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Del Worsham just keeps on winning in the Top Fuel category of the NHRA.
The Al-Anabi Racing driver’s latest victory came Sunday at the O’Reilly Auto Parts Northwest Nationals in Kent, Wash. It was his sixth victory of 2011 and it came against Tony Schumacher in the finals.
Also winning at the final event of the NHRA’s [...]
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Craig Dollansky captured the Ironman 55 World of Outlaws race at hot and humid I-55 Raceway in Pevely, Mo. on Saturday night.
“I am absolutely spent,” said Dollansky, of Elk River, Minn., as he tried to lift the 55-pound trophy. “Fifty-five laps is a long time out there and the track was just so fast all [...]
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Kevin Harvick won Sunday’s rain-delayed Camping World Truck Series race at Pocono Raceway.
Harvick saved just enough fuel to make it through a green-white-checkered-flag finish in the Good Sam RV Emergency Road Service 125.
The victory was Harvick’s first in a truck in three starts in the series, but it is the 10th of his career.
Kyle Busch [...]
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Joey Logano won the pole for Sunday’s Good Sam RV Insurance 500 Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway on Saturday afternoon.
Logano posted at lap at 172.055 mph.
The pole was his second of the season, with his other coming at Infineon Raceway’s road course. It was the third pole of Logano’s Cup career.
“It surprised me,” Logano [...]
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The much-anticipated debut of action sports star Travis Pastrana in the NASCAR Nationwide Series will continue to be much-anticiapted until next season.
Pastrana Waltrip Racing announced today that Pastrana will not make his NNS debut until the 2012 season because of injuries suffered during the 17th annual X Games last week in Los Angeles.
The 11-time X [...]
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Kevin Harvick on Saturday morning won the pole for Saturday afternoon’s Camping World Truck Series race at Pocono Raceway.
He won the pole for the Good Sam RV Emergency Road Service 125 with a lap in 55.322 seconds, 162.684 mph. This is his second pole in 110 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races. His first came at [...]
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Donny Schatz got a much-wanted World of Outlaws victory at Bloomington Speedway on Friday night in Indiana. But he had to survive two green/white/checkered restarts to get it.
“This just feels so good,” said a smiling Schatz, of Fargo, N.D. “We wanted to win here really bad last time and I had no idea we’d have [...]
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Top Fuel points leader Del Worsham raced to the qualifying lead Friday at the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Wash.
John Force (Funny Car) and Greg Anderson (Pro Stock) also were qualifying leaders at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event near Seattle.
Worsham, who has locked up a berth [...]
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Porsche Motorsport announced that its Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid Version 2.0 will make its racing debut on Sept. 17 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
The racing of Porsche’s hybrid racer at the 24 Hours of Nuerburgring last month was impressive. The car posted the same lap times as its top rivals yet used less fuel. [...]
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INDYCAR officials have placed drivers Mike Conway, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Alex Tagliani on probation through Dec. 31, 2011 for multiple instances of initiating avoidable contact during IZOD IndyCar Series events this season.
“We are disappointed in these actions, which have exhibited a pattern of driving that endangers on-track safety and adversely affects competition,” said Brian Barnhart, [...]