Vitor Meira of Panther Racing and a driver representing Rahal Letterman Racing will drive Iowa Speedway’s 7/8-mile asphalt surface Monday as part of an Indy Racing League tire test.

Frank Kimmel held on to win the ARCA RE/MAX Series Food World 250 at Talladega. Rookie Juan Montoya finished 3rd in his NASCAR debut which saw the race ended early due to darkness.
Juan Montoya was chasing history, a hurrying sundown and Frank Kimmel Friday at Talladega Superspeedway and came up just short on all [...]

—Open-wheel stars Sarah Fisher and Katherine Legge will team up for the first time to form a rare IndyCar and ChampCar united team for a go-kart race in New Castle, Indiana on October 15. IndyCar Series driver Fisher signed on for the deal to race in the 2006 RoboPong.com 200 at Newcastle Motorsports Park as [...]

NASCAR on NBC/TNT analyst Benny Parsons was been absent last week at Kansas from the broadcast booth while undergoing treatment for lung cancer. Parsons is returning to the air this week at Talladega and says he wouldn’t want to miss it:

Jimmy Vasser, the Champ Car team owner, doesn’t know whether his team will have enough cars to allow him to come out of retirement and race in the inaugural Vegas Grand Prix next April.

Ferrari’s Ross Brawn has urged Renault to play far as the 2006 battle winds down to a two-race duel.
Confessing to the irony of preaching against blocking or team orders, the Maranello based team’s technical director nonetheless said the employment of those tactics would be ‘unfortunate and unacceptable’ this year as Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso [...]

Driving a car he had never raced before, Bobby Gerhart turned in a qualifying lap of 189.485 mph Thursday, giving him the pole position for Friday’s running of the Food World 250 ARCA RE/MAX Series race at Talladega Superspeedway.

Mark Martin announced today that he will continue in the Nextel Cup Series next season, driving the No. 01 MB2 Chevrolet on a limited basis in 2007.

P. No Driver Team - Engine Tyres Times Ave/Gaps
1. 2 FISICHELLA Renault M 1′34″337 221.601 Km/h
2. 6 MASSA [...]

Renault says it can offer Fernando Alonso a ‘120 percent’ engine boost at decisive moments in Japan. The French team’s engine boss, Denis Chevrier, explained that the boost is possible because the two-race V8s were not worked especially hard during the rain-soaked Chinese grand prix one week ago. “We fully intend to put it to [...]