ARLINGTON, Texas (April 2, 2011) – A massive crowd of 51,509 fans filled Cowboys Stadium on Saturday night for the 13th stop of the 17-race Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship. Continuing his successful rookie season, American Honda’s Trey Canard, of Shawnee, Okla., grabbed his third win of the season with a wire-to-wire victory. One week after claiming his second career win in Toronto, Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Dean Wilson, of Menifee, Calif., went back-to-back in the Supercross Lites class.
As the Supercross class headed into the first turn of its 20-lap main event, it was … Details
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