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Briscoe gives Penske victory
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7.20.2008 : 5:26 pm
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LEXINGTON, Ohio -- Ryan Briscoe took advantage of a surprising pit strategy on the way to a victory in Sunday's Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car course.
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Hamilton wins German GP, solidifies F1 lead
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7.20.2008 : 11:30 am
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HOCKENHEIM, Germany -- Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix on Sunday, solidifying his lead in the Formula One standings with two dramatic passes that made up for a strategic blunder by his McLaren team.
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Glock taken to hospital after crash at German GP
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7.20.2008 : 9:42 am
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HOCKENHEIM, Germany -- Toyota driver Timo Glock was taken to the hospital Sunday after hitting a concrete barrier at high speed during the German Grand Prix.
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Busch falls short of NASCAR history in trucks race
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7.20.2008 : 1:05 am
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SPARTA, Kentucky -- Kyle Busch came up five spots short in his bid to make NASCAR history Saturday night and Johnny Benson took advantage, holding off Michael Annett to win the Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway.
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Edwards overtakes Leffler to win Nationwide race
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7.20.2008 : 1:04 am
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MADISON, Ill. -- Carl Edwards passed Jason Leffler with 48 laps remaining Saturday night and cruised to victory at the Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 on Saturday night.
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GM cutting back on NASCAR spending
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7.16.2008 : 7:21 pm
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Troubled General Motors has notified two racetracks that run NASCAR events that their current contracts will not be renewed as part of an overall $10 billion cost-cutting program.
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Sarah Fisher gets new sponsor, plans 2 IRL races
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7.16.2008 : 12:43 pm
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Sarah Fisher plans to drive in two IndyCar Series races after lining up a new primary sponsor. Fisher announced Wednesday that Dollar General would sponsor a car fielded by the team she owns for the Meijer 300 at the Kentucky Speedway on Aug. 9 and the Chicagoland 300 on Sept. 7. In 2002, Fisher became the first woman to start from the pole in a major U.S. open-wheel race at the Kentucky Speedway.
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Former CART champ Tracy gets IRL ride for Edmonton
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7.15.2008 : 5:55 pm
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Paul Tracy will finally get his chance to race in the IndyCar Series -- for at least one race. The former CART champion will drive in the July 26 Rexall Edmonton Indy in a car fielded by Walker Racing, supported by Vision Racing and sponsored by Subway.
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Ryan Newman to leave Penske Racing at season's end
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7.14.2008 : 5:14 pm
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MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Ryan Newman, projected as a possible teammate for Tony Stewart on the two-time NASCAR champion's new team, will leave Penske Racing at the end of the 2008 season.
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Busch passes Johnson late to take Chicagoland race
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7.13.2008 : 7:54 am
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JOLIET, Ill. -- Kyle Busch passed Jimmie Johnson after a restart on the next-to-last lap Saturday night to win his seventh NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race of the season.
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Rain allows Dixon to win 3rd straight at Nashville
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7.12.2008 : 11:14 pm
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GLADEVILLE, Tenn. -- Scott Dixon grabbed the lead on lap 149 and had enough fuel to stay there until rain ended the Firestone Indy 200 with 29 laps left, giving him his third consecutive victory at the Nashville Superspeedway and his fourth this season.
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Brazil's Beatriz 1st woman to win Indy Lights race
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7.12.2008 : 8:25 pm
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GLADEVILLE, Tenn. -- Ana Beatriz of Brazil became the first woman to win on the Firestone Indy Lights Series, taking the rain-delayed Sunbelt Rentals 100 on Saturday at the Nashville Superspeedway.
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Obama passes on potential NASCAR sponsorship
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7.12.2008 : 12:09 am
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JOLIET, Ill. -- NASCAR's BAM Racing team has presented Barack Obama's presidential campaign with a potential sponsorship deal in the Sprint Cup series later this year, but it doesn't look like an Obama car will be burning rubber on the track anytime soon.
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Kyle Busch wins again
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7.11.2008 : 11:37 pm
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JOLIET, Ill. -- Take a bow, Kyle Busch. He did exactly that after winning again Friday night. Busch added another Nationwide Series victory to his column Friday night, winning the Dollar General 300 at the Chicagoland Speedway.
