A racing safety manufacturer who endured criticism over the role his former company’s seat belt may have played in Dale Earnhardt’s death now faces accusations his new company used counterfeit certification labels on some of its products.
SFI Foundation Inc. has filed a lawsuit and sought a restraining order against Bill Simpson’s Impact Racing LLC to ban the sale of fire suits, seat belts and other uncertified Impact gear it says bear counterfeit SFI labels or patches.
A federal judge in Indianapolis on Thursday issued an order … Details
Denny Hamlin and crew chief Mike Ford were in a tough spot, leading a race with a dominant car and eight laps to go when a caution forced a decision.
If they headed for pit road, the cars right behind them would stay on the track, gambling they could win a short sprint to the finish on old tires. And if they stayed on the track, the rest would pit, get fresh tires and surely run them down … Details
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — After trying for more than an hour to battle increasingly wet weather conditions Sunday at Martinsville Speedway, NASCAR postponed running the Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 until noon ET Monday.
A steady rain descended on the track about an hour before the scheduled Sunday start time of 1:13 p.m. ET and did not let up. Officials called for the postponement of the race just before 2:30 p.m … Details
2008 – Jeff Gordon drives a Williams-BMW FW24, the car that Juan Pablo Montoya drove during the 2002 Formula 1 World Championship. Montoya drives Jeff Gordon’s #24 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Winston Cup car. This is a 2002 chassis. This took place in the Grand Prix Road Course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.