It appears as if FOM Chief Bernie Ecclestone has decided to try and use the current economic meltdown to his advantage this week by offering the teams more financial freedom in return for a bigger commitment to the pinnacle of Motorsports.
To hear The Gnome of F1 all this talk of [...]
Drive for Diversity member Kristin Bumbera will drive for Hamilton Racing during the 2009 season. Bumbera and team owner Bobby Hamilton Jr. will team up for a full season of competition in the NASCAR Camping World East Series.
This will be Bumbera’s first full season in the Camping World Series [...]
Pardon me if I have a bit of a chuckle over this, but it is comical, in a way and only because he wasn’t seriously hurt. Jimmie Johnson sliced his left middle finger with a knife while in Daytona Beach, Fla., for the Rolex 24 where his team finished seventh [...]
Drivers accepted for the 2009 Drive For Diversity program were recently announced as the program moves with an expanded driver lineup and a new management group headed by Max Siegel through his new sports and entertainment marketing company, 909 Group. (The complete list of those accepted can be accessed [...]
Johnny Herbert won the second Speedcar Series race held in Bahrain Saturday. It was a win that came down to the wire with Gianni Morbidelli in second spot and a surprise podium for new driver Thomas Biagi in third.
The reverse grid for Speedcar Series’ second race put [...]
Matt Kobyluck never led the Toyota All-Star Showdown, but he won in a controversial finish that included a wild three-way battle with Joey Logano and Peyton Sellers to become the first two-time winner in the NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown.
All three were vying for the win at the half-mile Toyota Speedway [...]
It was billed as a Arena Racing USA match race between NASCAR owner Joe Gibbs and his long-time sponsor, and chairman of Interstate Batteries, Norm Miller. The pre-race banter between the two race rivals paled in comparison to what was to come after the green flag flew.
“It’s gonna be [...]
Godwin Kelly and Ken Willis explain what to watch for during the Rolex 24 hours at Daytona, Jimmie Johnson, latest stock car news, Richard Petty Motorsports and other mergers, explaining the changes to the Bud Shootout.
[...]Persistent rain washed out racing Friday in the NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown, forcing Toyota Speedway at Irwindale officials to delay all three races for Saturday.
If there’s a way from Irwindale to the NASCAR Sprint Cup series, Brian Ickler figured it would be by moving to North Carolina.
“I’m definitely glad I [...]
A1 Team Ireland’s Adam Carroll dominated qualifying to put the Celtic Tiger on pole position for both of tomorrow’s races in Taupo, New Zealand.
Carroll initially took control of Sprint race qualifying, posting a time of 1 minute 15.197 seconds round the 2.06-mile circuit.
With so many incidents interrupting every session [...]
Round four of the 2008/09 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport season got underway at New Zealand’s Taupo Motorsport Park Friday with reigning champion A1 Team Switzerland setting the early pace.
Alexandre Imperatori started the day as the quickest rookie, while main driver Neel Jani ended the day quickest overall. [...]
Jean Alesi won the first Speedcar Series race of the weekend at the Bahrain International Circuit. The Frenchman who started second on the grid was joined on the podium by Heinz Harald Frentzen in second position and Johnny Herbert in third.
Heinz Harald Frentzen had a bad start [...]
NASCAR chairman Brian France says his management group is working with teams to develop new business models that can withstand the current economic crisis.
France, a/k/a People’s Commissar of NASCAR Affairs (PCNA), staff members to meet with race tracks to explore new promotions for ticket sales, to improve opportunities for minorities [...]
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) announced today the annual induction process for the NASCAR Hall of Fame, scheduled to open in Charlotte, N.C. in 2010.
The yearly HOF classes will have five inductees selected by a voting panel consisting of NASCAR industry leaders, manufacturer representatives, former [...]
Dave Rogers and Jason Ratcliff set to resume their Nationwide Series crew chief roles in time for the second race of the 2009 season?
Joe Gibbs Racing hopes to have currently suspended Dave Rogers and Jason Ratcliff resume their Nationwide Series crew chief roles in time for the [...]
Testing on the new 2009 F60 Ferrari continued on Wednesday at the famous Mugello track just outside Florence with Felipe Massa completing 104 laps.
