John Force raced to the No. 1 qualifying position in Funny Car Saturday at the SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Larry Dixon (Top Fuel) and Mike Edwards (Pro Stock) also will lead their categories into Sunday’s 11 a.m. eliminations at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event.
Force, the defending and 15-time world champion, posted a 4.136, 309.27 in his Castrol GTX High Mileage Ford Mustang to power past longtime rival  … Details
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — For a place that has been holding NASCAR races since 1949, there haven’t been as many different winners at Martinsville Speedway as one might think.
That’s because when a driver gets on a roll at the .526-mile short track, he tends to ride it to Victory Lane for a while. Repeatedly.
Richard Petty won at the paper-clip layout a record 15 times. Darrell Waltrip did so 11 times. In more recent years, Rusty Wallace visited Victory Lane seven times and so did … More
Tesla Motors has filed a lawsuit against the BBC’s Top Gear television program for “libel and malicious falsehood.†The suit stems from a 2008 Top Gear episode that featured the Tesla Roadster.
During the episode in question, Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson tested the Roadster on the show’s test track. However, the Roadster didn’t stand a chance, claims the lawsuit, as the show’s script called for  … More