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McLaren to pay court costs to Ferrari after spying
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7.11.2008 : 7:44 am
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WOKING, England -- The McLaren team settled its legal dispute with Ferrari on Friday, agreeing to pay the Italian team's court costs from the Formula One spying scandal.
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NASCAR cancels Cup qualifying after Chicago storms
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7.11.2008 : 7:10 am
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JOLIET, Ill. -- The line of strong storms moving in on Chicagoland Speedway was so big, bad and dark blue that it looked more like an impending tidal wave on the horizon.
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Stewart to leave Gibbs, become owner-driver in '09
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7.11.2008 : 7:04 am
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JOLIET, Ill. -- Tony Stewart knows he's taking a gamble by leaving NASCAR's elite Joe Gibbs Racing team to join one that usually runs in the middle of the pack.
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Stewart leaving Gibbs; plans to buy NASCAR team
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7.10.2008 : 5:19 am
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- From his seat in the bright orange No. 20, Tony Stewart spent a decade driving his way to superstardom while helping Joe Gibbs Racing become one of NASCAR's top teams.
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Truex fined 150 points for failing inspection
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7.8.2008 : 6:50 pm
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Martin Truex's bid to make the Chase for the championship took a severe hit Tuesday when NASCAR penalized his Dale Earnhardt Inc. team 150 points for bringing an illegal car to Daytona.
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Dixon's mistake helps Hunter-Reay to victory
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7.6.2008 : 8:02 pm
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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. -- Ryan Hunter-Reay figured the luck had to go his way eventually. Turns out Sunday was the day.
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Hamilton wins British GP, 1st win in home race
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7.6.2008 : 5:19 pm
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SILVERSTONE, England -- Lewis Hamilton mastered wild and wet racing conditions to score a runaway victory at the British Grand Prix and throw the Formula One drivers championship wide open.
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Busch nips Edwards to win under caution at Daytona
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7.6.2008 : 6:47 am
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Kyle Busch fell a lap down at Talladega and came back to win. So when a steering problem dropped him to the back of the field at Daytona, he didn't panic. He simply settled in for the long drive back to the front. And back to Victory Lane.
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Stewart's bad luck streak continues at Daytona
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7.6.2008 : 12:40 am
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Tony Stewart's freaky season of bad luck took another turn when the two-time NASCAR champion fell ill during Saturday night's race at Daytona International Raceway.
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Martin joins Hendrick, replacing Mears next year
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7.5.2008 : 3:19 am
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Mark Martin will make one final effort to win the NASCAR championship that's eluded him the past 26 years by driving for storied Hendrick Motorsports next season.
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Hamlin holds off Busch to continue Gibbs dominance
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7.5.2008 : 3:18 am
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Tony Stewart or Joey Logano. It doesn't matter who's behind the wheel of the No. 20 Toyota, it always seems to end up in Victory Lane.
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DEI sweeps front row at Daytona
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7.4.2008 : 7:36 pm
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Although Dale Earnhardt Inc. might not be a championship contender, it showed Friday it still can be a force at Daytona International Speedway.
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Massa crashes in British GP practice
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7.4.2008 : 6:19 am
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SILVERSTONE, England -- Formula One's leading driver, Felipe Massa, spun off the track and hit a wall during Friday's practice for the British Grand Prix but got out of his Ferrari apparently unscathed.
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Randy Moss buys 50 percent of truck team
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7.3.2008 : 10:31 pm
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Troy Aikman. Terry Bradshaw. Tim Brown. Julius Erving. Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Jim Kelly. Mark Rypien. Roger Staubach. The list of top athletes who have come and gone through NASCAR is a collection of big aspirations with bank accounts that couldn't keep up. Some never reached the track, others spent millions searching for success before finally calling it quits.
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NHRA changing priorities in wake of tragedy
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7.3.2008 : 6:42 pm
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The death of Scott Kalitta has shaken up the NHRA and sent the organization, its owners and drivers back to the drawing board on safety issues.