The Brazilian, who narrowly lost out on the world title to Britain’s Lewis Hamilton last season, took over the baton from 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen who [...]
Ask.com CEO Jim Safka talked about his company’s partnership with NASCAR as the official search engine of NASCAR, and it’s sponsorship of the No. 96 Hall of Fame Racing Ford driven by former NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Bobby Labonte.
Hall of Fame Racing owner Tom Garfinkel [...]
Speedcar Series will hold its second round in Bahrain this Friday and Saturday, January 23-24, 2009. There will be 15 drivers on the grid representing 8 teams over the 2 races this weekend.
The Speedcar Series Season opened in Dubai last month. Vitantonio Liuzzi swept the Qualifying session [...]
The NASCAR Nationwide Series will make it’s Iowa Speedway debut this summer. There is already more on the line than just the inaugural trophy.
The Nationwide Series season will feature a four-race “Dash for Cash” program. According to NASCAR, if any eligible driver (defined as those who race full time in [...]
Never short of opinion, many based on long and successful experience as a track owner, Burton Smith believes NASCAR should follow the NFL’s lead and institute a local TV blackout to aid track attendance.
As my headline suggests I think Smith has done a header in the deep end of the [...]
Ulrich Baretzky, Audi Sport’s head of engine technology, told Racecar Engineering magazine that his company is interested in joining the IndyCar Series in 2011.
It appears Volkswagen may be the marquee of choice.
IndyCar officials haven’t confirmed it, but sources say all signs point to a four-cylinder turbocharged [...]
Jacques Villeneuve - Canada’s only Formula One/Indianapolis 500 champion - is still dreaming of becoming a real life Jean Girard and resurrecting his aborted NASCAR career.
Villeneuve appeared at the Canadian Motorsports Expo at the International Centre this past weekend and outlined his tale of woe at getting another [...]
The biggest news coming out of the first day of NASCAR’s annual Dog & Pony show is a solution to the “name game” played after the recent mergers between DEI, Petty Enterprises and Ganassi Racing.
One of the merged parties, can’t recall who, said at the time of the merger Richard [...]
In a previous post I noted rumors were flying fast and loose concerning this weekends Taupo (NZ) stop on the A1GP schedule.
At the time two reasons were given, a dispute over ‘payment’ to transport carriers and the obviously related “injunction to stop the transportation of the cars,” from Malaysia [...]
Michael Waltrip made his Cup debut in 1985 in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte driving for Dick Bahre. He finished 28th in that race and finished 57th in the series standings after just five starts.
His greatest claim to fame came while driving for DEI. Waltrip was hired by Dale Earnhardt, [...]
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear, does it make a sound?
To paraphrase that adage; If a gaggle of NASCAR drivers (a bit over a dozen I hear) show up at Daytona International Speedway, with no roaring engines, no exhaust fumes, no burning [...]
Demolition of the old Sportsman’s Park/Chicago Motor Speedway site in Cicero began a couple weeks ago.
A relief of a rider and horse still adorn the entrance in Cicero (IL.), but the inside is a tangle of steel and concrete. The facility, closed since 2003, is being demolished to make [...]
I suppose for those that get their daily dose of NASCAR nonsense here I have to note the changes made to the 2009 Budweiser Shootout at Daytona. But for the record I could give two whizzes into the wind about it.
In August, NASCAR revamped the eligibility for the Budweiser Shootout, [...]
Go Daddy got 1.5 million hits from airing the Danica Patrick Beaver ad during last year’s Super Bowl. This year Go Daddy is offering two ads to be aired during the game and you, football fans and Danica Stalkers alike, can vote on which of the two will be shown [...]
The sound of auctioneers gavels will be heard loud and clear throughout NASCAR Nation as three separate and distinct auctions are held this weekend.
NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Stephen Leicht, driver of the #29 Holiday Inn Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing will be auctioning race memorabilia from his [...]
The black and blue custom Superbird was built by YearOne in Braselton, Ga., in conjunction with Gillette Evernham Motorsports, Musclecar TV and former pro wrestler, actor and auto enthusiast Bill Goldberg.
The car pays homage to the legendary muscle cars that dominated stock car racing in the late 1960s and [...]
According to an online report the upcoming Taupo, NZ round of the A1GP series is in doubt. (translated version here.)
