Max Mosley, Formula1 News

LONDON— Max Mosley claims he is coming under pressure to reverse his decision last week not to seek re-election as president of Formula One’s ruling body. Mosley originally said he would step down as president of the International Automobile Federation in October. His decision helped broker a peace deal with the Formula One Teams Association, which had threatened to form a breakaway series if the FIA pressed ahead with an unpopular plan for budget caps from next year.

However, FOTA may not have seen the last of Mosley, according to an interview with the Mail on Sunday, where the 69-year-old official said some in the world of motorsport want still him to stand for a fifth term after 16 years in the job.

“They made the mistake of dancing on my grave before I was buried,” Mosley was quoted as saying. “It’s no good the teams getting a PR agency to claim I am dead and buried when I am standing here as large as life. I am under pressure now from all over the world to stand for re-election. Read the story »

19 Year Old Joey Logano Wins Lenox Industrial Tools 301

LOUDON, N.H. — In becoming a Sprint Cup winner at 19 years, 1 month and 4 days, Joey Logano had just the kind of race expected from a rookie. In winning Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Logano spun once, benefited from two “free passes” after falling a lap down and, he said, had to overcome an early feeling that he was lost out there trying to figure out where he needed to be.

“It’s not the way you want to win your first race,” he said. “But 20 years down the road when you look in the record books, no one will know the difference.”

Indeed, the NASCAR record book will reflect only that Logano supplanted Kyle Busch as the youngest winner in the premier circuit’s 61 years and not the bizarre path the Joe Gibbs Racing driver traveled to get there.

Logano’s misfortune incidentally positioned him for taking the checkered flag. After starting 24th and running outside the top 20 for most of the race, Logano’s No. 20 Toyota spun after being pinched on a lap 181 restart. He fell a lap down after his team fixed damage that shredded his tires but got back on the lead lap through a caution four laps later that also allowed him to make a final stop for fuel. Read the story »

NACSAR Rain Shortened Lenox Tools 301 Results

Rank Start Name Make Laps Completed Leading Laps Points Money Won
1 24 Joey Logano Toyota 273 10 190 $276,201
2 2 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet 273 64 175 $207,226
3 4 Kurt Busch Dodge 273 28 170 $146,675
4 14 David Reutimann Toyota 273 0 160 $146,423
5 1 Tony Stewart Chevrolet 273 40 160 $134,548
6 36 Brad Keselowski Chevrolet 273 0 150 $100,350
7 9 Kyle Busch Toyota 273 0 146 $140,673
8 26 Sam Hornish Jr. Dodge 273 0 142 $113,510
9 3 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 273 93 148 $142,751
10 13 Kasey Kahne Dodge 273 0 134 $126,848 Read the story »

Hornday Wins Truck Race in Memphis

MEMPHIS — Ron Hornaday dominated his second consecutive race and won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at the Memphis Motorsports Park. Hornaday, the series points leader, won last week at Milwaukee in the same truck by leading 180 of 200 laps. He had a similar performance in the MemphisTravel.com 200 on Saturday night.

He started on the pole after a qualifying lap of 117.7 mph and led 175 of 201 laps on the .75-mile oval.

“It’s a pretty dominant truck, for some reason,” Hornaday said. “I don’t know what we’re doing to it, but we’re going to go back and copy it somehow.”

A caution with five laps to go, caused when Dennis Setzer and Tayler Malsam got together, cut Hornaday’s commanding lead with a restart and a green-white-checker finish.

Brian Scott, who was running second, stayed with Hornaday through much of the first extra period lap, but Hornaday pulled away on the final sweep.

“I got a good jump on the restart,” Scott said. “I got to his bumper and drove into the corner right there with him. Unfortunately, I drove a little harder, and didn’t stick quite as well (in the turn).” Read the story »

Dixon #1 at Richmond

RICHMOND, Va. — Scott Dixon’s best pass of the night had more to do with saving horsepower than flaunting it, a decision that literally fueled his victory in Saturday night’s IRL SunTrust Indy Challenge.
As Chip Ganassi Racing teammate and pole-sitter Dario Franchitti pitted for ethanol on lap 139 – the downside of an aggressive strategy that further backfired when he had to return for entering a closed pit – Dixon backed off and was able to take the lead. Franchitti ultimately rallied but could only finish second to Dixon, who led the final 161 laps for his IndyCar Series-best third victory this season.

Graham Rahal was third, Hideki Mutoh fourth and Danica Patrick fifth in a race that featured just three lead changes among three drivers.

“It was very tough to pass because of the track,” said Dixon, apologetic despite earning his second victory at Richmond International Raceway and first since 2003. “I saved a little bit more (fuel) than Dario, and he was caught with that yellow and I was able to continue on and jump on him in the pits. Read the story »

Sun Trust Indy Car Results

Rank Start Name Make Laps Completed Leading Laps Points Money Won
1 2 Scott Dixon Dallara Honda 300 161 52 TBA
2 1 Dario Franchitti Dallara Honda 300 65 41 TBA
3 5 Graham Rahal Dallara Honda 300 0 35 TBA
4 8 Hideki Mutoh Dallara Honda 300 74 32 TBA
5 10 Danica Patrick Dallara Honda 300 0 30 TBA
6 17 Tony Kanaan Dallara Honda 299 0 28 TBA
7 16 Marco Andretti Dallara Honda 299 0 26 TBA
8 6 Raphael Matos Dallara Honda 299 0 24 TBA
9 12 Robert Doornbos Dallara Honda 299 0 22 TBA
10 13 Dan Wheldon Dallara Honda 299 0 20 TBA Read the story »

Terri O’Connell and kgkiradio.com Gregg Kielma team Up for The Coke Zero 400 Daytona All Next week. Check Out The Schedule!!!!

June 27th, 2009

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Catch Terri O’ in Daytona co-hosting the The Racers Report radio show on WWW.KGKIRADIO.COM along side host Gregg Kielma July 1st -4th

Nashville, TN – Dangerous Curves: The Terri O’Connell Story, by national champion racecar driver and celebrity Terri O’Connell, tells the dangerous and inspirational story of the first and only person to race professionally both as a male and a beautiful female. Designated as male at birth but with dominate female biological characteristics, the Mississippi author competed at the highest levels of racing before and after her 1994 corrective surgery. O’Connell feels that the dramatic beating the odds challenges in her book will rip at the reader’s heart strings by taking them on an unexpected and challenging adventure in devastating family dynamics and extraordinary life experiences. Read the story »

New Ford Motor Ready by August

Jack  “Mr. Ford” Roush

Ford team owner/engine-builder Doug Yates expects Ford’s new FR9 engine to be ready by August, just in time for the season-ending, 10-race Chase for the Championship playoff. Yates, David Simon and Mose Nowland have been working on it all year, and Yates sees light at the end of the tunnel. Once it’s ready, though, which members of Team Ford Racing will get it? It likely won’t go to Roush Fenway stars #99-Carl Edwards (fifth in points), #16-Greg Biffle (eighth) and #17-Matt Kenseth (10th) because they’ll almost certainly make the 12-driver championship playoff. With so much on the line, there’s some reluctance to run an engine that hasn’t been tested in competition. Read the story »