TALLADEGA, Alabama -- NASCAR and IRL drivers are keeping a close eye on the Helio Castroneves/Alan Miller tax evasion case, some because Miller is also their agent and others because Team Penske could be in need of a new driver as early as late October.
KANSAS CITY -- This year's Chase for the Championship has turned into a three-man battle between Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle as the top three are separated by just 30 points.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- AJ Allmendinger won't be driving for Red Bull Racing next season, giving up his seat for the final seven races to look for a job.
TALLADEGA, Alabama -- NASCAR and IRL drivers are keeping a close eye on the Helio Castroneves/Alan Miller tax evasion case, some because Miller is also their agent and others because Team Penske could be in need of a new driver as early as late October.
KANSAS CITY -- This year's Chase for the Championship has turned into a three-man battle between Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle as the top three are separated by just 30 points.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- AJ Allmendinger won't be driving for Red Bull Racing next season, giving up his seat for the final seven races to look for a job.
Ferrari and McLaren have attacked the safety car rule that decided last weekend's Singapore Grand Prix, describing it as "humiliating" and "hopelessly wrong" for Formula One.
Ferrari's humiliating performance in the Singapore Grand Prix marked a "black day" for the Formula One outfit, team director Stefano Domenicali said Monday.
Formula One world championship leader Lewis Hamilton extended his title advantage after an extraordinary pit lane incident scuppered the hopes of his main rival Felipe Massa in the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix.
Formula One turned to the dark side at the Singapore Grand Prix and judging by how well it was received the sport's first night race will not be its last.
SINGAPORE (AP) -- In Formula One's first night race, Renault's Fernando Alonso captured the Singapore Grand Prix after starting 15th on the grid Sunday while McLaren's Lewis Hamilton extended his championship lead.
Lewis Hamilton may be one point ahead in Formula One's championship standings, but his title rival Felipe Massa is critically one place ahead on the grid for Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix.
Felipe Massa boosted his challenge for the drivers' world championship title when he claimed pole position ahead of Lewis Hamilton in the final qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix.
Double world champion Fernando Alonso produced a sparkling performance under the floodlights to top the timesheets in the second session of free practice ahead of the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix.
As summer turns to fall, NASCAR's Silly Season is a little bit like a department store going out of business. All merchandise needs to be cleared out at bargain basement prices; and by the time you get to its final days, there's next to nothing left to shop for.
The driver lineup will have a different look when the IndyCar Series shows up for its nonpoints Nikon Indy 300 next month at Surfers Paradise in Queensland, Australia.
Sitting in the Bill Davis Racing transporter Saturday afternoon, two hours before driving in NASCAR's Craftsman Truck Series race at Las Vegas, Scott Speed reiterated that he's in no rush to get into Sprint Cup.
Lewis Hamilton gave evidence on Monday at the headquarters of Formula One in Paris in a hearing that could decide the fate of this year's world championship.
Lewis Hamilton and his bosses at McLaren attended a hearing Monday at Formula One headquarters that will decide whether to reinstate his Belgian Grand Prix victory.
Kimi Raikkonen isn't giving up his bid for a second consecutive Formula One title, even though he is only fourth with four races remaining and Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa could use his help to catch Lewis Hamilton.
Sebastian Vettel has given a glimpse of what his Red Bull future could hold after the 21-year-old German driver set the fastest time at an F1 test session.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Formula 3 Euroseries driver Martin Plowman will drive for Panther Racing next season in the Indy Racing League's developmental Indy Lights Series.
Greg Biffle sprawled on the leather-swathed couch of the front compartment of his transporter, eyes fixed ahead, his mind poring over details of the first brief test session of the 2007 Sprint Cup season. It was cold this January afternoon at Daytona International Speedway and his shoulder ached from a wreck at a tire test at Las Vegas a month earlier.
MONZA, Italy - Kimi Raikkonen celebrated his contract extension with Ferrari by leading Friday's free practice for the Italian Grand Prix after thunderstorms had threatened to wash out the day's event.
Sebastian Vettel of Toro Rosso became the youngest Formula One driver to earn pole position after he was fastest in a rain-affected qualifying session for the Italian Grand Prix on Saturday.
MONZA, Italy (AP) -- Sebastian Vettel of Toro Rosso will become the youngest Formula One driver to start from the pole position after setting the fastest time Saturday in a rain-affected qualifying session for the Italian Grand Prix.
For more than a decade, Bruton Smith resisted requests to build a dragstrip in the heart of NASCAR country. When the motorsports mogul finally said yes last year, nothing was going to stop him from making it the biggest and best in the country.
The three combatants toddled into the media center of Richmond International Raceway on Friday, plopped behind a smallish table and instinctively checked to see if their microphones were live.
