Kansas Speedway Announces 2012 NASCAR Race Dates

Spring event moved to accommodate track improvements Kansas SpeedwayKANSAS CITY, Kan. (Sept. 2, 2011) ? Kansas Speedway officials announced today that the facility will again host two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series weekends in 2012, albeit both will be held on different surfaces, and the spring event weekend has moved to April to ensure the recently...more»

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BMW Working to Bring Lasers to Your Headlights, Because LEDs are Just So Audi

Perhaps because BMW’s rival Audi?s design strategy is based around LED lighting, or maybe because even the lowly 2012 Kia Soul sports the bright eyes, the Munich-based, propellor-clad automaker wants to develop and own the next big thing in headlight technology: lasers. Yes, we said lasers. BMW announced this week that it is working to [...]

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Photos: Goodyear Tire Test from Phoenix International Raceway

Goodyear wrapped up tire testing at Phoenix International Raceway on Monday and Tuesday. Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, Tony Stewart, Kurt Busch and Kyle Busch were all on hand testing the rubber on the new racing surface. Kurt said like a roller coaster, you drive up the banking off of Turn 2 and then you drop [...]

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U.S. Army Racing and Ryan Newman to honor 9/11 Pentagon victims

FORT KNOX, Ky., Aug. 30, 2011 ? As the nation observes the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Army announced today that both its NHRA and NASCAR teams will honor the victims of the Pentagon attack with special paint schemes atupcoming races. At this weekend?s Mac Tools U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis (Sept. [...]

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A Brand New Name in IndyCars

Monica Clara Brand?s name may not be quite as familiar to IndyCar fans as those of Sarah Fisher and Danica Patrick, but she has much in common with them.  Like Fisher she has qualified on the pole for an IndyCar race . . . 30 by actual count.  And, like Patrick, she has finished an IndyCar race in Victory Lane.  In fact, Brand has more than 25 wins to her credit from MIS to Iowa to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. What distinguishes Brand?s racing career from those of Fisher and Patrick is that all of her IndyCar success has come in a digitized Dallara on the virtual race tracks of iRacing.com.   In fact, the 34 year old resident of Bucharest, Romania has never even attended a ?real world? IZOD IndyCar [...]

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Report: Ford UAW workers approve strike authorization as bargaining tool

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We haven't heard much concerning the contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and Detroit automakers, but that's probably by design. The UAW is looking to expand, and it probably wouldn't hurt organized labor's chances to do so if these talks went smoothly. Still, what would negotiations be without the threat of a strike?

The Detroit Free Press reports that at least four Ford UAW locals have overwhelmingly voted to authorize leadership to call a strike. The move, which is considered to be routine, comes only two weeks before the contracts with General Motors, Ford and Chrysler run out on September 14. The UAW has asked all local units to hold strike authorization votes by Friday.

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Brad Keselowski, 2011 NSCS AdvoCare 500 Race Preview

Brad Keselowski (Photo Credit: Grant Halverson / Getty Images)Brad Keselowski No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger Advocare 500 Atlanta Motor Speedway September 4, 2011 TV: ESPN at 7:30 PM Radio: PRN/Sirius Channel 90 at 6:30 PM Brad Keselowski at Atlanta Motor Speedway ? Cup Series Date Start Finish LC/TL Status $Won 9/5/2010 28 25 324/325...more»

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