CONCORD, N.C. (Aug. 20, 2008) - Defending NHRA POWERade Drag Racing
Series Pro Stock champion Jeg Coughlin and his Cagnazzi Racing teammate,
Dave Connolly, used their race cars Wednesday morning to officially open
zMAX Dragway @ Concord.
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(Aug. 17) MOHNTON, Pa. (Aug.17, 2008) - Ron Capps clinched a berth in the Countdown to 1 playoffs today, despite his first-round loss to John Force at the 24th annual NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway, outside of Reading, Pa.
(Aug. 15) BROOKLYN, Mich. (Aug. 15, 2008) - Stewart-Haas Racing has signed Ryan Newman to a multiyear contract to drive the team's No. 4 Chevrolet beginning with the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.
(Aug. 15) NASCAR GM Engineer Alba Colon Featured on ESPN Newsmagazine E:60 Tuesday
(Aug. 14) CONCORD, N.C. (Aug. 14, 2008) - Birds of a feather can now flock
together at Lowe's Motor Speedway for the Oct. 11 Bank of America 500 NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series race thanks to the speedway's new Driver Select seating
sections.
(Aug. 7) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Aug. 6, 2008) - Hall of Fame Racing officials announced Wednesday that NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Brad Coleman, who has been under contract as a test driver for Hall of Fame Racing since November 2007, will make his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut by piloting the No. 96 DLP HDTV Toyota Camry in the Aug. 17 3M Performance 400 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn.
(Jul. 30) EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO GIVE SPEED VIEWERS REAL-TIME LOOK AT HOW RUBBER MET THE ROAD
With apologies and promises it will never happen again and investigations still underway looking at just what went wrong at last weekend’s Brickyard 400, SPEED will take NASCAR fans deep inside the real-time crisis management exercise at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
(Jul. 25) INDIANAPOLIS (July 25, 2008) - Office Depot and Old Spice will serve as co-primary sponsors of Tony Stewart's No. 14 Chevrolet Impala SS NASCAR Sprint Cup Series entry beginning in 2009. Officials from the two companies, as well as from Stewart-Haas Racing, made the announcement today near Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
(Jul. 4) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Race fans anxious to get their hands on the hottest memorabilia from Ryan Newman and the No. 12 Alltel Dodge team now have the chance to place a winning bid, courtesy of Alltel Wireless, America’s largest network. Beginning today, fans can support the Ryan Newman Foundation by participating in an online auction and bidding on authentic racing items from the 2008 Daytona 500 champion at www.alltelracing.com.
(Jul. 4) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., (July 3, 2008) – Tony Stewart has sometimes referred to himself as a 14-year-old trapped in a 37-year-old’s body. At the Aug. 16 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Stewart’s No. 20 Old Spice Toyota will reflect that line of thought.
(Jun. 27) LOUDON, N.H. (June 27, 2008) – Chandra and Jimmie Johnson confirmed the second-annual Jimmie Johnson Foundation golf tournament and dinner auction will take place August 27-28 in San Diego, Calif., with Lowe’s returning as the title sponsor. Funds from this year’s tournament will once again benefit the San Diego chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
(Jun. 27) CONCORD, N.C. (June 27, 2008) - They come by land and air, arriving
in planes, trucks and automobiles. They're from small towns such as
Snohomish, Wash., Bixby, Okla., Olive Branch, Miss., and St. George, Utah.
(Jun. 27) Sunday's "Outside the Lines" (ESPN 9:30 a.m. ET; ESPNEWS noon) will examine how NASCAR is being affected by today's struggling economy.
(Jun. 27) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (June 26, 2008) - Andretti Green Racing (AGR) announced today it has signed Franck Montagny to become the primary driver of the #26 XM Satellite Radio Acura ARX-01b for the remainder of the 2008 American Le Mans Series (ALMS) season, beginning with the next tour stop at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Ct.
Bryan Herta and Christian Fittipaldi handled the driving duties for Andretti Green in the four previous ALMS starts this season along with Marco Andretti, who rounded out the AGR lineup in the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.
A variety of drivers will team with Montagny during the final seven ALMS events of 2008 beginning with Marco Andretti, who drives one of Andretti Green's four IndyCar Series machines. Andretti will qualify for the IndyCar Series event on July 11 at Nashville Superspeedway and then travel to Lime Rock for the July 12th running of the American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix. Following the ALMS event, he will return to Nashville for the Firestone Indy 200 later that night.
Montagny brings a diverse background to AGR that includes seven Formula 1 starts, all in 2006 with Super Aguri, and stints as a Formula 1 test driver and third driver with Renault, Jordan and Toyota. The 30-year old Frenchman owns three top-five finishes in his last three starts in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, including a third-place overall finish earlier this month.
Montagny ran four races for his native France during the 2007-08 A1 Grand Prix (A1GP) season, scoring one top-five finish and helping his team to a fourth-place final ranking. He also has one IndyCar Series start to his credit, having made his debut at Long Beach this past April where he scored a runner-up finish.
