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Officials at Bristol Motor Speedway announced Wednesday that their track will be reconfigured.
Less than a month after fan feedback convinced him to make changes to the concrete surface at Bristol, Bruton Smith, Chairman and CEO of Speedway Motorsports, announced his plans for significant modifications to the track.
“I said when this process began last month that I [...]

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INDYCAR, sanctioning body for the IZOD IndyCar Series, has scheduled a hearing for a protest filed by General Motors (GM) regarding INDYCAR’s April 18 decision to approve use of a 0.74 A/R compressor cover for the single turbocharger.
The hearing will take place Thursday in Indianapolis.
Honda and Lotus have been invited to participate in the hearing [...]

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The IndyCar Series’ Will Power was named winner of the Driver of the Year panel’s first-quarter award, it was announced Tuesday morning.
Power edged NHRA Funny Car driver Robert Hight by a single point to earn the award, which goes to the top driver in United States-based racing series. It is voted upon by a panel [...]

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The 96th Indianapolis 500 will offer 12 days of varied on-track action featuring the IZOD IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights, and two special days of fan-friendly activities during the Month of May at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Opening Day is Saturday, May 12. Pole Day is Saturday, May 19, followed by Bump Day, Sunday, May 20. [...]

INDYCAR has placed IZOD IndyCar Series driver Graham Rahal on probation through the next six race for blocking and initiating avoidable contact during the race on the Long Beach temporary street circuit April 15.
On Lap 22 of 85-lap race, Rahal made contact with the No. 26 car driven by Marco Andretti in Turn 8, which [...]

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Turner Motorsports announced that crew chief Trent Owens and veteran driver Bill Elliott will team up for the team’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut at Daytona International Speedway in July.
Owens currently is crew chief for Turner Motorsports’ No. 30 NASCAR Nationwide Series entry and recently led the team to victory in the 2012 season-opener at [...]

Robert Hight is officially the hottest driver in American auto racing.
The John Force Racing Funny Car driver won for the fourth time this season Sunday when he captured the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway in Concord, N.C.
Also winning at zMAX were Spencer Massey in Top Fuel and Greg Anderson in Pro Stock.
Hight got the [...]

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Not even being penalized 10 spots on the starting grid could slow street-racing monster Will Power as the Team Penske driver overcame his 12th-place starting position to win Sunday’s Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach IZOD IndyCar Series race.
The victory was the second of the season and second in a row for Power, who won [...]

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Greg Biffle passed Jimmie Johnson for the lead with 31 laps to go and went on to win Saturday night’s Samsung Mobile 500 Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway.
The victory was the first for Biffle and his Roush Fenway Racing team since they won at Kansas Speedway in October of 2010. It was Biffle’s [...]

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Fuel strategy won out at Long Beach on Saturday with Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr winning the Tequila Patrón American Le Mans Series at Long Beach for the second straight season.
The Muscle Milk Honda Performance Development ARX-03a stopped twice during the race’s sole caution period and ran the final 56 minutes without another stop to [...]