LONG POND, Pa. — Sprint Cup points leader Tony Stewart will start from the pole for the Pocono 500 after rain washed out qualifying at Pocono Raceway on Friday.
Jeff Gordon will start second in Sunday’s 500-mile race, followed by Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman.
Stewart hopes to build on what so far has been …Â Details
General Motors Corp. has a tentative deal to sell its Saturn brand to former race car driver and dealership group owner Roger Penske.
Penske would get Saturn’s dealership network, which consistently has scored highly in customer satisfaction surveys for its no-haggle policy. There are about 400 Saturn dealers nationwide.
Penske has said his company, Penske Automotive Group Inc. of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., is interested in the Saturn brand and intended to make an offer.
Penske Automotive Group also distributes …Â Details
Max Mosley has told the world that instead of reaching a compromise with the nine FOTA teams, he thinks they should leave F1:
I say to them: If you want to draw up your own rules, then you can organise your own championship. But we have the Formula 1 championship. We draw up the rules for that. We have been doing that for 60 years and we will continue doing so.
It is difficult to believe that the president of the FIA could seriously be advocating a situation where the governing body’s most successful and popular championship is split into two.
Mario Theissen claims it was Mosley’s suggestion that FOTA place a ‘conditional’ entry to the 2010 championship, which they did last week.
But by agitating for a split Mosley has played into FOTA’s hands. Their argument that the governance of Formula 1 needs reforming has never looked more credible than when Mosley admitted he would rather see F1 split in two than accept that he might not get everything he wants from this debate… Details
I’ve been puzzled about what’s been happening in the FIA-FOTA row since last Friday. All the chatter from FOTA has gone. Now it’s only Max Mosley talking. He’s told the teams to leave and start their own series. But according to a source he’s the one that urged FOTA to file “conditional” entries for the 2010 Formula One campaign.
Mosley probably feels content and confident with his move. Ten or so teams have applied to compete in the 2010 campaign. The only reason they have done so is because of the budget cap. So, Mosley thinks he has the upper hand. He might… but ultimately Flavio Briatore is right, it will be Formula GP3.
Epsilon Euskadi? Superfund? Litespeed?
That’s not Formula One. That’s GP2 or the Indy Racing League. Formula One has always been the pinnacle of …Â Details