Friday the 13th was a lucky day for Jason Muir and his crew of Matthew Chew, Paul Wyatt and Bucky Smith from Brisbane when they won the 2009 Audi Etchells world championship with a day to spare with a very consistent day of racing with a 9th and 8th placing to now have a total of 43 points, leading Damien King from Melbourne on 63 points.
With Muir’s discard placing a 10th placing means that they can’t be beaten and don’t have to sail the last day..
The series leader going into today, John Bertrand, had …Â Details
Lowe’s Motor Speedway’s frontstretch grandstands will be open Tuesday and Wednesday allowing fans to watch Goodyear’s tire test featuring four Sprint Cup drivers. Kasey Kahne, Jimmie Johnson, Marcos Ambrose and Paul Menard will be preparing for the speedway’s May races, including the 25th All-Star Race on May 16, and the 50th running of the Coca-Cola 600 on May 24.
As an added bonus, ticket holders for the Sprint All-Star Race and Coca-Cola 600 will be allowed to watch testing from …Â Details
The Estoril Quiksilver Pro, an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 6-Star event, announced the increase of the event’s overall prizepurse from US$ 145 000 to US$ 150 000 with an extra US$ 5000 going for to the 2009 winner who will pocket an unprecedent US$ 25 000, the biggest prizemoney ever awarded on an ASP WQS event in Europe.
The event, which will be…Â Details
Olympian and former USA Cycling National Team standout Christian Vande Velde (LeMont, Ill.) broke away in the last 20-kilometers of the fourth stage of the classic Paris-Nice road race. Thirty-two year-old Vande Velde was one of the original members of USA Cycling’s early development programs, racing under the young national team banner for the first several years of his career.Â
Riding for …Â Details