Jeff Gordon spun out Matt Kenseth with four laps to go, then held on to win Sunday’s Nextel Cup race at Chicagoland Speedway. Fans showered the track with debris after the race, an apparent protest of Gordon’s racing tactics. “I hate to win one like that,” Gordon said in Victory Lane. “Matt, he [...]

Promoting the Aug. 4 release of the NASCAR-related film “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” several motion-picture stars will be at Chicagoland Speedway today, including funnyman Will Ferrell, the film’s star and the grand marshal of the USG Sheetrock 400.
Ferrell’s co-stars — John C. Reilly, Michael Clarke Duncan and Leslie Bibb — also are [...]

Robby Gordon Motorsports will expand in 2007, possibly to a two-car operation in-house or by way of an alliance with an existing team. Among those on the radar: Robert Yates Racing. RGM and RYR executives said Saturday they’re discussing the future with “a lot of people,” and RGM CEO John Story confirmed that [...]

What better way to impress your new boss than to win every race you’ve entered for him? That’s what A.J. Allmendinger has done as he holds off his Forsythe teammate Paul Tracy to win the Molson Indy Toronto.
At the beginning of the 2006 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season, [...]

Ferrari has pumped in another $26 million to boost Michael Schumacher’s charge for an eighth World Championship in 2006. Buoyed by the German’s dominance at Indianapolis, Jean Todt convinced his backers to bolster this year’s Ferrari budget, according to major German newspaper Bild.
At Jerez last Friday, in preparation for the upcoming French Grand Prix, [...]

Chip Ganassi Racing announced Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya has signed a multi-year deal with the organization to compete in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series beginning in 2007. Montoya will become the first Formula 1 regular to ever join the NEXTEL Cup ranks when he assumes the driving duties of No. 42 Texaco/Havoline Dodge [...]