Sat, 25/05/13 – 7:59 | No Comment

Carb Day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is for sending messages, and the word from Simon Pagenaud is that Honda Performance Development apparently has closed the horsepower gap on rival Chevrolet heading into Sunday’s 97th running of the Indianapolis 500.
Pagenaud, who will start from the outside of the seventh row, topped the Coors Light Carb Day [...]

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Pro Stocker Johnson To Go For Sweep From Pole
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Pro Stock points leader Allen Johnson secured his sixth straight No. 1 qualifying position at the 25th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Northwest Nationals presented by Super Start Batteries at Pacific Raceways.
Don Schumacher Racing teammates Spencer Massey (Top Fuel) and Ron Capps (Funny Car) also led their qualifying fields at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag [...]

Sat, 4/08/12 – 20:50 | Comments Off
Flat Spot On: Sweaty Mid-Ohio Slippery When Wet
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By Jonathan Ingram | Senior Writer
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STREAM CORNERS, Ohio – Top ten tweets from the combined ALMS and IndyCar weekend at Mid-Ohio:
1. The fifth straight victory by the Muscle Milk Pickett Racing over Dyson Racing in the LMP1 class was a tribute to one of the leading motor racing indicators – financial health. (And we’re not referring [...]

Sat, 4/08/12 – 20:45 | Comments Off
Montoya On Cup Pole At Pocono
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Juan Pablo Montoya will lead the field down to the green-flag in Sunday’s Pennsylvania 400 at Pocono Raceway. The driver of the No. 42 Target Chevrolet earned his eighth career pole laying down a lap of 176.043 mph edging the second place qualifier by hundredth of a second.
Denny Hamlin of Joe Gibbs Racing claimed [...]

Sat, 4/08/12 – 13:53 | Comments Off
Coulter Gets First Truck Series Victory
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Joey Coulter pulled away after a restart with  seven laps to go and went on to win Saturday’s Pocono Mountains 125 at Pocono Raceway.
Coulter’s win was his first in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
Coulter beat James Buescher to the finish line by 1.224 seconds.
Buescher charged from third to first moments after a restart on [...]

Sat, 4/08/12 – 13:45 | Comments Off
Power Wins Pole At Mid-Ohio
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Will Power recorded the quickest lap time of 1:05.6662 – only three-tenths of a second off the Indy car circuit record set by Dario Franchitti in 1999 and matched by Gil de Ferran in 2000 – on his final lap of the 10-minute session Firestone Fast Six session to win the pole for Honda Indy [...]

Sat, 4/08/12 – 13:37 | Comments Off
Capps Returns To Form At Qualifying In Seattle
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An upset victim in Sonoma, Calif., six days ago, Ron Capps began the final leg of the NHRA’s Western Swing Friday by racing to the provisional Funny Car qualifying lead at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Wash.
Point-leaders Allen Johnson (Pro Stock) and Spencer Massey (Top Fuel) also emerged as qualifying leaders at the 25th annual O’Reilly [...]

Sat, 4/08/12 – 6:59 | One Comment
Injury To Interrupt Charlie Kimball’s Season Of Growth
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By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
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A broken bone in his right hand will prevent IZOD IndyCar Series regular Charlie Kimball from participating in this weekend’s Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
Kimball, driver of the No. 83 NovoLog Flex Pen Dallara/Honda, fractured the fifth metacarpal in his right hand while testing at Mid-Ohio on [...]

Fri, 3/08/12 – 16:05 | Comments Off
Brown Would Love To Swing Into A Championship
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By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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With two victories already bagged, and with a third victory and history-making sweep of the NHRA’s legendary Western Swing perhaps just 17 seconds away, Antron Brown was ready for THE question. And his answer was yes.
And no.
Yes, Brown – who, with four round victories on Sunday in the O’Reilly Northwest [...]

Fri, 3/08/12 – 14:05 | Comments Off
Gordon To Receive Award That Will Never Tarnish
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By Jeff Hood | Senior Writer
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LONG POND, Pa. – Jeff Gordon will be presented the Heisman Humanitarian award at the The Heisman Memorial Trophy Dinner in New York in December.
The announcement was made at Pocono Raceway on Friday as the four-time Sprint Cup champion was flanked by past Heisman winners Tim Brown of Notre Dame [...]

Fri, 3/08/12 – 11:12 | Comments Off
NASCAR Hoping To Add Street Value To Cup
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By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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News that the 2013 Sprint Cup cars will more closely resemble street machinery is, well, news. Just news. Neutral news. Certainly not bad news and, in fact, a step in a happy direction. But, it is not great news for those who are waiting for a savior.
Time was, kids, the [...]

Fri, 3/08/12 – 10:49 | One Comment