon is IndyCar's champion, again. The season's final race, held Saturday night at Auto Club Speedway, was full of drama for the Kiwi. He had to overcome light contact in the MAVTV 500 and an overheating engine to beat Helio...
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 | | Has Ashley Judd changed her mind? If US Weekly is to be believed (and who doesn't believe US Weekly?!), the actress wants to put divorce plans on hold and give her marriage with Dario Franchitti another try. Franchitti...
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 | | Although neither Jimmie Johnson or Matt Kenseth finished in the top 10 at Talladega on Sunday, Johnson managed to leapfrog Kenseth, who was leading in the Chase standings. Johnson came in 13th at Talladega and overtook...
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 | | Chip Ganassi has had five championship-winning drivers in CART or IndyCar, and he said it’s time to give Scott Dixon the due he deserves. Dixon, an Indianapolis 500 winner, now has three season titles, tying him with Rick Mears, Al...
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 | | Chip Ganassi nearly broke down in tears Saturday night after Scott Dixon won the IndyCar Series championship at Auto Club Speedway. Ganassi had to fight to control himself in talking about his father, Floyd, the team patriarch who recently...
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 | | A rare strategy mistake by Roger Penske contributed to Helio Castroneves not winning his first IndyCar Series championship Saturday night at Auto Club Speedway. During a caution, Penske called the Brazilian driver to pit road even though it...
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 | | Helio Castroneves deserves strong praise for the way he handled the disappointment of losing yet another IndyCar Series championship. Despite being one of the most emotional drivers in the sport, he was a professional in walking away from the ...
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 | | On Saturday night in Fontana, Scott Dixon was crowned IndyCar champion, but before the champagne was uncorked, there was a pretty scary wreck at Auto Club Speedway. On lap 111 of 250, Justin Wilson got loose and turned...
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 | | Brandon Sheppard stepped into Mark Richards' potent No. 1 house car Saturday night and scored the biggest victory of his career. Subbing for Richards' son, Josh, in the familiar Rockett machine, the 20-year-old Sheppard became the youngest winner in the history of the RED BUCK Dirt Track World...
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 | | Dale Coyne Racing IndyCar driver Justin Wilson will spend a day or two in the Arrowhead Hospital in Fontana after a horrific six-car crash on lap 111 during the MAV-TV 500 at Auto Club Speedway on Saturday night. Wilson suffered three fractures ...
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 | | Toyota claimed a first World Endurance Championship victory of the season at Fuji in Japan without a lap being run under green conditions. The win went to the Toyota TS030 HYBRID driven by Kazuki Nakajima through a total of 16 wet laps behind the safety car. The race started under yellows,...
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 | | The checkered flag fell – and it was over. Not just the 1,000-mile, nine-hour, 37-minute Petit Le Mans race, but it was over for the American Le Mans Series which, like its counterpart Grand-Am, which ended its season at Lime Rock a few weeks ...
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 | | It wasn't pretty, but Toyota driver Matt Crafton put a stranglehold on the Camping World Truck Series title Saturday afternoon at Talladega Superspeedway. In fact, the championship-deciding race -- deciding, that is, for all intents...
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 | | "Don't look if you are a vegetarian." That's the only warning that the Fox Sports commentator can give in this video from the Australian Grand Prix MotoGP event from Saturday. Racer Jorge Lorenzo was tooling along around a corner when a seagull got a little too close and was sucked out of the ...
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 | | Reports from Venezuela say that the government, previously a major backer of motorsports teams, has “frozen all disbursements of hard currency to automobile and motorcycle racers who compete abroad as they investigate a corruption scandal,” according to the Associated Press. What this...
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 | | James Hinchcliffe will return. Honda is back. Matthew Brabham is moving up. A new sponsor is coming. Those were the news items from Michael Andretti on Saturday at Auto Club Speedway, and combined they sent a strong message about one of the IndyCar Series' super teams. Hinchcliffe, a three-...
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 | | The IndyCar Series team that employs Simon Pagenaud is losing its primary sponsor, team officials confirmed Saturday. Hewlett-Packard's decision to scale back on marketing endeavors is apparently the reason (corporate officials could not be...
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 | | Marco Andretti saw the tweets that feigned surprise at the two-year contract extension he signed with his father's IndyCar team. He figured that was going to be the reaction when he agreed to return to Andretti Autosport for a ninth...
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 | | After winning back-to-back championships in the NASCAR Nationwide Series in 2011 and 2012, Roush Fenway Racing’s Ricky Stenhouse Jr. makes his series return at Texas Motor Speedway, piloting the No. 16 Zest Ford Mustang in...
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 | | I don't think this team is any more, or less, focused on the last few races, despite not being in the NASCAR Chase. We're driven to do our best each and every weekend we show up at the racetrack. It did feel good to win last...
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 | | Parker Kligerman will add "Sprint Cup" to his NASCAR resume when he drives for Swan Racing in next month's AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. The 22-year-old Connecticut native already has run 48 races in the
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 | | Bernie Ecclestone is reportedly using the demise of Valencia's Formula project in Spain to give organizers of next year's provisional New Jersey race a boost. F1 chief executive Ecclestone has agreed to
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 | | On Friday Honda released a recording of its new Formula One engine, which was recently fired for the first time. The engine is currently in development to be used in the 2015 F1 season. Honda will participate in a joint agreement with McLaren....
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 | | Formula One racing is normally a pretty secretive business, but McLaren has given fans a rare peek inside an F1 garage. Just hours after a recent practice, McLaren team manager Dave Redding gave Sky Sports interviewer Ted Kravitz exclusive access...
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 | | TRG-AMR North America announced on Thursday the launch and schedule for the Aston Martin GT4 Challenge Series of North America. In addition, it announced Pirelli as the official tire partner of the new series. TRG-AMR, the exclusive partner with Aston Martin Racing in North America, made the...
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 | | Pastor Maldonado's exit from Williams Formula One team could pave the way for Felipe Massa, the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo is reporting. Correspondent Livio Oricchio claims talks between Venezuelan Maldonado's management and...
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 | | Clint Bowyer seems like he might be tired of talking about his role in what happened earlier this season in Richmond. He made that pretty clear on Thursday when a NASCAR fan replied to a Bowyer tweet with a snarky remark about the race where Bowyer
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