Brandon Bernstein upset three-time series champion Tony Schumacher Sunday in the Top Fuel final of the $1.6 million Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals for his third victory of the season. Bernstein’s 4.510-second pass at 329.34 mph was enough to dismiss the hottest driver in the NHRA POWERade Series, who smoked his tires a few hundred feet [...]

Years from now, Champ Car World Series fans are going to look at the box score of today’s Grand Prix of Denver Sponsored by Bridgestone, see A.J. Allmendinger (#7 Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) winning by a cavernous 20.588 seconds, and figure that the race was a ho-hum affair.
They couldn’t be further from the truth.

Sam Hornish Jr. re-claimed the IndyCar® Series point lead by winning the Meijer Indy 300 presented by Coca-Cola and Secret at Kentucky Speedway.

Kevin Harvick passed Tony Stewart on the front straightaway with three laps to go Sunday at Watkins Glen International and stole a caution-plagued race that had seemed to have been Kurt Busch’s from the start.
Stewart, who ran second much of the race, had been unable to track down Harvick during the previous green-flag run. But [...]

Tight racing in the final IndyCar Series 30-minute practice session at Kentucky Speedway resulted in two cars making contact at the transition from the racing surface to pit road in Turn 3.

NASCAR Nextel Cup drivers Kasey Kahne, Bill Elliott, Greg Biffle, Robby Gordon and Casey Mears are scheduled to take part in the Aug. 31 Mopar D1 All-Star Duel at Irwindale Speedway in California.

NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Jeremy Mayfield’s immediate legal challenge to the terms of his firing by Evernham Motorsports has been resolved.
Mayfield, who was fired Monday, filed the request for an injunction in North Carolina Superior Court in Iredell County. Whether he could have gotten in the No. 19 car Friday is unclear as Bill Elliott [...]

Robert Doornbos is confident that he will still have a job in the Formula One paddock beyond this year. The Dutch 24-year-old is presently Red Bull’s ‘Friday’ test driver, and he insisted that Team Principal Christian Horner ‘is happy with my job here’.

Niki Lauda says it is ‘possible’ that Michael Schumacher last weekend threw away his last opportunity to win an eighth World Championship.
”If he had driven with more brains,” the outspoken triple world champion told Bild am Sonntag newspaper, ”he could have been just five or six points behind instead of ten. ”He cannot make [...]