Johnson, Martin findings did not imply intent to cheat
Chad Knaus walked out of the No. 48 transporter Friday morning and faced a phalanx of reporters for the crime of being within NASCAR law.
He hadn’t broken any rules. He hadn’t incurred any penalties. But in an inspection at the NASCAR Research and Development Center, series officials found the measurements on the No. 48 team’s race-winning Dover car to be closer to the tolerances than normal. Given Knaus’ reputation and the rumor-mongering nature of the Sprint Cup garage, the issue had morphed into a full-fledged controversy by the time teams arrived at Kansas Speedway…Â Details
Mark Martin’s impressive run of success continued at Kansas where the Sprint Cup Series Chase leader claimed his seventh pole of the season.
The Hendrick driver, who leads the standing by 10 points over his team-mate Jimmie Johnson, set a time of 30.724 seconds at an average speed of 175.758 mph to beat the previous benchmark set by Dale Earnhardt Jr by 0.084s.
“That’s pretty incredible,” said Martin, who …Â Details
Cars, trucks, motorcycles and UTVs left the start line Saturday morning September 26th for a challenging day 100 miles northeast of Las Vegas, near Alamo, Nevada. There would be a minute and 9 seconds between the first and second finisher, plus a power pole down, a pile of fuel cans up in flames, and one new truck burned to the ground before day’s end. All in all, an adventurous day of racing with Best in the Desert!
Casey Folks, Director of Best in the Desert said, “Best in the Desert racing is unlike any other form of motorsports. In oval track and closed-course racing drivers can learn lap after lap what to expect and actually see their competition. Wheel travel on flat-track racing may be 2 or 3 inches at most, while our Trick Trucks now are experiencing wheel travel of 36” or more, at over 110 miles per hour …Â Details
Video Automobile Rally Car – The cars and engine sounds of rally cars over a period of 30 years
Piero Comanducci´s view on the greatest era of the top-level rallying (apart from the wing-Audi taking off in the beginning). Credits to the original uploader of the source video.
Piero Comanducci´s beautiful footage of the golden days of rallying – the 1970s and early 1980s. From Lancia Stratos to Ford Escort – and everything between. With pure engine sounds.
A clip with pure engine sound concentrating on the most succesful rally weapons of the 1990s (half new and half familiar from the Group A saga). Footage by the great Piero Comanducci.
A video purely dedicated to the legend of 1980s top-level rallying – Henri Toivonen. Clip compiled from Piero Comanducci´s Rally Emotion documentaries