June 19, 2013

NASCAR: Piquet Jr. wins Nationwide Sargento 200; Danica collides

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Nelson Piquet Jr., driver of the #30 Autotrac Chevrolet, celebrates with a burnout after winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series Sargento 200 at Road America on June 23, 2012 in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. (June 22, 2012 – Source: Tyler Barrick/Getty Images North America) ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) – Nelson Piquet Jr. held the lead on a [...]

IndyCar returns in first race since Dan Wheldon’s death

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A tribute to Dan Wheldon, driver of the #77 Bowers & Wilkins/Sam Schmidt Motorsports Dallara Honda, is displayed on a Las Vegas Motor Speedway sign on October 17, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dan Wheldon, driver of the #77 Bowers & Wilkins/Sam Schmidt Motorsports Dallara Honda, was killed during the Las Vegas Indy 300 part [...]

Indy Car: A.J. Foyt hospitalized for infection

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Team owner A.J. Foyt watches during practice for the IZOD IndyCar Series Firestone 550k at Texas Motor Speedway June 4, 2010 in Fort Worth, Texas. (June 3, 2010 – Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images North America) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) – A.J. Foyt has been hospitalized in Houston for complications from knee surgery and will [...]

IndyCar announces 15-race schedule, may add 2 more

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Danica Patrick drives the #7 Motorola Andretti Green Racing Dallara Honda during the qualifying session for the IRL Indy Car Series Nikon Indy 300 on October 25, 2008 on the Gold Coast, Australia. (October 25, 2008 – Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images AsiaPac) NDIANAPOLIS (AP) – The IndyCar schedule will have a different look in [...]

IndyCar president still struggles with Wheldon’s death

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Brian Barnhart of the IZOD IndyCar Series talks to the media during the chassis strategy announcement at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on July 14, 2010 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (July 13, 2010 – Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images North America) INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – IndyCar executive Brian Barnhart wonders every day whether he could have done [...]

IndyCar to announce Wheldon investigation findings

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Image 47 in a sequence of 47 images of the crash in which Dan Wheldon of England driver of the #77 Bowers & Wilkins Sam Schmidt Motorsports Dallara Honda was involved during the Las Vegas Indy 300, part of the IZOD IndyCar World Championships presented by Honda on October 16, 2011 at the Las Vegas [...]

IndyCar Series won’t return to Las Vegas in 2012

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The car of Dan Wheldon of England driver of the #77 Bowers & Wilkins Sam Schmidt Motorsports Dallara Honda (left) and the #30 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Dallara Honda of Pippa Mann fly in the air during the Las Vegas Indy 300 part of the IZOD IndyCar World Championships presented by Honda on October 16, 2011 [...]

IndyCar drivers, officials talk safety

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Dario Franchitti, driver of the #10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara Honda walks on pit lane during a red flag stoppage of the race after a massive 15 car crash during the Las Vegas Indy 300 part of the IZOD IndyCar World Championships presented by Honda on October 16, 2011 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway [...]

Italy’s Marco Simoncelli, 24, dies in MotoGP race

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Marco Simoncelli of Italy and San Carlo Honda Gresini leads the field during the MotoGP race of MotoGP of Malaysia at Sepang Circuit on October 23, 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 24-year-old Italian MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli has died following a crash involving Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards during the Malaysian MotoGP in Sepang, Malaysia. [...]

Emotions flow, Wheldon celebrated at ceremony in Indianapolis

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(PhatzRadio / SI) — INDIANAPOLIS — It was nearly four hours before “A Celebration of the Life of Dan Wheldon” was scheduled to begin at Conseco Fieldhouse, and the line down Delaware Street led far down the block. Those who came to mourn the loss of the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner who was killed in [...]