Archive for October 2nd, 2006

Bill Davis Racing announced today that NAPA AUTO PARTS will serve as the primary sponsor of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship contending No. 23 Toyota Tundra driven by Johnny Benson at two upcoming races.

The 26th season of NASCAR Busch Series competition will begin on Saturday, Feb. 17 at Daytona International Speedway, include two international stops, and end Saturday, Nov. 17 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Champ Car World Series rookie Katherine Legge (#20 Bell Micro Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) started last week by climbing out of the smoking hulk that once was a PKV Racing Champ Car, and ended it by strapping right back into another 750hp turbocharged rocket, as she tested her backup Champ Car at Sebring International Raceway.

There is talk in the garage about the possibility of car number sales, or at least swaps within teams, so as to accommodate as many drivers as possible in the first five races of next season. Several new teams, including the Toyota fleet, will join the battle next year with no guarantee of a starting [...]

(GMM) Jean Todt says discussions about possibly moving the 2007 Ferrari customer engine deal from Red Bull Racing to Toro Rosso are still taking place.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr talks about his day at Kansas:
“That was a year’s worth of action in one day. I’m exhausted. It was hard work out there, but I had to match the effort of my whole team. I’m not happy to finish 10th - but I’m really, really happy with the great car we had [...]

Fernando Alonso knows the team had the car to win in Shanghai. The decision to change the front intermediate tyres in the first stop and then losing ten second in his second stop due to the nut falling out of the wheel gun cost Alonso another ten seconds and at that moment the chance of [...]

South Korea will host a Formula One grand prix from 2010, organisers said on Monday.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone and Park Joon-yung, governor of South Korea’s South Cholla province where a new circuit will be built, said the agreement will bring the race to one of the world’s leading car exporting countries.