Tracy takes Indy pole
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Canada&#39;s Paul Tracy during qualifying for the Lexmark Indy 300 which is round 13 of the Champ Car World Series in Surfers Paradise.
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Rain wiped out qualifying Friday for NASCAR&#39;s Sylvania 300, leaving points leader Jeff Gordon on the pole for Sunday&#39;s race.
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Spain&#39;s double world Formula One champion Fernando Alonso threw down the gauntlet to McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton by racing to pole position for the Italian Grand Prix here on Saturday.
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Ryan Newman will start tomorrow&#39;s NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race from a familiar spot â-he pole. Newman won his third straight pole and eighth of the season last
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Kurt Busch won the pole yesterday for tomorrowâs Sharp Aquos 500 at California Speedway.
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Sport: Formula one: Fernando Alonso edged out Lewis Hamilton to take pole for tomorrow's Italian grand prix.
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Sometimes things are not as they seem, and on those days, stock-car events are impossible to predict. The driver who won the pole for Sundayâs Ford 400 had qualified 22nd, 21st, seventh
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Dario Franchitti holds only a 3-point lead over Scott Dixon in the standings entering todayâs IndyCar Series season finale at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill. But Franchitti will start from the pole, after winning his third pole of the season yesterday.Sam Hornish Jr. and HÃ©lio Castroneves qualified second and third. Tony Kanaan, the only other driver with even an outside shot at the title, was fourth. Dixon was sixth.
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Brazil&#39;s Bruno Junqueira leads Canada&#39;s Paul Tracy through a chicane during practice for the Lexmark Indy 300 on Australia&#39;s Gold Coast, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004.
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Sete Gibernau kicked off proceedings at the Valencian GP today with provisional pole position, confirming his motivation and desire to take victory at the final round of the season.
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Bruno Junqueira won Sunday&#39;s Lexmark Indy 300 ahead to retain hopes of winning the Champ Car title. The Brazilian&#39;s Newman-Haas team-mate Sebastian Bourdais needed to win seven more points than Junqueira in Surfers Paradise to secure the title.
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It appears Dario Franchitti of Scotland is getting the hang of it in the Indy Racing League. Franchitti dominated Sunday&#39;s Honda Indy 225 at Pikes Peak International Raceway for his second IRL win of the season.
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FONTANA (California): Brazilâs Helio Castroneves dominated qualifying with a lap at 217.479 miles per hour to put his Dallara/ Toyota on the pole for the Toyota Indy 400 on Sunday.
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Tony Kanaan can clinch the IRL IndyCar championship this weekend with a fourth-place finish or better in the Toyota Indy 400 at California Speedway.
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Defending double drivers&#39; world champion Fernando Alonso of Spain on Saturday edged out his team-mate, 22-year-old British rookie Lewis Hamilton, to grab pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix.
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Ryan Newman earned the pole Friday for Saturday night&#39;s Chevy Rock &amp; Roll 400, the last race of what has become NASCAR&#39;s regular season.
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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.