Archive for August 20th, 2006

Dodge Director of SRT and Motorsports Marketing Mike Accavitti said today that the manufacturer is still trying to free up Juan Pablo Montoya from his contract with the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team so Montoya can begin driving stock cars.

Matt Kenseth held off Jeff Gordon this time.
Kenseth easily kept the four-time NASCAR champion at bay in the final laps of Sunday’s Nextel Cup race at Michigan International Speedway and won for the third time this season.

RuSPORT driver’s condition continues to improve; long-term rehabilitation planning begins
LOVELAND, Colo., Aug. 20, 2006, 4:15 pm EDT – Champ Car World Series driver Cristiano da Matta (#10 RuSPORT Ford-Cosworth / Lola / Bridgestone) has been transferred out of the intensive care unit at Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah, Wisc. His condition has improved [...]

Jeremy Mayfield has signed a 3-year contract with options with Bill Davis Racing. BDR will make the formal announcement during a press conference Friday at Bristol when the organization will map out it’s plans for 2007 and beyond.

Nothing like a good scandal to really spice things up. The world of NASCAR is no different. It wasn’t enough for Jeremy Mayfield and Ray Evernham to be essentially battling it out through the media, nope that wasn’t good enough.

Jacques Villeneuve believes that NASCAR is his only viable alternative should he, as seems likely, not continue racing in Formula 1 next year.

Max Mosley has refused to apologise after independent F1 engine maker Cosworth announced that up to 40 per cent of its Northampton workforce will be cut at the end of 2006.