Sunday 11 August 2013

Autoweek Racing Weekend Wrap-up for August 11, 2013 — SPOILER ALERT

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Sunday, August 11, 2013                 
Kyle Busch celebrates his third NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win of the season with a burnout at Watkins Glen....
The third time may have been the charm for Kyle Busch, but it was a jinx for pole winner Marcos Ambrose. Having surrendered the lead late in the last two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Watkins Glen International, Busch reversed the trend Sunday in winning the Cheez-It 355 at the 2.45-mile road course by .486 seconds over runner-up Brad Keselowski. Ambrose had the race in hand,...

  Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf rolled to their fifth consecutive American Le Mans Series victory on Sunday at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., holding on after a surprisingly strong challenge by the DeltaWing LM12 in its best showing to date. The race featured a pair of ALMS milestones. The...

  Fighting a car whose handling wasn't to his liking, Jeff Gordon wrecked near the end of the esses on lap 14 of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Watkins Glen on Sunday and put his chances of qualifying for the Chase in serious jeopardy. "It's unfortunate," said the four-time champion, who ...

  Donny Schatz did it again. The five-time World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series champion won the 53rd annual Knoxville Nationals Saturday night at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway. It was the seventh time in the last eight years and the third consecutive year that Schatz won the most important sprint ...

  More wins in 2013, or the 2014 title? Driver Nico Rosberg is can see both sides of the question about how Mercedes should tackle the second half of the 2013 Formula One season. The German has won two races in the ever-improving Mercedes so...

  Opportunity knocked for Brendon Hartley, and the young New Zealander made the most of it on Saturday at Road America, joining Wisconsin driver Scott Mayer in winning the VISITFLORIDA.com Sports Car 250. It was the first Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series victory for both drivers of the No. 8...

  Four-for-four is a great day on the baseball diamond. It’s an even better day on the race track. Just ask Brad Keselowski, who won his fourth straight NASCAR Nationwide Series race Saturday at Watkins Glen International. Keselowski’s 1.418-second victory over Penske Racing...

  Bob Stallings is like most of those in U.S. sports car racing in that he treats his team as a business, but it's also his hobby. As the sport undergoes its massive change that will lead to a unified group in 2014, Stallings represents virtually everyone on either side of the paddock. He's...

  Throughout the course of NASCAR's history, fans both here and long gone have bore witness to several monumental occurrences that have changed the face of the sport. This will continue to go on for as long as NASCAR is around. While fans have witnessed such events like the induction of the...

  Greg Pickett said he's not sure which direction to take his successful Muscle Milk sports-car team, but for sure he has options. There are at least four, he told Autoweek at the Road America circuit in Elkhart Lake, Wisc., that's

  Eddie Cheever likened what happened Friday at the Road America circuit to putting the French in the same room with the Italians. The future of U.S. sports car racing was on display with, for the first time in history, the Grand-Am Series and the American Le Mans Series sharing the same track on...

  The impact of Ford's decision to pull out of the NHRA professional ranks following the 2014 season is being felt throughout the drag-racing series. The move that was announced rather quietly on July 26 through a limited-...

  Never say never, but NASCAR is unlikely to see another racer quite like Harry Gant, a short-track driver who spent more than 20 years beating around the Friday and Saturday night bullrings before finally getting a shot at the big...

  Kinda smiled when I heard Tony Stewart broke his leg in a Monday night sprint-car race. This bit of indiscretion will snap his 521-race NASCAR Sprint Cup start streak, and mean he's effectively out of the 2013 NASCAR...

  Sometime on Tuesday, after the mainstream sports media takes a moment to digest the Monday night sprint car crash in Iowa that resulted in a broken right leg for NASCAR Sprint Cup driver and team owner Tony Stewart and will cost him at least one Cup start, some pundit will look in the archives and...

  Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart will miss this weekend's road course race at Watkins Glen after breaking his right leg in a sprint car race Monday night at Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa, Iowa. A spokesman for Stewart said the 42-year-old driver broke his right tibia and fibula...


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