INDYCAR will hold a public memorial service to celebrate the life of IZOD IndyCar Series driver Dan Wheldon at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23 at Conseco Fieldhouse in downtown Indianapolis. Wheldon, a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and 2005 IZOD IndyCar Series champion, sustained unsurvivable injuries in a racing accident Oct.Continue Reading
Roush Yates had an amazing weekend at their home track, sweeping the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series races at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Roush Yates engines head into next week with the points lead in NASCAR’s top two series powering Roush Fenway drivers Carl Edwards and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Chris BuescherContinue Reading
Race Highlights: RCR teammates finished sixth (Kevin Harvick), 17th (Paul Menard), 18th (Jeff Burton) and 24th (Clint Bowyer). Harvick gained two positions in the final 10 percent (34 laps) of Saturday night’s Charlotte 500, tying him for sixth in the NASCAR Loop Data category Closers. Harvick logged 328 out ofContinue Reading
It was another great weekend for ASA Racing. The ASA Truck Series had a first time winner, The ASA Midwest Tour and ASA Midwest Truck Tour were in action at Oktoberfest, and many ASA Member Tracks were in action. Here are the results from this past weekend. ASA MEMBER TRACKSContinue Reading
GoDaddy.com has created a memorial website in honor of Dan Wheldon. The memorial site, which includes a Facebook link to leave condolences and remembrances and a career photo retrospective, can be found at http://www.danwheldonmemorial.com/ Wheldon, a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and 2005 IZOD IndyCar Series champion, was killed in aContinue Reading
IZOD IndyCar Series drivers JR Hildebrand and Pippa Mann were released from University Medical Center in Las Vegas on Oct. 17. Mann had surgery last night to clean and assess a severe burn injury to the little finger of her right hand sustained in an accident at Las Vegas MotorContinue Reading
GP Sports Management is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our dear friend and client, Dan Wheldon. Dan was a winner. For the past 11 years we were privileged to watch Dan become a champion on the track and a devoted family man off it. He loved the Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayContinue Reading
Roush Yates Engines and Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) today announced a new partnership grounded in a shared vision for the expanding role of technology in motorsports. This partnership brings together two industry leaders in automotive and motorsports. Freescale, as one of the world’s largest providers of automotive electronics, provides the processingContinue Reading
Susan Roush-McClenaghan follows in her father’s footsteps 40 years later. In 1971 Jack Roush entered the SS/HA class at the NHRA U.S. Nationals held in Indianapolis, Ind., and won. Fast-forward 40 years, Susan Roush-McClenaghan, daughter of Roush Fenway Racing co-owner Jack Roush, won the final National Muscle Car Association (NMCA)Continue Reading
Richard Childress Racing’s rookie driver Ty Dillon and the No. 41 Bass Pro Shops/Hemelgarn Enterprises Chevrolet team claimed the 2011 ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards Championship at the drop of the green flag in Sunday afternoon’s 200-lap season finale race at Toledo Speedway. The start of the Federated CarContinue Reading