Archive for June, 2010

Andersen Racing Enters Krohn in Firestone Indy Lights Race at the Glen

  PALMETTO, Fla., June 30 – Andersen Racing, one of the premier open-wheel develop teams in North America, is pleased to announce that it will field a car for one of its Star Mazda drivers, Anders Krohn of Stavanger, Norway and Houston, Texas, in the Corning 100 Firestone Indy Lights race that will be held [...]

NASCAR By The Numbers

NASCAR Number By Roger Kuznia Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (June 30, 2010) 599: Career Sprint Cup starts for Bobby Labonte. He’ll make No. 600 when he takes the green flag for Saturday’s Coke Zero 400. Labonte finished 21st in the Daytona 500 in February, tied for his best result of the season. Bristol was [...]

New car ‘very, very important’ for Nationwide Series

By Lee Montgomery Special to Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (June 30, 2010) After more than three years of work, countless hours in the wind tunnel, millions of dollars spent by teams and manufacturers and numerous on-track tests, the new NASCAR Nationwide Series car debuts this weekend at Daytona International Speedway. The Chevrolet Impala, Dodge [...]

Rowdy.com Podcast – June 30

On today’s show: — Jeff “Bulldozer” Gordon is getting more aggressive — Kevin Harvick not psyched about Daytona repave — Dale Earnhardt Jr. ready for Daytona dominance To listen to the podcast, please click here.

Beechdean-Mansell to Skip Portimao

After the high speed crash that ended the Le Mans dream for the Beechdean Mansell Motorsport team and for Nigel Mansell , the British team has assessed the damage to the car and has announced that they will return to competitive international racing in the Le Mans Series in Hungary on August 21-22 and, most [...]

Bliss, TRG Team Up At Daytona

TRG Motorsports welcomes back Mike Bliss to drive the No. 71 TRG Motorsports Chevrolet Impala SS for the Coke Zero 400 to be run at Daytona International Speedway this Saturday, July 3. Bliss had two starts with TRG Motorsports in 2009 at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Richmond, as well as the team’s first NASCAR Camping [...]

Nuts And Bolts

Some news tidbits from the world of Formula 1: Pirelli Eyes Raikkonen For F1 Tire Testing: Kimi Raikkonen could be asked to test Formula One tires for the sport’s new exclusive supplier Pirelli. It has emerged that the Italian company will supply two sets of tires to each team at a special Abu Dhabi test [...]

Lorenzen, Roberts Nominated To NASCAR Hall Of Fame

Fred Lorenzen and Glenn “Fireball” Roberts, two star drivers from stock car racing’s building years, have been nominated for election to the 2011 NASCAR Hall of Fame class, according to Mike Hembree of SPEED. Today and Thursday, NASCAR will release the names of two Hall nominees at Noon ET. The first two nominees – Modified [...]