http://www.racintoday.com Go With The Pros Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:33:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32772 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32772#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:42:38 +0000 John Sturbin http://www.racintoday.com/?p=32772
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com John Force Racing will chase the NHRA Funny Car world championship with a four-car Ford Mustang lineup in 2012, a season featuring Courtney Force’s highly anticipated nitro debut. But team-owner John Force, a 15-time Funny Car world champion, says as many as two Top Fuel cars – driven by daughters Brittany [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32772/feed 1 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32457 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32457#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:06:34 +0000 John Sturbin http://www.racintoday.com/?p=32457
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com ROME, N.Y. – There is a James Dean-like fascination with the life and times and death of NASCAR Modified champion Richie Evans here in his hometown, where “The Rapid Roman” is remembered as a complex country boy who was too fast to live, too young to die. Winner of nine NASCAR [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32457/feed 6 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32207 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32207#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:28:20 +0000 John Sturbin http://www.racintoday.com/?p=32207
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Completely sober when the ball in New York City’s Times Square dropped – and failed to land anywhere close to Lady Gaga – I admit to immediately clicking over to ESPN to watch extreme sports dudes Robbie Maddison and Levi LaVallee ring-in 2012 via record-setting ramp-to-ramp jumps on a motorcycle [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32207/feed 1 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32030 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32030#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:43:06 +0000 John Sturbin http://50.57.152.227/?p=32030
Shawn Langdon has joined Al-Anabi Racing, one day after three-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion Larry Dixon’s abrupt departure following a successful three-year tenure. Langdon begins his Al-Anabi Racing employment immediately with the team owned by His Highness Sheik Khalid al Thani of Qatar and managed by Alan Johnson in Brownsburg, Ind. “This is probably one of [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32030/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32016 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32016#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:57:01 +0000 John Sturbin http://50.57.152.227/?p=32016
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Larry Dixon has followed Del Worsham out the door at Alan Johnson Racing, leaving the Al-Anabi Racing team that has won the last two National Hot Rod Association Top Fuel world championships temporarily – and shockingly – without any drivers for the 2012 season. The subject of rumors in various media [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32016/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31972 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31972#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:11:00 +0000 John Sturbin http://50.57.152.227/?p=31972
With his first NHRA Funny Car title in 2011, Matt Hagan joined an elite “Gang of Four” roll call of world champions operating outside the John Force Racing juggernaut. Beginning with his first title in 1990, Force and respective former/current teammates Tony Pedregon and Robert Hight have captured 17 of 22 National Hot Rod Association Funny [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31972/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31879 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31879#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:35:06 +0000 John Sturbin http://www.racintoday.com/?p=31879
Accompanied by a “hot date” and 160 team employees, Tony Stewart celebrated his 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship Friday night with equal parts humor and humility. Stewart, who clinched his third Cup trophy with a victory at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Nov. 20, added a champion’s ring and a check for $5.8-million to his Champion’s [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31879/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31796 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31796#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:35:57 +0000 John Sturbin http://www.racintoday.com/?p=31796
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com It’s Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when normally rational Americans whip out their credit cards and spend like a drunken sailor. Or, maybe the rush to the nearest mall has more to do with escaping assorted family members who conveniently have confused your home with Extended Stay America. Anyone for [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31796/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31791 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31791#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:53:47 +0000 John Sturbin http://www.racintoday.com/?p=31791
By John Sturbin |Senior Writer RacinToday.com There is no debating the quarter-mile path to Eddie Krawiec’s second NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle world championship was personally more satisfying than the first. Unlike his 2008 title, Krawiec’s 2011 Full Throttle Drag Racing Series championship was stamped by the sense of accomplishment that only one-two-three-four national event victories can bring. “Yes, it [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31791/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31737 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31737#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:24:54 +0000 John Sturbin http://www.racintoday.com/?p=31737
Recently crowned National Hot Rod Association world champion Del Worsham joked last week that he did not feel like a “full-fledged Top Fuel driver,” one day after clinching his title during the 2011 season-ender at Pomona, Calif. “I’m a little wider and heavier than most Top Fuel drivers,” Worsham said, “but I have a great crew [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31737/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31594 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31594#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:14:20 +0000 John Sturbin http://www.racintoday.com/?p=31594
Lotus Motorsport, a direct descendant of the company founded by Englishman Colin Chapman over 60 years ago, will partner as engine supplier to Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, Bryan Herta Autosport and HVM Racing for the 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series season. The partnership agreements announced Thursday during the Los Angeles Auto Show will enable the teams to [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31594/feed 1 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31590 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31590#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:36:23 +0000 John Sturbin http://www.racintoday.com/?p=31590
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has given organizers of Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, one week to agree on a contract and produce a letter of credit guaranteeing payment of a $25-million sanctioning fee to stage the U.S. Grand Prix on Nov. 18, 2012. Without a guarantee or letter [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31590/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31578 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31578#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:48:11 +0000 John Sturbin http://www.racintoday.com/?p=31578
Star-crossed JR Hildebrand – whose rookie IZOD IndyCar Series season featured an infamous crash and “battle scar” in the Indianapolis 500 and a less-publicized knee injury suffered during a media event in Texas – will continue to drive Panther Racing’s No. 4 National Guard entry in 2012 and 2013. “I’m super-stoked that I’m going to be [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31578/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31525 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31525#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:48:45 +0000 John Sturbin http://www.racintoday.com/?p=31525
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com (Editor’s note: The following story has been updated today by its author.) Organizers of Circuit of The Americas, a $300-million motorsports/entertainment venue being developed in Austin, Texas, abruptly suspended construction Tuesday in a contract dispute involving promoter Full Throttle Productions LP and circuit officials. Full Throttle Productions, headed by Austin businessman Tavo [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31525/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31521 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31521#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:40:21 +0000 John Sturbin http://www.racintoday.com/?p=31521
Six-time NHRA world champion Kenny Bernstein has closed the book on his career as a competitor and Top Fuel team-owner, leaving son Brandon as a free-agent heading into the 2012 season. “My wife Sheryl and I have come to a place in our lives where we want to pursue other interests,” Bernstein said in a statement [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31521/feed 2