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Norfolk (U.K.) based Litespeed F3 has announced its intention to apply for entry to the 2010 Formula 1 season under the new FIA budget cap rules. Submitting its application under the Litespeed GP name, the team has engaged MGI Ltd, whose Managing Director is the legendary Mike Gascoyne.

New Zealander Scott Dixon timed his run to perfection in the AJ Foyt 225 at the Milwaukee Mile to record an outstanding win over Australian Ryan Briscoe.

Jimmie Johnson and his #48 Chevrolet won the Autism Speaks 400 Presented by Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips and Cheese, his 42nd victory in 268 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races. This is his second victory and eighth top-10 finish in 2009. This is also his fourth victory and 10th top-10 finish in 15 races at Dover International Speedway.

Brett Moffitt already broke one of Joey Logano’s NASCAR Camping World Series records. It didn’t take him long to take care of another

Helio Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves has crashed in qualifying at the Milwaukee Mile.

Castroneves bounced off the wall on Saturday during qualifying for the A.J.Foyt 225. The Brazilian driver was not injured, but his Penske Racing No. 3 Dallara sustained considerable damage and he will start Sunday’s race from the rear of the 20-car grid.

Brad Keselowski’s good fortune came at the expense of continued bad luck to Kyle Busch, who failed to win Saturday’s Heluva Good! 200 despite leading a race-high 108 of 200 laps at Dover International Speedway

 

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Fresh off of his first Sprint Cup win at Charlotte, David Reutimann and his No. 00 Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota won the pole with a lap of 22.960 seconds, 156.794 mph. This is Reutimann’s third pole in 76 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races, and his second pole and seventh top-10 start in 2009. This is also his first pole in four races at Dover International Speedway.

26 of the finest drivers from NASCAR, the NHRA plus retired crew chief Ray Evernham and the legendary short track veteran Red Farmer will all do battle in Tony Stewart’s Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Wednesday.
For the past four years, some of the world’s biggest stars in automobile racing have gathered in rural Ohio [...]

To use the vernacular of kids much younger than I, what-up Formula One? Formula One teams appear to be coming and going - or said to be anyway - faster than a cat with kerosene at the root of its tail.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s deep slump this season reached the breaking point Thursday as team owner Rick Hendrick replaced Tony Eury Jr., chew chief and cousin of NASCAR’s most popular driver.

The occasional verbal spasms of silliness from other sports sometimes serve to remind me of one of NASCAR’s very best traits: Loyalty.

ARCA RE/MAX Series rookie Joey Coulter is off to a great start at Michigan Int’l Speedway. The Miami Springs, Florida driver, who turned his first laps around the historic two-mile oval today, also posted the fasted speed in ARCA RE/MAX Series open testing Wednesday.

NASCAR has issued penalties to Robby Gordon’s #7 team as a result of rules violations committed at Lowe’s Motor Speedway earlier this week.

While the Nattering Nabobs circled their wagons around the most headline getting stories of this past weekend a few noteworthy storylines went mostly unnoticed.

David Reutimann won the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race for Michael Waltrip Racing, using strategy to take the 50th running of the Memorial Day weekend race.

 

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Williams on Monday broke ranks with the rest of the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) by lodging an entry to the 2010 world championship.

NASCAR’s longest race of the season became a day longer last night when the Coca-Cola 600 was postponed by rain for the first time in 50 years.

Helio Castroneves completed a return to sanity at the quintessential site of victory – the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Joyously climbing the fence at the yard of bricks after winning the 93rd Indianapolis 500 Mile Race, the now-three-time victor could not stem his happiness.

Just days after Dave Whitlock announced his retirement effective at the end of the season, he took control of the Tufoil 250 at Autodrome St. Eustache late in the race and survived a green-white-checkered finish to earn his first career NASCAR Canadian Tire Series race.

Well, that was a um… a race. Monaco went pretty much went as expected except for someone, who shall remain nameless, who thought it “could be a really exciting Monaco race.”