The Indy Racing League looked smart in sassy white pants and cut a stylish businessman's profile in a charcoal suit and hipster glasses. It was uncharacteristically bawdy, a little prance-y on the catwalk, but what the heck, it was fully subsidized for the first time in its 13 years. Time to work it.
Just when it looked like next weekend's trip to Phoenix could be billed as NASCAR's Championship Weekend, which would have made the season-finale at Homestead-"NASCAR 2010 Preseason Thunder," it all changed when Jimmie Johnson hit the wall on Lap 3 at Texas Motor Speedway.
MIAMI -- Just one night after becoming the "Comeback Kid" by winning his second IndyCar Series title, Dario Franchitti got the ultimate show of respect from his fellow drivers.
Tony Stewart is used to his big decisions working out: abandoning a championship-winning Indy Racing League career to switch to NASCAR and buying racetracks to name a few.
It's been a rough season for Nicky Hayden, who arrives to this weekend's Red Bull Indianapolis GP in the unfamiliar territory of 14th in the MotoGP World Championship. Hayden has never finished worse than eighth in six previous years in the world's premier motorcycle road racing series, and was its champion in 2006.
Scott Pruett drove in four Indy 500s and one Brickyard 400, and thought his days racing at the famous speedway had ended when he switched in 2001 to racing sports cars, which have never run there. He'll have an unexpected opportunity to return on Sept. 3 in a test sanctioned by the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
EDMONTON, Alberta --There are 1,823 miles between Indianapolis and this prairie city, where streaks of summer sunlight remain until 11:30 p.m. But on Sunday, there was more than just passing interest among the IndyCar Series community with Sunday's AllState 400 at the Brickyard NASCAR race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
International Speedway Corporation has staged a successful raid at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway by hiring Joie Chitwood as Vice President of Business Operations. Chitwood resigned Monday from IMS, where he has been President and Chief Operating Officer since December 2004.
KOONTZ LAKE, Ind. -- There's a lot on the line at Sunday's AllState 400 at the Brickyard -- NASCAR's annual trip to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Simply put, there are three entities that cannot afford to fail -- NASCAR, Goodyear and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway itself.
TORONTO -- Tony George's ouster as the President and CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation by his own sisters is every bit as significant as last year's unification that brought rival factions together when Champ Car was absorbed into the IndyCar Series.
The Indy Racing League looked smart in sassy white pants and cut a stylish businessman's profile in a charcoal suit and hipster glasses. It was uncharacteristically bawdy, a little prance-y on the catwalk, but what the heck, it was fully subsidized for the first time in its 13 years. Time to work it.
Just when it looked like next weekend's trip to Phoenix could be billed as NASCAR's Championship Weekend, which would have made the season-finale at Homestead-"NASCAR 2010 Preseason Thunder," it all changed when Jimmie Johnson hit the wall on Lap 3 at Texas Motor Speedway.
MIAMI -- Just one night after becoming the "Comeback Kid" by winning his second IndyCar Series title, Dario Franchitti got the ultimate show of respect from his fellow drivers.
Tony Stewart is used to his big decisions working out: abandoning a championship-winning Indy Racing League career to switch to NASCAR and buying racetracks to name a few.
It's been a rough season for Nicky Hayden, who arrives to this weekend's Red Bull Indianapolis GP in the unfamiliar territory of 14th in the MotoGP World Championship. Hayden has never finished worse than eighth in six previous years in the world's premier motorcycle road racing series, and was its champion in 2006.
Scott Pruett drove in four Indy 500s and one Brickyard 400, and thought his days racing at the famous speedway had ended when he switched in 2001 to racing sports cars, which have never run there. He'll have an unexpected opportunity to return on Sept. 3 in a test sanctioned by the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
EDMONTON, Alberta --There are 1,823 miles between Indianapolis and this prairie city, where streaks of summer sunlight remain until 11:30 p.m. But on Sunday, there was more than just passing interest among the IndyCar Series community with Sunday's AllState 400 at the Brickyard NASCAR race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
International Speedway Corporation has staged a successful raid at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway by hiring Joie Chitwood as Vice President of Business Operations. Chitwood resigned Monday from IMS, where he has been President and Chief Operating Officer since December 2004.
KOONTZ LAKE, Ind. -- There's a lot on the line at Sunday's AllState 400 at the Brickyard -- NASCAR's annual trip to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Simply put, there are three entities that cannot afford to fail -- NASCAR, Goodyear and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway itself.
