The first three races of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford have all been won by Sebastien Bourdais (#1 McDonald’s Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) but have all come in drastically different fashion.
 
He walked away from the field in Long Beach for the year’s first win, then put [...]

Dale Earnhardt Jr. sat down in Darlington, S.C., for a one-on-one interview with Observer sports columnist Scott Fowler on May 12. Some of Earnhardt’s comments, as well as the questions, are edited for clarity and brevity.
To talk to Dale Earnhardt Jr. one-on-one is to realize that despite how big he has become, he hasn’t lost [...]

Jimmie Johnson, who has won the last four NASCAR Nextel Cup races at Lowe’s Motor Speedway and five of the past six, added the All-Star Challenge title to his collection after passing Kevin Harvick with 19 laps to go and pulling away from the field.Johnson collected more than $1 million for the victory in a [...]

Pro Stock veteran Allen Johnson used a personal-best pass of 6.679 seconds at the 42nd annual Pontiac Performance NHRA Nationals presented by Summit Racing to earn the first No. 1 qualifier of his career. The race is the eighth of 23 on the $50 million POWERade Drag Racing Series.
Johnson was joined at the top of [...]

It was once said that death and taxes were the only certainties in life, but fans of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford are becoming used to another – when the Champ Cars go to Monterrey, Sebastien Bourdais (#1 McDonald’s Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) will be on the [...]

Qualifying Saturday for the 90th Indianapolis 500 IRL IndyCar Series event on the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with starting position, car number in parentheses, driver, chassis-engine and speed:
1. (6) Sam Hornish Jr., Dallara-Honda, 228.985
2. (3T) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Honda, 228.008
3. (10) Dan Wheldon, Dallara-Honda, 227.338
4. (9) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda, 226.921
5. (11) Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Honda, 226.776
6. (4T) [...]

Back-to-back Top Fuel champion Tony Schumacher posted a 4.476-second pass at 331.53 mph Friday night to highlight a record-setting opening day of Pro qualifying at the 42nd annual Pontiac Performance NHRA Nationals presented by Summit Racing.
Seven of eight National Trail Raceway records fell by the wayside in the opening two sessions of the $1.5 million [...]

Marlboro Team Penske driver Sam Hornish Jr. continued to top the speed charts as teams prepared to run for the WorldPoints Visa Pole Award for the 90th Indianapolis 500.
Hornish, who led practice for the sixth time in seven practice days, posted the day’s quickest lap of 39.4867 seconds, 227.925 mph in his No. 6 Marlboro [...]

Three years after his full-time Nextel Cup career ended, Blairsville’s Bill Elliott is still much in demand as a driver.
Elliott, now running a partial Cup schedule, said Thursday that he’s weighing several offers for next season. He has been mentioned as a possible part-time replacement for Dale Jarrett in Robert Yates’ No. 88 Ford, with [...]

Justin Wilson (#9 CDW Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) saved the best for last on the opening day of Champ Car World Series qualifying for the Tecate Champ Car Grand Prix of Monterrey Presented by Roshfrans.
Flashing across the start/finish line at Fundidora Park as the final active car in Friday’s opening session of qualifying, Wilson used the last of [...]