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Greg Biffle took the lead for the first time with 21 miles to go and then drove away from the field to win the rain-delayed NASCAR Busch series race Monday at Dover International Speedway.
It was Biffle’s 14th career victory and second on the Monster Mile. The win also gave team owner Jack Roush a Dover [...]

Sue Kellogg writes an occasional column for Racing Junky. Here is her take on Sunday’s “NASCAR Massacre” at Dover
Today?s race at Dover proved that old saying that it is better to be lucky than good. When you add up all the cars that were contenders for most of the day only at the end [...]

Gary Paffett has been stripped of his victory in the fourth round of the 2004 DTM series at the Lausitzring, after running out of fuel at the end of the lap returning him to the pits and the rapturous welcome of the Mercedes team.
The Briton was disqualified five hours after the end of the race, [...]

The Spaniard knows that the team will need a strong performance this weekend on the Canadian circuit in order to keeps its standing in the constructors? championship.
Canada needs good engine power and good aerodynamics. Last year, you finished fourth - can you do better this year?
Well, we know the car has improved in both of [...]

Mark Martin attributed his Dover 400 victory to good fortune and he wasn’t about to apologize. Martin managed to avoid one massive pileup, got a break when runaway leader Kasey Kahne crashed, and ended a long losing streak.
Still, after so many missed opportunities, Martin couldn’t help but think another day would end badly and that [...]

Robbie Pyle showed the dominance of his No. 63 Citgo Chevrolet by making a clean sweep of the pole and race win for the ASA National Tour BFGoodrich Tires 250 at Mansfield (Ohio) Motorsports Speedway.
By capturing both ends of the event, Pyle received a $5,000 bonus courtesy of Jani-King. This was the first time this [...]

AMG Mercedes driver Christijan Albers secured his first DTM pole position today [Saturday] at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz, benefiting from the wet and rainy conditions, to post a best time of 1m 45.026s. Although conditions made it somewhat a lottery, it was Albers that emerged on top in both normal qualifying and the superpole.
“It was very [...]

ARCA RE/MAX Series rookie Ryan Hemphill was both lucky and good en route to victory lane Saturday afternoon in the rain-shortened Kansas Lottery $200 Grand. Hemphill, who dominated the first half, raced his way back into the lead just as a steady rain covered the 1.5-mile speedway.
It was his third consecutive superspeedway victory in only [...]

Bobby Hamilton Jr. will have the lead when the rain-delayed NASCAR Busch series race resumes Monday at Dover International Speedway.
The MNBA 200 was stopped after 28 of 200 laps Saturday. Another 72 laps were needed to make it official. Drivers were called to their cars twice, but each time the covers were removed the rain [...]

David Pearson won the pole position for the first race at Dover International Speedway in 1969 with a speed of 130.430 mph. Ricky Rudd topped the 140 mph mark in 1984 and Ernie Irvan cracked 150 mph in 1993.
It was Jeremy Mayfield who brought down the 160 mph barrier at the high-banked, one-mile oval on [...]

Robbie Pyle, driving the No. 63 Citgo Chevrolet captured his first ASA Jani-King pole award of the season with a run of 16.552-seconds (108.748 mph) around the .50-mile Mansfield (Ohio) Motorsports Speedway. This makes the fifth different Jani-King pole winner in all five races this season.
?When I came in (after the run) the tire guys [...]

Martin Truex Jr., who has won four times in the Busch Series this year, has been less than stellar at Dover International Speedway, which the Mayetta, N.J., considers his home track. Truex has raced at Dover more than at any other track on the circuit, yet he has never finished in the top 10 here.
?Last [...]

Chad Chaffin has heard all about Dover International Speedway’s unpleasant demeanor and how the race track takes dreams and spits them out. None of it mattered to the 35-year-old driver from Smyrna, Tenn. He was unfazed by the one-mile concrete track often called a monster.
Chaffin maintained a steady grip through a five-lap shootout with veteran [...]

The writtings on the wall when your sitting 34th in the point standings.Team owner Don Arnold of Naples said late Tuesday afternoon that he will replace driver Derrike Cope with Mike Wallace for Sunday’s MNBA 400 at the Dover International Speedway in Dover, Del.
Team owner Don Arnold
“I think you know where I’m going with this,” [...]

I received an Email requesting I link to a new blog called Fun 1, The satirical daily blog and news round of the Formula one world. They are currently running a photo captain contest if you care to join.
If the F1 season continues like it has we all may need a laugh or two just [...]

So you fancy yourself as the next coming of Markko Martin wheeling the latest WRC Ford Focus RS thru the many switchbacks and sweeping turns during the Cyprus Rally. Then reality sets in, the cappuccino machine is on the fritz, the dog needs its rabies shots, and the wifes birthday is next month. What will [...]