Kyle Busch carried his hot start to the season into his hometown Friday, winning the pole at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Busch ran a fast lap of 182.352 mph in his Toyota Camry to take the top starting spot for Sunday’s race. The 22-year-old is having a fabulous start to the season — he hasn’t [...]
Canadian driver Paul Tracy, the biggest name in the soon-to-be-gone Champ Car World Series, is without a ride for 2008. A spokesman for Gerald Forsythe, co-owner of Champ Car and owner of Forsythe Championship Racing, said on Thursday the team will no longer race Indy Cars and will instead compete only in the developmental Atlantic [...]
Step 1 is complete, and the long overdue open-wheel unification is over. Tony George and Kevin Kalkhoven should be commended for finally ending the madness that nearly killed American Indy Car racing. “It was last fall on the anniversary of my grandfather’s death that I was thinking to myself it really had been 30 years [...]
While the Champ Car World Series is no more, there will be one more Champ Car race. Indy Racing League founder Tony George and Kevin Kalkhoven, owner of the now-defunct Champ Car series, revealed some details Wednesday of the unification of America’s two open-wheel series, including the fact that the April 20 Toyota Grand Prix [...]
This week: Another top Sprint Cup driver looking for his first Vegas win, Stewart has four top-five finishes and six top-10s in nine starts there. He finished second in 2000, third in 2004 and had back-to-back fifth-place finishes in 2002 and 2003. Last week: Stewart had quite a day at Fontana on Monday — a seventh-place [...]
This week: ”Hometown Hero” Busch returns to Las Vegas atop both the Sprint Cup and NASCAR Craftsman Series and is second in the Nationwide Series. Busch has no wins, two top-five and three top-10 finishes in his four previous Cup starts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and is primed to take Toyota to its first-ever victory [...]
Though his aggressive and freewheeling style sometimes might seem inspired by the cinematic tribute to reckless driving, Kyle Busch actually hasn’t watched Smokey and the Bandit. Busch, born in 1985, eight years after the film’s release, bought the DVD recently but not because he wanted to see Burt Reynolds comedy. It was because he knew [...]
He can be arrogant at times. He can get under your skin. Kyle Busch walks the walk, talks the talk and makes Terrell Owens look like a wilting flower. Busch, 22, is a mix of speed and machismo — with a schoolboy’s knack of getting into trouble and wriggling out of it. Busch can place [...]
With steady rain becoming the dominant story this past weekend at the newly named Auto Club Speedway at California, drivers and teams had very little to do but watch water puddles grow larger around their transporters. With multi-colored Sprint Cup Chevrolets, Dodges, Fords and Toyotas sitting idle in garage stalls, Sprint Cup driver Casey Mears [...]
The Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway of Southern California — that’s a mouthful — is finally history. Hallelujah. The seemingly endless nightmare that was Sunday’s eventually aborted attempted running of the event impacted even those of us not forced to sit through the ordeal live and in rainsuits. I mean, geez, has it [...]
