FRAM-AUTOLITE EXTENDS SONOMA SPONSORSHIP:
Honeywell Consumer Products Group has extended its title sponsorship of an NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series event at Infineon Raceway, it was announced this week by NHRA officials. In the multi-year agreement, FRAM automotive filters and Autolite spark plugs will sponsor the exciting event, annually the third stop of the grueling three-race [...]

INDIANAPOLIS (August 2, 2006) – The Champ Car World Series today announces penalties stemming from both on- and off-track events that took place during this past weekend’s Canary Foundation Grand Prix of San Jose Presented by Taylor Woodrow.
Paul Tracy (#3 Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) will be placed on probation for the next three races and will forfeit [...]

INDIANAPOLIS, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2006 – The IndyCar® Series will make its first visit to Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa, in 2007 for a race at the new “Rusty Wallace Signature Series Track.”
The inaugural IndyCar Series event at Iowa Speedway is scheduled for June 22-24, 2007 and will feature the IndyCar Series running a 250- [...]

INDIANAPOLIS (August 2, 2006) – Continuing the pattern of growth shown by the Champ Car World Series since the acquisition of the series by Kevin Kalkhoven, Gerald Forsythe and Paul Gentilozzi, last weekend’s Canary Foundation Grand Prix of San Jose Presented by Taylor Woodrow saw the year’s one millionth fan come through the gates after [...]

CarMax, the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, will join RCR’s No. 31 Chevrolet as an associate sponsor for The Brickyard 400 and the upcoming Sony HD 500 at California Speedway Labor weekend.
Based in Richmond, Va., CarMax currently operates 71 used car superstores in 34 markets throughout the United States and offers consumers a no [...]

This weekend’s Allstate 400 at the Brickyard will mark the first appearance in 2006 for Johns Manville as the co-primary sponsor of the No. 7 Menards Chevy.
Johns Manville, a Berkshire Hathaway company (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B), is a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium-quality building and specialty products. In business since 1858, the Denver-based company [...]

WilliamsF1 is pleased to confirm that it has concluded its driver line-up for the 2007 season and has appointed Alex Wurz and Nico Rosberg as the team’s race drivers.
The Wurz/Rosberg pairing is the perfect driver combination to spearhead the team’s shift to Toyota power in 2007, with both the technical challenges and the opportunities this [...]

Robert Kubica is a ’sensation’, according to the Polish press which has begun to leap onto the bandwagon as the 21-year-old is promoted into the BMW-Sauber race seat in Hungary. Newspaper ‘Zycie Warszawy’ made the ’sensation’ claim, but on Wednesday the former test driver’s manager revved up speculation that the Budapest bombshell is the [...]

Renault Formula One team chief Flavio Briatore has revealed he recently had an operation to remove cancer in one of his kidneys. The flamboyant Italian, architect of the emergence of Michael Schumacher with Benetton in the 1990’s and Fernando Alonso in the last two years, was diagnosed after a routine medical check-up in the [...]