Said confirmed for Sonoma NASCAR race
Road-course specialist Boris Said will compete in the Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR Nextel Cup event at Infineon Raceway, June 22-24. This will mark Said’s eighth consecutive NASCAR Cup effort on … Read More
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Team Australia begins championship chase
Team Australia drivers Will Power and Simon Pagenaud begin their championship charge in the 2007 Champ Car World Series on the streets of Las Vegas in Nevada, United States this … Read More
Halliday signs with Conquest Racing
[Editor's Note: So much for this report from a European newspaper that said Halliday will also be racing in Porsche Supercup, unless he does both, and hence will be a … Read More
Oliver Gavin to race in Europe
Corvette Racing’s Oliver Gavin will make his debut in the European-based Le Mans Series later this year with the French Luc Alphand Aventures team. It will be the first time … Read More
‘Speedy Dan’ Clarke flush with sponsorship for Vegas
Dan Clarke returns to Champ Car competition this weekend, taking his place in Minardi Team USA for the first of sixteen rounds in this premier race series which will visit … Read More
Chinese buy Ford subsidiary
Ford Motor Co. agreed to sell a driveshaft manufacturing business to a U.S. affiliate of a Chinese company, Bloomberg News reported today. The business, with about 1,200 employees, is being … Read More
Ford heirs worry of plummeting wealth
The value of the Ford family's stake in its namesake, ailing automaker has dropped by half since 2001, and worried heirs have been talking with investment banks about their options, … Read More
Formula 1600 returns at Canadian GP support race
Race fans attending the Grand Prix of Canada on June 8, 9 and 10 will once again enjoy the action-packed Formula 1600 series as Jacques Dulac, President of Formula Tour … Read More
Atlantic Championship Announces ’07 ESPN2 Television deal
One of the world’s top developmental racing series is coming home to the Worldwide Leader in Sports. The Cooper Tires Presents The Champ Car Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda will … Read More
Rice’s finishes 10th despite broken suspension
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing's Buddy Rice was disappointed to finish 10th at St. Petersburg. Then he learned he had raced much of the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg with … Read More
Carl Skerlong – Chasing The Dream
It would be fair to say that Mukilteo, Washington, population 19,648, doesn’t yet boast a reputation for churning out world-class professional racing drivers. The ‘yet’ is something 18-year-old Carl Skerlong … Read More
Jimmie Johnson on Live with Regis and Kelly
If you missed Jimmie Johnson's guest appearance on the Live with Regis and Kelly show recently, a replay will be shown on Tuesday, April 3. The show airs at 9:00 … Read More
Bridgestone confirms ‘white groove’ marking
(GMM) F1 tire supplier Bridgestone has confirmed expectations that it will change the method for visibly differentiating the two compounds of tires for the Malaysian grand prix and beyond. After … Read More
All teams affected by new floor tests – Bell
(GMM) All formula one teams will have been affected by the FIA's clarification last week about the underbody regulations, according to Renault technical director Bob Bell. Following an informal grumble … Read More
Chinese Racer Jiang Tengyi Joins Brooks Atlantic Team
Jiang Tengyi, former Team China A1GP driver, has confirmed his plans to compete in Champ Car, beginning with the 2007 Champ Car Atlantic Championship and the Brooks Associates Racing team. … Read More
Earnhardt gets debris in eye
Dale Earnhardt Jr. led at Martinsville until the rain showers came, causing a 33-minute red flag period on lap 357. Dale Jr. climbed back into his car as the leader, … Read More
Sabates to quit NASCAR in 5 years
Felix Sabates plans to sell his 20% interest in the Nextel Cup organization he owns with Chip Ganassi in five years. "I'm leaving," Sabates said. "I've told Chip I'm leaving … Read More
NASCAR takes three cars to research center
NASCAR officials took Kevin Harvick's #29 car to its research and development center to study why the energy-absorbing foam started smoking in his car. It's a problem other drivers, including … Read More
Latest F1 news in brief
Teams brace for wet Malaysian GP Hamilton tests McLaren with four mirrors Fauzy apologizes for Sepang no-show Enge injured in sports car crash Renault find more pace for Sepang Malaysian … Read More
Scuderia announce new technical director
Scuderia Toro Rosso is pleased to announce the appointment of Giorgio Ascanelli as the team's Technical Director. For the past five years, Giorgio has been working as Technical Director for … Read More
Quotes of the Week
JOHN BARNES, Co-owner, Panther Racing IRL team"We would make it where we would race on Saturday to replace a Busch or ARCA race, and they [NASCAR] would race on Sunday," … Read More
Ford drivers penalized
Marcus Gronholm and fellow Ford runners, Mikko Hirvonen, Jari-Matti Latvala, Henning Solberg, Matthew Wilson and Gareth MacHale have all been handed 5 minute penalties after failing post-event inspection at the … Read More
Alex Lloyd makes it three-in-row
Alex Lloyd completed a sweep of the Indy Pro Series doubleheader on the streets of St. Petersburg, matching the effort last year by Guthrie Racing's Raphael Matos. Lloyd, who inherited … Read More
Loeb wins in Portugal
Citroen's Sebastien Loeb has won the Rally de Portugal, the fifth round in the 2007 FIA World Rally Championship. Marcus Gronholm was runner-up in his BP Ford, after losing time … Read More