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NASCAR WCUP: Starting Lineup, Michigan International
August 18, 2001 BROOKLYN, MI: Following are the qualifying results for the NASCAR Winston Cup race to be held Sunday. Results include starting position, car number, driver, car model, and qualifying speed: 1. 32. Ricky Craven, Taurus, 188.127 2. 9. ... Continue reading
ALMS: Shane Lewis goes for second podium finish at Mosport
August 18, 2001 BOWMANVILLE, Ontario- Following a second-place finish at the most recent round of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) in Portland, Shane Lewis is ready to extend his streak of podium finishes here at Mosport International Raceway. The Jupiter, Florida-resident slips back behind the wheel of the #45 ESP A ... Continue reading
FIA RALLY: Ford trio aims to eclipse the masters of Finland
August 18, 2001 Ford Martini's three FIA World Rally Championship contenders face potentially their most difficult task of the season when the series arrives in Finland this month. It is the country many regard as the home of rallying and the Rally Finland (24 - 26 August) is one of the year's most spectacular and tech ... Continue reading
ALMS: BMW Team PTG Notes and Quotes, Mosport
August 18, 2001 Friday Test Session: Today's one and one-half hour test session for the American Le Mans GT3 Grand Prix of Mosport ended with the top-six GT class cars separated by less than one second and the four BMW M3 GTRs first, third, fourth and fifth in class. Fredrik Ekblom and Dirk Müller in the No. 43 BMW Mo ... Continue reading
NASCAR Trucks: Ford drivers talk about qualifying at Chicago Motor Speedway
August 18, 2001 TERRY COOK-29-Power Stroke Diesel Ford F-150 (Qualified 12th) - "I got into Turn 3 a little too deep and decided to overdrive it trying to go for a pole lap, but unfortunately, we ended up almost hitting the pole. Right now we're third, and I'm sure we won't stay up there at the end of the day. Hopefull ... Continue reading
CART: Michael Andretti happy with setup in practice at Road America
August 18, 2001 Michael Andretti, No. 39 Motorola/Honda-Reynard "We're very close to exactly where we want to be for this track. I think just a little bit here and there and we'll be great. We started off the day in pretty decent shape and we made good progress on the changes that we tried. The track is coming in an d ... Continue reading
NASCAR BGN: Larry Foyt qualifies fifth at Michigan
August 18, 2001 BROOKLYN, Mich. -- Rookie driver-owner Larry Foyt posted a career best qualifying run in his Harrah's No. 14 Monte Carlo at Michigan International Speedway today to start fifth in the NAPAonline.com 250 NASCAR Busch Series race Saturday. Foyt qualified at 39.220 seconds around the two-mile oval at a spe ... Continue reading
CART: Gugelmin, Dixon have good practice day at Road America
August 18, 2001 MAURICIO GUGELMIN - # 17 NEXTEL PACWEST TOYOTA Position: 11th Time: 1:41.965s Laps: 25 Speed: 142.920mph "Overall, we had a good day of practice," said Gugelmin. "It started off kind of shaky when I had a slight vibration in my transmission during the first practice session. It wasn't really affecting m ... Continue reading
NASCAR WCUP: Labonte, Benson, Stewart discuss qualifying at Michigan
August 18, 2001 BOBBY LABONTE, NO. 18 INTERSTATE BATTERIES PONTIAC GRAND PRIX: (ON YOUR LAP) "That's definitely a good run for us. It was positive from practice until [qualifying]. We made a few changes and everything worked kind of the way it is supposed to work, instead of guessing at the thing. I'm real happy. All t ... Continue reading
CART: Takagi leads first session in practice, Vasser second overall
August 18, 2001 ELKHART LAKE, Wis. - Tora Takagi (Pioneer Toyota) and Jimmy Vasser (Visteon Toyota) ran one-two in the morning practice session and then Vasser followed that up by finishing second in the afternoon and second overall in the first day of practice for Sunday's Motorola 220 at Road America. For the day, Va ... Continue reading
INDY 500: Busy three week schedule is set for 86th Indy 500
August 18, 2001 INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials today announced the schedule for the 2002 edition of the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing," the 86th Indianapolis 500-Mile Race. After rave reviews from fans, sponsors and participants following the 85th running of the race, the schedule for the 86th Ind ... Continue reading
INDY RACING: Gateway 250 pre race notes and quotes
August 18, 2001 MADISON, Ill. - Quotes from selected Indy Racing Northern Light Series drivers and team officials about the Gateway Indy 250 on Aug. 26 at Gateway International Raceway (drivers listed in alphabetical order): DONNIE BEECHLER (No. 11 A.J. Foyt Racing Dallara/Oldsmobile/Firestone, native of Springfield, I ... Continue reading
INDY RACING: Lazzaro passes Indy Racing rookie test at Gateway
August 18, 2001 MADISON, Ill. - Experienced driver Anthony Lazzaro passed an Indy Racing League rookie test Aug. 17 at Gateway International Raceway driving a Sam Schmidt Motorsports car. Lazzaro was the 1999 KOOL/Toyota Atlantic champion and has eight career wins in that series. In addition, Lazzaro has experience in ... Continue reading
NASCAR Trucks: Chevy drivers talk about qualifying at Chicago
August 18, 2001 JACK SPRAGUE, NO. 24 MBNA SILVERADO (second): "It wasn't bad; the driver choked. The NetZero Platinum Chevrolet has been awesome. I was actually running faster than Joe (Ruttman, polesitter) qualified in race configuration. When we went to qualify, it was a little freer than it had been and I tried to b ... Continue reading
CART: DeFerran sets practice pace for Motorola 200 at Road America
August 18, 2001 ELKHART LAKE, Wis. - Defending FedEx Championship Series champion Gil de Ferran added to Marlboro Team Penske's impressive recent record of success on permanent road courses when he topped Friday's speed charts during testing for this weekend's Motorola 220 at Road America (1 p.m. ET Sunday, live, ESPN) ... Continue reading
NASCAR WCUP: Mike Skinner has exciting qualifying run at Michigan
August 18, 2001 Mike Skinner, No. 31 Lowe's Chevrolet Monte Carlo: "That was the third lap on the racetrack for the Lowe's Chevrolet. In our second time out this morning, the right rear tire started going down in (turn) two, and then halfway up the backstretch the motor broke. So that was actually our third lap on the ... Continue reading
NASCAR WCUP: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Interview: Qualifying at Michigan
August 18, 2001 Dale Earnhardt Jr., No. 8 Budweiser Chevrolet Monte Carlo: "I knew the first lap wasn't that good, and I had to take a second lap. I had a good car, it just didn't have the grip I wanted in the corners; so we'll come back and work on it (qualifying) for the next time we come back here. But that's good e ... Continue reading
NASCAR WCUP: Jeff Gordon satisfied with another qualifying run at Michigan
August 18, 2001 Jeff Gordon, No. 24 Dupont Chevrolet Monte Carlo: "I'm pretty happy. A lot of the guys have picked up about three-tenths (from practice speeds), and we hoped that we would do that. The car drove great. I got a little bit free up off of (turn) two. ... Continue reading
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