Sunday, 14 July 2013

Autoweek Racing Weekend Wrap-up for July 14, 2013 — SPOILER ALERT

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Sunday, July 14, 2013                 
Scott Dixon took the checkered flag for the second time this weekend in Toronto on Sunday....
Toronto is now, officially, Scott Dixon's Exhibition Place. The IndyCar Series driver from New Zealand delivered a second consecutive masterpiece in sweeping the two-day doubleheader. He led all but four of the 85 laps in...

  On a picture-perfect Sunday afternoon when the Busch brothers or Tony Stewart seemed almost certain to win the Sprint Cup race in Loudon, it was, instead, part-time racer Brian Vickers in victory lane at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. In the...

  Red Bull Racing is not ruling out following Mercedes' lead and conducting a private test with Formula One tire supplier Pirelli. Mercedes and Pirelli were reprimanded by the FIA recently, after news of their 'secret'...

  Alejandro Agag, the organizer of the new Formula E electric open-wheel series, thinks top F1 teams like Ferrari and Red Bull will eventually fight for the title in the new series. And the Austrian news agency APA...

  Sauber F1 team owner Peter Sauber has admitted the recent media coverage of his Formula One team's financial crisis is "extremely" hurtful. Amid rumous Nico Hulkenberg terminated his contract because he was not paid, team boss Monisha Kaltenborn admitted recently that the Swiss team is in...

  Carlos Munoz got back to his hotel following the Indy Lights race expecting to catch a 6 a.m. flight home Sunday morning. A call from Panther Racing dramatically changed his travel plans. The team had just learned from doctors that Ryan Briscoe had broken his right wrist in a crash...

  Brad Sweet grabbed the biggest victory of his racing career Saturday night at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway. Sweet drove Kasey Kahne’s No. 49 to victory in the 30th running of the prestigious Kings Royal sprint car race, claiming the $50,000 top prize after battling Tim Kaeding and five-...

  It didn't take Hendrick Motorsports long to make its No. 48 Chevrolet legal after it was disqualified following Friday qualifying at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Jimmie Johnson was second behind pole-winner Brad Keselowski (135.922 mph) until his time was disallowed because the car's front was too ...

  Long after Scott Dixon raised the winner's trophy for the second week in a row, controversy and comedy hung over the first of two races through the streets of Toronto. What was certain was that Dixon's win Saturday at Exhibition Place was the 31st of his career and moved him into a tie for...

  Timothy Peters knows the way to victory lane at Iowa Speedway. He followed that path Saturday night to his best finish of the season. Peters produced two strong restarts late, holding off Erik Jones at the end, for his second straight Iowa win in the NASCAR Camping World Trucks Series...

  Despite a snafu in the pits that cost him six positions -- temporarily -- Kyle Busch steamrolled the field in Saturday’s CNBC Prime's 'The Profit 200' at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Never mind that it took the maximum three attempts at green-white-checkered-flag finishes before the...

  Formula E, the single-seater electric racing championship which launches next year, will impose a $3.3-million budget cap on teams, according to its chief executive Alejandro Agag. It is understood that one of the top IndyCar teams will...

  Kurt Busch has lost rides with top teams. He's paid the price for losing his cool more times than anyone in NASCAR can count. Busch, though, has never lost his ability to drive. He's kept his composure, kept that superior skill...

  IndyCar officials have placed driver Takuma Sato on probation through the next five races for actions during the Izod IndyCar Series event July 7 at Pocono Raceway. Sato violated Rule 9.3.1.1, which states "a driver must not engage in...

  Stewart-Haas Racing driver Ryan Newman lost his NASCAR ride to Kevin Harvick during a 20-minute phone call on Wednesday night from team co-owner Tony Stewart. On Friday afternoon Newman said he has no news about the future and no idea where he'll be racing next year. “I had a good run,...

  Team owner/driver Tony Stewart confirmed on Friday afternoon that Ryan Newman will not return to Stewart-Haas Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series next year. Stewart casually dropped the news shortly after Kevin Harvick...

  Morgan Shepherd was born in the fall of 1941, just 56 days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Chew on that for a moment before digesting the fact that he'll start a 301-lap NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Sunday afternoon at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. And just for a warm-up, he'll...

  IMSA on Friday announced some details for the 2014 United SportsCar Racing season, when the new combined American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron/Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series will launch its inaugural campaign. Officials revealed a driver-rating system, as well as pit and paddock...

  Lotus has confirmed that Kimi Räikkönen will drive for the team on the third day of the Young Driver Test, which has of course now been turned into a Pirelli test open to race drivers. The FIA has announced that race drivers will have to focus on tire testing, rather than car developments....

  McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh says that the improved form the team showed in Germany was not purely a result of the change in tire specification for that weekend -- although he concedes that there is still a long way to go. Jenson Button finished sixth after running third for many laps before...

  Toomas Heikkinen won his second consecutive Global Rallycross event of the nine-race season, capturing first place in the Sylvania Silverstar zXe at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Thursday. Heikkinen overtook Tanner Foust after a last-corner accident ended Foust's dominating run....

  The depths of Sauber's financial problems are now beginning to emerge. The Swiss business newspaper Handeslzeitung reports that dozens of unpaid suppliers to the struggling Hinwil based team have filed claims in the amount that totals almost $1.3 million. The report said the suppliers have...


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