About an hour before Friday’s qualifying round, shortly before driver David Gilliland strapped into his No. 71 Chevrolet, conspicuous by the blank space on the blue car’s hood where a sponsor’s logo belongs, upstart team owner Kevin Buckler arrived at the TRG Motorsports hauler at Texas Motor Speedway.
Inside the outfitted 18-wheeler, the team’s race-week headquarters, Buckler touted his team’s modest successes through six races on the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit and its loftier goals, while scraping by.
A half-hour later, Buckler would climb atop the hauler to watch…Â Details
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It wasn’t much of a contest Saturday as a radically new Acura prototype co-driven by David Brabham and Scott Sharp raced to an easy victory in the American Le Mans Series race on the temporary street circuit in downtown St. Petersburg.
Brabham, easily winning the LMP1 class, drove the second half of the race, which lasted just under two hours. He crossed the finish line on the 1.8-mile, 14-turn circuit a convincing 32.15 seconds ahead of runner-up Adrian Fernandez, sharing an LMP2 Acura with Luis Diaz…Â Details
David Brabham and Scott Sharp led an Acura 1-2 sweep Saturday in the Acura Sports Car Challenge, the second race of the 2009 American Le Mans Series, through the streets of St Petersburg.
The veteran driving pair drove the No. 9 Patrón Highcroft Racing Acura ARX-02a prototype sports car to the lead on Lap 43 and recorded a 32-second victory over the Mexican duo of Adrian Fernandez and Luis Diaz in the No. 15 Lowe’s Fernandez Racing Acura ARX-01b in the 93-lap feature. The 1-2 Acura finish marked Acura’s first ALMS sweep since last August in the streets of Detroit, when the automaker placed 1-2-3 overall.
 Saturday’s Acura sweep also made American Le Mans Series history with Acura taking wins in both the LMP1 and LMP2 class in the same event. No auto manufacturer had accomplished that feat in ALMS’ ten years… Details
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If you think the Ferrari Formula One car lining up for today’s Malaysian Grand Prix is the most technologically advanced machine to wear a prancing horse on its flanks, think again. This new 599XX, in some respects at least, makes even the most modern of racing cars seem backward.
What’s more, at £1.2m it’s worth not much less than an F1 car, and with 700bhp it’s not a lot less powerful. Its clever design is possible because, unlike an F1 car, the 599XX has been designed… Details