NASCAR: Round 20 – Brickyard 400, Indianapolis – July 25

July 26, 2010 in NASCAR
Tags: brickyard, dale earnhardt jr, ganassi, indianapolis, jimmie johnson, juan montoya, kevin harvick

Jamie McMurray contributed another milestone to a remarkable year for team owner Chip Ganassi, adding the Brickyard 400 victory to the team’s tally of the Indy 500 in IndyCar (courtesy of Dario Franchitti) and McMurray’s own Daytona 500 victory at the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season. Even just on the day, McMurray’s win [...]

IRL: Round 11 – Edmonton Airport, Canada – July 25

July 26, 2010 in IndyCar
Tags: edmonton, helio castroneves, indycar, paul tracy, scott dixon, will power

On a day of controversy in Formula 1 motor sport, it seems IndyCar wanted a bite of the headlines in Monday’s sporting press as well by throwing up its own disputed result in the dying minutes of the Edmonton event. As the race got underway on the converted airstrip temporary “street” circuit in Edmonton for [...]

MOTOGP: Round 9 – Laguna Seca, USA – 25 July

July 25, 2010 in MotoGP
Tags: ben spies, casey stoner, dani pedrosa, jorge lorenzo, laguna seca, micky hayden, valentino rossi

A tense and close series of practice and qualifying sessions had set up a stone cold classic duel between the evenly matched Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner at the front of the grid for Laguna Seca. But as the lights went out for the start of the US MotoGP, others had designs on the victory [...]

F1: Round 11 – Hockenheim, Germany – 25 July

July 25, 2010 in F1
Tags: felipe massa, fernando alonso, ferrari, hockenheim, sebastian vettel

The build-up to the German Grand Prix promised much. The unsettled weather had resulted in wet practice sessions and thrills and spills galore, and left qualification as the first proper bit of dry running the drivers had seen. Surely that would affect how well they were able to set up their cars for the race [...]

GP2: Rounds 11/12 – Hockenheim, Germany – July 24/25

July 25, 2010 in GP2
Tags: hockenheim, oliver turvey, pastor maldonardo, romain grosjean, Sergio Perez

Feature race Pastor Maldonardo continued to stamp his authority all over the GP2 series with another dominant win in the Germany feature race, only losing the lead for a single lap during the pit stop sequence and easily able to keep Sergio Perez at arm’s length. Maldonardo was gifted the race when polesitter Charles Pic [...]

IRL: Round 10 – Toronto, Canada – July 18

July 18, 2010 in IndyCar
Tags: dario franchitti, helio castroneves, justin wilson, scott dixon, tony kanaan, will power

Road courses in IRL are often criticised for being dull, processional affairs with too little overtaking, not much incident, and altogether lacking excitement and incident. Well way what you like about the other road courses – the streets of Toronto delivered handsomely in all four categories. Justin Wilson led the field to green on the [...]

MOTOGP: Round 8 – Sachsenring, Germany – July 18

July 18, 2010 in MotoGP
Tags: casey stoner, dani pedrosa, ducati, honda, jorge lorenzo, valentino rossi, yahama

Despite claiming pole position, there was something about the signs and portents coming into the race that must have made Jorge Lorenzo think this wasn’t going to be his weekend. He was off the pace on Friday, and then on Saturday his race bike had gone up in flames with an engine failure, the oily [...]

NASCAR: Round 19 – Lifelock.com, Chicagoland Speedway – July 10

July 12, 2010 in NASCAR
Tags: carl edwards, chicagoland, clint bowyer, david reutimann, jamie mcmurray, jimmie johnson, sprint cup

David Reutimann has won a Sprint Cup race before – in Charlotte, a little over a year ago – but the achievement was somewhat lessened by being a tactical victory in a rain-shortened race and not a “proper” win. He’s dearly wanted that stamp of legitimacy, a resounding win that no one could possibly deny [...]

F1: Round 10 – Silverstone, Great Britain – 11 July

July 11, 2010 in F1
Tags: ferarri, fernando alonso, jenson button, lewis hamilton, mark webber, mclaren, sebastian vettel, silverstone

Never make Mark Webber feel slighted. The Aussie is never more dangerous than when he thinks he’s been hard done by, and after a weekend which saw the team strip his car of a vital new wing to put it onto Sebastian Vettel’s car, it was clear that Webber’s hackles were up. And he was [...]

GP2: Rounds 9/10 – Silverstone, Great Britain – July 10/11

July 11, 2010 in GP2
Tags: Dani Clos, Davide Valsecchi, jules bianchi, oliver turvey, Pastor Maldonado, Sergio Perez, silverstone

Feature race Pastor Maldonardo stormed away from the grid at the start of the GP2 feature race, leaving a sluggish polesitter Jules Bianchi struggling to retain even second place from Dani Clos in third, while behind them Sam Bird got the better of Oliver Turvey for fourth place. And once Maldonardo was unleashed, that was [...]