Tony Schumacher, still numb following an unbelievable championship triumph Sunday at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, headlined four world-championship winning drivers crowned Monday evening during the 2006 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series awards ceremony at the scenic Westin Mission Hills Resort near Palm Springs.
Three other NHRA POWERade Series world champions – John Force, Jason Line [...]

Travis Kvapil will announce later this week that he will return to the Craftsman Truck Series next season, driving the #6 Ford for Roush Racing. Kvapil has two races remaining on his one-year contract with PPI Motorsports, but team owner Cal Wells has been unable to land a sponsor to replace longtime backer Tide, prompting [...]

The #6 AAA Ford Fusion will run a special paint scheme this weekend to commemorate the final run of Martin behind the wheel of the car he has driven since 1988. The AAA car will be colored in a predominately black scheme when it takes to the track this Friday for what will be Martin’s [...]

Chip Ganassi Racing will be the focus this week in a SPEED TV special called Racing Incorporated which will take viewers inside the business of racing with a close-up look at the motorsports operations of team owner Chip Ganassi. The pair of one-hour specials will air this Wednesday, Nov. 15 and Thursday, Nov. 16, at [...]

The Indy Pro Series™ will feature a series-record 16 races in 2007, including seven races on ovals, seven on road courses and two on street courses. The series will compete three times at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The Nextel Cup season finale at Homestead will mark Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s 255th career start - and his 255th points race with Budweiser sponsorship. The day prior, however, will be Junior’s first start with Budweiser colors in the Busch Series.

Sources tell [MRN] Sirius Speedway that Jacques Villeneuve’s representatives have also been burning up the telephone lines to Robert Yates Racing, which has yet to name a driver for its #88 Ford next season.

Darrell Waltrip Motorsports organization plans to field a second truck with Michael Waltrip and the #12 Jani-King Toyota Tundra at Homestead.

McLaren has played down suggestions that 1998 and 1999 world champion Mika Hakkinen could line up alongside Fernando Alonso at the Woking based team in 2007.
The one-year deal would give Ron Dennis’ Mercedes powered outfit more time to bring protégé Lewis Hamilton up to speed, the British broadsheet Guardian wrote, amid rumours that the 38-year-old [...]

Red Bull’s legendary F1 car designer Adrian Newey pushed hard to score a Renault engine for 2007.
That is the admission of Mark Webber, who said in Melbourne at the launch of the 2007 Australian Grand Prix that he is buoyed by Newey’s confidence about the new engine supplier.