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

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.

Yet another world champion has stepped into the mix for this weekend’s sensational 2010 season opener in Bahrain. Active drivers’ title winners Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso posed for photographers in the FIA press conference.

Mercedes-Benz is emerging as one of three manufacturers seriously examining entry into the V8 Supercar championship in 2012. Encouraged by the latest iteration of the Car of the Future rules, Benz’s wholly-owned Australian sales and marketing arm is supportive of a plan for the AMG performance division to get involved.

Driving a No. 2 Chevrolet that saw its first action this weekend at Atlanta, Kevin Harvick dominated Saturday’s E-Z-Go 200 to win for the third time in his last three starts in NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series.

Prosecutors will make a plea offer by next month to a 67-year-old Randolph man accused of shooting his pet African grey parrot to death last year because the creature’s squawks annoyed him as he watched NASCAR.

V8 Supercars rivals have claimed Mark Skaife’s laps for TV coverage are unfair and in violation of the spirit of testing restrictions.

Justin Marks made ARCA history Saturday afternoon, winning the rain-shortened Tire Kingdom 150 presented by ModSpace at Palm Beach International Raceway.

As fans of Formula One know the FIA in their infinite wisdom, or lack thereof, have expanded the starting grid for the 2010 season. 2009 saw 10 teams with 20 cars/drivers, allegedly 2010 will see 13 teams with 26 car/driver combos.

Driver Erin Pac (Farmington, Conn.) and brakeman Elana Meyers (Douglasville, Ga.) of the United States captured the bronze medal as the Olympic women’s bobsled competition concluded Wednesday night at The Whistler Sliding Center.

The term racer to NASCAR fans means one thing, modern-day Gladiators wheeling 4 wheeled 3,500lb hunks of tin, Kevlar and fiberglass. Admittedly we as NASCAR fans have a very narrow definition of the term and that’s sad in many respects.

A loose tire on pitroad cost Keven Harvick a trip to the back of the field at Fontana but it allowed Jamie McMurray’s crewman Adam Mosser to put on a ballerina act by as he leapt over the hood of the No. 29 RCR machine.

Forget Daytona, or now more commonly called the scene of the crime, the crime being - Pothole-Gate. As anyone with more than a passing knowledge of NASCAR knows the real season starts now at whatever non-restrictor plate track happens to be on the schedule.

Hugh J. Fair, 84, who raced in the ARCA Late Model division at Toledo and Flat Rock Speedways, and whose son Harold Fair and grandson Harold Fair Jr. are ARCA Late Model drivers at both tracks, died Tuesday Feb. 16.

A lot has been written and spoken since the Daytona 500 was flagged, mercifully, to its conclusion early Sunday evening. But there’s one thing of importance to the sport’s health that has been ignored in certain quarters.

“You’ve never heard of the Millennium Falcon? … It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.”

ARCA RE/Max Series veteran Bobby Gerhart won his sixth ARCA event at Daytona followed by Mark Thompson, John Wes Townley, pole winner James Buescher and Patrick Sheltra.

Italian race-car chassis constructor Dallara released images on Friday illustrating three interpretations of what could be the 2012 Izod IndyCar Series car, based on criteria the Indy Racing League revealed on Thursday.

During the second half of the 1969 NASCAR Grand National season, Dodge rolled out the Daytona, a massive shark-nosed machine that featured an addition that looked like something out of the Hollywood hit, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a giant rear wing that rose several feet above the rear deck lid.

Vitaly Petrov will make history by becoming the first Russian to compete in Formula One, after Renault confirmed the 25-year-old as their second driver for the 2010 season.