Sunday, 28 July 2013

Autoweek Racing Weekend Wrap-up for July 28, 2013 — SPOILER ALERT

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Sunday, July 28, 2013                 
Ryan Newman held off Jimmie Johnson to win a rather uneventful NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the...
Twenty years into the Brickyard 400 -- or, and we're only going to say this once, the 20th Annual Crown Royal Presents the Samuel Deeds 400 at the Brickyard Powered by BigMachineRecords.com -- and… wait? Where was I? Oh, yes. Twenty years into the Brickyard 400, and the race is still pretty dependent on the allure of the historic venue than on actual fender-to-fender competition....

  Lewis Hamilton's Formula One victory wasn't the only reason to be in Budapest on Sunday. There were plenty of other sights and sounds at the Hungarian Grand Prix. And for those of us unable to make the trek to Hungary, here's a sampling of grid girls to enjoy. Hopefully, this photo gallery will...

  Kimi Räikkönen has admitted he is still waiting on some money from Lotus. "There is some problem," the 2007 world champion is quoted by Germany's sport1.de in Hungary. The news could have huge implications for the 2014 "silly season," as Lotus is pushing hard to convince the Finn to...

  Ron Capps played a the role of giant-killer at the NHRA Sonoma Nationals on Sunday when he knocked off John Force in the final for the Funny Car win. Force was going for his eighth career win at Sonoma and was racing in his 220nd career final round. Capps, who knocked off Courtney Force in the...

  Twelve laps into Sunday's Crown Royal presents the Samuel Deeds 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt brought his No. 88 Chevrolet SS to pit road. It was a case of necessity being the mother of prevention. Inexplicably, Earnhardt had a loose wheel when he started the...

  Talks between Fernando Alonso's manager and Christian Horner have set up the intriguing possibility of the Spanish star emerging as a candidate for a Red Bull Racing Formula One seat. While he obviously has a Ferrari contract, it's no secret that Alonso has been frustrated by the team's failure...

  Two days after his 39th birthday, Jason Hughes' 116th career United States Modified Tour Series victory Saturday night at Minnesota's Deer Creek Speedway was his biggest ever. For completing the 100-lap distance faster than the other drivers in the field, he was rewarded with $20,000 and the...

  Mercedes triumphed over Porsche in a thrilling 24 Hours of Spa to notch up its first victory in the Belgian enduro race since 1964. The HTP Motorsport Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG driven by touring car legend Bernd Schneider and race rookies Maximilian Buhk and Maximilian Gotz beat the Manthey...

  Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix winner Lewis Hamilton, runner-up Kimi Räikkönen and third-place finisher Sebastian Vettel met the F1 media in Budapest following the race on Sunday. Read what the drivers thought about the race and about the season going forward. Here's the official transcript of ...

  Ferrari was fined €15,000 ($23,000) for illegal use of the Drag Reduction System on Fernando Alonso's car in Hungary, but the Spaniard was allowed to keep his fifth-place finish at the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday. Alonso reported to the stewards after the race when data...

  Lewis Hamilton didn't put a foot wrong all afternoon in Hungary, not only keeping up a good pace while conserving his tires, but also making decisive passing moves that made sure he didn't lose time behind other cars that coming into the pits. Hamilton's first win for Mercedes came in his 10th...

  Hoonigan Racing's Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino won their first New England Forest Rally (NEFR) on Saturday after outrunning Subaru Rally Team USA's David Higgins and Craig Drew by 6.5 seconds in the Rally American National Championship event at Newry, Maine. Block and Gelsomino's NEFR run...

  Saturday was a good night to be named Swanson at Lucas Oil Raceway in Clermont, Indiana. Brothers Tanner and Kody Swanson, from Kingsburg, California, took first and second in the J.D. Byrider 100, a 100-lap race for the USAC Traxxas Silver Crown cars held on the paved oval previously known as...

  Nico Rosberg has brushed off reports retired seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher failed to name him among the very best drivers in Formula One. As teammates at Mercedes between 2010 and last year, it is generally...

  A new contract between motor sport's governing body, Formula One teams and F1's commercial rights holder about the terms of racing looks set to be soon implemented. F1 is currently racing in the absence of a Concorde Agreement -- which sets the...

  NASCAR moved the Nationwide race to Indianapolis Motor Speedway last year from the shorter Lucas Oil Raceway, previously known as Indianapolis Raceway Park, and fans were rewarded with a snoozer of a race that was won by Brad Keselowski. This year, it appeared we were on the way to another dull...

  Amid suggestions Red Bull Racing is preparing to offer a 2014 Formula One contract for Daniel Ricciardo, Kimi Räikkönen's manager insists the Lotus F1 driver is still in the running for the Red Bull seat. "The facts, or what I can tell you, is that an agreement has not been reached at this...

  Nico Hülkenberg has admitted he is on the market for 2014. Driving in just his 10th race for Sauber since switching from Force India over the winter, the German Formula One driver is undoubtedly concerned not only by the Ferrari-powered C32's lack of speed, but also the Swiss team's financial...

  What a race! After a struggling with some bad luck at the previous two rounds of the American Le Mans Series championship, our No. 4 Corvette team on July 21 made a strong return to form at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park...

  For sale by owner: Major sponsorship for NASCAR's most popular driver. Act fast, time is running out. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is not only looking for his first win of the season, he's still hunting for a big-bucks sponsor for 12 Sprint Cup races...

  When the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series debuted at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last year as part of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Brickyard 400 weekend, it was shaping up to a victory for the Starworks Motorsports Daytona Prototype team of Ryan...

  A year ago, it was understandable when the Continental Challenge sports car series visited the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the first time had suffered a plague of caution flags -- near-monsoon rain, coupled with an unfamiliar track, had drivers flying all over the place. Friday, the weather...

  Williams is not planning any more significant test sessions for Susie Wolff in the immediate future. The British team's female reserve driver impressed both Williams and the wider F1 world with her first real circuit test in the 2013 car recently at Silverstone. "She did a good job, with no...

  Formula One team representatives Cyril Abiteboul of Caterham, John Booth of Marussia, Toto Wolff of Mercedes, Claire Williams of Williams and Franz Tost of Toro Rosso met the media in Hungary on Friday ahead of Sunday's F1 Hungarian Grand Prix. Below is the


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