Carmelo Anthony’s ownership stake in an Indy Racing League team, announced with great fanfare in March, has been quietly dissolved. Both the NBA star’s agent and the team’s principal owner, IRL veteran Ron Hemelgarn, acknowledge the short-lived deal is dead.
The team’s signature “Car Melo” entry last ran in the Indianapolis 500, when driver P.J. [...]

Jeremy Mayfield isn’t happy with the way his team is performing this year. And he doesn’t seem to think team owner Ray Evernham is taking enough of a hands-on approach to fixing what’s wrong. “I haven’t talked to Ray much,” Mayfield said Friday morning. “We don’t see Ray much. I don’t know. He encourages [...]

It wouldn’t be summer in Toronto without some driver or another coming to town and pointing out the inanity of Paul Tracy’s ways. And sure enough, Sebastien Bourdais stepped up to the tape recorder yesterday to assail Tracy’s recklessness.
If there was anger in the Frenchman’s words, consider that he was speaking less than a couple [...]

A two-man shootout in Saturday’s final qualifying for the Molson Grand Prix of Toronto was ended by a shot from the gallery on a sunny Canadian Saturday as Justin Wilson (#9 CDW Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) went from fourth to first on his last lap to steal the Bridgestone Pole Position for Sunday’s Champ Car World Series event.
Wilson [...]

The announcement that UPS would follow Dale Jarrett to Michael Waltrip Racing didn’t catch Robert Yates by surprise. The owner said Friday that he’s been expecting the news for quite some time.
“This has been coming since New Hampshire last fall, so it really wasn’t a surprise,” Yates said.
Asked if UPS had notified him at that [...]

Michael Waltrip indicated that NASCAR veteran Ward Burton looks to be the likely driver for Michael Waltrip’s third Nextel Cup team
“We don’t have it done yet, but we think we’ll be able to announce in the next week or two who the driver will be,” Waltrip said of Team Three, which will be jointly sponsored [...]

Fernando Alonso says he does not regret signing a contract to switch to McLaren for the 2007 season.
“I know that next year they will have the best car,” the Spaniard, on a flying visit to Barcelona and almost drowned in the cheers of countrymen, was quoted as saying by AS.
Alonso admitted that he is ‘getting [...]

Second and final day of testing this week for Scuderia Ferrari, working at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit.
Once again today, driving duties fell to Michael Schumacher and Luca Badoer, both at the wheel of a 248 F1.
As with yesterday, work centred on development of aerodynamic and mechanical components, as well as evaluation of various [...]