Saturday, July 17, 2010

Honda and Future Shorts Join Forces for Unique Film Event - VIDEO FEATURE

LONDON - July 17, 2010: Honda's crowd-sourced, social media activated, documentary film, Live Every Litre, will make its debut in unique simultaneous location and virtual premieres at 20:00 (UK time) on the 21st July. The road trip documentary was filmed during May and June across Europe, and was directed by Claudio vo ... Continue reading

First GAINSCO Daytona Prototype Pole Since 2009 Finale

MILLVILLE, July 17, 2010: GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing won its first pole position of the 2010 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series season Saturday in qualifying for tomorrow’s New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP) 250 presented by Crown Royal on NJMP’s Thunderbolt Raceway where team driver Jon Fogarty’s 15th c ... Continue reading

Pacific Mobile/Biosign Car To Start Third In New Jersey

Millville, July 17, 2010: AIM Autosport’s Pacific Mobile/Biosign Ford Riley #61 will start tomorrow’s NJMP 250 presented by Crown Royal from third place following this afternoon’s qualifying session at New Jersey Motorsports Park. After an exciting battle that saw several drivers hold the top spot, Mark ... Continue reading

Taylor on the Front Row Again for NJMP 250

Millville, July 17, 2010: The No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing will start Sunday’s GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series NJMP 250 from the outside of the front row after qualifying Saturday at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville. Ricky Taylor, who co-drives the SunTrust Racing machine with Itali ... Continue reading

Drissi Takes First Trans-Am Pole of 2010 Season

TORONTO, July 17, 2010: Defending SCCA Pro Racing Trans-Am Series champion Tomy Drissi, of Hollywood, Calif. picked up his first pole position of the 2010 season in qualifying for the sixth round of the 10-race championship as part of the Honda Indy Toronto on Sunday afternoon. Drissi will share the front row with the ... Continue reading

Pobst, Cunningham and Stout Get Quicker

TORONTO, July 16, 2010: With the added grip from the rubber laid down on the track after a full morning of activity on the temporary street circuit at Exhibition Place in Toronto, nearly every driver in the World Challenge Championships field improved their time in the second of two practice sessions on Friday. Randy P ... Continue reading

GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Tops Both Friday Sessions

MILLVILLE, July 16, 2010: GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing swept Friday’s pair of opening practice sessions for Sunday’s New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP) 250 presented by Crown Royal on NJMP’s Thunderbolt Raceway where Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty will be looking for their first victory of the season in the ... Continue reading

MotoGP Preview: Grand Prix Of Germany - July 17, 2010

EVENT: Grand Prix of Germany WHERE: Sachsenring Circuit, Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany. Circuit is 2.281 miles (3.671 km), with 13 turns. Race is 30 laps. WHEN: Sunday, July 18. It is the eighth of 18 events this season. ... Continue reading

CampingWorld.com 200 at Gateway Postponed Until Saturday Due to Offsite Power Issue

MADISON, July 17, 2010: Prior to the start of the CampingWorld.com 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Gateway International Raceway Friday, an incident at a transformer station in East St. Louis, Ill., caused a power outage affecting the track’s lights. The issue forced a nearly two-hour delay while the ... Continue reading

Mid-Season Chat with Yokohama Tire-Sponsored Off-Road Champs Cameron & Heidi Steele

FULLERTON, CA (July 16, 2010) – Yokohama Tire Corporation-sponsored off-road desert racers Cameron and Heidi Steele are chasing championships again. Known as off-road’s “Power Couple,” the Steeles are both going for repeat championships: Cameron’s gunning for his third straight in Unlimited Tru ... Continue reading

JEGS Gives Away 2010 Chevrolet Camaro To Lucky Customer

DELAWARE, July 16: It's been a dozen years since decorated sportsman drag racer Gary Winkelman has owned a muscle car, but those days are over as officials with JEGS High Performance randomly selected the 62-year-old New Yorker as the big winner of its summer-long JEGS "Win This Car! Celebrating 50 Years" Sweepstakes. ... Continue reading

2010 Brickyard 400 Notebook

INDIANAPOLIS, July 16, 2010: Brickyard 400 fans can party on Race Day, Sunday, July 25 at the Brickyard Beach Bash located in the IMS infield, which will feature a sandy beach, swimming pools and more. The Brickyard Beach Bash will start at 10 a.m. off Shaw Drive, near Turn 3, in the IMS infield. It’s open to all ... Continue reading

1995 Indy 500 Winner Villeneuve To Make Brickyard 400 Debut

INDIANAPOLIS, July 16, 2010: 1995 Indianapolis 500 winner Jacques Villeneuve will attempt to qualify for the Brickyard 400 on Sunday, July 25 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, trying to join one of the most exclusive clubs in motorsports. 1995 CART champion and 1997 Formula One World Champion Villeneuve will drive th ... Continue reading

Hunter-Reay Tops Session As Teams Open Practice At Toronto

TORONTO, July 16, 2010: Ryan Hunter-Reay remains one of the drivers to beat when the IZOD IndyCar Series visits a temporary street circuit. The Andretti Autosport driver, who won the last time the series visited a street course -- at Long Beach in mid-April -- raced to the top of the time chart with a lap of 1:02.1433 ... Continue reading

Viso Quickest Among KV's 4-car Effort

TORONTO, July 16, 2010: E.J. Viso, coming off impressive performances at Iowa and Watkins Glen in recent weeks, paced the four-driver KV Racing Technology lineup Friday in the opening day of action in the streets of Toronto for the Honda Indy Toronto, the tenth stop on the 17-race IZOD IndyCar Series Viso, the personab ... Continue reading

Chevrolet Announces Engine Build Experience for Corvette Enthusiasts - VIDEO ENHANCED

DETROIT - July 16, 2010: For enthusiasts who want to be personally involved in creating their Corvette, Chevrolet's new Corvette Engine Build Experience allows them to literally build the engine for their new car. In what is believed to be the first program of its kind, customers who order a 2011 Corvette Z06 or ZR1 ca ... Continue reading