The week is just beginning for this year’s Champ Cars in Montreal with first-round qualifying taking place at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve on Friday, but 1,500 miles to the south, the week for next year’s brand-new American-built Champ Car has just come to a close.

Kurt Busch, winner of the March race at Bristol Motor Speedway, made the first step toward a 2006 double by winning the pole for Saturday’s Sharpie 500 Nextel Cup race.

Scoring an average Nielsen Household Rating of 1.08 (727,000 Households) last weekend at Michigan, NASCAR RaceDay continues to demonstrate tremendous growth as the definitive NASCAR pre-race show. The Michigan show peaked at 1.34 (899,000 HH) and year-to-date, NASCAR RaceDay is up 25 percent over last year’s pre-race show on SPEED, with much of the growth [...]

Practice Session 1 Results
Infineon Raceway
August 25, 2006
Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma

A Champ Car is a highly technical piece of equipment that often requires a team of well-educated engineers to spend hours poring over data just to lower a lap time by a tenth of a second.

PRACTICE SESSION #1:
Pos Driver # Team Lap Time
1 S. Bourdais 1 Newman/Haas Racing 1:22.448
2 A. Allmendinger 7 Forsythe Championship Racing 1:22.558

Union organizers crisscrossed the state line Thursday getting signatures on a petition that seeks to keep the status quo with regard to the assignment of NASCAR race dates.

Robert Doornbos accused title charger Fernando Alonso of ‘playing chicken’ in Istanbul as the pair got into a second successive on-track incident.

P. No Driver Team - Engine Tyres Times Ave/Gaps
1. 38 VETTEL BMW Sauber M 1′28″091 218.147 Km/h
2. 6 MASSA [...]

P. No Driver Team - Engine Tyres Times Ave/Gaps