Full Throttle

After 18 tries, four-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson finally can add the half-mile, high-banked Bristol Motor Speedway to the list of Sprint Cup tracks he’s conquered. But Sunday’s win in the Food City 500 didn’t come at all easy.

17 year-old Jessica Brunelli made a major statement in her budding NASCAR career, recovering from missing qualifying due to mechanical problems, to take home a third place finish in the 100 lap feature at Hickory Motor Speedway on Saturday night.

Penske Racing’s Justin Allgaier, last year’s series rookie of the year, held on in the final 27 laps of the Scotts 300 to keep pole-sitter and teammate Brad Keselowski from passing him.

Formula Renault UK graduate Dean Stoneman has joined the list of recruits for the 2010 Formula 2 Championship. The 19-year-old Briton has spent his whole car racing career so far in FRenault, initially in the second-string BARC series before moving up to the British Touring Car supporting main UK championship for 2008.

Superleague Formula by Sonangol is delighted to announce that reigning French champions, FC Girondins de Bordeaux will join the grid for its third season in 2010.

Parthiva Sureshwaren is the latest driver to secure his place on the Formula Two grid, joining Armaan Ebrahim as the second Indian driver on the circuit this season.

Starbeast Motorsports Founder Miguel Abaroa is pleased to announce that driver Narain Karthikeyan will make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut on March 27 in the Kroger 250 at Martinsville Speedway.

Twenty-four NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams assembled Tuesday at Talladega Superspeedway in an R&D test session that was used to confirm that the gear ratio was compatible with the restrictor plate size for next month’s running of the Aaron’s 499.

 

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Back in 1982, NASCAR star Bill Elliott twice tamed the high banks at the track now known as Gresham Motorsports Park in a Ford Mustang.

Hickory native Shane Huffman came home victorious in the rain-delayed UARA-STARS 150 at the Hickory Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon after a spirited, side-by-side battle with Coleman Pressley during the closing laps of the event.

The Clipsal 500 finale for the Touring Car Masters has given the V8 Supercar crowd a great warm-up for the main event, with Andrew Miedecke winning a thriller.

Garth Tander won Sunday’s second leg of the Clipsal 500 and so gives himself the chance of taking the Grand Slam prize (worth $2 million Australian) if he also wins the rest of the Big Four races this year - the Bathurst 1000, the Gold Coast race and the Sydney street race.

The IndyCar opener in Sao Paulo was billed as a Brazilian Party with no less than five native Brazilians in the starting field, it wasn’t to be though as Australian Will Power crashed the party.

NASCAR development driver George Miedecke dominated the Yokohama V8 Ute Legend race with a flag to flag win at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide.

Mario Andretti on Saturday said he will get involved with the new Malaysian backed Formula One team Lotus. The Italian-American, in Bahrain for Saturday’s on-track display of F1’s 60 year history, won the world championship at the wheel of the famous black Lotus 79 in 1978.

Qualifying for the Sao Paulo 300 IndyCar Series race in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been postponed. Originally scheduled for Saturday afternoon, it has been moved to Sunday morning at 8:30.

Garth Tander snapped Jamie Whincup’s domination of the V8 Supercar championship, winning the opening race of the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide.

V8 Champion Jamie Whincup has extended his V8 Supercars domination, stealing pole position for today’s opening race of the 2010 Clipsal 500 and remains on target for a fifth straight round win.

Thank God, and Flavio for small miracles, Briatore has ruled out returning to Formula One. The 59-year-old Italian said the FIA is pushing ahead with appealing a French court’s overturning of his lifetime motor racing ban, in the wake of the ‘crashgate’ scandal.

Despite setting the fastest time in today’s (Friday) practice for the Clipsal 500, Jamie Whincup is not convinced that he has the fastest car in Adelaide.