Archive for October, 2006

Last week we reported that Michel Jourdain, Jr was possibly in line to drive a 3rd entry for Champ Car’s Forsythe Racing in Mexico City for their season finale on November 12th.

Juan Pablo Montoya most likely will run the remaining three Busch Series races this year, team owner Chip Ganassi confirmed Sunday morning.

For Levi Strauss Signature jeans, Jimmie Johnson is the perfect fit. After three years of a successful partnership, the mass retail brand recently extended its sponsorship with the NASCAR driver and Hendrick Motorsports through the 2009 calendar year.

In a continued effort to better serve the Latino sports fans in the U.S., ESPN Deportes Radio and MRN Radio, the primary source for NASCAR stock car racing and related radio programming, announced today a five-year agreement that makes ESPN Deportes Radio the exclusive Spanish-language radio home of NASCAR racing’s premier events, it was announced [...]

Sources have told AutoRacingSport.com that Adrian Fernandez’ IRL team has been shut down and the entire staff let go.

In support of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Ford is auctioning off race gear and pieces of Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford rookie Katherine Legge (pictured right) (#20 Bell Micro Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) special Warriors in Pink race livery on eBay.

Jeff Burton was not pleased with how a piece of roll bar padding created a caution flag about 35 laps from the finish. Burton hit the wall on lap 268 and cut a right front tire. He pitted on lap 281 and fell a lap down. He needed the field to go through its final [...]

Jeff Gordon:
“It was an eventful day for us. What an awesome race car we had in our DuPont/Nicorette Chevrolet. I had a lot of fun there at the beginning.

KASEY KAHNE (No. 9 McDonald’s/Dodge Dealers Dodge Charger)
“We were out there battling. We had a great Dodge Charger. I thought we were going to be sitting good. The track was coming to us. Everything was working for the No. 9, I mean everything was. My spotter told me outside, outside, and I ran into him. [...]

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S MONTE CARLO SS, FINISHED 2ND:
DALE EARNHARDT JR., NO. 8 BUDWEISER MONTE CARLO SS, FINISHED 3RD:
Q: ON THE RACE:
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: “We had a real good car at the start of the race. It was really fast on new tires and really slow on old tires. But we could get [...]