Auto Racing

Houston, Texas - Tuesday, July 20 - Hot on the heels of its dominant GT victory in the Utah Grand Prix, Risi Competizione now heads to Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Connecticut, for the second round of the five-race ALMS summer odyssey. Its central aims will be to not only ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/tkUIBovfceo" height="1" width="1"/

The IZOD Indy Car Series heads north of the border this weekend for the Honda Indy Toronto, a tight and super-fast street course that separates the men from the boys. And this weekend, Justin Wilson has been "the man", posting either the first or second fastest time in all ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/loRAs5y3KSE" height="1" width="1"/

Jorge Lorenzo squeaked out another pole position in MotoGP qualifying today, just besting Casey Stoner at qualifying for the MotoGP German Grand Prix. Lorenzo's time of 1:21.82 was only .02 seconds faster than Stoner, and just .13 seconds quicker than fellow countryman, Dani Pedrosa. Strangely, Lorenzo's leaky motorcycle was nearly ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/-EU-L37zGFM" height="1" width="1"/

Jorge Lorenzo will start from pole postion for the MotoGP British Grand Prix after setting the best time in today's qualifying at Silverstone. Lorenzo has rocketed to two wins this year, and is poised to take control of the MotoGP championship if he can win from pole again this ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/fSron78KJL8" height="1" width="1"/

LM24 2010 has been tough on a couple of favorites, and the latest major player to fall out of the race is the #82 Risi Competitzione Ferrari. The Risi squad was aiming for their third GT2 win, and looked to again have the right car to do it. ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/KBVjEw7t7WQ" height="1" width="1"/

The Nationwide series is racing in Sparta, Kentucky tonight at the Meijer 300. Joey Logano took his third pole in a row at the 1.5 mile oval, and looks to make history by winning the same race from the pole three years in a row. Kentucky is ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/cD6Yov2_m_Q" height="1" width="1"/

It's a busy sports day around the world, especially for people in England and the USA with the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a world Cup game featuring both countries, and two NASCAR races to boot. Oh yes, and one more thing, F1 is in North America this weekend ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/KmIASCjH3_g" height="1" width="1"/

You didn't even have to see his face. With a shrug in his shoulders and helmet sagging into his chest, you knew the dejection Sebastian Bourdais was feeling as he found out that his mighty #3 Peugeot LMP1 machine had just dropped out due to a mechanical failure and ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/whb1dRAgbG4" height="1" width="1"/

Hour 1 of the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans has been pretty exciting and eventful despite the Peugeots early drubbing of the LMP1 class. The big story of the first hour was a fairly large shunt by Nigel Mansell in the Beechdean LMP1 Ginetta-Zytek that brought out the ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/_Ea4WXlD7SQ" height="1" width="1"/

UPDATE: Risi disqualified during technical inspection, Corvette assumes pole. Risi Competizione ruled GT2 qualifying in Le Mans today, taking the class pole, and making ALMS fans here in North America proud. The Ferrari F430 piloted by Gianmaria Bruni put up the fast time on Thursday in the provisional qualifying ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/s9PtToCNqRY" height="1" width="1"/

If you paid any attention to CART/Champ Car in the late 90's and early 2000's, you know that Roberto Moreno seemed to be the dude that car owners would tap whenever they needed a substitute driver. Eventually Moreno became known as the "Super-Sub".But fast-forward a decade to 2010, and ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/nSAwcYVmiz4" height="1" width="1"/

Swift engineering released yet another Indy Car concept chassis today through a Racer.com story dubbed "Concept 70". It's a design that seems to be a mashup of previous Swift designs, including some pretty sexy sidepods and wicked looking shark fin.However, the front and rear wing look like they ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/JbgTzqPbL5g" height="1" width="1"/

Now *that* was an Indy Car oval race. The Indy Car Series exchanged the flat track of Indy for the 24-degree lunacy of Texas, and put on one heck of a show. Ryan Briscoe won from the pole, giving a boost to the Penske team that had a ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/r7CsHkp5Bvk" height="1" width="1"/

Ryan Briscoe rebounded from his crash at Indy to take the pole for tonight's Firestone 550K at Texas Motor Speedway. Briscoe's run gave Team Penske six poles in a row since the streak started in St. Petersburg. Briscoe, in particular, has taken a liking to the mile-and-a-half high ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/qrIVu4DLV8s" height="1" width="1"/

Dario Franchitti dominates to win second Indy 500 The 2010 Indy 500 won't go down in the history books as a race for the ages, but it did have some interesting story lines and one terrible crash. The big story was the absolutely destruction of the field by Dario's Target ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/6YS9vXDcY3I" height="1" width="1"/

Formula 1 has returned to Europe this weekend for the Spanish Grand Prix at Catalunya, and the talk in the garages is of the major upgrades that the teams have made on their machines in the recent off weeks. The buzzword in F1 continues to be "F-Duct", a ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/iX6eCsEI4kY" height="1" width="1"/

Every year at the Indy 500 time trials, bump day usually provides plenty of drama as the field gets set for the Greatest Spectacle In Racing. And not only did this year's bump day live up to the hype, but the closing hour left viewers and fans catching their ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/XsWXiC8oDZU" height="1" width="1"/

Some of you may recall the old Fleetwoods' tune "Call Me Mr. Blue"? Anyone, anyone, Buehler? Didn't think so. Regardless, me thinks Tony Fernandes should adopt it as his team/personal theme song. Just read an article on PlanetF1.com that Tony has proposed eliminating the blue flags from F1 races. You know, ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/9i3yn11IC7c" height="1" width="1"/

Yeah my poetry (if you can call it that) might suck, but it’s an accurate short version of the 2010 Monaco Grand Prix results. Mark Webber drove a perfect race from pole to claim his second consecutive grand prix victory in as many weeks, and Sebastian Vettel made it a Red ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/AGCfSXuY5jQ" height="1" width="1"/

Mark Webber used his pole position for an easy romp of 66 laps in the Spanish sunshine of Cataluña and secured his first win of 2010. Not so exciting a day for teammate Sebastian Vettel . Fernando Alonso, through good fortune and aggressive driving managed to bring his Ferrari home in ...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastmachinescom/~4/wEaFOpnkBk8" height="1" width="1"/