The car that Dale Earnhardt Jr. made famous is being shut down indefinitely.
The No. 8 car at Earnhardt Ganassi Racing is suspending operations due to a lack of sponsorship, the team confirmed Wednesday. The vehicle, driven this season by Aric Almirola, lost the backing of primary sponsor U.S. Army to Stewart-Haas Racing over the winter, and has raced this year on short-term deals.
EGR president Steve Lauletta said the suspension was something the team knew was a possibility, given that the No. 8 car opened the year without full-time backing…Â Details
CJM Racing and America’s Incredible Pizza Co. will team up this season with the Autism Society of America to help bring awareness to a disorder that affects one in 150 American children. The complex disability is something America’s Incredible Pizza Co. CEO Rick Barsness and his wife, Cheryl, are familiar with.
“Our grandson was diagnosed with autism very young. We put this ribbon on our car to bring awareness to the struggle that so many families, as well as our own, face with the diagnosis of autism,” Cheryl Barsness said.
“We also wanted to declare loudly that there is hope for these children…Â Details
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FIA President Max Mosley says that the federation is considering another radical cost-cutting idea for the long term: using the same basic engine in all the FIA’s main categories: Formula 1, Formula 2, the World Rally Championship and the World Touring Car Championship. The thought process is to have normally-aspirated versions of the engine for F2 and the touring car series and a turbocharged engine for F1. There would be areas open for development in F1, particularly involving …Â Details
When Jamie McMurray kept his Fusion from spinning during the Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this season, Vaughn Gittin Jr.’s cellphone spun out of control.
Fox announcer Mike Joy compared McMurray’s save with the talent of Gittin, a champion in drifting. The emerging motor sport is in the vein of The Fast and the Furious movies and features highly modified street cars sliding sideways at high speeds around tight courses…Â Details