Auto racing - 266 posts found << < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... > >>
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Auto Racing: ALMS Audi To Offer Customer GT3 R8 |
| 8/27/2008 10:19:43 AM |
Auto racing for the first time, Audi Sport will offer a racing sports car specifically developed for customer use in the form of the powerful 500 hp plus GT3 version of the Audi R8 which will be available from autumn 2009. The logistics and factory space required for the AUDI AG customer sports car racing program will be created over the next few months in Ingolstadt,... Read More |
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Auto Racing: 2009 BMW Entry Growing Presence |
| 8/21/2008 3:50:46 PM |
Auto racing the volume of frequency of BMW/Rahal Letterman Racing employees at ALMS races has been  growing since the Series got back underway after Le Mans this year, and the amount of speculation over their 2009 driver lineup is growing at an equally impressive rate. Rumors of Jamie Melo signing for RLR continue to grow, just as rumors that former factory pilot Joey Hand... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Grand-Am Childress-Howard Motorsports DP Car To Debut At Watkins Glen |
| 8/5/2008 11:04:26 AM |
Auto racing Childress-Howard Motorsports Debut at Watkins Glen The No. 4 AT&T Daytona Prototype Pontiac  Crawford fielded by Childress-Howard Motorsports will make its 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series debut Aug. 8 in the Crown Royal 200 at the Glen at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International.
Sports Car racing legend Andy Wallace and multi-time Rolex Series champion Andy... Read More |
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Auto Racing: ALMS Former Honda F1 Test Driver Joins AGR ALMS Team |
| 8/4/2008 4:31:05 PM |
Auto racing Former Honda F1 and Super Aguri test driver James Rossiter will make his American Le Man s Series debut at Road America this weekend.
The 24-year-old Briton will join fellow former Super Aguri driver Franck Montagny in Andretti Green Racing's Acura for least two events, with Mosport following Road America later this month.
"I'm really looking forward to the... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Grand-Am Brumos Team So-Close-Yet-So-Far |
| 8/4/2008 8:22:03 AM |
 Auto racing - Darren Law expected to be excited following his third-place finish in Friday's Grand-Am Montreal 200. It marked the fourth podium finish for himself and David Donohue in the No. 58 Brumos DP Porsche Riley. Out of the top 20 in points only a few weeks ago, the result also moved the pair to a tie for fifth in the Daytona Prototype championship standings.
If one... Read More |
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NASCAR: Franchitti Lost His NASCAR Ride |
| 7/1/2008 6:09:33 PM |
 NASCAR Racing Dario Franchitti has lost his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drive with Chip Ganassi Racing and will not compete in next weekend's Coke-Zero 400 at Daytona, following the team's decision to reduce to a two-car operation.
Team personnel working on the No. 40 car have been laid off following a disappointing first half of the season where they struggled to get a major... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Audi R8 To Compete In This Years Nurburgring 24 |
| 5/17/2008 11:04:27 AM |
 Sports car racing this year's Nürburgring 24-hour endurance race will feature perhaps the most wicked looking Audi R8 yet: a lightweight, custom-built racer that makes the road car look tame by comparison. To comply with the requirements for participation in the race, the stock 4.2L V8 donates its block and is rebuilt from there.
The race-spec motor's displacement drops to... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Grand-Am David Donohue's Brumos DP Porsche Takes Laguna Pole |
| 5/16/2008 10:11:53 PM |
 Auto Racing Grand-Am David Donohue saved his best for last Friday, running his fastest lap near the end of the session to win the pole for the RumBum.com 250 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
Donohue's Daytona Prototype ran a lap of 1:19.843, 100.908 mph, on his eighth of nine qualifying laps to win his second pole of the season in Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by... Read More |
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NASCAR: Franchitti To Miss All Star Race |
| 5/14/2008 5:11:04 PM |
 NASCAR Racing Chip Ganassi racing will only field two cars in this weekend's NASCAR Sprint All-Star Challenge after withdrawing the No.40 entry for Dario Franchitti from the event.
