By Allmendinger is scheduled to drive the No. 2 car for Team Penske in at least two IndyCar races this season -- Barber and the May 26 Indianapolis 500. He has tested an Indy car three times in the past seven weeks, Sports Network -
Published: Wednesday, April 3 2013 - 5:47 pm
After a three-year career in the Champ Car World Series, Allmendinger switched to NASCAR in 2007. He drove for team owner Roger Penske in the Sprint Cup Series last year but lost his ride with the team after the first 17 races of the season when he was suspended for violating NASCAR's substance abuse policy. He is running a limited Sprint Cup schedule for Phoenix Racing this year.
By While all drivers and teams in the series are eager to get back on track this weekend at Martinsville Speedway, Sports Network -
Updated: Wednesday, April 3 2013 - 5:47 pm
Sauter won the spring race at Martinsville in 2011. He followed up with a fourth-place finish here later that year. But Sauter has finished 14th and 29th at this track since then.
By Martinsville, Sports Network -
Updated: Wednesday, April 3 2013 - 5:52 pm
Joey Logano and Tony Stewart will be the center of attention this weekend at Martinsville following their physical altercation last week at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. Stewart got into a post-race scuffle with Logano on pit road. He was furious with Logano for blocking him multiple times during a restart late in the event.
The Associated Press -
Published: Wednesday, April 3 2013 - 1:37 pm
Rivalries mean very little in times of crisis, as Denny Hamlin has learned by the outpouring of support he's received since he was injured in a last-lap crash at California.
By JENNA FRYER -
Published: Wednesday, April 3 2013 - 1:02 pm
Will Power returned to Fontana last December, yearning to know why he had crashed in the IndyCar season finale. He hopped into a street car and drove around Auto Club Speedway to the exact spot that cost him the championship.
By STEPHEN HAWKINS -
Updated: Wednesday, April 3 2013 - 1:48 pm
If Clint Bowyer wins the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas and gets to fire the six-shooters that are a Victory Lane tradition there, he plans to lock those trophy guns in a safe when he gets home.
By MICHELLE FAUL -
Updated: Monday, April 1 2013 - 9:16 am
South Africa's leading opposition party on Monday urged President Jacob Zuma to withdraw troops from Central African Republic, where 13 South African troops were killed in the recent rebellion.
By JENNA FRYER -
Updated: Friday, March 29 2013 - 5:45 pm
A deal to loan Mark Martin to Joe Gibbs Racing as a replacement driver for injured Denny Hamlin fell apart Friday, when Michael Waltrip Racing said Martin will fulfill his commitment to its team.
The Associated Press -
Published: Friday, March 29 2013 - 11:55 am
Ozz Negri has suffered a setback in his recovery from an offseason leg injury and will miss the next two rounds of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
By Sports Network -
Published: Thursday, March 28 2013 - 7:00 pm
Joe Gibbs Racing revealed on Thursday that Mark Martin will drive the No. 11 Toyota in the Sprint Cup Series while Denny Hamlin recovers from his back injury.
By GREG BEACHAM -
Updated: Thursday, March 28 2013 - 4:31 pm
Ela Rivella is a sexy, headstrong race car driver torn between two racing brothers in a glamorous, high-stakes world of cutthroat competition and danger. Ela loved Jordi Fernandez until jealousy drove them apart, and now she's irresistibly drawn to Checo, whose clandestine romance with Ela could drive Jordi to violence.
By MICHAEL CASEY -
Published: Thursday, March 28 2013 - 6:40 am
As Sebastian Vettel has established himself as the most dominant Formula One driver of his generation, racing fans have come to see him as the boyish, fun-loving face of the glamorous series.
By MICHAEL CASEY -
Published: Thursday, March 28 2013 - 1:20 am
As Sebastian Vettel has established himself as the most dominant Formula One driver of his generation, racing fans have come to see him as the boyish, fun-loving face of the glamorous sport.
By JENNA FRYER -
Published: Wednesday, March 27 2013 - 1:30 pm
NASCAR chairman Brian France is "very pleased" with the first five weeks of the season, and thinks the new Gen-6 race car has contributed to the many story lines fueling the sport.
By CHRIS DUNCAN -
Updated: Wednesday, March 27 2013 - 7:06 pm
Roger Penske said Wednesday that Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin have exchanged text messages since their final-lap crash at Fontana last weekend that left Hamlin hospitalized with a fractured vertebra.
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