All the talk this past week — shoot, the entire Sprint Cup season — of the need to split up Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his crew chief/cousin, Tony Eury Jr., obscures two noteworthy facts:
First, Earnhardt is a mere 66 points out 12th place, the final Chase-eligible position, and second, there are 21 races before the field for the Chase is set in September at Richmond.
On Wednesday, team owner Rick Hendrick made it clear on a national teleconference he was not going to split up the two juniors. “I am 100 percent behind this group,” Hendrick said. “I have no intentions of making any…Â DetailsÂ
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Jenson Button has revealed to being so excited at the prospect of racing this season he is currently enduring a few sleepless nights.
Just a month ago it appeared as if Button’s Formula One career was poised to stall as he remained without a seat following the fall of Honda Racing.
But then came salvation in the form of Ross Brawn’s management buy -out, and now the 29-year-old heads into Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix as one of the favourites for victory.
The team’s cause has at least been aided by race stewards yesterday clearing their cars of running an illegal …Â Details
The high-pitched whine of Formula 1 engines was suspiciously absent from the Circuit de Catalunya on the outskirts of Barcelona earlier this month during a testing session for the coming Grand Prix season. A thick blanket of fog covered the course, and the racing teams waited idly for it to clear, making last-second tweaks before testing resumed. Mother Nature doesn’t often concern herself with metaphors, but this scene was eerily apt.
The sport has endured some rough weather in recent years. First came the retirement of its biggest star, Michael Schumacher, and uncertainty over whether a marquee name would replace him. Then there was Spygate — a 2007 scandal in which the McLaren team was alleged to have … Details
It is said often that rallying is a fantastic sport for competitors, but increasingly inaccessible to the wider world. Last week, the FIA World Motor Sport Council rubber-stamped the rules by which rallying will be run for the next five to 10 years: simpler, more in tune with financial and environmental realities, and quite simply a lifeline to ensure the sport’s future.
Yet the biggest conundrum facing the sport–how to reclaim its once lofty place in the public eye–remains as imposing as ever…. Details