TORONTO -- Tony George's ouster as the President and CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation by his own sisters is every bit as significant as last year's unification that brought rival factions together when Champ Car was absorbed into the IndyCar Series.
WEST ALLIS, Wisconsin -- A Hulman-George family feud may provide IndyCar star Danica Patrick with the nudge she needs to jump to NASCAR.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Board of Directors has asked CEO Tony George to focus on the company within its organization that needs the most attention, possibly signaling an end to his tenure overseeing the Speedway.
According to a report Wednesday, Tony Georgewas bounced out of his job as the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's CEO. By midday, George had denied it in interviews with the Indianapolis media. IMS followed with a statement several hours later that further detailed the subjects and objectives discussed in the IMS board of directors meeting on Tuesday.
INDIANAPOLIS -- While the motion picture that is Helio Castroneves' life has more sequels than the old "Rocky" movies, the back story to Sunday's 93rd Indianapolis 500 included the two stars of the 2005 race.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Five weeks ago, Helio Castroneves stared into the abyss, wondering if he would spend Memorial Day in a federal prison as his fate was in the hands of a 12-member jury as they deliberated his fate in a tax evasion trial.
INDIANAPOLIS -- There are few sporting events that transcend sports and enter the mainstream. The Indianapolis 500 is one of them.
The 93rd running of the Indianapolis 500 is Sunday, and this year's race boasts one of the deepest fields in the event's history. With the return of Helio Castroneves and Dario Franchitti, and a grid that boasts a number of past champions, the Borg-Warner Trophy is up for grabs.
INDIANAPOLIS -- For the 33 drivers who will start Sunday's Indianapolis 500, there are plenty of keys and strategies that will get one of them into victory lane in the World's Biggest Race.
Everything points to this Indianapolis 500 being one of the most competitive races in the event's 93-race history. It'll be a grueling test of speed and pit-stop execution on IndyCar's fastest and most demanding track.
INDIANAPOLIS -- In any other year, a comeback like the one Dario Franchitti has made this month would be the big story leading into the Indianapolis 500.
INDIANAPOLIS -- How's this for a Hollywood Script?
The Phoenix Coyotes are having trouble paying the ice bill, so much so the National Hockey League has intervened to steady a bankrupt club that not even Wayne Gretzky could save.
Stock car racing has always been Richard Petty's business. But he always had an interest in the Indianapolis 500, too. He listened to it on the radio as a youngster, and watched it on television as an adult from the condo at Lowe's Motor Speedway while waiting for the start of the Coca-Cola 600.
KOONTZ LAKE, Indiana -- When the Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced that it was shutting down the "Brickyard Crossing" motel last week, it drew little attention, lost in the shuffle of other motorsports layoffs, race cancellations and drug testing announcements.
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.
The Grand Olympic Auditorium -- the Grand described the address, not its condition -- was a concrete vault, built for the 1932 Olympics but long since consigned to the indignities of weekly boxing and wrestling. By the time I got there in 1979, to cover the fights for the Los Angeles Times, even those indignities were passing. The networks were beginning to poach whatever attractions they could, leaving the small clubs without the denouement of long-wrought rivalries. It was a failing scene.
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.
The buzz was back at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday as one of the largest crowds in years filled the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, including NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France, who was on the starting grid before the race.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Churchill Downs are separated by just 125 miles of southern Indiana countryside and the Ohio River. That's 50 laps around the Speedway, twice as many around Churchill. But the expansive motor racing cathedral, with its signature yard of bricks, and the stately horse racing track, defined by its dignified twin spires now dwarfed by grotesque modernization, are undeniably linked. Many of their most cherished traditions seem rooted in the same values. And each became the standard by which all who compete in their respective sports are judged.
INDIANAPOLIS -- IndyCar racing's biggest name was emotionally shaken Friday as Danica Patrick was involved in an incident on pit lane during Friday's practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway when her car hit a crew member from another team in pit lane.
For the first time in 30 years IndyCar racing is unified, creating a sense of optimism that open-wheel racing can regain is prominence in the sporting world.
A deal to put the rival IndyCar Series and Champ Car Series into one unified body is as close as it's ever been since the war in open wheel racing began 13 years ago.
Despite rumors to the contrary, the United States Grand Prix appears as if it may continue to call the Indianapolis Motor Speedway home after the one-year current extension to its contract expires after the race this June.
Formula One made an incident-free return to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday with Honda test driver Anthony Davidson dominating free practice for the U.S. Grand Prix.
Formula One will return to Indianapolis for the U.S. Grand Prix in July 2006 despite this year's race turning into a six-car fiasco because of tyre safety fears.
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