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Ananda Mikola took a lights to flag win, in the Zhuhai Pan Delta Super Racing Festival,from Dado Pena and Christian Jones. Greg Murphy won the Promotions Class with Lee Farrell second. The race was punctuated by the safety car which was required after Avila and Marave clashed.
The drama began in qualifying with Pena losing fifth [...]

DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP)

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Bobby Labonte made his Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series debut earlier this year competing in the Rolex 24 At Daytona co-driving the No. 44 Doran Racing Pontiac Doran with his brother Terry, Jan Magnussen and IndyCar star Bryan Herta.
After finishing ninth overall in the Rolex 24, Bobby Labonte is poised [...]

The BAR F1 team has been suspended from competition for the next two events for infringing the minimum weight rules, and follows a lengthy court appearance yesterday afternoon. BAR is also suspended for a period of six months after the above-mentioned two events, with this penalty suspended for a period of one year. The [...]

Christian Jones (son of Australian F1 Champion Alan Jones) topped the time sheets for the first days practice for this weekends race at Zhuhai Circuit

Geesh… where to start. This weeks cesspool could overflow if everyone deserving were named.
So let’s start at the top, NASCAR itself. There is one reason for “the big one,” and that’s restrictor plate racing. Period. Those that favor one driver over another can point and whine til blue in the face, nothing will be resolved [...]

The ongoing controversy that lingers after NASCAR’s stop in Talladega just got hotter.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. called Jimmie Johnson an “idiot,” and blamed the Nextel Cup series points leader for causing a 25-car crash at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.
“If there was one idiot out there it was him,” Earnhardt said during a break Tuesday in a test [...]

Has NASCAR’s “fickle finger of fate” been pointed at Speed Channel?
The Winston-Salem Journal is reporting Jim Liberatore head of Speed Channel will be leaving the cable outlet. He has cited the ever popular excuse, “a difference in philosophies” for his departure. Gee if you fail to hear that a few times a week you ain’t [...]

Luc Alphand put his name in the history books on Monday by becoming the first person to win World Cup races in two contrasting sports. The Frenchman won many World Cup races during his Alpine Skiing career, culminating in the overall title, but on Monday, he tasted his first Rally Raid World Cup win.
The 1997 [...]

For the second time in a matter of months, BAR and their highly-rated young British driver must wait for a legal verdict that threatens to have a profound effect on their futures together.
If all goes well for BAR the ruling, expected on Thursday, will confirm Button as the third place finisher at the April 24 [...]

TALLADEGA, Ala. - They bumped. They banged. And they wrecked.
Some drivers blamed their rivals. Others blamed NASCAR for a Nextel Cup race that featured a multi-million dollar parking lot of damaged cars. Twenty-five cars crashed on 133rd lap of Sunday’s Aaron’s 499, and six cars crashed in the waning laps, forcing the 188-lap event at [...]

TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) - Martin Truex proved he’s just as good at restrictor-plate racing as his boss is, winning his second consecutive Busch Series race at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday.
Truex, who drives a car co-owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr., battled back after an early accident damaged his Chevrolet. Then he avoided several other crashes, a [...]

MOTEGI, Japan (April 30, 2005): Dan Wheldon, driver of the #26 Klein Tools/Jim Beam car, used a little bit of luck, some great fuel strategy and an enormous amount of skilled driving to capture his secondconsecutive win at Twin Ring Motegi. The win, Wheldon’s sixth victory in the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series, was his [...]

MADISON, Ill. (AP) — Ted Musgrave dominated the Craftsman Truck Series’ Dodge Ram Tough 200 from start to finish Saturday night, leading all but two laps en route to a 0.935-second victory over Dennis Setzer.
Musgrave, who started his Ultra Motorsports Dodge from the pole after a record qualifying lap, easily held off Setzer on two [...]