The News Review:
- Indianapolis 500 facts and figures – Auto
- SportingNews.com – Your expert source for NASCAR Auto Racing stats,…
- SportingNews.com – Your expert source for NASCAR Auto Racing stats,…
- Embattled Max Mosley returns to F1 at Monaco – Auto
- SportingNews.com – Your expert source for NASCAR Auto Racing stats,…
Indianapolis 500 facts and figures – Auto
ESPN – May 22, 2008
DISTANCE — 500 miles; 200 laps around the asphalt-on-brick Indianapolis Motor Speedway track, a 2½-mile rectangular oval. SANCTIONING BODY — Indy Racing League; also open to USAC, NASCAR, SCCA, Formula One and other drivers through international FIA listing. RACE CARS — Open-cockpit, open-wheel and single-seat, with 3. 5-liter, 650-horsepower normally-aspirated Honda HI7R Indy V-8 engines. PACE CAR — Chevrolet Corvette Z06, driven by two-time Indy winner Emerson Fittipaldi.
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SportingNews.com – May 22, 2008
(AP) — The day after Lowe’s Motor Speedway president Humpy Wheeler announced he was retiring, the frostiness continued with his boss, Speedway Motorsports CEO Bruton Smith. Wheeler acknowledged Thursday while it was his decision step down after 33 years at the track, he wanted to stay on in a part-time role. Smith desired a clean break, and the 69-year-old Wheeler will leave after Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600. “I don’t want to work full time until next year, but I could have played some role.
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SportingNews.com – May 22, 2008
(AP) — Kentucky Speedway moved a step closer to landing a coveted Sprint Cup Series race when Speedway Motorsports Inc. on Thursday added it to its growing portfolio of tracks. Kentucky’s previous owners have fought for a Cup race, and SMI owner Bruton Smith said he wants a date for his new track by 2009. “We will continue to wonder about that,” Smith teased.
Embattled Max Mosley returns to F1 at Monaco – Auto
ESPN – May 22, 2008
The 68-year-old Englishman walked past a group of photographers and reporters and through the pit lane after coming out of the governing body’s paddock office. I’m too busy,” said Mosley, who was scheduled to meet with team officials during a day of practice for Sunday’s GP. Toro Rosso driver Sebastian Vettel walked alongside the group but wouldn’t comment.
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SportingNews.com – May 22, 2008
He has been quiet since his solid run three races ago at Talladega, but he led 76 laps in last year’s 600 and 98 in the 2005 event. Matt Kenseth may be 20th in points, but there’s no reason to count him out of the Chase picture. Just remember his remarkable comeback to make the party in 2005. Kasey Kahne had some early-season momentum and won the all-star race last week.