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Joey Logano Wins At Michigan International Speedway, Shell $aver Cardholders Save At The Pump

Joey Logano Wins At Michigan International Speedway, Shell $aver Cardholders Save At The Pump

Cardholders can save 22 cents-per-gallon this Wednesday through WINsdays promotion -- Joey Logano, driver of the No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Ford Fusion, took the checkered flag with Pennzoil technology under the hood on Sunday, which will pay off for Shell $aver Cardholders. The win at Michigan International Speedway (MIS) ... Continue reading

Hyundai And Skip Barber Racing School Add Rear-Drive Genesis Coupe To High Performance Driving School Programs

Hyundai And Skip Barber Racing School Add Rear-Drive Genesis Coupe To High Performance Driving School Programs

Lime Rock, Road Atlanta and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Skip Barber High Performance Driving School Enthusiasts to Pilot Genesis Coupe R-Spec and Track Models - Hyundai and Skip Barber have added two high-performance rear-drive sport coupes to their increasingly popular High Performance Driving School programs. Starting ... Continue reading

Subaru PUMA RallyCross Team to Compete at New Hampshire Motor Speedway July 11

Subaru PUMA RallyCross Team to Compete at New Hampshire Motor Speedway July 11

On July 11th, Subaru PUMA RallyCross Team drivers Bucky Lasek, Dave Mirra and Sverre Isachsen will race head-to-head against a pack of International stars at New Hampshire Motor Speedway for Round four of the 2013 Global RallyCross Championship (GRC). The trio will each pilot their Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive 600hp 201 ... Continue reading

Honda 2013 Pikes Peak Race Results

Honda 2013 Pikes Peak Race Results

06/30/2013 - Pikes Peak, CO Circuit: Pikes Peak Highway (12.42-mile, 156-turn hill climb) Pikes Peak, CO Weather: Frequent rain showers, fog and low clouds, light snow at high altitude; 78-45 degrees F Honda Pikes Peak Results: Ps. Class Driver / Rider Vehicle Time Notes Motorcycles: 1. Pikes Peak 450 Jeff Tigert Honda ... Continue reading

Hyundai Powered Unlimited Race Car Sets The Second Fastest Time In Pikes Peak Hill Climb History

Hyundai Powered Unlimited Race Car Sets The Second Fastest Time In Pikes Peak Hill Climb History

Millen Sets Personal Best Time of 9:02.102 to the 14,115 Ft. Summit Rhys Millen and his Hyundai-powered race car finished second overall and set the second fastest time in history at the 2013 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb today. Millen set a blistering pace to the summit in his specially-prepared Hyundai powered ... Continue reading

Former European rally champion Eugen Bohringer has died, at the age of 91

Former European rally champion Eugen Bohringer has died, at the age of 91

Eugen Bohringer won the European rally championship in a Mercedes-Benz in 1962 The Stuttgart hotelier was one of the most successful works drivers for Mercedes-Benz in the 1960s Stuttgart – The former Mercedes-Benz works racing driver Eugen Bohringer has died. He passed away in the early morning hours of 19 June 2 ... Continue reading

O'Connell, Wilkins Win Poles for Saturday's Pirelli World Challenge race at Belle Isle

O'Connell, Wilkins Win Poles for Saturday's Pirelli World Challenge race at Belle Isle

O'Connell, Wilkins Win Poles for Saturday's Pirelli World Challenge race at Belle Isle DETROIT (May 31, 2013) - Johnny O'Connell, of Flowery Branch, Ga., and Mark Wilkins, of Toronto, will lead their respective classes to green Saturday, after scoring the Motul Pole Awards for Round Six of the Pirelli World Challenge i ... Continue reading

Kia Racing returns to Detroit's Belle Isle after making history in 2012

Kia Racing returns to Detroit's Belle Isle after making history in 2012

Driver of the No. 38 Optima turbo, Mark Wilkins, Currently Third in Championship Standings after Podium Finish at Circuit of the Americas Nic Jansson, No. 36, currently ninth in Championship standings, looks to bounce back after promising run in Austin was cut short by late-race incident Kia Racing returns to Detroit's ... Continue reading

Nissan's Gamers-Turned-Racers to Compete at the Home of GT Academy

Nissan's Gamers-Turned-Racers to Compete at the Home of GT Academy

SILVERSTONE, UK – The Blancpain Endurance Series rolls into Silverstone this weekend for the British round of the 2013 series. After a competitive showing at the season-opener at Monza in April, Nissan GT Academy Team RJN is out to break into the podium positions at Silverstone. NISMO Athletes Mark Shulzhitskiy, W ... Continue reading

Chevrolet IndyCar V6 Engine Powers Tony Kanaan to Career-First Indianapolis 500 Victory

Chevrolet IndyCar V6 Engine Powers Tony Kanaan to Career-First Indianapolis 500 Victory

“ Tony Kanaan, No. 11 Hydroxycut KV Racing Technology SH Racing Chevrolet, had been denied a trip to victory lane many times at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS), but as fate would have it this year, he was in the right place at the right time to capture his first Indianapolis 500 win. Kanaan, the 2004 IZOD IndyCar Se ... Continue reading

BorgWarner Presents Trophy To Indianapolis 500 Winner Tony Kanaan

BorgWarner Presents Trophy To Indianapolis 500 Winner Tony Kanaan

Following the 97th running of the Indianapolis 500, BorgWarner President and Chief Executive Officer James Verrier presented Tony Kanaan with the Borg-Warner Trophy in Victory Lane. Tony Kanaan's sterling silver image will be the 100th added to the prestigious and historic trophy, joining every winner of the "Greatest ... Continue reading

Tony Kanaan wins Indy 500

Tony Kanaan wins Indy 500

Speedway Indiana, May 26, 2013. Under a yellow flag popular 38 year old Brazilian driver Tony Kananan won the Indy 500. He took the lead with three laps left and hung on for victory after a caution flag to win the 97th Indianapolis 500. ... Continue reading

AutoNation Joins Indy Car Series Champion Ryan Hunter-Reay in Race Against Cancer

AutoNation Joins Indy Car Series Champion Ryan Hunter-Reay in Race Against Cancer

AutoNation , America's largest auto retailer, announced today that it has partnered with IndyCar Series Champion Ryan Hunter-Reay to support his Racing for Cancer charity. AutoNation's primary charitable focus over the next two years will be cancer awareness and prevention, and Ryan's charity will serve as a key compon ... Continue reading

Subaru Driver David Higgins Wins the Oregon Trail Rally for the Third Straight Year

Subaru Driver David Higgins Wins the Oregon Trail Rally for the Third Straight Year

Subaru Rally Team USA driver David Higgins took a big step toward achieving a third straight Rally America Championship by winning the Oregon Trail Rally this weekend. With the win, Higgins can likely now claim the Oregon Trail Rally as his event, having won the event all five times he has entered; including wins the p ... Continue reading

National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel Final Statement

National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel Final Statement

On May 1, 2013, the National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel heard and considered the appeal of the No. 2 and No. 22 Penske Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams. The penalties concern Sections 12-1: Actions detrimental to stock car racing; 12-4J: Any determination by NASCAR Officials that race equipment used in the eve ... Continue reading

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