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Formula One urges changes to cut costs
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7.3.2008 : 2:01 pm
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SILVERSTONE, England -- Formula One wants to cut team budgets in half and improve fuel efficiency by 2011 to improve racing. The president of the governing body said Thursday that "urgent" changes were necessary because the sport was becoming "unsustainable." Max Mosley asked Formula One's 10 teams to reach a majority on any proposals to the rule changes and put them forward within three months.
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Coulthard announces retirement
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7.3.2008 : 10:19 am
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SILVERSTONE, England -- David Coulthard has announced he will retire from Formula One at the end of the season. The Scottish driver, who has driven for Williams, McLaren and Red Bull since 1994, has won 13 F1 races but none since the 2003 Australian Grand Prix. His best finish this season was sixth at the Canadian GP on June 9.
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NHRA shortens top division races
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7.2.2008 : 10:13 pm
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GLENDORA, Calif. -- Eleven days after Scott Kalitta was killed in a racing accident, the NHRA reduced the length of Top Fuel and Funny Car races from a quarter-mile to 1,000 feet Wednesday in an interim safety measure.
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Chip Ganassi shuts down Franchitti's team
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7.1.2008 : 7:09 pm
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- NASCAR team owner Chip Ganassi shut down Dario Franchitti's race team Tuesday because of a lack of sponsorship, putting the former IndyCar Series champion's future in doubt.
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Kurt Busch gets rain-shortened victory
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6.29.2008 : 9:56 pm
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LOUDON, N.H. -- Kurt Busch had strategy and luck on his side. Tony Stewart had neither. That's how Busch wound up ending his 29-race winless string Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the rain-shortened Lenox Industrial Tools 301, while the frustrated Stewart simply added another disheartening loss to his own winless string that has reached 31 races.
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Hornaday wins in Memphis
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6.29.2008 : 12:35 am
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- While Ron Hornaday was delighted with his O'Reilly 200 victory, he wasn't exactly thrilled about moving atop the Craftsman Truck Series points standings.
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Pole-sitter Kanaan gets victory at Richmond
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6.28.2008 : 11:19 pm
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RICHMOND, Va. -- One week removed from a crash while leading, Tony Kanaan didn't let himself believe he would win a race he dominated until he took the checkered flag Saturday night.
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Stewart gets fifth Nationwide win
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6.28.2008 : 5:58 pm
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LOUDON, N.H. -- Tony Stewart isn't running many races in the NASCAR Nationwide Series this series, so he's making the ones he does drive in count.
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Rookie Carpentier wins pole at New Hampshire
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6.28.2008 : 1:00 am
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LOUDON, N.H. -- Rookie Patrick Carpentier grabbed his first NASCAR Sprint Cup pole Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The Canadian driver, whose last pole came in a Champ Car in 2004 on the road course in Laguna Seca, Calif., was among the drivers who had to wait out a nearly two-hour rain delay before getting a shot at qualifying for Sunday's Lenox Industrial Tools 301.
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Kanaan wins pole for IndyCar race at Richmond
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6.27.2008 : 8:42 pm
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Andretti Green Racing teammates Tony Kanaan and Marco Andretti will start on the front row in the SunTrust Indy Challenge on Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway.
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Mears out of Hendrick ride at end of season.
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6.27.2008 : 5:01 pm
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LOUDON, N.H. -- Casey Mears will bid farewell to Hendrick Motorsports at the end of the 2008 season. Now that his long-rumored departure from one of NASCAR's top teams is official, all Mears wants to do is finish the Sprint Cup season strong, showing everyone what might have been.
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Mears and Hendrick to part ways at end of season
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6.27.2008 : 10:44 am
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LOUDON, N.H. -- Casey Mears will be looking for a new ride in 2009. Hendrick Motorsports said Friday that Mears, who has been with the team since 2007 and moved to the No. 5 Chevrolet to replace Kyle Busch, will be released at the end of this season.
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Danica defends style some view as aggressive
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6.27.2008 : 12:10 am
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Danica Patrick is the best known driver in the IndyCar Series, and she erased any doubt that she belongs in April when she became the first woman in history to win a major open-wheel race.
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