International Speedway Corporation today approved funding to redevelop the frontstretch of Daytona International Speedway.
The multi-year project will break ground on July 5, 2013, and is targeted for completion in January 2016, in time for the 54th Rolex 24 At Daytona and the 58th Daytona 500.
“We are truly creating history with this unprecedented endeavor,” said ISC’s Chief [...]
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
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Tony Schumacher’s unwavering belief in the enclosed cockpit for Top Fuel dragsters paid an immediate dividend Friday at Brainerd International Raceway, where the seven-time NHRA world champion raced to the provisional pole for the 31st annual Lucas Oil Nationals.
Tim Wilkerson (Funny Car), Erica Enders (Pro Stock) and Hector Arana Sr. [...]
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Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas pulled away to their second win of the season in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series’ Montreal 200, clinching the Ganassi operation’s 150th win in all forms of major motorsports.
“It was quite an honor getting the 150th win for Ganassi with all that he’s done on the [...]
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Kluas Graf set a qualifying time Friday of 1:50.191 (132.250 mph) to win the pole for the American Le Mans Series’ race at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis.
Graf’ shares the Muscle Milk Pickett Racing No. 6 Honda Performance Development ARX-03a with Lucas Luhr.
The teams rides a five-race winning streak and share the P1 championship [...]
Canadian Alex Tagliani logged a pole-winning lap of 1 minute, 40.865 seconds for a 96.687 mph average at qualifying for Saturday’s Nationwide Series race at Circuit Gilles Villeneunve in Montreal Friday.
The pole was the first in NASCAR for the driver who usually competes in the IndyCar Series.
Sam Hornish Jr. had to settle for the outside of [...]
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Mark Martin topped the field in qualifying for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway on Friday afternoon.
Martin lapped the flat 2-mile oval in 36.053 seconds (199.706 mph).
Second fastest was Carl Edwards (198.626 mph). The pole award Martin’s series-best fourth of the season but his first at Michigan. It was the 55th [...]
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Jon Fogarty put the “Red Dragon”, No. 99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Corvette DP, on the pole for Saturday’s GRAND-AM Series race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal on Friday.
It is his fourth pole of the season, and the 23rd of his GRAND-AM road racing career.
John Edwards was the fastest qualifier in GT behind the wheel [...]
By Jeff Hood | Senior Writer
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BROOKLYN, Mich. – Just a few weeks after a congressional effort narrowly failed that would have prohibited military sports-related sponsorships, Hendrick Motorsports announced on Friday that the National Guard will continue its relationship with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and remain on his No. 88 Chevrolet through at least 2013.
Prior to the [...]
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
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Silly Season at Richard Petty Motorsports took a well-timed twist at Watkins Glen International, where Marcos Ambrose handed his team’s namesake a tongue-in-cheek bargaining chip in its contract negotiations with Ford Racing.
Ambrose’s dramatic, final-lap victory over Brad Keselowski of Penske Racing during Sunday’s 27th annual Finger Lakes 355 at The [...]
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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In the wake of the rave reviews of last Sunday’s “epic” finish at Watkins Glen International, the one destined to become an “instant classic” because the final two laps over the 2.45-mile road course were run on a film of ultra-slick synthetic oil, the race which will be “replayed for [...]
By Clint Smith
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(Editor’s note: Veteran dirt racer Clint “Cat Daddy” Smith of Senoia, Ga., has been racing and winning since 1981. He has more than 200 feature wins to his credit. Before he started driving, he worked on the car driven by his father, legendary racer and car-builder Roscoe Smith.
Clint Smith currently competes [...]
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