Archive for May 29th, 2006

Sam Hornish Jr. earned $1,744,855 from a record purse of $10,518,565 for his stunning victory May 28 in the 90th Indianapolis 500-Mile Race.  Hornish passed rookie Marco Andretti on the final lap as they approached the famous “Yard of Bricks,” crossing the finish line just .0635 of a second ahead of Andretti.
It was the second-closest [...]

Kasey Kahne finally conquered Lowe’s Motor Speedway, and he did so by ending the reign of the track’s primary conqueror Carl Edwards with 29 laps to go and pulled away to a 2.115-second victory in the Coca-Cola 600 over runner-up Jimmie Johnson, whose winning streak at the track that bears his sponsor’s name ended at [...]

Doug Kalitta is so hot right now, he might have won Sunday’s NHRA top-fuel event driving the Budweiser Clydesdale wagon that paraded down the Heartland Park Topeka track at the Summer Nationals.
Instead, Kalitta saddled up in his 7,000-horsepower dragster and delighted an overflow crowd of about 25,000 by blazing past Brandon Bernstein for his third [...]