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Dario Franchitti has won the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach resurrecting his dormant IndyCar career after his aborted foray in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series.

Ryan Briscoe leads the IndyCar championship after winning a thrilling and crash-strewn season-opener in St Petersburg, Florida Sunday. In his third season for highly-rated Team Penske, Briscoe, 27, grabbed the lead from a restart with 14 of the 100 laps to go and held out a fierce challenge from Ryan Hunter-Reay to win.

Allegedly an American team will be racing in Formula One next year, USF1 reportedly will be be unveiled Feb. 24, will have a staff of at least 100, a working budget of $64 million and an aim to put two American drivers on the starting grid.

Go Daddy got 1.5 million hits from airing the Danica Patrick Beaver ad during last year’s Super Bowl. This year Go Daddy is offering two ads to be aired during the game and you, football fans and Danica Stalkers alike, can vote on which of the two will be shown during the game.

Note to Danica Patrick, that tall skinny peddle on the right is the Go Peddle. The larger rectangle one in the center is the Woe Peddle.

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12 Women Drivers Confirmed for Lyn St. James’ Women in the Winner’s Circle Foundation 2008/09 Driver Academy

Possibly the strongest open-wheel field ever assembled for the streets of Surfers Paradise has been confirmed for next week’s Nikon Indy 300, October 23-26.
A total of 24 drivers - including three former Gold Coast race winners, 10 2008 IndyCar Series race winners, five Indy 500 champions and the famous racing families of Rahal, Andretti and [...]

A week after finishing a disappointing 12th at Sonoma, New Zealander Scott Dixon won the pole for Sunday’s Detroit Indy Grand Prix.

The pressure will be even greater for the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport national teams when they go to Mugello, Italy for the start of season four in September.

Scott Dixon is having one of those near-perfect seasons, and it’s more than a little frustrating for the guy trying to chase him down.

LEXINGTON, Ohio - Australia’s Ryan Briscoe won the Indy 200 IndyCar Series race today, by defeating pole sitter and Team Penske teammate Helio Castroneves.

Scott Dixon grabbed the lead on lap 149 and had enough fuel to stay there until rain ended the Firestone Indy 200 yesterday with 29 laps left, giving him his third consecutive victory at Nashville Superspeedway.
Miscommunication kept Dixon from pitting along with leader Tony Kanaan, helping him grab the lead.
“When they called me to pit, [...]

Honda has confirmed that Danica Patrick will get a test in one of its Formula One cars later this year, fuelling speculation that the American is also to be given a race chance in the top flight in the not-too-distant future.
Patrick currently sits sixth in the IndyCar Series point standings following her breakthrough victory at [...]

Australian takes first IndyCar Series race win, and the 300th for Penske racing, to deny Indy 500 winner repeat.
Ryan Briscoe and a multi-cat accident three laps from home denied Scott Dixon the chance to join the elite list of drivers to add victory at the Milwaukee Mile to the one he took at Indianapolis last [...]

… Danica’s eyes are cast in a future direction:
Danica us hoping to test her skills in Formula One, admitting that she would relish a “proper” test with one of the teams.
“Every driver would love to drive a Formula One car at some point in their life, so yeah,” she told Autosport.
“I don’t think there’s anything [...]

I’m sure this will come over the objections of the NASCAR media who have slobbered all over themselves at the thought of a Tin-Top version of Danica-mania but, it ain’t happening!
Danica told the Daily Star: “First I want to contend for the IndyCar championship and then we’ll see what opportunities arise.”
“During my three years in [...]

Danica Patrick used a fuel gamble to take a historic victory in the delayed Twin-Ring Motegi round of the IndyCar Series.
The Andretti Green Racing driver took the lead with just two laps to go as the rest of the front-runners had to pit for fuel and became the first woman to win a major American [...]