Looking for his own version of “Spring Break,†NASCAR Cup team owner/driver Robby Gordon will spend his week off from pavement racing by returning to his desert racing roots as one of 10 overall winners from the last 13 years entered in this week’s 23rd annual Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250.
Round 2 of the 2009 SCORE Desert Series will be Friday through Sunday in Mexico’s quaint and picturesque fishing village of San Felipe, located on the East side of the Baja California peninsula along the azure waters of the tranquil Sea of Cortez.
Gordon, who won this race in 1996 and whose only attempt here since then was a did-not-finish in 2004, will…Â Details
A new rider moving to a new World championship series, on an all-new bike, racing on unfamiliar tracks, is not supposed to find pole position once during his rookie season. Ben Spies has earned pole position at each of the first two races in the WSB series this year, including one earned earlier today in Qatar. If he hadn’t visited the gravel trap during the first race at Round 1, Spies might also be the winner of each race to date. As it is, he has …Â Details
One month into the longest leg of the Volvo Ocean Race, the Puma Ocean Racing team are preparing to face heinous conditions over the next four days, as they make their way towards Cape Horn. With 1,700 nautical miles to go until they round the iconic landmark, the Volvo Ocean Race fleet is about to be shaken up again, with the opportunity for place-changing at the front of the fleet. Puma is currently in third place behind rivals Ericsson 3 and Ericsson 4, but are closing the gap between the boats every mile that they sail.
Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America, is fabled for the hazardous conditions commonly encountered by boats rounding it. Where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet, strong winds, large waves, strong currents, freezing temperatures and rough seas combined with the chance of iceberg sightings make its rounding threatening to the most experienced ocean going sailors.
With a huge low pressure system currently building …Â Details
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Even on slow ice, Shani Davis is still faster than the rest of the world. Davis won the 1,500-meter race at the World Single Distance Speedskating Championship Thursday, establishing him as the Olympic gold-medal favorite as the Richmond Olympic Oval made its international debut less than a year before it hosts the 2010 Games.
Americans took the top two places as Davis, 26, of Chicago, continued his season-long dominance …Â Details