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What a difference a year makes.

Just ask Rob Naughton (leading Brian Deegan, LEFT), who spent most of his first year in the Pro 2 class struggling. But no more. He opened up the 2011 season with a win at Firebird in Round 2 of Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series and, after a momentous weekend at Miller Motorsports Park near Tooele, Utah, tripled his win total and made his claim as a championship contender.

The off-season was full of change for   …  Pictures and more

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Kurt Busch claimed his first victory of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season with a categorical showing at Infineon Raceway.

The Penske racer had shown throughout practice that he had the car to beat, losing pole position in qualifying only after making two costly mistakes on his flying lap. On Sunday, though   …  More

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porsche-911-gt3r-hybrid-version-201Last year in the Nürburgring 24 Hour race, Porsche’s 911 GT3 R Hybrid held the lead for more than eight hours before problems unrelated to the hybrid system saw it relegated through the field. The organizer of the event thought the performance potential of the vehicle was so auspicious that for this year it crippled the rear-mounted petrol engine’s performance to just 448 bhp. So Porsche built a completely new vehicle to the same design around the new regulations, lowered the weight, upped the electrical drive to the front wheels to 200 bhp and set out to run the same lap times   …  Pictures and more

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Mike Neff raced to his third win of the season Sunday as racing came to an end at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio. Del Worsham, Vincent Nobile, and Eddie Krawiec also won in their respective categories at the 10th of 22 events in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.

Neff drove his Castrol GTX Ford Mustang to a 4.211-second run at 289.94mph past Ron Capps in the final round to collect his third win of the season and fourth career win. It was also Neff’s fifth final-round appearance in the past six races   …  More

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