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MONTREAL — Kimi Raikkonen’s McLaren-Mercedes held together to the end this time.
Two weeks after losing a last-lap heartbreaker at the European Grand Prix, the Finnish driver battled a steering problem and staved off a challenge from seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari to win the Canadian Grand Prix yesterday.
“We were a little lucky to win, [...]

The NASCAR [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/bgn.gif]Busch Series[/avatar] has been plagued with [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/cup.jpg]NEXTEL Cup[/avatar]regulars invading their turf so to speak. This seasons Cup rule changes has led to much more of an invasion than past years. Someone along the line has dubbed the Cup invaders “Busch-wackers.” With this weeks Busch Series being contested in Nashville it gave few Cup [...]

Carl Edwards tallied his second career victory Sunday at the Pocono 500, crossing under the checkered flag ahead of Brian Vickers and Joe Nemechek. Kyle Busch finished fourth, and Michael Waltrip, who started from the pole was fifth.
Jimmie Johnson finished sixth and still remains the series points leader by 123 points over Greg Biffle who [...]

Interesting:
Renault chief Flavio Briatore has spelled out his dream for a further United States Grand Prix to be staged in Las Vegas. Briatore believes a second annual race in the US is vital for Formula One’s continued growth there and he has pinpointed a return to Las Vegas as the perfect showcase for the sport.
Formula [...]

MONTREAL

With teammate Michael Waltrip’s first pole winning effort in 14 years, Dale Earnhardt must feel even more like the odd man out.Waltrip’s practice speeds placed him in the mid twenties on speed. Apparently Michael’s crew, formerly Dale Jr’s crew, did what they had to do and Michael has a right to be a little cocky:
“I [...]

Holden’s Todd Kelly scored a historic win at the Shanghai International Circuit today, winning the first ever Australian V8 Supercar race to be held in China.
Kelly beat Steve Richards to the chequered flag by around 1 second, while pole winner and Holden team-mate, Mark Skaife was third.
“You concentrate so hard during the race it doesn’t [...]

Again!
Jacques Villeneuve has slammed his Sauber Petronas team, accusing the Swiss squad of ignoring his experience and hoping the team is taken over by BMW.
“[BMW buying the team] would be a very good thing,” commented Villeneuve in the Canadian La Presse newspaper. “It would bring in more money and a different attitude.”
The attitude of the [...]

Now that the “race for NASCAR’s HOF” is over and the five competing cities bids are in - all that remains is for the Daytona big wigs to announce the winning site later this year - media attention has turned to the first group of nominees. I have not seen any official word but it [...]

Montreal quietly courts NASCAR via Dave Stubbs for the CanWest News Service
Among the thousands of fans blissfully broiling at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve during yesterday

A marriage made in heaven?

Montreal, June 10: World champion Michael Schumacher said here on Thursday that Indianapolis 500 success story Danica Patrick should be given a chance to prove her talent in Formula One.
American Patrick has been thrown into the limelight after finishing fourth in the classic United States Indy Car race two weeks ago, [...]

FORT WORTH, Texas - Jack Sprague led the final nine laps Friday night for his 25th career NASCAR truck series victory, but first in more than a year.
Sprague, who beat Johnny Benson by 1.3 seconds, hadn’t won since May 2004 in Mansfield, Ohio.
After taking four tires on his last pit stop with about 30 laps [...]

Mark Skaife has lauded the technicality of the Shanghai International Circuit after setting the fastest time - and a lap record for the V8s - during practice for Round 5 of the V8 Supercar Championship Series in Shanghai.
Skaife kept pace with the faster drivers throughout the two-hour session on Friday afternoon, but managed to slip [...]

Tomas Scheckter and Tomas Enge ensured a dream start to the weekend for the Panther Racing team by securing a front row lock-out for the Bombadier Learjet 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Scheckter set a fastest time of 24.4942 seconds to take his seventh career pole - and third at Texas - and admitted he was [...]

Reprinted from the Richmond Times Dispatch.
In the opening to “Black Wheels,” Wendell Scott Jr. explains why he once distanced himself from racing after helping his father become NASCAR’s most successful African-American driver.
“I had to back out of this game because a lot of minorities don’t know this game,” Scott said. “If you don’t know where [...]

Shane Hmiel, currently serving his second suspension for violating NASCAR

ROSSBURG, Ohio (AP) Several NASCAR drivers walked away impressed with a dirt racetrack owned by driver Tony Stewart.
Stewart hosted the Nextel Prelude to the Dream charity event Wednesday night at Eldora Speedway, a 51-year-old track in western Ohio that the driver purchased in November.
About 18,000 people flooded into Eldora, located about 40 miles northwest of [...]

BROOKLYN, Mich.: Twenty-four year old Evernham development driver Erin Crocker, who is running several races in the #98 Dodge in the ARCA RE/MAX Series, got her first taste of the 2-mile Michigan International Speedway oval on Tuesday during a test session in preparation for the Hantz Group 200 on Friday, June 17.
Crocker, who took the [...]

Provocative headline isn’t it?
Did Schumacher make road pizza out of a pensioner?
Maybe Rubens Barrichello flattened the old coot while turning a few hot laps at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal?
Not everything is as it seems. It was a case of “scooter rage.”
A disabled pensioner riding a mobility scooter painted in the livery of Michael [...]

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