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Dale Jr. fans that is. In fact some are downright giddy in celebration, or is that delusional, you be the judge. Jr. had an excellent race where he put himself in position to win and a crew chief that made the right decision at the right time. More power to both of them, it’s a [...]

This story from The Scotsman is obviously connected to Bernie Ecclestone’s previous rantings over the current condition of Formula One.
BERNIE Ecclestone’s family trust is prepared to sell its remaining 25% stake in Formula One, paving the way for the car manufacturers and teams to secure the ownership they have long been seeking.
The entrepreneur, who has [...]

SPARTA, Ky. (AP) - NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver Rick Crawford spun out and hit the wall along the backstretch at Kentucky Speedway on Saturday and was taken to a hospital for evaluation.
Crawford crashed during qualifying for the Built Ford Tough 225. He spun his Ford coming out of the second turn and made what [...]

Williams has taken the drastic step of running two different chassis configurations at Silverstone this weekend.
Following the unsuccessful introduction of a revamped aerodynamic package on the FW27 at Magny-Cours last week, and after continuing to struggle on Friday, the Grove-based team converted Nick Heidfeld

After pole sitter Ryan Newman dominated most of the race - leading 118 of the 200 laps in the USG Durock 300 - he suffered a familiar bug-a-boo, a pitroad mistake. When Newman pitted on lap 155 the crew sent him back out with a loose left front lugnut. Insult was added to injury he [...]

Toronto
Defending race winner Sebastien Bourdais recovered from an accident in practice Saturday to bump Paul Tracy off the pole for the Toronto Molson Indy and tighten the battle for the Champ Car series points lead.
“Every point from now on pretty much counts as double,” said Bourdais, who earned one point for winning the pole. “It’s [...]

Via the British Tabloid the Mirror,
make of it what you will. It sounds as though Bernie did a little pub crawling before the interview! I’ve highlighted my favorite portions in boldface.
FORMULA ONE supremo Bernie Ecclestone last night launched a blistering verbal attack on the men who are trying to plunge the sport into civil war.
In [...]

Erin Crocker won the pole and raced to a second-place finish Friday night in the ARCA Re/Max Series event at Kentucky Speedway. Crocker matched the best finish by a female driver is series history, Shawna Robinson’s runner-up effort in a 2001 race at Daytona International Speedway.
“It’s definitely an improvement,” Crocker said. “We’re heading in the [...]

Lucky Strike BAR Honda has rewarded two members of its Young Driver Programme by signing them to long-term agreements.
22-year-old Adam Carroll and James Rossiter, aged 21, join the team’s current four-man race and test driver line-up with immediate effect and will steadily gain track time in the BAR Honda 007 over the coming months.
Adam is [...]

Both Chevy and Ford will be fielding new bodies for its NASCAR [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/cup.jpg]NEXTEL Cup[/avatar] and [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/bgn.gif]Busch Series[/avatar] teams in 2006. It appears as though Chevy has locked in the latest version of it’s Monte Carlo. Ford on the other hand has fueled rumors because they have two potential model lines to choose from.
Ford will announce [...]

Not to many surprises in qualifing for [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/cup.jpg]NEXTEL Cup[/avatar] USG Sheetrock 400 at ChicagoLand Speedway, but there are a couple. With Ryan Newman’s habit of starting from the pole it should be considered as a mild upset that he was beaten out by Jimmie Johnson, albeit, by the slimmest of margins. J.J. Yeley subing [...]

HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) - The Atlanta Motor Speedway looks as if it was in a high-speed crash.
“Everything but the track surface has suffered some kind of damage… There are some buildings that will have to be torn down,” said Speedway President Ed Clark, who estimated $25 million to $40 million in damage at the speedway.
While [...]

Let the game of musical drivers seats continue:
Roush Racing announced today that it has signed Jamie McMurray to a multi-year contract to drive its No. 6 NASCAR Nextel Cup entry commencing with the 2007 season.
Nearly simultainously we get this from McMurray’s future former employer Chip Gannasi:
Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates announced today that it [...]

Just after the FIAsco at Indy and the pseudo Formula One event, Champ Car announced they would honor Indy F1 tickets at their next event. Immediately all the “what ifs” raced through my mind. The most glaring was what if the 1000 or so that availed themselves of this offer needed their ticket stubs for [...]

Yes I know it’s hard to look away, but at the moment my host has apparently done a configuration change for it’s GD lib’s or changed version of PHP.
Untill I can get that straightened out the current mess you’re looking at may be around a while.
Thanks Marc

The First 12 A1 Grand Prix cars are delivered.
With less than three months to go before 25 national cars take to the Brands Hatch grid for the first race in the World Cup of Motorsport’s inaugural season, the A1 Grand Prix engines and chassis have begun rolling off the production line and into the hands [...]

A stupid pre-race move makes this weeks NASCAR Cesspool. Michael Waltrip ’s crew chief, Tony Eury Jr. , missed the drivers’ meeting before the race. He was nabbed when race director David Hoots twice called for the “crew chief of the 15″ to signal his presence. Hoots calls for one driver or crew chief, ostensibly [...]

Defending IndyCar Series Champion Tony Kanaan showed that the 2005 title chase isn’t over just yet after fending off Dan Wheldon to claim victory in Sunday’s Argent Mortgage Indy 300 at the Kansas Speedway.
Second place finisher Wheldon led a Kansas record 111 laps from his 13th starting position but it wasn’t enough and was edged [...]

Normal meaning Alonzo back on the top step and with the exception of Kimi’s drive through the field, no competition to speak of.
”It was quite easy today,” the 23-year-old quipped. ”I have quite a good gap to Kimi, but there is still a very long way to go. We know our rivals will be very [...]

It took a while - both on this night that saw a two and a half hour rain delay - and 14 previous Daytona starts, but Tony Stewart finally got his first Daytona checkered flag. Stewart made it look easy while setting a new 400 mile record for laps led heading the field 151 of [...]