Archive for July 1st, 2006

Tony Stewart’s slump is over and his shoulder is just fine.
He proved that by charging into the lead with two laps to go at Daytona International Speedway to win his second consecutive Pepsi 400 last night.
This one was nothing like last year, when he rolled to a dominating victory in which he led all but [...]

Jarrett traveled to Daytona a little worse for the wear after injuring his hand in the accident that took him out of the race at Infineon Raceway last weekend.
Jarrett was diagnosed with a fractured left hand on Thursday evening at Daytona in addition to a stretched ligament. A good qualifying effort however, did a lot [...]

Dale Earnhardt, Inc. Vice President of Competition Richie Gilmore said Friday morning that the team is mulling an expansion to four Nextel Cup cars in 2007, up from two cars now.
DEI already has committed to a third Cup car in 2007 for its full-time Busch Series regular driver, Paul Menard, but Gilmore said a fourth [...]

2005 IndyCar® Series champion Dan Wheldon claimed the Marlboro Pole Award for the July 2 Kansas Lottery Indy 300 at Kansas Speedway.
Wheldon posted a lap of 25.6257 seconds, 213.536 mph, in the No. 10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Honda-powered Dallara. Wheldon’s time was .0196 of a second faster than Indianapolis 500 winner Sam Hornish Jr., [...]

Michael Schumacher showed that Ferrari are back on form in a big way by storming to pole position for the United States Grand Prix on Sunday.
The seven-time world drivers’ champion, 37, took his third pole of the year in one minute 10.832 seconds, over six tenths of a second ahead of his Ferrari teammate Felipe [...]

Ferrari look to be on their game this weekend in Indy. Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa make it a 1-2 for the Italian outfit in the final practice before qualifying.
1. 5 M.SCHUMACHER Ferrari B 1′10″760 213.273 Km/h
2. 6 [...]

Dan Wheldon tops the first practice session in Kansas:
1 Dan Wheldon (10) 25.7194 212.758
2 Sam Hornish Jr (6) 25.7577 212.441
3 Kosuke Matsuura (55) 25.8263 211.877
4 Scott Dixon (9) 25.8327 211.825
5 Vitor Meira (4) 25.8607 211.595
6 Tomas Scheckter (2) 25.8699 211.520
7 Scott Sharp (8) 25.8936 211.326
8 Helio Castroneves (3) 25.9003 211.272
9 Danica Patrick (16) 25.9418 210.934
10 [...]