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Kimi Raikkonen led from the pole and won the Monaco Grand Prix, his first in the resort of the rich and famous (And tax dodge of many F1 drivers). It also was his fourth career Formula One win.
“It’s a special place,” Raikkonen said. “Everybody looks at you in a slightly different way when you win [...]

Well that was fun! Just as NASCAR wants the “Open” and the All Star Challenge.
Saturday night, 30 lap feature event, no points, and a million bucks at stake. With that scenario in place the Open ended just as it should, with a classic bump and run performed on Mike Bliss by Brian Vickers that earned [...]

At the beginning of 2005, the FIA initiated a consultation on the future of Formula One. A timetable for the consultation has since been published with an open invitation to all of the stakeholders to participate.
The FIA has always considered the fans of Formula One to be an essential part of this process. As a [...]

Sometimes I think F1 is like a bride on wedding day. Never happy and touching up her makeup a hundred times in the last hour before the “big walk.”
Once again qualifing procedures are changing.
All ten Formula One teams have decided to dump the ostracized aggregate qualifying system in favour of a Saturday one lap session [...]

Question: Why is someone building a tennis court, complete with grandstands, across the street from Lowe’s Motor Speedway?
Answer: So Anna [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/anna1.jpg]Kournikova[/avatar] will have a place to play next weekend when she comes to town to help promote a new development being built on that land.
[avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/anna2.jpg]Kournikova[/avatar], a professional tennis player [hey watch those cracks - ed] [...]

The ‘fastest Indian on four wheels’, Formula One driver Narain Karthikeyan, got into trouble on two wheels in Monaco on Wednesday.
The 28-year-old was pulled over by police after doing a lap of the Mediterranean principality’s street circuit on a scooter at a time when parts of the track were closed to traffic.
“The cops are not [...]

With the long running “feud” between Rusty Wallace and NASCAR teammate Ryan Newman there has been speculation Newman may move to another operation in ‘06. Roger Penske has made a preemptive move that takes all control of Penske Racing South from Wallace’s hands.
Roger Penske consolidated ownership of his Nascar race team by buying out his [...]

He drives a race car in one of the most up-and-coming series on the track today.
He does pretty well, too. And he’s only fifteen years old.
Trey Williams sits behind the steering wheel of the number 47 car in the Lone Star Legacy Series, a three-quarter scale NASCAR circuit based out of San Marcos.
Williams may be [...]

Bobby Hamilton used patience, stayed out of trouble, and took advantage of Ron Hornaday

Kasey Kahne finally threw the monkey off his back and achieved his first [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/cup.jpg]Nextel Cup[/avatar] win followed closely by USAC alumnus Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman.
Kahne finished second five times last season en route to winning rookie of the year honors. He also finished second at Martinsville Speedway last month.
“It was just an unbelievable feeling,” [...]

INDIANAPOLIS

RICHMOND, Va.

Chris Jenkins, USA Today:
In [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/cup.jpg]NASCAR[/avatar], drivers often shrug off unfortunate circumstances as “one of them racin’ deals.” The financial problems facing Detroit’s Big Three automakers

Oh my! What the “Lady in Black” has wrought this week. Darlington can be tamed, even loved, as the late Dale Earnhardt once said:
“You never forget your first love,” said seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup Champion Dale Earnhardt, “whether it’s a high school sweetheart, a faithful old hunting dog, or a fickle race track in South [...]

LONDON (AP) - Formula One’s five leading manufacturers plan to form their own organization and throw out the world governing body’s international court of appeal.
They are unhappy the appeals panel is linked to the ruling body and want to use another organization, such as the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport, which deals with cases [...]

Via Speed TV

Goodyear officials confirmed that NASCAR has proposed a “lease” situation under which teams would not buy tires, per se, but would instead lease them from Goodyear. The idea is to limit the number of tires available to teams for testing, and thus to reduce testing, period.
Teams still would pay the going price for [...]

Christian Jones (son of Australian F1 Champ Alan Jones) grabbed the lead at the first corner and never looked back. He was chased home by Ananda Mikola with Tyson Sy third after starting the wet race from the back of the grid. Lee Farrell won the Promotion Class from Greg Murphy and JP Tuason.
The race [...]

Inauspicious: adjective, Definition: adverse: “adverse circumstances”; “made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions.” Synonyms: bad, baleful, baneful, black, dire, discouraging, evil, fateful, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-omened, impending, inopportune, MINARDI, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untimely, untoward.
How is it possible for a team to have any more worse start than Minardi [...]

DARLINGTON, S.C. - Greg Biffle’s chances of winning a race he dominated appeared gone after his Roush Racing team made some late-race changes. But a timely spin by Mark Martin (some would have you believe it was an evil Roush plot or black magic as practiced by FoxSports) and four fresh tires were all Biffle [...]