It wasn’t much of a contest Saturday as a radically new Acura prototype co-driven by David Brabham and Scott Sharp raced to an easy victory in the American Le Mans Series race on the temporary street circuit in downtown St. Petersburg.
Brabham, easily winning the LMP1 class, drove the second half of the race, which lasted just under two hours. He crossed the finish line on the 1.8-mile, 14-turn circuit a convincing 32.15 seconds ahead of runner-up Adrian Fernandez, sharing an LMP2 Acura with Luis Diaz…Â Details
A win Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway just might be the biggest of Jeff Gordon’s career.
Is that a stretch for someone with 81 career victories and four Sprint Cup championships?
Perhaps, until you consider that it would end a 47-race winless streak, the longest of his career, and leave just one active track where Gordon hasn’t driven to Victory Lane.
It would also be a win at a track that seems to grow in stature annually.
“I want to win here bad,†said Gordon, who … Details
The way Tisha Wilson tells it, what happened that day at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Ga., was no big deal.
She was roaring down the track at 200-plus miles an hour in a nitro funny car. There was a “little incident.” An explosion. Some flames.
“It burned my eyebrows,” she says. “Burned my driving suit. My feet felt hot.”
No big deal, really (her mother, Teresa Wilson, has a somewhat different take, as you will see). It’s just something that can happen when you combine explosive speed with explosive fuel mixtures while chasing your dream of becoming a professional drag racer.
Still a few months shy of her 21st birthday, the South Rowan High grad has been …Â Details
 As the battle to bring youth motorcycles and ATV’s back to the dealership showroom floors seems to hesitate, advocacy groups are indicating their disappointment in agency officials.
The Motorcycle Industry Council (MIC), the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America (SVIA) and its members are disappointed that Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Chairman Nancy Nord announced today that she intended to vote against the petition that our industry submitted for an exclusion for all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and motorcycles from the lead content limits found in the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). The organization believed that a recent petition submitted to the agency was based on sound science and showed that there is no measurable risk to children resulting from lead exposure from these products…Â DetailsÂ