Hendrick Motorsports’ Jeff Gordon admitted that it’s tough to compete against teammate Jimmie Johnson season after season for championships. But when it came down to it, he enjoyed watching the driver make history Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
He also enjoyed making a little history of his own, as Gordon helped …Â Details
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Ian Duncan is the overnight leader of the 2009 East African Safari Classic Rally as leading cars reported at the Taita Hill Lodge at the end of three more stages of the competition after the start from the White Sands Hotel in Mombasa
Duncan’s Ford Mustang looked like the only car that did suffer major problems in the stages leading to the end of the action on Day Two.
“We have come through without any major problems, we had a small flat tyre towards the end of … Details & Picture
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NASCAR’s season finale always has a feel similar to the last day of school. Â
However, over the past two years, the experience has been comparable to graduation, as one question loomed: “Will today’s familiar faces be part of tomorrow’s motorsports fabric?”
The past two seasons, the day after the NASCAR season finale has become known as “Black Monday.”
In 2008, Dale Earnhardt Inc.’s merger with Chip Ganassi Racing led to more than 200 people being let go as the teams … Details
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24/7 Wall St. looked at a very large number of Nascar crashes to assess which were the most expensive. The crashes reviewed occurred between 2002 and the present.
A Fox Sports analysis estimates that the cost of a single Nascar car is $125,000 for auto, engine, and labor. All of the teams carry multiple vehicles. Engine development programs run as high $3.5 million a season, although we have not prorated that into the costs of any of the crashes.
The most important hidden cost is … Details & Crash Videos
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