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Two drivers, both competing for the $50,000 Rookie of the Year honors with the American Speed Association?s National Tour, topped the speed charts during a Friday, April 16 open test session at the Kentucky Speedway.
A total of 37 drivers took to the 1.5-mile oval in preparation for ASA?s first-ever visit to the Kentucky Speedway oval [...]

A pair of runner-up runs that pushed him into second place in the point standings notwithstanding, Danny Lasoski was dissatisfied with his performance at Eldora Speedway last weekend.
Lasoski ran the two best races of his career at ?The World?s Fastest Half-Mile,? but finished behind series points leader Steve Kinser, who swept his second double-feature event [...]

I guess this comes under the heading of “I’d rather be lucky than good.”
Michael Waltrip avoided a crash that took out the top four drivers with two laps to go, and won the Pepsi 300 on Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway.
Rookie Clint Bowyer was racing rookie Kyle Busch for the lead coming out of Turn 2 [...]

Max Angelelli turned the quickest lap during the opening practice session for the Food City 250 at Phoenix International Raceway on Thursday afternoon. Angelelli put together a 58.130-second lap around the 1.51-mile road course in the SunTrust Racing No. 10 Pontiac Riley. Scott Pruett turned the second-fastest lap in practice with his 58.374-second lap in [...]

It will according to this report in Sundays USA Today.
NASCAR officials may rescind their ban on sponsorships from hard liquor companies.
“It’s under review,” says Jim Hunter, NASCAR’s vice president of communications. “We’re trying to do what’s right, weighing all the pros and cons.”
NASCAR allows beer companies to sponsor cars, and in recent years also has [...]

Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher has dominated proceedings in the inaugural Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix, winning by 1.367s from team-mate Rubens Barrichello and by 26.687s from B?A?R’s Jenson Button - claiming his second consecutive podium after benefiting from the demise of Juan Pablo Montoya in the latter stages of the race. Montoya had looked set to [...]

Elliott Sadler edged Kasey Kahne by .028 seconds to win the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series RadioShack/Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Rusty Wallace round out the top five.
Kurt Busch, who finished sixth, took the points lead away from Matt Kenseth as the teams left Texas.

Matt Kenseth took the lead from Bobby Hamilton Jr. just before a caution flag with six laps left, and went on to win the NASCAR Busch Series race Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway.
As Kenseth was passing under Hamilton in the third turn on the 195th lap, Tracy Hines spun out on the frontstretch, taking out [...]

I have tasted “Warrd” during my many months spent in Bahrain, but the attraction of the many hotels that serve alcohol will be a bigger draw that won’t be missed by the F1 crowd.
Michael Schumacher seems to be untroubled by Bahrain’s ever present desert sand. Quoted from Tampa Bay Observer via Associated Press:
The [...]

Over a four-decade span of driving race cars, Mark Martin considers Ernie Irvan the only driver who became a true friend. Martin isn’t talking about being friendly. He’s talking about someone who understands your weaknesses and accepts your faults. Someone you can confide in when you’re down. Someone who cares.
That kind of friendship is hard [...]

Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been fined $10,000 and docked 25 championship points for intentionally causing a yellow during last Sunday’s Food City 500.
“The driver of the No. 8 car was quite vocal in admitting he intentionally spun out his car to cause a caution condition on the track, which is clearly prohibited in the NASCAR [...]

…..So shouts the headline on Canada.Com’s Auto Racing Page. Evernham goes on to explain:
“I left probably the best job in motorsports and I took a lot of criticism for it then,” Evernham said about his decision in 1999 to become a team owner.
“All along, we’ve been saying that we’re building a good organization, we’re building [...]