The claim is made the field of cars is still sitting in Malaysia site of the last round of the series. According to a “reliable source” there is a dispute [...]
Toyota presented its 2009 Formula One car on the Internet on Thursday, taking a low-key approach at a time when the sport is under pressure to cut costs.
The team’s eighth season in Formula One sees major rule changes so the TF109, revealed exclusively on the web, looked considerably different [...]
Officials from the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) and RE/MAX International announced today in a joint statement that the real estate industry leader would end its series title sponsorship of ARCA following the 2009 season.
“In business, we are all called upon to make difficult decisions, and the decision [...]
Denver-based Furniture Row Racing on Wednesday named Regan Smith its driver this season, replacing Joe Nemechek.
The Colorado-based team is scheduled to enter 12 Sprint Cup races in 2009 (outlined below), beginning with the season-opening Daytona 500.
Smith, 25, competed in 34 Cup events for Dale Earnhardt Inc. in 2008, and became [...]
Ask.com, a leading search engine today announced it has entered into partnerships with NASCAR, NASCAR.COM, and Hall of Fame Racing.
First thought: Well, by signing both as a sponsor of the HoF #96 and becoming the Official Search Engine of NASCAR HoF Racing and Ask.com avoids all the ugliness that [...]
“On paper, it’s a viable project,” how many times have you heard that? I won’t make an estimate on my number, being “awarded” the math skills that require the removal of both shoes to get into the teens, lets just say its been a butt load.
Anyway Charleston, WV attorney Dave [...]
Here’s something you don’t see everyday, at least not in this era of NASCAR teams/drivers switching to TRD’s NASCAR operations, Hall of Fame Racing dumps its Toyota/JGR alliance for one with Yates Racing.
Hall of Fame Racing has aligned itself with Yates Racing to run the No. 96 car for the [...]
Back in the day NASCAR’s Nationwide Series mandated the use of a 275CID 90 degree odd fire V6 engine. If Roger Penske’s thoughts prove prescient NASCAR powerplants may see a similar power/size reduction.
The occasion was Penske’s appearance on Bloomberg Radio Monday.
Roger Penske said the use of smaller race engines [...]
Lee White, the president and general manager of Toyota Racing Development, has heard the murmuring. He’s heard the muffled talk that his company is poised to jump with both boots upon the neck of a NASCAR series that is perceived to be severely wounded.
Not gonna happen. So he says.
“We’re experiencing [...]
Team owner Curtis Key announced today that Key Motorsports will run its first full-time entry in the NASCAR Nationwide Series in 2009.
Key Motorsports made its NASCAR Nationwide Series debut in 1991, running limited schedules until 1999. After a four year hiatus from motorsports, Key Motorsports returned to racing in [...]
Before hitting the pavement in 2009, Roush Fenway Racing’s up-and-coming driver, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. will make his fifth start this week in the 23rd annual Chili Bowl held in Tulsa, Okla.
Stenhouse, Jr. will race for Don Fike in the Esslinger-powered No. 132 car when he takes to the track [...]
You want interview videos of Ferrari’s F60 introduction?
Well, here you have them. This and the two succeeding posts contain an entire cornucopia of them starting with short interviews with teammates Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen ending with team principal Stefano Domenicali.
Pass the popcorn (extra butter please), and enjoy.
[...]Ferrari unveiled its 2009 Formula One race car today, The car - named the F60 for Ferrari’s 60th year in F1 - was tested by Massa on the Mugello track.
Usually the team debuts its new cars on its home track in Fiorano, but snowy conditions forced a change this year.
[...]Full Throttle’s Quote of the Day, really isn’t ’cause it isn’t posted each day. It’s more like FT’s Quote that Happens to Tweak my Fleeting Interest in the Next Nano-Second.
In that light, I offer DEI’s Max Siegel marking his second anniversary as DEI’s president of global operations following a [...]
NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. told the press that meeting the fans at Sprint Sound and Speed Fan Festival Presented by SunTrust helps him feel like the 2009 racing season is ready to begin. Earnhardt Jr. joined other drivers and country performers in Nashville for the annual event.
[...]The following is a transcript of Dale Earnhardt Jr’s Q&A Session held during the recent Sprint Sound and Speed Fan Festival in Nashville.
