Chrysler’s head of motorsports, Ralph Gilles, announced today that the automaker will end its Dodge-branded NASCAR racing program at the end of the 2012 season.
In the wake of losing its top team, Penske Racing, to Ford for the 2013 season, Gilles said the company was unable to find a partner that would allow it to “go forward with a structure that met our standards.”
The decision to … More
Chrysler Group’s SRT division, which earlier this year revealed the redesigned 2013 Viper sports car, ran two racing versions of the Viper in their first competition at of the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.
SRT, which specializes in high-performance road and race cars, returned to the American Le Mans Series in a partnership with racing team Riley Motorsports. While the results were not extraordinary, both cars finished the two-hour, 45-minute race with one logging a top-10 finish  … More
KENT, Wash. — One is the baby girl of drag racing legend John Force. She learned to talk almost as fast as she drives by watching her motormouth dad become the sport’s most famous and most successful driver.
The other is an unassuming Texan, a quiet but determined woman who had a movie made about her life as a teenage drag racer because she was regularly beating the boys.
Courtney Force and Erica Enders are as different as two young women can be until they get in a race car. They shared a memorable moment Sunday in the Northwest Nationals  … More