Franck Montagny, #26 XM Satellite Radio Acura:
(Jun. 27) This weekend, HVM Racing will make its racing debut at the .075-mile Richmond (Va.) International Raceway during Saturday night’s SunTrust IndyCar Challenge 300. It will also mark the first visit to the track for driver E.J. Viso. The team, however, has accumulated three consecutive strong finishes heading into Saturday night’s 300-lap event.
(Jun. 27) CONCORD, N.C. (June 26, 2008) - Construction crews poured concrete
long into the night Wednesday, as the four-lane, quarter-mile drag strip at
zMAX Dragway @ Concord is rapidly taking shape. When the concrete trucks
went home Thursday morning, 700 feet of both right-side lanes, including the
burnout boxes, were complete.
(Jun. 26) Indianapolis, Ind. (June 26, 2008) – HVM Racing continues its commitment to be one of the premier teams on the IRL IndyCar circuit. Doing so, the team announces the restructure and appointment of several key positions. Kevin Lee, a long time key figure at HVM Racing, has been appointed to Vice President of Operations, Ali Gursoy has been added as Vice President of Marketing and full-service marketing agency, Breaking Limits, has been acquired to lead its public and media relations efforts.
(Jun. 25) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Three-time Daytona 500 champion and founding member of the Coca-Cola Racing Family Dale Jarrett has been named Grand Marshal for the Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday night, July 5 Speedway officials announced today. Outback Steakhouse President Jeff Smith will serve as Honorary Starter.
(Jun. 25) ROSWELL, Ga. (June 24, 2008) – Steve Addington, crew chief of the No. 18 M&M’s Toyota Camry driven by Kyle Busch, has been named the WYPALL Wipers Crew Chief of the Race following Sunday’s Toyota/SaveMart 350 at Infineon Raceway.
(Jun. 25) DEARBORN, Mich. – June 24, 2008 – Crossing the finish line today in 73 minutes and 40 seconds, aspiring auto technicians Paul Bretl and Chris Cheek, 2008 graduates of Grafton High School, in Grafton, Wis., drove their fully repaired 2008 Ford Focus to victory in the 59th annual Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills national finals.
(Jun. 20) DEARBORN, Mich. - Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills continues to help answer the demand for more skilled automotive technicians by offering $7 million in scholarships to this year’s competitors - $1 million more than last year.
(Jun. 12) INDIANAPOLIS, Thursday, June 12, 2008 – The Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Indy Racing League are donating the $100,000 purse from the 2008 McDonald’s Pit Stop Challenge, canceled May 23 due to rain, to Belle Isle Park and Hole in the Wall Camps.
(Jun. 12) SPEED will once again broadcast the world's most prestigious endurance race with live coverage from France's famed Circuit de la Sarthe 8.5-mile road course - a combination of permanent race circuit and countryside roadways - starting Saturday, June 14 at 8:30 am E.T.
(Jun. 11) Mooresville, N.C. (June 11, 2008) - Petty Enterprises, the most successful organization in the history of American motorsports, today announced a partnership with Boston Ventures, a leading middle market private equity firm which invests in the entertainment, media, and communications sectors.
(Jun. 9) ESPN2s season-long coverage of the NASCAR Nationwide Series continues with a live telecast of the event at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky., near Cincinnati, on Saturday, June 14, beginning at 8 p.m. ET with NASCAR Countdown. The race also airs in high definition on ESPN2 HD and will be simulcast on ESPN360.com, ESPN MobileTV and ESPN Deportes.
(Jun. 7) CONCORD, N.C. (June 6, 2008) - Legends Car, Bandolero and Thunder
Car drivers won't be the only ones battling for a championship during the
10-week Quaker Steak & Lube Summer Shootout Series that starts Tuesday night
at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
(Jun. 6) HILLIARD, Ohio (June 6, 2008) – The Rahal Letterman Racing team will open its doors to save lives on June 12 as it hosts its very first public American Red Cross Blood Drive on June 12 at its Hilliard race shop.
(Jun. 6) ROSWELL, Ga. (June 3, 2008) – Steve Addington, crew chief of the No. 18 Combos Toyota driven by Kyle Busch, has been named the WYPALL Wipers Crew Chief of the Race following Sunday’s Best Buy 400 at Dover International Speedway.
(Jun. 6) CONCORD, N.C. (June 4, 2008) - Fans attending opening night of the
15th annual Quaker Steak & Lube Summer Shootout Series Tuesday at Lowe's
Motor Speedway can expect tons of fun as wild-and-wacky school bus racing
joins the traditional slate of Legends Car, Bandolero and Thunder Car
action.
(Jun. 6) SIRIUS Satellite Radio will air live coverage of the FORMULA 1 Canadian Grand Prix this Sunday, June 8 at 1:00 pm ET exclusively on SIRIUS channel 125.
