Tracy steals pole from title rivals.
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All eyes were on Champ Car title protagonists Sebastien Bourdais and Bruno Junqueira during qualifying for Sunday&#39;s Lexmark Indy 300 but, despite the watchful gaze of a record 85,741 fans, a man who knows every inch of the 2.795-mile Surfers Paradise
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World champion Fernando Alonso boosted his Formula One title chances on Saturday by seizing pole position on an all-Renault front row at a rain-swept Chinese Grand Prix.
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Champ Car World Champion Paul Tracy has shaken off a terrible practice session to qualify fastest for the Gold Coast Indy. Tracy hit a tire barrier towards the end of the opening 15-minute practice session, damaging his nosecone.
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The battle for grid positions from the US Grand Prix at Indianapolis.
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Dario Franchitti squeezed out a half-lap more than Scott Dixon on their final fuel load yesterday to win his first IndyCar Series title in what may be his farewell to open-wheel racing. Franchitti and Dixon came into the season finale at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill., with Franchitti leading the standings by 3 points. Franchitti overtook Dixon on the final lap to win by 1.844 seconds. He won the title and the $1 million prize that goes with it by 13 points.
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A powerful typhoon veered away from the site of the Japanese Grand Prix, boding well for Sunday&#39;s Formula One race after organizers were forced to postpone qualifying.
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MEXICO&#39;s Adrian Fernandez held off a last curve challenge to win the Indy 300 here today. Fernandez foiled Bryan Herta while Brazil&#39;s Tony Kanaan moved closer to claiming the Indy Racing League season crown.
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The race for the Nextel Cup championship is down to the wire and the points leader is running away from the field. Suddenly, a slower car gets in his way, holding him up until the other contenders catch up. It just so happens, the slower car is a teammate of one of the contenders. Impossible? Think again.
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LOUDON, N.H. -- Kevin Harvick's bold and brassy move on Lap 36 of yesterday's Sylvania 300 could have been easily interpreted as an even bolder, if not brassier, message to pie-throwing rookie Denny Hamlin and the other contenders in the Chase for the Nextel Cup Championship:
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Makoto Tamada delighted the home fans by taking pole position for Sunday&#39;s Japanese Grand Prix. It is the second successive pole for Tamada who clocked a time of one minute, 46.
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Ryan Newman shattered the track recorded at Martinsville Speedway Friday afternoon, capturing the pole for Sunday&#39;s SUBWAY 500 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup race.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. broke out of a six-week slump last night with a convincing victory in the Sharpie 500, giving him a weekend sweep at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway and momentum for the upcoming championship chase.
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It seems that the players in the Chrysler Championship all have different goals.
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The âChase for the Championshipâ begins Sunday exactly where it left off a week ago at Richmond International Speedway. After rain interrupted and washed out NASCAR Nextel Cup
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A two-tire stop for Jimmie Johnson paid off with a victory Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway, turning the Chase for the Nextel Cup championship into a virtual dead heat between the reigning champion and teammate Jeff Gordon.
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It&#39;s the easiest pole Kurt Busch ever won. And one of the most precarious positions in which he ever has been. Heavy afternoon rains Friday washed out qualifying
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Peter Lonard was almost an afterthought last week at The Australian - until the last nine when his pressure-proof action flushed enough irons close enough to steal the championship from those who had borne the brunt of the leaders&#39; tension for three and a