Formula One leader Jenson Button offered no apologies on Thursday for Brawn GP’s runaway success in a championship that is providing little drama.
Button has won five of the first six races coming into the Turkish Grand Prix to hold a 16-point lead over teammate Rubens Barrichello. Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel trails by 28 points in third, 3.5 points more than teammate Mark Webber.
“I think that we’ve achieved a lot this year,†Button said from Istanbul Park Circuit. “Us being quick shouldn’t be a negative either – we’re here to do the best job that we can and that’s what we’ve done. That’s what this sport is all about.â€
Brawn GP has best interpreted the major aerodynamic rule changes for this season, which almost started without …Â Details
Ten miles outside of Charlotte, N.C., stands the Herzog family’s white elephant: A sprawling NASCAR garage, 33,620 square feet of dormant body shop, conference rooms, hauler bay and parts storage. Their recently reduced asking price: $3 million.
During NASCAR’s years of growing sponsorship and small, competitive teams, such a facility in the heart of NASCAR country would have been the happy home of a one- or two-car team making a run at stock car racing’s Sprint Cup Series. But now, with small teams an endangered species in NASCAR’s top circuit, the Herzogs may end up leasing the vacant race shop to an upstart Formula 1 team based in the U.S.
By all accounts, NASCAR is suffering from myriad challenges – among them a … Details
Steven Van Broeckhoven (F2- Maui Sails) has won the first event of the European Freestyle Pro Tour in Sardinia!
He beat Davy Scheffers form Holland in the final.
Steven is leading the EFPT ranking now. In a few days the next events …Â Details
It was May 2007 when reports of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s well-choreographed move to Hendrick Motorsports surfaced. It was April a year ago when Tony Stewart’s intent to buy a team was revealed.
These early season blockbusters set the NASCAR dominoes in motion, leading to a flurry of driver and sponsor changes that shook up the sport each of the past two years.
But as the 2009 calendar flipped past April and May, team owners and marketers found themselves still shopping for companies to fill out this year’s sponsor lineup, in addition to selling for 2010…Â Details