Sunday 18 August 2013

Autoweek Weekend Wrap: SPOILERS! Check out all of the weekend's race winners!

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Joey Logano grabbed his first win of the season when he was victorious at Michigan on Sunday....
Joey Logano gave team owner Roger Penske a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win on Penske’s home turf on Sunday. Logano passed Mark Martin for the lead when Martin ran out of gas with three laps remaining, and Logano went to win the Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway. The win from the pole was the first for Logano in 2013, his third win in 170 career Cup starts, and his first...

  The last next-big-thing in NASCAR, Joey Logano, started on the pole for the Sprint Cup Series Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway. After a slow start to his Cup career, which started in 2008 when Logano was just 18 years old, ...

  Ron Capps won the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals on Sunday at Brainerd International Raceway for his third Funny Car victory of the season. Capps beat Don Schumacher Racing teammate and points leader Matt Hagan with a run of 4.063 seconds at 312.28 mph. Hagan finished in 4.095 at 312.78....

  MotoGP will return to Indianapolis Motor Speedway at least for another year. Dorna Sports and IMS decided to fulfill the last year on the current contract in 2014, then agreed to begin working toward a long-term deal in the coming weeks. IMS, in particular, wants stability for the motorcycle...

  MotoGP rookie Marc Marquez can now be called “Captain America.” The 20-year-old Spaniard completed a sweep of the U.S. races Sunday by winning the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Marquez previously won the other two U.S. races, April 21 at the...

  The British Racing Drivers Club, the owner of the Silverstone circuit, is expected to announce next month that the British Grand Prix venue has finally been sold on a long lease to a real estate developer. The 800 BRDC members oppose an outright sale but the club has been trying to sell a lease ...

  Illinois driver A.J. Fike won Saturday’s Tony Bettenhausen 100 TRAXXAS USAC Silver Crown Series race at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, Ill., for the second consecutive year. Driving the RFMS Racing/Liberty Village No. 3 Beast/Foxco, Fike ran down Chris Windom on the one-...

  Fans in the stands may not see a difference, and drivers on the track may not be able to feel it in the seat of their pants. Nevertheless, the new tire Goodyear is providing for upcoming races at Atlanta Motor Speedway represents one of the most significant advancements in the construction...

  Rally Sweden needs more cash if it’s to maintain its place in the world championship. Organizers of the snow event, a founding round of the World Rally Championship in 1973, don’t have enough money to pay the three-year fee being...

  Hyundai has demonstrated its new i20 WRC in public for the first time, at a test in France. The Korean manufacturer, currently the fourth-largest in the world, will begin its World Rally Championship program on the 2014 Monte Carlo Rally, which...

  The Corvette Racing C7.R -- in black-and-white camouflage -- made an unannounced first public appearance Saturday at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion in Monterey, Calif. The C7.R, which is based on the 2014 Corvette Stingray, will make its racing debut at the Rolex 24 at Daytona at...

  The announcement this week that Brian Vickers will be driving the No. 55 full-time for Michael Waltrip Racing left one racing question unanswered -- what happens to Mark Martin? Martin and Vickers had been sharing the No. 55 Toyota Camry this year. Martin, who is in the 55 this...

  James Buescher wasn’t backing down from Kyle Busch – or anyone else for that matter -- at Michigan International Speedway. Buescher, the defending NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, passed Cup regular Busch in turn four with a little more than three laps to go and held on to...

  AJ Allmendinger spent most of Saturday afternoon in front, then held on for an extra few laps to earn his second career NASCAR Nationwide Series victory in the Nationwide Children's Hospital 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. He had a comfortable lead over pole winner Michael McDowell...

  John Edwards held off Matt Plumb in a three-lap sprint to the checkered flag Saturday at Kansas Speedway, joining Matt Bell in winning their second race of the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season in the No. 9 Stevenson Auto Group Chevrolet Camaro. With the victory the duo extends their...

  Don't expect Tony Stewart to be back in a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car for at least the next several weeks. While the team is not saying that Stewart is out for the rest of the season, it's clear that the team is preparing for a long stretch with ...

  An IndyCar road race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is looking more and more like a reality. IMS officials confirmed Friday that a feasibility test will be held either Sept. 4 or Sept. 6 with an eye toward staging a race to kick off...

  Niki Lauda has dismissed suggestions Formula One's Fernando Alonso is a real candidate to race alongside Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull next year. "He [Alonso] would only bring trouble to the team," Lauda, Mercedes' team chairman and the...

  Yeah, we know the 24 Hours of Le Mans was six weeks ago, but that doesn't take away from the fact that this Corvette video is pretty awesome. So awesome, in fact, that we are posting it for your viewing pleasure about a month and a half late (don't judge, it takes time to find cool stuff)....

  Codemasters has released a new trailer for its latest installment in its Formula One video game franchise, and the new game looks pretty sharp. It looks like the developers have managed to improve upon last year’s version graphics-wise, but...

  With confirmation this week that Juan Pablo Montoya will not return next year to the No. 42 Chevrolet SS fielded by Earnhardt Ganassi Racing in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series, we sat down on Thursday with the former CART World...


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