THE MODERATOR: We have Dale Earnhardt, Jr. How many signings did you do and what kind of lap pace were you on out there?
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.: [...]
An additional round looks set to be added to this season’s A1GP calendar, with Brazil poised to host the climax of the 2008/09 season.
Reports have said that the World Cup of Motosport will visit the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo - an event that would mark the first occasion the [...]
A1 Team Germany will have to postpone its A1GP World Cup of Motorsport Season Four debut, and this means the team will now plan for being on track for the first time in A1GP Gauteng, South Africa on 20-22 February.
“A1 Team Germany has been affected by delays. All the necessary [...]
Renault’s 2009 Formula One car has failed a mandatory crash test, reportedly the new cars launch will proceed as planned later this month, a team spokeswoman said on Friday.
The spokeswoman confirmed that the nose and side impact tests failed, but insisted that engineers know what went wrong and the issues [...]
Elliott Sadler will be back behind the wheel of the No. 19 Dodge for the upcoming NASCAR Sprint Cup season, Gillett Evernham Motorsports announced Friday.
For the last week reports had Sadler being replaced by AJ Allmendinger, a move that initiated a breach of contract lawsuit by Sadler who had signed [...]
Petty Enterprises and Gillett Evernham Motorsports have come to a merger and will field a four-car Dodge team that will include the famed No. 43 team.
(With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
“How do I love many own thee? Let me count the ways.”
Stay with me, this gets ugly.
The new merged 4-car [...]
Reports from Australia suggest that former Formula 1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve is being targeted to join Super Cheap Racing.
Team owner Paul Morris, who recently retired from driving, wants the son of legendary F1 racer, Gilles Villeneuve, to take his place in the Holden team, alongside [...]
David Ragan really turned some heads with his performance in the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series in ’08 in his Roush Fenway Racing Ford Fusion.
He’s excited about returning to the facility — Lanier National Speedway — where he won his first ARCA Series race just a few years [...]
As January rolls on various NASCAR venues are rolling out ticket pricing incentives intended to motivate you from acute “couch-stagnation” to active participation via attendance at one of the 38 sanctioned Sprint Cup events in 2009.
For example (”Door #1″?) - Talladega Superspeedway celebrates its fortieth anniversary by reducing more than [...]
SuperCarDirect.com CEO John Sweeney, who runs the nation’s largest free car classified website, has taken a novel approach to eliminating executive perks. He sold the company’s jet and now drives a NASCAR race car to work.
“We took a NASCAR we had been running on the race circuit, fitted it with [...]
Go Daddy is announcing its return to NASCAR for the 2009 season with another sponsorship deal featuring Dale Earnhardt Jr. The agreement also includes Brad Keselowski and spans both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series in partnership with Hendrick Motorsports and JR Motorsports.
Go Daddy will be the primary sponsor for [...]
For the first time in history, a mixed martial arts event will be held in conjunction with a major motorsports event.
Racing fans and mixed martial arts fans will gather together for the “Rumble in Race Town”, presented by Xtreme Cage Fighting on Saturday, February 14th, 2009 at the Daytona Beach [...]
The cable network TLC has ordered a docusoap series titled “NASCAR Wives,” starring women related to some of NASCAR’s biggest stars.
The new “reality show” mixes racing with the “wives genre” peppering cable primetime, from Lifetime’s drama “Army Wives” to Bravo’s reality show “The Real Housewives of Orange County.”
TLC will [...]
Trey Poole races cars on ovals and street courses, but a crossroads ahead may determine his future as a driver.
Auto racing requires speed. That takes money to keep the cars in top condition. Race teams spend a lot of their own money — prize money if they’re good — but [...]
As luck would have it you, my loyal readership, won’t have to compromise your ethics or diminish your self-worth this year.
Full Throttle and it’s Half-Vast Staff failed to make the final and voting stage of this years Weblog Awards.
They say to be nominated is an honor, but [...]
An A1GP driver is always obsessed with coming first, but in this interview A1 Team South Africa’s Adrian Zaugg reveals some of the major firsts in his life.
FIRST time you knew you wanted to be a racing driver: “I think it’s when I started watching Formula One when I was [...]
Jeff Gordon has sold most of nearly 2,000 acres he owned in the high country above Missouri Heights to a development group headed by the man who created the Dallas National Golf Club in Texas a few years ago.
