NASCAR NEXTEL Cup drivers Jamie McMurray and Robby Gordon tested tires today at Atlanta Motor Speedway as part of a two-day tire test for Goodyear at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Gordon was laid down the fastest lap with a circuit of 182.009 mph (30.46 seconds) in his No. 7 Chevrolet. McMurray drove an unnumbered primer colored car [...]

Castroneves trailed Marlboro Team Penske teammate Sam Hornish Jr. by 30 points heading into the Firestone Indy 400. A victory at Michigan International Speedway on July 30, coupled with Hornish’s mechanically-forced exit, vaulted Castroneves past Scott Dixon and Hornish to first.
“The way things are going, the consistent guy from now on is going to be [...]

Mayfield Looks to be out at Evernham for good
Jeremy Mayfield may be free to leave Evernham Motorsports for Bill Davis Racing sooner than he expected. Bill Elliott will be in the No. 19 Dodge that Mayfield has driven for Evernham since 2002 this weekend at Watkins Glen International.
Contractual agreements remain to be settled before [...]

NASCAR teams have reportedly scoffed at claims in the press that departed BMW-Sauber Jacques Villeneuve could be headed for the series in 2007. Canadian newspaper ‘Toronto Sun’ conducted an informal poll of teams at Indianapolis’ ‘Brickyard 400′ and found that none of them have staged talks with the world champion of 1997.
”We would be [...]

Dale Jr. will be the first NASCAR driver to appear as an in-studio guest on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” the Emmy Award-winning news program. Dale Jr. will appear Thursday, August 10. The show airs at 11 pm ET and repeats throughout the following day. The Daily Show has featured a broad [...]

CitiFinancial Racing announced that they will sponsor Marc Goossens in his Nextel Cup Series debut this weekend at Watkins Glen International. Goossens will attempt to qualify the Robert Yates Racing’s #90 CitiFinancial Ford Fusion for Sunday’s AMD at the Glen.
Goossens, the road course ace from Belgium, made his Busch Series debut at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez [...]

German carmaker Mercedes-Benz has declined to rule out buying the remainder of the McLaren team.
The marque’s competition director, Norbert Haug, was asked by Bild am Sonntag newspaper whether chiefs in Stuttgart had considered making an offer for the 60 per cent shares, which are held by Ron Dennis and team partner Mansour Ojjeh.
“We already have [...]

Mark Webber threatened to re-ignite speculation about his manager Flavio Briatore on Tuesday, as he staged a conference call for reporters.
The Australian driver, who is moving from Williams to Red Bull in 2007, was asked about earlier rumours that were linking him with the vacant Renault seat alongside Giancarlo Fisichella next year.
It is now expected [...]

F1 cars will use usual grooved tires in 2007, despite reports on Tuesday that Ferrari recently trialed GP2-spec slicks at a test session. Slicks are set to return in 2008, but Bridgestone’s technical chief Hisao Suganuma is quoted as saying by ‘Motorsport Aktuell’: ”I assume that we will drive for another year (in 2007) [...]

The gray, dark clouds that hovered over the Hungaroring on the day of the Hungarian Grand Prix matched Scott Speed’s mood after the race.
A wrong strategic call probably cost American F1 rookie Speed a point. But he brought his Toro Rosso home in 11th place in a race many drivers failed to finish.
Races on two [...]