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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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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: IRL Introduces New Qualifying Format For Road Courses |
| 4/2/2008 9:50:30 AM |
 Auto racing IRL Series will introduce a Formula One-style knock-out qualifying format for road and street courses this season, beginning at St Petersburg IRL event this weekend.
The series will continue to use single-car qualifying on ovals, but will run two group sessions for 20 minutes each on Saturday afternoons, with the fastest six cars from each progressing to the... Read More |
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Auto Racing: F1 Ferrari 1-2 On Front Row At Sepang |
| 3/22/2008 9:24:28 AM |
Auto racing F1 the rain held off and Ferrari came on as form returned to the Formula One grid for the second race of the season. Brazilian Felipe Massa grabbed pole for Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix with a 1 minute, 35.748-second tour of the 3.44-mile Sepang Circuit. Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen followed a half-second on to lock out the front row.
The F1 McLaren Mercedes... Read More |
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Auto Racing: F1 More Controversy For McLaren |
| 3/22/2008 9:13:09 AM |
Auto racing F1 more controversy for McLaren, members of the McLaren F1 team on Saturday evening grudgingly accepted the stewards' penalties, but insist that the five place demotions were not entirely justified.
"I was pretty much out of the way," Lewis Hamilton said at Sepang, where it has been raining almost non-stop since the end of qualifying.
The stewards found... Read More |
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Auto Racing: F1 Red Bull Racing Give The OK To Return To Action At Sepang |
| 3/22/2008 9:05:43 AM |
F1 auto racing stewards give Red Bull Racing green light to race at Sepang Stewards allowed Red Bull Racing to return to action at the Sepang circuit on Saturday morning, following David Coulthard's suspension failure and crash in Friday practice.
Team chiefs had to submit a technical report to the FIA representatives in Malaysia, after the stewards suspected the Adrian... Read More |
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Auto Racing: F1 Hamilton Fastest In Second Practice At Sepang |
| 3/21/2008 10:29:37 AM |
Auto racing F1 Lewis Hamilton beat Felipe Massa to the fastest time in second practice at Sepang, with the McLaren driver leaping to the top of the timesheets in the final minutes after Ferrari had dominated the session.
Ferrari had looked set for a one-two until Hamilton's late lap, with the McLarens having been a second off their title rivals' pace for much of the... Read More |
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Auto Racing: IRL Test For Former Champ Car Teams |
| 3/18/2008 10:00:13 AM |
Auto racing IRL test former Champ Car teams are gearing up for their first IRL IndyCar Series test at the Sebring circuit starting on Wednesday.
Conquest Racing, Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing, KV Racing Technology, Dale Coyne Racing and HVM Racing are expected to make the switch to the unified series. All teams have been working around the clock since the official unification... Read More |
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Auto Racing: F1 McLaren Pleased With Heikki Kovalainen Performance |
| 3/17/2008 7:14:03 PM |
 Auto racing F1 McLaren CEO Martin Whitmarsh believes their driver Heikki Kovalainen came of age during his debut race for the team, and is certain the young Finn will win in 2008.
Although Kovalainen was not quite on pace to beat F1 teammate Lewis Hamilton in Australia, he was on course for a fine second place until the safety car came out just before he was due to make his... Read More |
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Auto Racing: F1 Sebastien Bourdais Proved His Worth In Australia |
| 3/17/2008 2:03:41 PM |
 F1 auto racing Gerhard Berger isn't one to reap praise on Champ Car drivers, but he was gushing with enthusiasm after the Australian GP Sunday when his driver, 4-time Champ Car champion Sebastien Bourdais had a sure 4th place in the bag in his F1 debut until his engine expired 2 laps for the end.
Bourdais proved all through the weekend that he was the right choice to put... Read More |
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Auto Racing: F1 McLaren Driver Hamilton Has Flawless Victory In Australia |
| 3/17/2008 11:46:05 AM |
Formula1 auto racing McLaren and Mercedes, whose star driver Lewis Hamilton claimed a flawless victory, his new team-mate Heikki Kovalainen narrowly escaping the completion of a one-two finish for McLaren.
While the McLaren drivers escaped unscathed, the rest of the race was packed with more early retirements than a plant closure. Out of the 22 cars that started the race,... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Champ Car Saga Will It End In Bankruptcy |
| 2/13/2008 7:28:57 PM |
.jpg) Auto racing the latest rumor saga the staff at PKV Racing has been told they will be racing in the IRL this year and the team sent trucks to Champ Car headquarters to take away all the Pi equipment and everything else Kevin Kalkhoven owned that was there.
Forsythe, Gentilozzi and Pettit may have been voting against Kalkhoven on a number of issues and Kalkhoven may have said... Read More
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Auto Racing: F1 Red Bull's Mark Webber Top's Practice |
| 2/13/2008 6:26:43 PM |
 Formula 1 for the second time this month, Red Bull’s Mark Webber was at the top of a Formula 1 group test session, in the third day of activities at Spain’s Jerez de la Frontera circuit.
Webber and the new RB4, sans engine cover “shark fin”, posted a best mark of 1:18.628. Williams also showed good form once more, this time with Nico Rosberg outpacing Kazuki Nakajima as the... Read More |
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