Ricky Rolfe won one for the home folks when he captured the New England Dodge Dealers 150 American-Canadian Tour race at Oxford Plains Speedway. Racing on his home track, Rolfe held off series champion Jean-Paul Cyr in the closing laps.
Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (CGRFS) driver Dario Franchitti was re-evaluated this week by his doctors and will sit out this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Richmond International Raceway (RIR). NASCAR veteran Ken Schrader will drive
The popular SPEED live pre-race program NASCAR RaceDay Built by the Home Depot, starring John Roberts, Jimmy Spencer, Kenny Wallace and Wendy Venturini, continued its strong performance last weekend with an average Nielsen Household rating of 1.12 (804,000 households) from
ESPN on ABCs live telecast of Saturdays Aarons 312 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Talladega ( Ala.) Superspeedway scored big increases in ratings and household impressions over last years race, continuing an upward trend to series TV numbers in 2008.
FIRST WIN, LAST WIN: In 17 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has recorded three wins. The 33-year-old driver scored his first and most recent RIR victories exactly six years apart -- on
Joe Nemechek has a couple of good reasons for feeling proud about this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Richmond International Raceway. The Furniture Row Racing driver is not only coming off his best performance of the season, but Saturday
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series rookie class experienced a shake-up in points as Colin Braun moved from fourth to first in the Raybestos Rookie of the Year battle. Braun's third-place finish at Kansas gives him a five-point advantage over second-place
A rear-wheel-drive Pontiac performance sedan will once again be seen on the streets of Canada. The all-new 2009 G8 arrives in Pontiac dealerships in June. The V-6-equipped G8 performance sedan has a starting MSRP of $31,995 and the V-8-powered G8
Lowe's Motor Speedway crews will install 340 feet of additional SAFER barriers along the track's inside backstretch retaining wall prior to the May 17 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race and the May 25 Coca-Cola 600. "The hard licks that Jeff Gordon
It is clear there is up and coming talent in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with young drivers like Roush Fenway Racing's Erik Darnell (No. 99 Northern Tool + Equipment Ford), Colin Braun (No. 6 Con-Way Freight Ford) and Germain
Super Aguri's dire current situation led to British driver Anthony Davidson, who has probably now raced in formula one for the last time, venting some of his frustration to reporters at Barcelona. David Coulthard recently referred to Davidson and teammate
It's pretty easy to say Ron Hornaday Jr. had a good weekend. The reigning series champion kicked things off at Kansas Speedway with one of the fastest trucks in practice. He took qualifying, capturing his second Keystone Light Pole of
Force India co-owner Vijay Mallya on Tuesday insisted that Ralf Schumacher was never an option to race for the team in 2008. Schumacher tested for the newly-acquired Silverstone based team last December, but he insisted at the time that he
The current safety car rules are "really unfair", BMW-Sauber test driver Christian Klien insists. The Austrian is among many voices in the formula one paddock to slam the regulation, that was brought in last year, whereby the pitlane is closed
Max Mosley has engaged an expert investigative company in a bid to identify the source of the surveillance that led to the sex scandal that looks set to end his FIA presidency. The embattled 68-year-old has pledged legal action against
Despite financing Super Aguri's Spanish action, the Japanese manufacturer Honda has ruled out rescuing the beleaguered F1 team ahead of the Turkish grand prix. The Japanese language daily Sankei Shimbun quotes a Honda official as saying: "We will not provide
Tony Stewart was easily the most talked about topic in the paddock all weekend long at Talladega. Everyone wants to know where 'smoke' will end up in 2010... or is it 2009 ? Though he definately contracted with Gibbs Racing
Mark Webber says the time is right to review the run-off area at the Circuit de Catalunya's high-speed Campsa corner. The Australian's friend, McLaren driver Heikki Kovalainen, was hospitalised after his car failed at about 240kmh and was buried in