Since it was announced last month that the majority of the IndyCar Series schedule will be shown on the Versus cable channel for at least the next 10 years, a debate has raged over whether the series should have stayed with ABC/ESPN family of networks, which currently reaches more homes.
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) -- He's lost both of his NASCAR teammates and his primary sponsor, yet Juan Pablo Montoya remains staunchly committed to car owner Chip Ganassi.
IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon was initially shown as the winner of the season's final race because of a faulty transponder on his race car, the Indy Racing League said Monday.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa was declared the winner of the Belgian Grand Prix after McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton, who was first over the finishing line, was given a 25-second penalty for an illegal maneuver and demoted to third.
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (AP) -- Lewis Hamilton won the Belgian Grand Prix in a rain-splashed finish on Sunday, extending his lead in the championship standings after race leader Kimi Raikkonen spun off during the next-to-last lap.
Are we witnessing the end of NASCAR's open-wheel era? Just one season after Juan Pablo Montoya electrified the racing world by moving from Formula 1 to NASCAR, the whole experiment seems to be stumbling towards a ghastly conclusion.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Dario Franchitti is returning to the IndyCar Series after a fruitless one-year effort in NASCAR. The 2007 Indianapolis 500 winner and '07 IndyCar Series champion will move over to Target/Chip Ganassi Racing, replacing Dan Wheldon, who has been signed by Panther Racing, the team he made his IndyCar Series debut with six years ago.
DETROIT -- One of the biggest complaints about Brian Barnhart is that the IndyCar President, Competition Division, is usually "all bark and no bite" when it comes to enforcing penalties, that he often warns drivers against the sins of blocking but rarely penalizes offending drivers.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa claimed a wire-to-wire win in the European Grand Prix on Valencia's street circuit for his fourth F1 victory of the season, finishing ahead of championship leader Lewis Hamilton.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen is keeping his fingers crossed that a return to Spain can bring about the change of fortune his Formula One title defence needs.
At one time in the not-too-distant past, Ryan Newman seemed headed for a Penske-for-life career, on the same track as Mark Donohue and Rick Mears. But last week, Newman ditched those plans and jumped in with Tony Stewart to drive for the new Stewart-Haas team next season, a move he made as a result of performance issues -- which is a respectful way of saying we're not running strong enough to stick around.
BROOKLYN, Michigan -- Danny Sullivan, the "Spin and Win" driver who won the 1985 Indianapolis 500, has put an offer together to purchase the Bill Davis Racing operation in NASCAR.
Downshift, brake, hit the mark, turn, up shift, accelerate, turn, brake. Five seconds -- maybe -- in the work day of a race car driver on a road course. And that's the easy part of racing. That doesn't even factor the metallic herd traversing the winding course, some among it predators capable of manipulating any mistake to create a precious passing opportunity.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- A week that began with NASCAR apologizing for the embarrassing tire situation at the Brickyard, ended in similar fashion as Pocono winner Carl Edwards apologized for fighting with crew chief Bob Osborne over pit strategy in Sunday's Sprint Cup race. In other words, just another week at the races.
Finland's Heikki Kovalainen took advantage of a cruel piece of luck for Ferrari's Felipe Massa to claim his maiden Formula One victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday.
World championship leader Lewis Hamilton is on track for a third successive race victory after claiming pole position for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.
Ferrari have hit back at claims they are on the slide after being comprehensively out-performed by McLaren's Lewis Hamilton in the last two Formula One races.
The crowd at last weekend's AllState 400 at the Brickyard was the smallest in the 15-year history of the race. After Sunday's tire debacle at Indy, imagine how small the crowd could be next year.
EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada -- In a season where Danica Patrick finally won an IndyCar race, trouble for the starlet continued in Saturday's Rexall Edmonton Indy when she was driven off the track by the team owner's son, Marco Andretti.
During the 14 years since Indianapolis Motor Speedway opened its doors to stock cars, July and August have belonged to Chevrolet. Beginning with Jeff Gordon taking the first checkered flag in 1994, Lumina and Monte Carlo drivers have guzzled more milk in Victory Lane than anyone else, winning nine races including the last five in a row. Local legend Gordon has led the way, leading 433 laps at the Brickyard while taking home a series-high four trophies (1994, '98, '01, and '04).
More often than not, sport is best experienced by being there. But Formula One is perhaps one of the rare exceptions -- you get the best seat in the house by watching on TV.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a touchstone for Ganassi Racing and cordial rival Penske, the backdrop for much of the glory that has defined the storied open wheel teams.
INDIANAPOLIS -- When NASCAR arrived at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Inaugural Brickyard 400 on Aug. 6, 1994, it was an event of epic proportions.
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