For 2005, a new qualifying format was introduced here at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In an attempt to add drama to the trials, only eleven cars would make the field on each of the first three qualifying days. Bumping would occur when the daily field filled, and those left on the outside would move to […]
West Salem, Wis., May 16—Dave Darland scored a wire-to wire victory Friday Night capturing the 30-lap Mopar USAC National Midget Championship feature at LaCrosse Fairgrounds Speedway. The event was the opening round of the four-race Midget Maynia Tour. Darland got the jump on the start to lead polesitter Tracy Hines to the line to complete […]
Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch lead the field past the green flag to start the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. [Credit: Chris Trotman/Getty Images for NASCAR] By Dan Margetta and John Wiedemann The curtain comes down on the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup season and the Sprint Cup Champion will […]
The United States Auto Club is announcing major steps aimed at preserving the future of its most popular and competitive racing series, the K & N Silver Crown Championship Series. Already underway, an extensive program of redesign and re-evaluation of the new-generation pavement car is designed at restoring USAC?s premier racing series to high-profile venues […]
Jimmie Johnson. [Chris Trotman/Getty Images] By Dan Margetta Speedway, Ind., Sept. 7—Despite seven NASCAR Cup championships and four Brickyard 400 victories, Jimmie Johnson enters this year’s Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard on the outside looking in when it comes to the 2019 version of NASCAR’s playoffs and a relative long-shot to avoid missing […]
BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix IMSA Podium at Long Beach. [Photo by Eddie LePine] By Eddie LePine The crowds were huge, the weather was perfect, the atmosphere was electric and the competition was fierce. That is what greeted me when I attended Long Beach for the BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix, round 3 […]
(From left) Driver Ryan Blaney, Ford Board Member Edsel B. Ford II, Director of Ford Performance Dave Pericak, Len Wood and Eddie Wood after announcing that Wood Brothers Racing would run a full-time schedule in 2016. [Russell LaBounty Photo] Homestead, Fla. – The legendary Wood Brothers race team announced today that it will campaign full-time […]
Martin Truex Jr. celebrates at Chicagoland with his fifth Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series win in the 2017 season. [Photo by Doug Hornickel fastlapphoto.com] The Tales of the Turtles 400 from Chicagoland Speedway is in the books and after the first event in the opening round of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, […]
Speedway, IN – As I write this, Bobby Unser is giving a rambling interview to a radio man here in the Media Center of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. An interview that moves from Indy Cars returning to Pocono this summer, to the days of dangerous racing at the old killer dirt mile called Langhorne. “You’d […]
West Allis, WI – Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing is working hard at becoming a player in the IZOD Indy Car Series. The team, formed in 2008 by then driver Sarah Fisher, has benefited since 2011 by partnering with Kansas businessman Wink Hartman who has helped them on the business side as well as with finances. […]
New Berlin, WI – There may be snow and ice covering the historic Milwaukee Mile this winter, but Andretti Sports Marketing is getting ready for round two of Milwaukee IndyFest; the IZOD Indy Car race they promoted at the iconic West Allis oval. Though IndyFest is not scheduled until June 14-15, Michael Andretti and a […]
Speedway, IN – What might have been? What would the finish of the 500 have looked like had that yellow that locked- in Tony Kanaan’s win not flown? Would he have battled Carlos Munoz and Ryan Hunter-Reay for the win? Would there have been a different caution flag? NASCAR might have had a green-white-checkered finish, […]
Ty Majeski, driver of the #98 Road Ranger Ford, race during the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series SpeedyCash.com 250 at Texas Motor Speedway. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images) West Allis, WI – Current NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series point leader, Ty Majeski was at the Milwaukee Mile to help announce, after a fourteen-year absence, the return of […]
