Marlboro Team Penske’s domination of the Month of May continued on Miller Lite Carb Day.
Sam Hornish Jr., the WorldPoints Visa Card pole winner for the May 28 classic, topped the speed chart for the final practice session, the final opportunity for teams to fine-tune their cars before Race Day.
Hornish, driving the No. 6 Marlboro Team [...]

Edouard Michelin, the joint managing director of Michelin, the French tire maker, has died in a boating accident, the company told the Reuters news agency on Friday.
The French group added in a statement that Michel Rollier, who had been joint managing partner along with Edouard Michelin, would “assure the continuity of the company’s management.”
French television [...]

Hillary Will was a baby when she got her first autograph from Shirley Muldowney. By 2002 Will had long since taken her father’s advice and gotten into a dragster of her own. Still, she nervously waited for another autograph. She nabbed a third last year, shortly before earning her first career win in her Girl [...]

Jeremy Mayfield just barely missed winning the pole for the Coca-Cola 600 Thursday night, but he did get off the evening’s best line.
“Has my teammate been in here yet?” Mayfield said as he left the media
center. He was asking about Scott Riggs, who edged him for the No. 1 starting spot in Sunday’s race at [...]