Auto racing notebook Sat, Nov 29, 2008 | Add a comment Aussie resting up for Cup run With the 2008 NASCAR season finally over, drivers from the three top professional series have headed home or set off on well-earned vacations. None of them has...

Johnson makes NASCAR history Sat, Nov 22, 2008 | Add a comment Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards opened the 2008 season intent on knocking Jimmie Johnson from the top of NASCAR. They chased him all year, but never quite caught him. Despite a combined 17 Sprint Cup...

Busch’s season ends too quietly Sat, Nov 22, 2008 | Add a comment A season that started off with so much promise ended a little too quietly for 23-year-old Kyle Busch. On the final weekend of the 2008 NASCAR season, Busch went 0-for-3 at Homestead-Miami Speedway,...

The Chase doesn’t live up to name Sat, Nov 22, 2008 | Add a comment For a fourth consecutive year, the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway shaped up to be more of a coronation than a drama-filled race to the championship. Jimmie Johnson needed only to finish 36th...

NASCAR: Johnson clinches third title Sun, Nov 16, 2008 | Add a comment HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Nothing could stop Jimmie Johnson’s drive into the NASCAR record books. Not even a final, furious push by Carl Edwards. Edwards led a race-high 157 laps, ran out of...

Edwards will start fourth Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Add a comment HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Carl Edwards got the jump on Jimmie Johnson in Friday’s qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Edwards, facing a daunting 141-point...

NASCAR notebook Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Add a comment NASCAR suspends testing NASCAR has suspended all testing at its sanctioned tracks next season in a cost-cutting measure that should help teams save several million dollars in their 2009 budgets....

Johnson, Edwards gear up for finale Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Add a comment CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Jimmie Johnson sat before nine former NASCAR champions, too respectful to reflect on his own place in history. In just a few more days, he’ll likely have a third...

Johnson closes in on third title Sun, Nov 9, 2008 | Add a comment AVONDALE, Ariz. — Just when Carl Edwards seemed to have Jimmie Johnson on the ropes, the two-time defending NASCAR champion delivered the knockout punch. Johnson moved inches away from his...

Johnson can win his third crown Sat, Nov 8, 2008 | Add a comment AVONDALE, Ariz. — Carl Edwards chipped into Jimmie Johnson’s points lead with consecutive victories at Atlanta and Texas. Now the championship race has moved into the desert, where...

Johnson captures pole, moves closer to crown Fri, Nov 7, 2008 | Add a comment AVONDALE, Ariz. — Jimmie Johnson moved a step closer to a third consecutive Sprint Cup title by winning the pole Friday at Phoenix International Speedway. Johnson, the defending race winner,...

Morning sports roundup Tue, Nov 4, 2008 | Add a comment Rockies’ Holliday among highest-ranked players Mark Teixeira, Stillwater native Matt Holliday and CC Sabathia drew the highest marks Tuesday in the annual player rankings by the Elias Sports...

Morning roundup: NASCAR fan hit by stray bullet in Fort Worth Tue, Nov 4, 2008 A NASCAR fan in her recreational vehicle at Texas Motor Speedway was wounded by a stray bullet after someone apparently fired a gun into the air, police said. A bullet suddenly pierced through the...

F1: Massa se impone en Bélgica tras sanción a Hamilton Thu, May 18, 2006 SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Bélgica (AP) -- El brasileño Felipe Massa fue declarado como ganador del Gran Premio de Bélgica al beneficiarse el domingo de una sanción de 25 segundos...

NASCAR not to blame for tire fiasco at Brickyard Mon, Jun 12, 2006 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Yes, the race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a debacle. No point in denying it. But don't be so quick to castigate NASCAR, which was faced with the unenviable...

Goodyear wants to know what went wrong Mon, Jun 12, 2006 LONG POND, Pa. (AP) -- Carl Edwards won Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway, gambling with a pit strategy that he thought would cost him the victory. Edwards pitted from...

Start of Indy 500 the most dangerous moment Mon, May 26, 2008 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The start of the Indianapolis 500 was once described as driving through a blender set to puree. Thirty-three cars racing in rows of three toward a narrow left turn at...

Hamilton gana el GP de Mónaco Wed, May 24, 2006 MONTECARLO (AP) -- El británico Lewis Hamilton supo sortear un percance inicial, además de una pista mojada, para imponerse el domingo en el Gran Premio de Mónaco y escalar al...

Dixon gana lugar de privilegio en salida de Indy 500 Sun, May 21, 2006 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- La estrategia fue casi tan importante como la velocidad el sábado para que el piloto neozelandés Scott Dixon ganara el lugar de privilegio en la parrilla de...

F1: Super Aguri se retira del campeonato mundial Thu, May 18, 2006 TOKIO (AP) -- El equipo japonés Super Aguri se retiró el martes del campeonato mundial de Fórmula Uno debido a problemas económicos. "He participado en el campeonato...