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Vettel wins Abu Dhabi F1 GP to finish 2009 season

Once a brake problem slowed McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel had no competition in Sunday evening’s inaugural day/night race. A brilliant win cemented his second place in the drivers’ world championship behind Brawn GP’s Jenson Button, who enlivened the end of the race with a superb challenge to the second-placed Red Bull of Mark Webber in the closing stages. Continue reading »

Button wins F1 title as Webber wins Brazil GP

Jenson Button took the limelight at the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix. After 60 of the 71 laps, as Mark Webber swept to a dominant victory for Red Bull ahead of BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica and a fighting Lewis Hamilton, he had done enough. And a late puncture for Brawn GP team mate Rubens Barrichello, which elevated him to fifth, was merely the icing on the cake. Continue reading »

Vettel wins 2009 Japanese F1 Grand Prix

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel brought his world championship hopes alive again with a superb victory in Japan on Sunday afternoon, winning as he pleased and leading Jarno Trulli’s Toyota home by 4.8 seconds despite a late safety car intervention. Lewis Hamilton was third for McLaren, another 1.5 seconds adrift, after losing out to Trulli in the second pit stops. Continue reading »

McLaren-Mercedes scores as Hamilton wins Singapore F1 GP

Lewis Hamilton won the 2009 Singapore F1 Grand Prix on Sunday evening, driving a perfect race for McLaren to deliver a richly deserved triumph. Continue reading »

LeMans team builds Acura racecar on video

About 42 hours after Highcroft Acura driver Scott Sharp walked away from a crash during practice for the Petit Le Mans racing event, a freshly-built Acura ARX-02a was rolled out for the morning warmup on Saturday. The Highcroft crew put in marathon sessions of work, totaling 20 hours, to build a brand new racecar, as LeMans teams do not generally have a backup car. A spare carbon-fiber tub was picked up from the Honda Performance Development shop in California and shipped, while the crew at the Atlanta racetrack salvaged 10% of the old parts for use in the new car. The car was ready to race in less than two days, and finished 6th in the rain-shortened race. Continue reading »

Kimi wins for Ferrari at 2009 Belgian F1 GP

In what has to be the most random podium finishes of the season, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen became the sixth different victor in six races, and his first for 2009, with a closely-fought success in Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix, in which his KERS system played a crucial role in the opening stages. Interestingly, regular loser Force-India came in second, after the team’s Giancarlo Fisichella took pole in qualifying. Continue reading »

Brawn’s Barichello wins 2009 European F1 GP

Rubens Barrichello finally has a win under the Brawn GP banner, achieving first place at the 2009 European F1 Grand Prix in Valencia with a performance that brought him home just two seconds ahead of McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, whose pit-crew’s mistake cost him the win. Continue reading »

Ford replaces GM as NHRA sponsor

The NHRA, drag racing’s largest sanctioning body, has signed a multiyear agreement with Ford Motor Company, designating the legendary automaker as the official car and truck of NHRA, replacing the ailing General Motors. Continue reading »

Ford Mustang new face of NASCAR 2010

Ford says that the Mustang is already the most successful single nameplate in Ford Racing’s professional racing history, but it has never competed in NASCAR. So they decided to take those Fusion stickers off of their stock car and slap on some Mustang decals. Continue reading »

Hamilton scores for McLaren in 2009 Hungarian F1 GP

With Felipe Massa’s near-death experience in a serious freak accident during qualifying overshadowing the event, the 2009 Hungarian F1 Grand Prix went ahead as scheduled. Lewis Hamilton brought McLaren their first victory of the season after a surprise result in Hungary on Sunday afternoon, his dominant success also marking Martin Whitmarsh’s first as team principal and the first for a KERS-equipped car. Kimi Raikkonen was second for Ferrari, containing a challenge from Mark Webber’s Red Bull. Continue reading »

Webber wins German F1 GP for Red Bull

Red Bull Racing’s Mark Webber started off from pole and went on to win this Sunday’s 2009 German F1 Grand Prix. No matter what was thrown at the Australian, including a drive-through penalty for a brush off the startline with Brawn’s Rubens Barrichello, Webber came through and delivered in devastating style. Continue reading »

FIA and FOTA to stay pals, vote Mosley off the island

An agreement has been reached between the FIA governing body and the FOTA teams to prevent a breakaway Formula 1 series. Continue reading »

Vettel wins 2009 British F1 GP for Red Bull

Sebastian Vettel launched his Red Bull RB5 into the lead of the British Grand Prix from the start itself, after clinching the pole in qualifying. In a crushingly dominant drive, which underlined the major step forward that the Milton Keynes team have made on high-speed circuits, Vettel pulled away from Rubens Barrichello’s Brawn by as much as a second a lap in a series of quick tours, and never looked remotely challenged. Continue reading »

Major F1 teams create own FOTA breakaway championship

The Formula One Teams’ Association, better known as FOTA, announced on June 19 that it is setting up a breakaway championship. Following a four-hour meeting at Renault’s Enstone factory, the eight members of FOTA, namely Ferrari, McLaren, Renault, BMW Sauber, Toyota, Brawn, Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso, said they had grown frustrated with the FIA’s stance on new rules for 2010, and had no option but to create a series of their own. Continue reading »

Nascar pit stop in Times Square

Red Bull Racing NASCAR driver Brian Vickers and his pit crew perform a full pit stop on a Toyota Camry racer in the middle of Times Square, New York. It took 20.6 seconds, but it is a record in Times Square anyway. Continue reading »

Brawn GP Button wins Turkish F1 Grand Prix

Jenson Button made it six wins out of seven races by claiming the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul. With his teammate Rubens Barrichello failing to score, Button now carries a 26-point lead into his home race at Silverstone in two weeks. Continue reading »

Brawn GP Button wins 2009 Monaco F1 GP

Jenson Button had no peer in Monte Carlo on Sunday afternoon. The world championship points leader snatched another full score as he grabbed the lead at the start, eased quickly away from Brawn team mate Rubens Barrichello, and romped home to a comfortable and totally convincing victory. Continue reading »

Brawn one-two as Button wins 2009 Spanish F1 GP

In an outcome that is starting to seem cliched, Brawn’s Jenson Button destroyed the field again, this time at the 2009 Spanish F1 Grand Prix, at the expense of team-mate Rubens Barrichello’s error. The championship leader took the chequered flag 13 seconds clear of the Brazilian with Mark Webber making good use of strategy to finish third in the leading Red Bull Renault. Continue reading »

Hajek Motorsports to attempt NASCAR speed record in Mustang FR500C

Brent Hajek, owner of Hajek Motorsports, and now also owner of the first E85-powered Ford Mustang FR500C, is going to attempt a NASCAR speed record with his latest toy. Continue reading »

Brawn GP’s Button wins at Bahrain F1 Grand Prix

Jenson Button scored his third victory of this season on April 26 in the 2009 Bahrain F1 Grand Prix. His Brawn GP car continues to amaze on its barely-sponsored debut. Continue reading »

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