Points leader Ryan Briscoe went wheel to wheel with fellow championship contender Scott Dixon on the last lap and came out on top, winning Saturday night’s IndyCar series race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill., by only 0.0077 of a second.
Dixon finished second by a nose, followed by Mario Moraes and another championship contender, Dario Franchitti — keeping the series title fight tight going into the last two races of the season. Graham Rahal finished fifth…Â Details
After last year’s Singapore Grand Prix there were plenty of conspiracy theories that Nelson Piquet Jnr crashed deliberately to help Fernando Alonso win the race.
Those theories are now being given credence by Brazilian F1 journalist Reginaldo Leme, who claims Renault are to be investigated by the FIA over the result of last year’s Singapore Grand Prix… DetailsÂ
 Honda Motor Co.’s withdrawal from Formula One racing in December to save money may give it an advantage over rivals: fresh blood from an elite cadre of engineers to improve its Civic compacts and Odyssey minivans.
The automaker reassigned the racing team’s 400 engineers to speed up development of new technologies to improve fuel efficiency and emission levels for mass-produced cars.
“F-1 was all about pursuing the best energy efficiency to achieve speed,†Kazuo Sakurahara, who led Honda’s team of F-1 engineers, said in  … Details
Confident as ever, Fernando Alonso is certain he will win a third Formula One title.
But even the Spaniard doesn’t know which team he’ll be on when he does.
Alonso has long been linked with a move away from underachieving Renault to Ferrari, and those reports continue to gain momentum as F1 glides through its traditional “silly season,†when drivers and teams are often linked for the coming season.
Wherever he ends up, the 28-year-old Alonso is certain …Â Details