As Franchitti continues to heal from his left-ankle fracture suffered three weeks ago at Talladega, the team have withdrawn his car after initially including it on the official entry list for the... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Weekend Round Up, Formula 1, NASCAR, IRL, Le Mans Endurance Series |
| 5/11/2008 12:10:19 PM |
 Auto racing F1:Ferrari's Felipe Massa won his third consecutive Turkish Grand Prix from pole in Istanbul Sunday. Lewis Hamilton, who tried a three-stop strategy passed Massa for the lead before half-distance, but he couldn't pull out enough of an advantage to beat the Brazilian after his additional stop, so had to settle for second place, just ahead of a faster Kimi... Read More |
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NASCAR: Earnhardt Jr. Talks About His Grief And New Ride. |
| 5/9/2008 10:37:09 AM |
| NASCAR racing driver Dale Jr. talks openly about his grief, growth and new gig in latest ESPN The Magazine Cover Story: NASCAR Sprint Cup #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr. has spent the seven years since his father’s death learning how to live without him. In the cover story for ESPN The Magazine, All grown up, Dale Jr. talks in depth publicly for the first time about the pain of... Read More |
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Auto Racing: IRL Tony Stewart Comments On If He Would Run The 500 |
| 5/7/2008 3:59:03 PM |
 IRL auto racing Tony Stewart comments on if he would run the Indy 500 again “There’s part of me that thinks running at Indy and in IRL is a chapter of my life that is closed, and then there is the emotional part of me that says, ‘Never say never.’ I don’t know if I will ever get in an Indy car again, but if that happens, it’s obviously going to be a long way down the road... Read More |
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NASCAR: Earnhardt And Busch Clash Is Winner For NASCAR |
| 5/7/2008 10:27:57 AM |
NASCAR racing Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Busch came out losers in their little on-track episode Saturday night at Richmond. But the clear winner in this ongoing drama is NASCAR.
This is classic theatre at its best, the protagonist in the beloved Earnhardt against the antagonist in the hated Busch.
More than most sports, NASCAR needs a hero/villain scenario. NASCAR thrives... Read More |
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Auto Racing: IRL Marco Andretti Fastest At 226.599 mph |
| 5/6/2008 4:22:39 PM |
Auto racing IRL thirty-three cars and thirty-two drivers contested the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's 2.5 mile oval on Tuesday with Andretti Green Racing's Marco Andretti topping the scoring pylon on a best lap of 226.599 miles per hour.
Andretti's speed was better than 2007 Indianapolis 500 pole-winner Helio Castroneves' qualifying average of 225.817 miles per hour.
"We'... Read More |
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NASCAR: Latest Stewart Rumor |
| 5/6/2008 10:56:59 AM |
| NASCAR auto racing the latest Stewart Rumor...Bass Pro Shops? There has been no official word from either side, but it is becoming increasingly likely that the NASCAR #20-Tony Stewart will indeed leave car owners Joe and J.D. Gibbs at the end of this season, to start his own team, under the Rick Hendrick Chevrolet [with Haas CNC?] umbrella, possibly with Bass Pro Shops as... Read More |
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Auto Racing: IRL TV Ratings Up |
| 4/30/2008 4:26:01 PM |
Auto racing TV ratings up for Kansas IRL race. The good news for the Indy Racing League keeps rolling in. On the heels of a significant attendance increase at the April 27 race at Kansas Speedway over last year’s event, series officials are now reporting that television ratings also were sky high.
Much of the credit, IRL officials said, goes to the hype caused by Danica... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Rumor IRL Star Patrick To F1 |
| 4/23/2008 9:06:27 AM |
 There’s a rumor that possible F1 team contemplating contacting Danica Patrick with a view of a F1 career. If that happens her career is over she could not make it in formula one she would come back to the US like so many other would be American formula one driver’s except Mario Andretti a frailer.
Unless she spent several season racing in the GP2 series were she will learn... Read More |
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Auto Racing: 30 Years Of Women Winning In Motorsports |
| 4/21/2008 2:53:24 PM |
Auto racing Danick Patrick might be the first woman to win in Indy Cars but women have been racing and winning for 30 years in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series.
Shirley Muldowney was the first woman to celebrate victory in an NHRA top class. Racing in the Top Fuel division, Muldowney won her first event in 1976 and went on to win 17 more during her career.
Although there... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Tracy Contemplating His Future |
| 4/21/2008 2:11:01 PM |
 Auto racing Sunday's Champ Car finale in Long Beach was the last planned race this season for Paul Tracy who now has to figure out where his career goes from here.
The merger between Champ Car and the IRL has left Tracy without a ride and his finish Sunday in Long Beach at this point is the final checkered flag of his season.
"I mean, obviously it was like a big cobweb,... Read More |
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Auto Racing: IRL Lands DIRECTV HD As Offical Sponsor |
| 4/3/2008 10:21:45 AM |
 Auto racing: the IRL finally lands an official sponsor, DIRECTV, the nation's leading satellite television provider, adds another notch in its HD belt as the Premiere Official Sponsor of the IndyCar Series.
Beginning with the April 6 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, all IndyCar Series events will be carried in DIRECTV HD, delivering unprecedented detail and realism to a... Read More |
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