In a joint effort between Michael Shank Racing, Ford Racing and Continental Tire, the 2012 Rolex 24 at Daytona championship team with Colin Braun behind the wheel will aim to set a new track record at the “World Center of Speed” Wednesday (Oct. 9) by eclipsing the 210.364 mph lap laid down Feb. 9, 1987, by NASCAR champion Bill Elliott, who pushed his Ford Thunderbird to the top of the speed charts in qualifying for the Daytona 500.
Following the events of the last lap of the Grand Prix of Houston IZOD IndyCar Series race on Sunday, Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver Dario Franchitti was admitted awake and alert to Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center in Houston for a concussion, two spinal fractures and a fracture to his right ankle.
The third time is supposed to be the charm, but for Tommy Lemons Jr., it was the 10th time. Lemons drove to the biggest victory of his career Sunday, winning the Virginia is for Racing Lovers 300 at Martinsville Speedway in his 10th start in the race.
David Gravel had his sights set pretty high heading into this year’s running of the Morgan Hughes National Open at the famed Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Pa. After qualifying for the A-Feature in the finale of the historic event for the first time in his career last year, he repeated that achievement on Saturday, Oct. 5, and wound up finishing eighth, with a stout 62-car field in attendance for the event sanctioned by the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series.
Scott Dixon took advantage of Helio Castroneves' discouraging race weekend to slide into the driver's seat of the IZOD IndyCar Series championship chase.
Scott Dixon won for the fourth time - the third on a street circuit - in Race 1 of the Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston to slice Helio Castroneves' championship points lead from 49 to eight heading into the penultimate race of the IZOD IndyCar Series season.
Baltimore, Maryland native Justin Boston concluded his ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards rookie campaign Friday night at Kansas Speedway with a fifth place finish, four spots ahead of fellow rookie contender Mason Mingus to secure the top spot in the series’ SCOTT Rookie Challenge standings.
The three-time Cup Series champion from Middletown, Connecticut, emerged uninjured following a harrowing rollover ride as part of a 15-car pileup in the closing laps of the 2026 YellaWood 500 at Talladega.
Identical brothers Cash and Roman Felber, 16, became the first twins to share a podium in USA Ligier Junior F4 before moving from Ohio to Britain in pursuit of the same Formula 1 dream
Sunday’s Xfinity 500 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway is the penultimate race on the Cup Series schedule, and it’s where drivers and crews can see the finish-line tape stretched across the end of their season-long run.
Austin Cindric’s afternoon at Talladega Superspeedway came to a premature end Sunday after a late-race, multi-car incident relegated the No. 2 Menards/Knauf Ford Mustang Dark Horse to a 27th-place finish in the YellaWood 500.
