NASCAR: Open Wheel Ex-Champ Car Patrick Carpentier Takes NH Pole |
| 6/28/2008 9:08:53 AM |
 NASCAR racing Ex-Champ Car star Patrick Carpentier surprised a lot of people on pit road by winning his first career pole for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Carpentier drove his Gillett Evernham Motorsports Dodge to his first pole in his 17th Sprint Cup start and will lead the field to the green in Sunday's 17th... Read More |
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NASCAR: Tony Stewart Has Interest In Hendrick #5 Seat |
| 6/28/2008 8:56:35 AM |
NASCAR racing Tony Stewart proclaimed his interest Friday in Hendrick Motorsports’ soon-to-be-vacated No. 5 Chevrolet, saying the removal of Casey Mears from that ride could alter his plans for 2009 and beyond.
Stewart has another year left on his contract with Joe Gibbs Racing but has expressed interest in partial ownership of another team. Reports have said the deal is... Read More |
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NHRA: Crash Video of Scott Kalitta |
| 6/22/2008 4:23:49 PM |
Yesterday Auto Sport Blog was one of the first to notify you guys of the unfortunate and tragic accident that took Funny Car Driver Scott Kalitta's life in a qualifying race.
Here is the video of the incident. I must warn you though, it isn't for the faint of heart.
R.I.P. Scott Kalitta
Josh from RawAutos.com |
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Darren Law and David Donohue Take 2nd at Emsco Gears Classic! |
| 6/21/2008 5:12:32 PM |
| I watched the Emco Gears Classic at Mid-Ohio today. I was just posting the article about Scott Kalitta passing away, when out of nowhere I hear "Whoa! Darren Law!" I look at the television and watch Darren charging up the pack from 9th all the way up to 2nd place. The race ended under yellow flag conditions due to two Porsche's and an RX-8 getting mixed up down... Read More with Video |
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NHRA: Scott Kalitta Dies in Funny Car Qualifying |
| 6/21/2008 4:46:34 PM |
I was sitting watching the Emco Gears Classic Grand-Am Rolex race when the announcers spoke that they were going to a commercial break. A pause came about when one of the announcers told of official news that he had just heard, Scott Kalitta, an NHRA Funny Car driver, died today during qualifying.
I did a little more research and found out that Scott's funny car crashed and... Read More |
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Half the Nascar racing schedule is over for race to the chase. |
| 6/21/2008 8:33:24 AM |
| The Nascar racing schedule has a total of thirty six racing events with the last twelve races on the Nascar racing schedule selected as the racing events that decide who this year's champion will be. This leaves twenty four races for the drivers to win enough points to be included in the top twelve who qualify to drive the final twelve races on the Nascar racing schedule... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Grand-Am Donohue Put's The 58 On Pole |
| 6/20/2008 3:58:54 PM |
Auto racing running with a new Porsche engine in their Daytona Prototype and limited practice time, David Donohue waited until the final minutes of qualifying to shatter the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course track record in qualifying for the EMCO Gears Classic presented by KeyBank, Round 8 of the 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 season.
Co... Read More |
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NASCAR: Dale Jr Finally Takes One for The Team! |
| 6/18/2008 8:35:23 PM |
Dale Jr. Finally Takes One for The Team! 
Dale Earnhardt Jr. has snapped a 76 race losing streak. Jr. moved to Hendrick racing earlier this season, leaving the team that his father built, DEI, due to complications with his greedy step-mother, it seemed. In a move seemed all season to be a decent move, it still didn't prove to be as successful as a win would show.
Dale Jr. got... Read More |
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Auto Racing: 24 Hours of Le Mans Results |
| 6/17/2008 7:11:04 PM |
24 Hours of Le Mans
The 24 Heures du Mans 2008 happened this past weekend. It was the 75th running of the classic race held at the all too famous Le Mans circuit in France.
It was a pretty crazy race with the race starting in sunny conditions. Then during the second half of the race i when the rain came down and starting making things ugly. 55 cars started the race and only... Read More |
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Auto Racing: 24 hrs of Le Mans Live Coverage |
| 6/14/2008 9:47:08 AM |
In case you didn't know, and if you are reading this you may not have, you can watch Speed Channel's live coverage of the remainder of the 24 hrs of Le Mans from 9 PM to 9:30 AM June 15. Their first half of the live coverage is already over (it ended at 12).
Have no fear for the in between time, you can go to RadioLeMans.com and click on "Listen Live" in red on the... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Peugeot Shatters LeMans Lap Record |
| 6/12/2008 2:05:46 PM |
Auto racing Peugeot set such a quick pace in the first qualifying session for this weekend's LeMans 24 Hours, the Audis appeared to be standing still.
Stephane Sarrazin, in the No.8 car, lapped eight seconds quicker than last year's pole time with a best of 3:18.513. Teammate Franck Montagny put the No.9 car just one tenth of a second behind, and Nicolas Minassian completed... Read More |
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Today is Pocono 500 on Nascar racing schedule. |
| 6/9/2008 4:54:00 PM |
Fans of Nascar will want to be in front of their TV to watch the next race on the Nascar racing schedule. This race, held today, is being run at the famous Pocono, Pennsylvania, race track. The track designers have taken the best features of several tracks on the Nascar racing schedule and combined them into creating a two and a half mile tri-oval track at Pocono featuring... Read More |
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Important auto racing supplies |
| 6/8/2008 7:12:13 PM |
You may be an amateur, hobbyist or professional. Or maybe you're a major fan who has the Nascar racingschedule memorized, but would like to take your hobby to another level. Street car racing is an exciting sport, for both the spectators and the drivers on the track. It takes a high level of disposable income to seriously takepart in street car racing, as well as the auto... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Brumos Porsche Takes 2nd Place at Watkins Glen! |
| 6/8/2008 10:42:22 AM |
Congratulations Darren and the rest of the Brumos team! 
Just a quick thing to share with you guys here, Darren Law, the Porsche racing driver that I interviewed a couple of weeks back raced Watkins Glen yesterday with hi Brumos Porsche team. Well, Law and his teammate David Donohue were able to nab second place, just behind Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas in their Lexus Riley... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Peugeot 908 HDi Can Fly! |
| 6/5/2008 9:25:08 PM |
Le Mans is a difficult track for anyone. Whether you've been there 1 time or a million times, it can still get the best of you, especially when it's raining.
Marc Gene found that out over the weekend when he, in his Peugeot 908 HDi, went flying during a 24 hours of Le Mans practice session. As Autoblog reports, he hit the wall at 120 MPH. That is a hell of a thud. Luckily... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Is Danica Patrick The Real Deal? |
| 6/3/2008 7:27:14 PM |
The Real Deal?
News about Danica Patrick is everywhere these days. If she isn't racing across your television in IndyCar, she is on a GoDaddy commercial, or even all over the internet. A few months back she posed in Sports Illustrated's annual Swimsuit edition.
At 26 years old she is the youngest female in IndyCar. And she is the only female to ever lead the Indy 500. Not bad... Read More |
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Busch Taking Over the Nascar Racing Schedule |
| 6/2/2008 1:41:32 PM |
| Kyle Busch proved his Nascar racing schedule dominance again on Sunday after winning the Best Buy 400. On lap 17 there was an exciting wreck seen above where Tony Stewart along with other drivers were taken out. Car 19 lost control hitting the upper wall around turn 2 leading to the collision of a bunch of cars. The worst part was the remaining cars did not move to the... Read More with Video |
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