Dave Grubnic broke a long winless streak Sunday when he won the Top Fuel competition at the Dollar General NHRA Summer Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka.
The Kalitta Motorsports driver beat Spencer Massey of Don Schumacher Racing in the finals with a pass in 3.893 seconds and at 319.07 mph.
The victory was the first for Grubnic [...]
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Muscle Milk Pickett Racing got its second straight victory in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón on Saturday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
In the GT class, Corvette Racing’s Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner also took their second consecutive win.
Seven cars in the GT class were within two seconds in the closing hour [...]
Joey Logano of Joe Gibbs Racing won the Sports Clips 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Darlington Raceway on Friday night.
The victory, which came after a green/white/checkered restart, was the third of the year in the series for Logano and it came in his eighth start. It was his second victory in a row.
“Darlington,” Logano said, [...]
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Greg Biffle won the pole on Friday for Saturday night’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 Sprint Cup race at Darlington Raceway.
Biffle, driving a Roush Fenway Racing Ford, had a fast lap of 180.257 mph. It was his second pole of the season – his other came at the Bristol short track.
Biffle has been the series points leader [...]
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Carroll Shelby, the man who created the famous Shelby Cobra and gave America its proudest moment at Le Mans, died in Dallas Thursday night at age 89. He had been hospitalized for pneumonia.
Shelby, a native Texan, built the cars which ran to a 1-2-3 finish in 1966 in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, ending [...]
Six drivers have completed the three required speed phases during Rookie Orientation Program activities at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, while Jean Alesi joined the short list of former Formula One regulars successfully logging his first oval-track experience.
Josef Newgarden and Bryan Clauson of Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing, James Jakes of Dale Coyne Racing, Simon Pagenaud of [...]
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The subject was Danica Patrick’s sheet metal-wadding frustrations after last week’s Nationwide Series race at Talladega. Just wait, a colleague who is a veteran NASCAR beat writer said during a Monday chat on the telephone, until she gets to Darlington.
Patrick got to Darlington, the 1.33-mile South Carolina oval that many regard [...]
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The Telmex Chip Ganassi Racing GRAND-AM team arrived in New Jersey for this weekend’s Global Barter 250 event in an unfamiliar situation – winless.
True, there have only been three events held to this point in the 2012 season. But still, this is Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas and reigning champion [...]
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The third of 12 national Super Chevy Show events presented by Chevy Performance will take place at Texas Motorplex this week.
The event started with an escorted cruise Thursday afternoon of the American Veterans Traveling Tribute wall from Canton to the drag strip complex in Ennis, Texas.
The Super Chevy Show is a celebration of one of [...]
FORT WORTH, Texas – INDYCAR’s highly anticipated Open Test at Texas Motor Speedway produced 1,172 incident-free laps around the 1.5-mile quadoval on Monday, and not a single mention of the one word track president Eddie Gossage definitely did not want to hear – boycott.
Rumors of a possible boycott by IZOD IndyCar Series drivers surfaced on [...]
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A year and a couple of days ago, Regan Smith became a Colorado sports star. Pretty big one, too. Not John Elway big but maybe, like, Dante Bichette big. Big enough to warrant calls to radio sports talk shows in Denver. Seems people along the Front Range of the Rockies have, [...]
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