Kevin Harvick has informed Richard Childress that he wants out of his contract with RCR a year early, several media outlets report.
Harvick is under contract with Richard Childress Racing through 2010, but his Shell/Penzoil sponsorship deal runs out after this season. Sports Illustrated reports that Harvick wants to take that sponsorship to Tony Stewart’s Stewart-Haas Racing. Stewart has said…Â Details
There’s nothing that can stop him now!! Barring almost impossible-to-imagine events, Californian 17-year-old Zac Sunderland is about to become the youngest sailor on earth to circumnavigate the world solo.
He will break the record held since November 1996 by Australian David Dicks who completed his eight month trip when he was 18 years and 41 days old.
Zac pulled out of San Diego yesterday after clearing customs, and is due in Marina del Rey, on the central Los Angeles coastline tomorrow Thursday(16th July), just …Â Details
Antoine Albeau (JP/NeilPryde) managed to hold firm under building pressure today, while competition between the top five has reached an all-time high. Williams and Pritchard battled for second, yet an upset in the final elimination left the door open for the brilliant Cyril Moussilmani (Starboard/North Sails).
New challenges awaited the fleet at Pozo this morning, with a course format that favored the more technical sailor. A six-mark layout shortened the broad reaches and increased the pressure at the gybes, forcing a day of tight and unforgiving racing.
Cracks began to show in Albeau’s amour, as the current leader failed to … Details
Max Mosley has resisted pressure to stand again as FIA president and will back Frenchman Jean Todt to succeed him after 16 years in charge of world motorsport.
The 69-year-old Mosley announced last month that he wouldn’t seek a fifth term after brokering a deal with the Formula One Teams Association to avert a rival series. However, he then said in a subsequent newspaper interview that he might reconsider that decision.
Mosley said on Wednesday he received “almost 100 messages from FIA member clubs urging me to think again†but that he felt it was time to move on.
“Extremely grateful though I am for all the letters, e-mails and messages I have received, I have decided to reconfirm my decision. I will not be a candidate in October,†Mosley wrote in a letter to the FIA membership… Details