John MacDonald said he plans to build much the same kind of [...]
Jeff Gordon hails the introduction of the more sustainable Car of Tomorrow as the motoring sector flounders in the economic crisis.
Whether through happenstance or through foresight bordering on prescience, NASCAR’s development of the Car of Tomorrow was a brilliant move, says four- time Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon.
Gordon’s view has [...]
Sam McQuagg, the 1965 NASCAR Rookie of the Year, died Saturday, his son McQuagg Jr. said. He was 73. McQuagg died at St. Francis Hospital, Sam McQuagg Jr. told the Associated Press. Preliminary medical reports show McQuagg died from cancer.
His son remembered his father’s racing career as something that seemed [...]
The first day of practice for the fourth annual Whelan Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge ended with 2008 Pro Stock champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. on top of the timing sheet. Coughlin drove his brand-new JEGS.com bobsled down legendary Mount Van Hoevenberg in 48.99 seconds from the No. 4 (practice) start gate [...]
The U.S. Bobsled National Championships will be held in conjunction with the 4th Annual Whelen Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge in Lake Placid, N.Y. this weekend.
The U.S. National Bobsled Championships will be held as a four-heat competition over two days of racing. Athletes named U.S. National Champion will qualify as [...]
The climax to the 2008 F1 World Championship could represent the peak for a sport that appears to be on the brink of fundamental change. But one thing will endure regardless of how the sport changes in the future, the spectacular images captured during 2008.
Below are a few of the [...]
Note to Danica Patrick, that tall skinny peddle on the right is the Go Peddle. The larger rectangle one in the center is the Woe Peddle.
The Danica, following a similar bust last January, was corralled by the long arm of Scottsdale, Arizona’s finest for driving 54mph in a 35mph zone [...]
Ok boys and girls, and all those in-between (to include visiting aliens), we may be on the cusp of a New Year but my trivial mind is on the past. The very far past, in fact I was a pre pre-teen and four years from attending my first Daytona 500 [...]
Plans for a NASCAR-style race track in Tulare, a project I once called the Turkey in Tulare, are one step closer to reality.
Council members voted 3-2 to approve the $400 million, 711-acre project, which includes a banked D-shaped track and drag strip. It survived criticism that it would draw [...]
Robby Gordon interviewed in Homestead Fl. previews the 2009 Dakar Rally. The 2009 event will cross the continent of South America from January 3 - 18.
[...]Toyo Tires, Robby Gordon and Team Dakar USA will once again take on the Dakar rally. The 2009 event will cross the continent of South America from January 3 - 18.
Beginning in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the race will cross over through Chile, then back to Buenos Aires for the finish. [...]
Jamie McMurray knows how to unwind before kicking off a new NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season and that’s by go racing at historic Daytona International Speedway.
For the second straight year, McMurray, who drives for Roush Fenway Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, is competing in Daytona KartWeek By Cometic [...]
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, has rescued the Honda Formula One team, an Italian newspaper reported on Saturday.
Italian newspaper La Stampa has reported that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has ploughed his cash into the ailing firm after they announced earlier this month that they would [...]
Mitchell Dumesny was involved in one of the most spectacular finishes ever witnessed at Parramatta City Raceway as he and arch rival Robbie Farr raced to the checkered flag when the two cars touched and Dumesny’s car embarked on a wild series of flips across the finish line.
He led [...]
The new Algarve circuit, due to be hosting A1GP on 12 Apr, 2009, has been hailed as “fantastic” by Formula One drivers following their maiden test at the Portuguese track earlier this month.
Formula One made its debut at the Iberian track with a three-day test attended by the Ferrari and [...]
The following is a public service announcement from the Half-Vast Staff of Full Throttle for those who haven’t been granted the “privilege” of access to NASCAR’s vaunted Media Website.
Maybe I’m mistaken and it really isn’t Christmas. It is hovering around 80 degrees at the old homestead and raining at a [...]
‘Christmas Bells’
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will [...]
While it always seems that Christmas rolls around faster than Carl Edwards can turn a lap at Bristol Motor Speedway, Yuletide is here again, and it’s time to speculate on what Santa might be putting under the tree for some of NASCAR’s favourite personalities.
With Jimmie Johnson scooping a third straight [...]
