It wasn’t much of a contest Saturday as a radically new Acura prototype co-driven by David Brabham and Scott Sharp raced to an easy victory in the American Le Mans Series race on the temporary street circuit in downtown St. Petersburg.
Brabham, easily winning the LMP1 class, drove the second half of the race, which lasted just under two hours. He crossed the finish line on the 1.8-mile, 14-turn circuit a convincing 32.15 seconds ahead of runner-up Adrian Fernandez, sharing an LMP2 Acura with Luis Diaz…Â Details
A win Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway just might be the biggest of Jeff Gordon’s career.
Is that a stretch for someone with 81 career victories and four Sprint Cup championships?
Perhaps, until you consider that it would end a 47-race winless streak, the longest of his career, and leave just one active track where Gordon hasn’t driven to Victory Lane.
It would also be a win at a track that seems to grow in stature annually.
“I want to win here bad,†said Gordon, who … Details
VAIL VALLEY, Colorado — Eagle resident Mike Reid remembers his first world rafting championship as one of the most intense experiences of his life — he and five other teammates were paddling down a river in the Czech Republic against the Russian national team.
“There were probably 5,000 people on either side of the river,†said Reid. “You’re wearing the American colors, and we’re racing the Russians. We were pretty into it. Seeing the two boats come down the straightaway — it was one of most intense things you’d ever seen.†… Details
The way Tisha Wilson tells it, what happened that day at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Ga., was no big deal.
She was roaring down the track at 200-plus miles an hour in a nitro funny car. There was a “little incident.” An explosion. Some flames.
“It burned my eyebrows,” she says. “Burned my driving suit. My feet felt hot.”
No big deal, really (her mother, Teresa Wilson, has a somewhat different take, as you will see). It’s just something that can happen when you combine explosive speed with explosive fuel mixtures while chasing your dream of becoming a professional drag racer.
Still a few months shy of her 21st birthday, the South Rowan High grad has been …Â Details