NASCAR Bristol Preview

  by Dave Grayson
Fresh from a weekend off, the elite from NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series returns to work this Sunday at Thunder Valley: the Bristol Motor Speedway. It's what used to be known as NASCAR's semi annual demolition derby where 43 full sized stock cars lined up on a half mile track and everyone occupying the speedway's 160,000 seats knew full well what was coming.

NASCAR drivers pick song titles

  by Dave Grayson
The pre race ceremony, prior to Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Bristol, includes an introduction to what will likely become a new musical tradition. The Sprint Cup drivers, who will comprise the 43 car starting field, will be introduced to the fans backed with musical selections they themselves selected. Taking a look at the recently published song selections of the drivers it's clear that the tunes represent the taste of today's NASCAR young guns.

Scenes Sebring Testing - Wednesday

  by Adriano Manocchia

Q&A with Sarah Fisher and Graham Rahal

  IndyCar
IZOD IndyCar Series owner/driver Sarah Fisher and IZOD IndyCar Series driver Graham Rahal participated in a Q&A session to discuss their recent announcement that will place Rahal in Fisher's No. 67 Dollar General car for the races at St. Petersburg, Fla., and Barber Motorsports Park. The 21-year-old native of New Albany, Ohio will compete in his third season in the IZOD IndyCar Series in 2010. He Will drive the No. 67 Dollar General car at St. Petersburg and Barber Motorsports Park for Sarah Fisher Racing.

Scenes Sebring Testing - Monday and Tuesday

  by Adriano Manocchia

Peugeot opens strong in Sebring testing

  Lamy/Bourdais/Minassian car quickest in Tuesday testing
Peugeot seems eager to continue its run of endurance success with the fastest time unofficially Tuesday in testing for the 58th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida. The No. 08 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP of Pedro Lamy, Sebastien Bourdais and Nic Minassian posted a fastest lap of 1:46.232 (125.386 mph) around the 3.7-mile, 17-turn Sebring International Raceway.

Scenes NHRA Gatornationals Weekend

  by Rhonda McCole

Schumacher powers to Top Fuel win in Gatornationals

  by Pete McCole
Tony Schumacher added yet another impressive NHRA Top Fuel win to his resume with a victory over teammate Antron Brown in Sunday’s 41st Annual Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway. Tim Wilkerson beat out Bob Tasca III to top the Funny Car division, while Jason Line topped Mike Edwards in the Pro Stock final. Eddie Krawiec took top honors in the Pro Stock Motorcycle final over Shawn Gann.

The Delta Wing - Safety by Design

  Part 6 of 7
This is a short installment in our series on the Delta Wing, to simply address something that we also had concerns about when we first saw the design. With the long narrow forward section, it looks as if side impact protection would be inferior to today's car and current designs. Well, we have been assured to the contrary.

Will Power wins IndyCar season opener in Brazil

  IndyCar
Making the last of multiple passes for the lead, Team Penske's Will Power overtook Ryan Hunter-Reay on the 58th circuit of a rain-shortened 61-lap Sao Paulo Indy 300, to win Sunday's season-opening round of the 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series, and the inaugural IndyCar event in Brazil's largest city.

Alonso wins easily in Ferrari debut

  Leads Ferrari 1-2 as Vettel falters
Fernando Alonso won today's Bahrain GP some 16 seconds ahead of his Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa and in doing so won his debut race for Ferrari.  Polesitter Sebastian Vettel built up a lead of 5 seconds over Alonso early but a broken exhaust header slowed his pace and Alonso pounced.  Once Alonso passed, Massa moved around Vettel too but he could not keep pace with his new teammate.  Lewis Hamilton was 3rd. Press Conference

Power tops opening day in Sao Paulo

  IndyCar season opener in Brazil
Verizon Team Penske driver Will Power topped the speed charts as IZOD IndyCar Series teams began preparations for the inaugural São Paulo Indy 300 on the streets of São Paulo, Brazil. IZOD IndyCar Series qualifications were postponed to four hours before the start of the race  March 14 based on driver feedback relating to the slippery concrete surface of the one-third-mile Anhembi Sambodromo frontstretch.