NASCAR Nationwide Series Champion and Kansas native Clint Bowyer today took delivery of his Beechcraft Premier IA, the world’s fastest and most technologically advanced single-pilot business jet.
With a cruising speed greater than 520mph - 50mph faster than its nearest competitor - the Premier IA [...]
Bill Davis Racing (BDR) long rumored to be on the block, first to Jacques Villeneuve and his partner/con-man/agent Craig Pollock, has been sold to Marty Gaunt a vice president at BDR and Mike Held.
Gaunt and Held both have experience as NASCAR team owners, and Gaunt most recently was vice [...]
The three-day ARCA RE/MAX Series test in preparation for the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 wrapped up on Sunday at Daytona International Speedway.
Some ARCA RE/MAX Series teams departed “The World Center of Racing” after the second day of testing on Saturday after getting all the information they needed for the [...]
Tom Hessert III rose to the top of the speed chart Saturday morning, as day two of the ARCA RE/MAX Series open test forged on under sunny skies at Daytona International Speedway.
Hessert, in Andy Belmont’s #14 Ford, circled the famous 2.5-mile Daytona tri-oval in 49.738 seconds, for a top speed [...]
Joey Logano is only 18 but is about to attempt a rare Daytona double.
Logano, who has never raced at Daytona International Speedway, will make his first two starts on Saturday, Feb. 7 when he races in the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 ARCA RE/MAX Series season opener followed by Budweiser [...]
Ferrari are adamant that the distribution of commercial revenue in Formula One remains a key area for revaluation in the future, despite criticisms directed at their president Luca di Montezemolo by the sport’s commercial boss Bernie Ecclestone Saturday morning.
In an interview in The Times, Ecclestone launched an open attack on [...]
Honda F1 CEO Nick Fry has said he and team principal Ross Brawn will reveal details of discussions with potential buyers in the New Year.
Fry has confirmed “a high level of interest” in taking over the Brackley-based team, who were put up for sale after Honda announced they were withdrawing [...]
The Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix has been dropped from the 2009 IndyCar Series schedule due to difficult economic times in the Motor City.
Event chairman Bud Denker confirmed the cancellation to the Detroit Free Press after meeting with city and state officials, sponsors and IndyCar representatives. The event was scheduled [...]
Mauricia Grant reached a confidential settlement with NASCAR following 12 hours of mediation earlier this month in New York. The session was suggested by U.S. District Court Judge Deborah A. Batts after the first court appearance in what was expected to be a yearlong battle between the two sides.
“She’d been [...]
While the rest of corporate America is scaling back in the face of a struggling economy, NASCAR apparently is putting pressure on some of its business partners.
Revell, Inc. a company that makes plastic models, is dropping NASCAR from its list of products after it couldn’t reach a licensing agreement with [...]
Robby Gordon has a shiny new car, Chip is cut and Drew is in. Darrell Waltrip gets a clue. Then Buck falls down.
[...]Citing economic woes, Mansfield Motorsports Park canceled its scheduled Camping World Truck Series race in 2009 early Wednesday. Later Wednesday evening, the track told the Mansfield News Journal its was closing its door.
The northside half-mile oval was thrown into limbo Wednesday when the NASCAR Camping World (formerly Craftsman) Truck [...]
Natacha Gachnang has moved a step closer to becoming the first woman to compete in Formula One since 1992. The 21-year-old Swiss has signed up for the 2009 Formula Two championship which returns after a 25-year absence.
Test driving for Williams is the reward for the overall season winner [...]
With all the financial doomsday scenarios swirling around NASCAR one has to dig pretty deep to find anything resembling good news. In this case I had to dig, or more appropriately sail, across The Pond to Europe to find something positive.
The World Rally Championship for the [...]
The realignment of NASCAR race teams to manufacturers is falling into place with confirmation of the obvious, the Earnhardt Ganassi Racing team will run Impala SS’ and work out of the Chip Ganassi Racing shop.
Montoya’s #42 team and the vacant #41 team will trade in their Dodge Chargers for Chevys [...]
Josh, Chris and George talk about the big news that Honda is out of F1 next year - and Chris sheds a tear for Audi - who has announced that they are out of ALMS next season. We also go around and around a bit about GM/Ford/Chrysler and the future [...]
