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McLaren-Honda is delighted to announce its new driver line-up for 2015: Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button. Kevin Magnussen will remain an important part of the team, as test and reserve driver. All three men will play crucial roles in re-establishing the ascendancy of one of global sport’s most iconic unions, for McLaren and Honda have already formed one of the most dominant partnerships in motorsport history: Honda broke new ground in the 1980s by creating a turbocharged engine that was unparalleled in both its output and its efficiency, and, betweenRead More

Action Express Racing has finalized the driver lineup for the No. 31 Whelen Engineering Corvette Daytona Prototype for 2015. Joining Eric Curran and Dane Cameron in the No. 31 for the four Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup events will be veteran Max Papis. Also joining the team for the Rolex 24 at Daytona will be 2015 Sunoco Whelen Challenge winner Phil Keen of Great Britain. Papis competed in two events for the Whelen Motorsports team last season and brings an extensive racing resume to the No. 31 entry. ARead More

AVONDALE, Ariz. — A victory at Phoenix—and a dominating one at that—was exactly what Kevin Harvick needed to keep his hopes for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship alive. But a second-place finish in Sunday’s Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 did Jeff Gordon no good, thanks to a final-lap banzai run by Ryan Newman, who passed rookie Kyle Parson for the 11th position on the final lap to eliminate Gordon from the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup by a single point. Polesitter Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano, whoRead More

LAS VEGAS, NV — Long-time IMSA Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge competitor Compass360 Racing (C360R) today released details of its 2015 sportscar program, which will see the team debuting a Street Tuner-class effort with the recently-launched Audi S3. “We’re really excited to finally announce this new program,” enthused Team Principal Karl Thomson. “It’s something (Technical Director) Ray Lee and I have been working on since March of last year, when I first sat down with the Audi folks at Sebring.” The new Audi will bring some new technology to theRead More

Demonstrating its commitment to winning the 2015 TUDOR United Sports Car Championship, Scuderia Corsa is proud to announce the addition of drivers Bill Sweedler and Townsend Bell to the team. Sweedler and Bell will pilot the team’s flagship no. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 458 Italia in the GT-Daytona class. At the wheel of a Ferrari 458 Italia during the 2014 TUDOR Championship season, Sweedler and Bell were victorious in the 2014 Rolex 24 at Daytona and handily won the Patron North American Endurance Cup. The duo led much of theRead More

FORT WORTH, Texas—It happens every fall, at least in recent years. Jimmie Johnson won the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway for the third straight year, holding off runner-up Kevin Harvick and third-place Brad Keselowski after Sunday’s AAA Texas 500 went to two overtimes. The action in the second race of the Chase’s Eliminator Round was scintillating enough, but it couldn’t match the intensity of a post-race brawl on pit road that left Keselowski and Jeff Gordon bruised and bloodied. Johnson, who was eliminated fromRead More

The family of Jules Bianchi would like to issue the following statement, by way of an update on Jules’ medical condition. The Marussia F1 Team is supporting the family by facilitating its communication. “It will be four weeks this coming Sunday since Jules’ accident and he remains in the Mie General Medical Center in Yokkaichi. His condition continues to be classified by the medical professionals here as critical but stable. Although we have no new information to give, we recognise that there are a huge number of people all aroundRead More

Moving from strength to strength, 2014 IMSA TUDOR United SportsCar Champions Action Express Racing will stage a full-season two-car entry in the 2015 IMSA TUDOR Championship season in the premiere Prototype class. The Denver, N.C.-based organization will field the No. 31 Whelen Corvette Daytona Prototype for Whelen Engineering. The Coyote-chassied machine powered by ECR Engines will run alongside the 2014 TUDOR Championship-winning No. 5 Corvette DP of Joao Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi. The No. 31 Whelen Corvette DP will feature an all American driver line-up with drivers Eric Curran andRead More

Dario Franchitti is a four time IndyCar champion, he is a three time Indy 500 winner, former husband to movie star Ashley Judd, part time ABC sports commentator and beloved motorsport figure throughout the world. But until this week he never received a tribute so touching, with no further ado here is JB Lynch and Preme D with their surefire hit: Dario Franchitti. The song first made the rounds on twitter yesterday, and is now blowing up in the IndyCar world and beyond. As Tony Kanaan said, “this is howRead More

Adam Tate and Joey Barnes of Tribute Racing team with Christopher DeHarde from Motorsport.com live from the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. The trio discuss the Tudor United SportsCar Championship race that took place at the track earlier in the day, and look ahead to the World Endurance Championship race, the 6 Hours of COTA on a jam packed Lone Star Le Mans weekend. Also a brief look at the Singapore Grand Prix as Formula One qualifying took place earlier in the day. Hit the link to listen.Read More