Archive for June 10th, 2006

Make it Marlboro Team Penske four victories and Target Chip Ganassi Racing two for the season.
IRL IndyCar® Series points leader Helio Castroneves climbed his third fence of the season, beating Scott Dixon to the finish line by 0.2402 of a second in the lightning-quick Bombardier Learjet 500k under the lights at Texas Motor Speedway.
Reigning IndyCar [...]

A.J. Allmendinger and Carl Russo claim it wasn’t a fight after a race or a single incident that drove a spike between them but rather an erosion of the relationship that began five years ago.
“It was a marriage gone bad,” said Allmendinger on Friday night, a few hours after the shocking news he’d been let [...]

Tony Schumacher ran the quickest Top Fuel pass of the year - a 4.447 at 327.27 mph - to lead a record-setting two days of professional qualifying at the CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Nationals at Route 66 Raceway. Qualifying ended Saturday with three of the quickest professional fields ever assembled.
Tommy Johnson Jr., Richie Stevens Jr., [...]

Troxel and Capps still not in after Friday
Funny Car driver Tommy Johnson Jr. covered Route 66 Raceway in 4.672 seconds Friday night to highlight a very quick opening day of racing at the ninth annual CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Nationals. The $1.9 million race is the 10th of 23 on the $50 million POWERade Drag [...]

Stewards probe ‘disgusting’ Montoya Jun.10 (GMM) Stewards at Silverstone will investigate an incident in qualifying between David Coulthard and McLaren’s Juan Pablo Montoya.
Coulthard emerged visibly annoyed from the cockpit of his Red Bull on Saturday and accused his Colombian rival of deliberately baulking his flying lap.
Not only that, ‘DC’ said Montoya almost swiped his car [...]

World Champion Fernando Alonso has claimed a stunning last-gasp pole position for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
Lying behind German Michael Schumacher in the dying seconds of the session, Spaniard Alonso, 24, set a lap time of one minute 20.253 to claim his fourth pole in a row.
Alonso said: “We were behind Michael most of [...]