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 [...]

Fernando Alonso won the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday, his first victory in Formula One’s most prestigious race.
Alonso, in a Renault, won for the fourth time in seven races. The defending F1 champion now has 64 points.
“This is a special place for any driver to win a race, for the history, for what it represents [...]

2006 INDIANAPOLIS 500 PRESS CONFERENCE
Marco Andretti, Michael Andretti
Sunday, May 28, 2006, Indianapolis Motor Speedway

PAT SULLIVAN: Let’s let him catch his breath a second. I think we should be prepared for a little distraction. This is one of the quickest entrants we’ve had in the media center for some time after an event.
Just reminder, we try [...]

Sam Hornish Jr. passed rookie Marco Andretti low on the frontstretch – about 300 yards from the yard of bricks – to win the 90th Indianapolis 500-Mile race by .0635 of a second. It was the second-closest margin (.043 in 1992) in Indy 500 history and the closest in the Indy Racing League era.
Michael Andretti, [...]

Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher was banished to the back of the Monaco Grand Prix starting grid on Saturday after stewards stripped him of pole position for a driving infringement.
They said in a statement that the seven-times champion had deliberately stopped his car on the track at the penultimate Rascasse corner in the closing seconds of qualifying, [...]

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 [...]

The red carpet will roll out in Indianapolis this weekend as celebrities from around the world arrive in Indianapolis for a number of events surrounding the 90th running of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race.
The festivities begin in earnest Friday, May 26 with Miller Lite Carb Day, featuring an afternoon concert co-headlined by the B-52’s and Third [...]