Jeff Burton posted a time of 181.647 to win the pole for Sunday’s USG Sheetrock 400 at Chicagoland Speedway. Brian Vickers was 2nd and Kasey Kahne qualified 3rd. Details to follow… 1 31 Jeff Burton Cingular Wireless Chevrolet 2 25 Brian Vickers ditech.com/GMAC Chevrolet 3 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge 4 29 Kevin Harvick [...]

Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been on the cover of nearly every magazine in the United States. Now he’s about to grace the cover of another widely distributed product – Budweiser 12-ounce cans and new aluminum bottles. Though Dale Jr.’s image has appeared on Budweiser plastic and shrink wrapped bottles, and 16-ounce cans in the past, [...]

Testing for the 13th Allstate 400 at the Brickyard will take place Monday, July 10, Tuesday, July 11 and Wednesday, July 12 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. A total of 49 Nextel Cup Series drivers are scheduled to test on those days. Teams can only test a maximum of two out of the three available [...]

Jerry Nadeau simply can’t get racing out of his system. More than three years after a crash [May 2003] at Richmond nearly ended his life, he’s looking to test an ARCA car. If that goes well, he’d like to enter a race either late this year or in 2007. Then again, Nadeau, 36, knows that [...]

American racing prodigy A.J. Allmendinger (#7 Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) continued his march toward the top of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford standings, leading a qualifying session for the third consecutive race, pacing today’s opening session at the Molson Grand Prix of Toronto. Allmendinger snapped off a quick lap of 58.621 [...]

UPS today announced a two-year agreement with Michael Waltrip Racing to sponsor driver Dale Jarrett in a Toyota Camry for the 2007 and 2008 seasons of the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. The announcement here at the Chicagoland Speedway comes after Jarrett agreed earlier this year to move to the Waltrip organization and race a Camry [...]

PKV Racing announced today that motorsports veteran manager Mark Johnson has assumed the General Manager duties for the team. Johnson has a long history of success in motorsports. He worked for Kawasaki Motors Corp., USA for 17 years from 1979-1996. Starting as a mechanic for professional motorcross rider Jeff Ward, Johnson worked his way through [...]

1) M.Schumacher, Ferrari (B), 1:16.626, 93 2) Villeneuve, BMW-Sauber (M), 1:17.714, 97 3) Kubica, BMW-Sauber (M), 1:18.194, 45 4) Badoer, Ferrari (B), 1:18.985, 59 5) R.Schumacher, Toyota (B), 1:18.921, 86 6) Trulli, Toyota (B), 1:19.246, 88 7) Klien, Red Bull-Ferrari (M), 1:19.701, 44 Webber, Williams-Cosworth (B), 1:19.792, 43

First day of testing this week for Ferrari, working at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit in the south of Spain. Michael Schumacher and Luca Badoer, both at the wheel of a 248 F1, worked on development of aerodynamic and mechanical components, as well as Bridgestone tyres. Michael completed 43 laps, the quickest in 1’18”680, [...]

The Honda Racing F1 Team returned to the test track this week following an intensive fortnight of racing action in Canada and North America. With three European races to come over the next month in France, Germany and Hungary, the team spent three days at the Circuito de Jerez in southern Spain focusing on aerodynamic [...]