Archive for July 3rd, 2006

Several print media reports and FOX-TV commentators, during the pre-race segment of last Sunday’s telecast from Sonoma, Calif., had Marco being a candidate to join Chip Ganassi’s Nextel Cup team.
“Absolutely not. No way. No talk about NASCAR with anyone,” the youngest Andretti said. “I don’t know where that rumor started, but that’s a part of [...]

The IRL IndyCar Series and Kansas Speedway will move their race date to late April in 2007, league and track officials confirmed Sunday. A date has not yet been specified, but the change could affect the IRL’s annual trip to Japan.
IRL president and CEO Brian Barnhart indicated weather and the lead-in to the Indianapolis 500 [...]

Ferrari have not yet signed the so-called ‘Indianapolis agreement’ - the teams’ compromise reached verbally on Sunday to dilute Max Mosley’s engine ‘freeze’.
After a series of meetings at the weekend, a document did the rounds on Sunday in order to formalise the accord with bosses signatures.

But Ferrari, and possibly Ferrari-powered Red Bull, reportedly did not [...]

The chairman of DaimlerChrysler denied a widespread rumor that Dodge is pulling out of NASCAR, and pledged his commitment to America’s top racing series.
Dr. Dieter Zetsche, attending his first race of the season Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway, said NASCAR is a successful platform for DaimlerChrysler and he has no plans to pull Dodge [...]

Why are the FIA and some of the car manufacturers in Formula One arguing about engines?
“The FIA wants the manufacturers to stop developing the existing engines and to use engines at the level reached by 1 June 2006, at least until the 2011 season. Unfortunately four of them want to continue development and are trying [...]