NASCAR Truck Series Kentucky Preview

  by Dave Grayson
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will again be given a well deserved opportunity to take center stage during a standalone event at the beautiful but challenging Kentucky Speedway. Friday night's Built Ford Tough 225 is going to feature 36 race trucks running door to door on a 1.5 mile, multiple groove, oval that easily allows two, even three, wide racing. Fans can expect to see action very similar to last week's race at the Chicagoland Speedway and Chicago was a very good race.

A look back at the Rolex 24: 1980 - 1989

  Building anticipation for 2012 50th Running
Eagerly anticipated by drivers, auto manufacturers and race fans everywhere, the Rolex 24 Hours At Daytona is the first major race of the world’s motor sport season. Every January, the Daytona International Speedway (Daytona Beach, Florida, USA) comes to life in celebration of this incredible endurance race, recognized by leading drivers as one of the most difficult in the world to win.  2012 will mark the 50th running of sports car racing at the famous Speedway, home of the Rolex 24 At Daytona. Leading up to this unique anniversary, we present a once-a-month look back through the history, people and events that have made this famous race what it is today.

NASCAR Montreal and Chicago postscript

  by Dave Grayson
With the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series taking the weekend off, the Nationwide Series was provided a much deserved opportunity to take center stage over the previous weekend. What a stage it was. The Series ventured north of the border to stage an exciting event in Montreal-Canada on the famed Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. 77 circuits later around the 2.7 mile, 14 turn, road course a very popular winner stood in victory lane.

Scenes from ALMS at Mosport - Sunday

  by Adriano Manocchia
The ALMS ran their feature race on Sunday at Mosport, in Ontario, Canada.  However, the race was cut short to just over 2 hours when an accident knocked down the guiderail and the repairs crews could not fix it.  Our Adriano Manocchia was there to capture all the action in these 185 photographs.

Said edges Papis in Photo finish in Montreal

  NASCAR Nationwide Series
At long last, road-course ace Boris Said is a winner in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.  Said won Sunday’s NAPA Auto Parts 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve when—with the two strongest cars out of contention—the always unpredictable event ended with Said beating Max Papis in a drag race to the finish line.

Dumas and Graf win shortened ALMS race at Mosport

  Damaged Armco could not be repaired
Klaus Graf and Romain Dumas won Mobil 1 presents the Grand Prix of Mosport on Sunday, taking Muscle Milk Team CytoSport’s Porsche RS Spyder to victory in a race called after 2:19 running. A heavy accident between Luke Hines and Jonny Cocker on Mosport International Raceway’s Andretti Straight damaged the Armco safety barrier beyond reasonable repair.

Hamilton drives superb race to win in Spa

  F1 race run in very difficult conditions
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton drove one of the best races of his career to win the Belgium Grand Prix F1 race at Spa.  In a race run in constantly changing tricky conditions Hamilton got the jump on polesitter Mark Webber at the start and led the rest of the way, only the 2nd time he has done that in his career.
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Scenes from ALMS at Mosport - Saturday

  by Adriano Manocchia
Another picture perfect day north of the border, and Klaus Graf drove his Porsche Spyder RS to pole position at Mosport in Ontario, Canada.  Graf outpaced Dyson Racing’s Chris Dyson – driving the Mazda-powered Lola coupe he will share with Guy Smith – by 0.186 seconds in another incredibly close qualifying battle.  Our Adriano Manocchia was there to capture all the action in these 120 photographs.

Franchitti holds off Wheldon in Chicago

  by Mark J. Cipolloni
Dario Franchitti's Ganassi team gambled on the last stop by not taking on new tires and they got their man out first on the final pitstop.  From there Franchitti kept his Dallara IndyCar out front the rest of the way, though it was not easy as Dan Wheldon finished side-by-side with Franchitti, 1/2-car length back.  Andretti Autosport teammates Marco Andretti was third, Ryan Hunter-Reay 4th and Tony Kanaan rounded out the top-5.

Graf gives Muscle Milk car pole in Mosport

  ALMS
A wild season of qualifying in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr¢n continued Saturday. Muscle Milk Team CytoSport’s Klaus Graf grabbed pole position, the seventh driver in eight races to earn those honors. He set a best lap of 1:06.956 (132.212 mph) in the Muscle Milk Porsche RS Spyder that he will drive with factory pilot Romain Dumas.

Pruett, Rojas Win Montreal For Record Eighth Victory

  Pair Claim DP Title For Ganassi
The Montreal 200 on Saturday marked another milestone in what has been a dream season for Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series.  Pruett more than half of the two-hour, 62-lap race, while holding off Alex Gurney to give the team its first victory at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, its record-setting eighth triumph of the season, and in the process, clinching the team Daytona Prototype championship.

Spa: Webber wins Belgian GP pole

  Formula 1
Mark Webber made it 12 of 13 poles for the Red Bull team by turning the fastest lap in qualifying for Sunday's F1 Grand Prix of Belgium in changeable conditions, which are typical for Spa.  McLaren's Lewis Hamilton snuck into 2nd on his last lap to push Robert Kubica down to 3rd.  Webber's Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel will start 4th, Jenson Button 5th and Felipe Massa 6th. Press Conference