NASCAR Silly Season fodder

  by Dave Grayson
Just like your local Wal-Mart displaying Christmas merchandise three weeks prior to Halloween, it seems that NASCAR's annual silly season also starts earlier. Silly season is NASCAR's annual gossip fest that entertains both the racing media and the fans on a variety of topics such as driver, manufacturer and sponsor changes. At this point in time a major focus seems to be on Earnhardt Ganassi Racing-EGR.

New Hampshire NASCAR postscript

  by Dave Grayson
During last weekend's NASCAR action we witnessed a young super talent win his first ever Sprint Cup event. We watched his teammate return to victory lane in the Nationwide Series after beating the super talent who eventually won the Cup race the following day. We also witnessed a truck racing legend take Elvis home for the third time. THUMBS-UP for Joey Logano who used fuel mileage to score his first ever NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway last Sunday.

Zipadelli gambles on rain to give Logano home win

  NASCAR Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire rain shortened
Veteran crew chief Greg Zipadelli made the call and it gave his rookie driver his first career victory as Joey Logano stayed out, conserved fuel and was out front as the rains came at New Hampshire, ending the race 28 laps early. Jeff Gordon was 2nd ahead of Kurt Busch, David Reutimann and Tony Stewart.

Dixon tops Franchitti in Richmond snoozefest

  by Tim Wohlford
In perhaps the most boring race in IRL history, Scott Dixon cruised to a win in the SunTrust Indy Challenge at Richmond International Raceway.  Teammate Dario Franchitti came in second, followed by Graham Rahal.  Those were the only three of five cars on the lead lap at the end of the race due to caution flags flying during green flag pit stops, in a race remarkable for its lack of passing.

Kyle Busch holds off Logano

  Nationwide Race at New Hampshire
Apparently tired of his recent pattern of leading the most laps and finishing somewhere other than first, Kyle Busch took a different tack in Saturday's Camping World RV Sales 200. Busch saved his surge to the front for the final green-flag run in the Nationwide Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. After passing Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano for the lead on Lap 165 of 200, Busch stayed in front the rest of the way.

Valentino Rossi wins 100th MotoGP race

  Only 2nd in history to reach the century mark
Valentino Rossi wrote another chapter in his extraordinary career in Holland today, becoming only the second rider in history to reach 100 Grand Prix wins. 13 years after his very first victory in 125cc, the Italian took the hat-trick of pole position, fastest lap and race win with a perfect display in front of a huge Assen crowd to pass the century mark. It was his 40th win since joining Yamaha in 2004, meaning that over half of his premier-class wins have come with the Japanese factory.

Ganassi duo 1-2 in Richmond qualifying

  IndyCar
Dario Franchitti continued his winning ways on the IRL short tracks when he won the PEAK Performance Pole Award presented by Advance Auto Parts Friday.  Driving the No. 10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car, he recorded a four-lap average of 167.315 mph on the 0.75-mile Richmond International Raceway.  Scott Dixon (166.638 mph) will join his teammate on the front row. It's Dixon's best start of the season.

NASCAR Memphis Truck Preview

  by Dave Grayson
This Saturday the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series returns to the very format that made them famous back in 1995: short track racing. NASCAR's definition of a tailgate party will make its annual return to the Memphis Motorsports Park for the running of the Memphis Travel.Com 250 an event that is guaranteed to be loaded with paint scraping, bumper banging, action.

An interview with Ed Carpenter

  IndyCar
IndyCar Series driver Ed Carpenter participated in a Q&A session this week, discussing the upcoming races at Richmond, Watkins Glen and Toronto.  Ed ranks 12th in points as the series prepares to visit Richmond International Raceway, and he's coming off top‑10 finishes in four of his last five faces. Ranking 12th in points, which if you can maintain or improve upon that, that would mark your highest finish in the season standing.

NASCAR New Hampshire Preview

  by Dave Grayson
NASCAR's Sprint Cup teams will be taking on the extremely challenging "Magic Mile", aka the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, for Sunday's Lenox Industrial Tools 301. This particular speedway is virtually flat as a pancake and that's what makes it so challenging especially coming through, and coming off of, the corners. It's also likely that the newly initiated double file restart policy could be most interesting during Sunday's race when the pack roars into turn one.

Scenes from Infineon - Sunday

  by Bob Heathcote

Kasey Kahne holds off Stewart in Sonoma

  NASCAR Sprint Cup
Kasey Kahne drove his No. 8 Richard Petty Motorsports Dodge away from Tony Stewart's No. 14 Chevy when the green flew with two laps to go to win Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Infineon raceway in Sonoma, California.  Marcos Ambrose came home third for Toyota followed by Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin.  Press Conference