Tony Schumacher and the U.S. Army team won their sixth straight and seventh overall NHRA Full Throttle Series championship on Sunday by two points, the narrowest margin in NHRA history.
Schumacher’s team was on deck, sitting on a two-point lead over Larry Dixon, when Dixon was upset in the semifinals by Auto Club Road to the Future Award favorite Spencer Massey, thus clinching the title for the Army team.
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His look is clean-cut. His outward personality is polite. Jimmie Johnson wears a Lowe’s patch on his fire suit sleeve, not his heart.
And so it has become easy to miss what’s true about Jimmie Johnson – how his legendary combination of competiveness and talent has driven him to the brink of a historic fourth consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup title.
After a dominating first-place finish here on Sunday at the Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500, he carries a 108-point lead into next weekend’s finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He needs to finish just 25th or better to make history… Details
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Jimmie Johnson rebounded from a rare bad race with a dominating victory at Phoenix International Raceway that pushed him to the edge of a NASCAR record fourth consecutive championship.
Johnson led 238 laps Sunday to win for the fourth time in the last five races at Phoenix. It was his seventh victory of the season, and fourth since the start of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
More important, it stretched his lead to 108 points over Hendrick Motorsports teammate Mark Martin heading into the finale …Â Details
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Felipe Massa described his return to the cockpit of this year’s Ferrari F60 as feeling as satisfying as a grand prix victory.
The Brazilian completed several demonstration laps in the team’s 2009 car at today’s World Finals event – Ferrari’s traditional end of season celebration – at Valencia. It was the first time Massa had …Â Details
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