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Saturday, September 22, 2007

NHRA (DALLAS) - TODD LEADS TOP FUEL AT TEXAS MOTORPLEX AFTER FIRST DAY OF QUALIFYING

NHRA (DALLAS) - TODD LEADS TOP FUEL AT TEXAS MOTORPLEX AFTER FIRST DAY OF QUALIFYING

Reigning Rookie of the Year J.R. Todd knows he needs a big weekend to keep his championship hopes alive and he responded with a top-qualifying effort of 4.541 seconds at 318.47 mph Friday night at the 22nd annual O'Reilly Fall Nationals presented by Castrol Syntec. The Top Fuel racer joined surprise Funny Car leader Ti ... Continue reading

NHRA (VARIOUS LOCATIONS) - TOP QUALIFIERS AT XPLOD SPORT COMPACT NATIONALS AFTER DAY ONE

NHRA (VARIOUS LOCATIONS) - TOP QUALIFIERS AT XPLOD SPORT COMPACT NATIONALS AFTER DAY ONE

LADWIG AND PERSONETT INDIANAPOLIS – Xplod Sport Compact Racing Series drivers Marty Ladwig in Pro FWD and Brad Personett in Pro RWD weathered hot track conditions to place themselves at the top of the qualifying ladder at the NHRA Sport Compact Nationals at the O’Reilly NHRA Fall Nationals Nationals. Ladwig, ... Continue reading

ALMS (ROAD ATLANTA) - VOICES OF PETIT: CHRIS DYSON

ALMS (ROAD ATLANTA) - VOICES OF PETIT: CHRIS DYSON

Chris Dyson has three podium finishes in four Petit Le Mans starts. Since his debut at Petit Le Mans in 2003, Chris Dyson has carved out quite a name for himself in the American Le Mans Series' premier event. Only once in four previous runnings has he finished off the class podium, and that came last year when the Lola ... Continue reading

TEAM REPORTS (DALLAS) - COUGHLIN PLANNING TO MAKE THE FIELD REGARDLESS...

TEAM REPORTS (DALLAS) - COUGHLIN PLANNING TO MAKE THE FIELD REGARDLESS...

Jeg Coughlin Jr. failed to qualify his JEGS.com Chevrolet Cobalt in the first two rounds of professional qualifying at the 22nd annual Fall Nationals presented by Castrol Syntec at the Texas Motorplex. Coughlin's best pass of 6.738 seconds at 205.51 mph left him nine-thousandths of a second short of the 16th spot. He'l ... Continue reading

NHRA (DALLAS) - ASHLEY STAYS PAT AT 4.868/322.11mph...

NHRA (DALLAS) - ASHLEY STAYS PAT AT 4.868/322.11mph...

Mike Ashley spent the day at the intersection of life and drag racing, with his NHRA Funny Car POWERade championship hopes hanging in the balance. Because he has made the decision not to qualify on Saturday in observance of Yom Kippur, he has to stand on his provisional No. 10 qualifying performance of 4.868/322.11 and ... Continue reading

NHRA (DALLAS) - WARREN JOHNSON OFF TO GOOD START...

NHRA (DALLAS) - WARREN JOHNSON OFF TO GOOD START...

Warren Johnson and the GM Performance Parts GTO Racing team got off to a good start in attempting to qualify for Sunday's final eliminations of the O'Reilly Fall Nationals in Dallas, TX, making two solid runs on Friday. After opening with a representative 6.778-second pass, they came back in the evening session to impr ... Continue reading

NHRA (DALLAS) - KURT JOHNSON FACES CHALLENGES...

NHRA (DALLAS) - KURT JOHNSON FACES CHALLENGES...

Entering the first day of qualifying at the O'Reilly Fall Nationals in Dallas, TX Kurt Johnson and the ACDelco Cobalt Racing team knew they would have to deal with two distinct challenges. Not only would they have to compensate for the sweltering temperatures and high humidity that robbed the naturally-aspirated Pro St ... Continue reading

NASCAR NNCS (DOVER) - BURTON INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT...

NASCAR NNCS (DOVER) - BURTON INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT...

Jeff Burton, No. 31 AT&T Mobility Chevrolet Dover International Speedway Media Conference Call Transcript Sept. 19, 2007, 10 a.m. Gary Camp, Dover International Speedway: Race weekend will be here in just a few days. We have three races in three days. On Friday is the NASCAR Busch East Series race. ... Continue reading

NASCAR NNCS (DOVER) - KENSETH/LOGANO INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT...

NASCAR NNCS (DOVER) - KENSETH/LOGANO INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT...

Q. Matt, has the Chase become for you – has it become something of a frustrating exercise for you, always making it but never getting that big splash of a couple of wins, that sort of thing? And do you have hope that your team could come up, given any week, you could put together one of those runs, like two wins i ... Continue reading

The Auto Channel Presents Exclusive PRESS PASS COVERAGE of the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show

The Auto Channel Presents Exclusive PRESS PASS COVERAGE of the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show

This week marks the start of the 2007/2008 Auto Shows season, with one of the largest and most exciting of the year; the 62nd Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung – commonly known (in English) as the Frankfurt Motor Show. And for the first time ever THE AUTO CHANNEL will be providing its unique PRESS PASS COVERAGE ... Continue reading

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