BALTIMORE — Officials with the Baltimore Grand Prix announced today that the American Le Mans Series has been added to the inaugural event scheduled for Sept. 2-4, 2011. Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, along with Baltimore Racing Development (BRD) President Jay Davidson and American Le Mans Series President and CEO Scott Atherton, officially announced that ALMS will join the IZOD IndyCar Series during the inaugural Festival of Speed.
AUSTIN, Texas — Officials with the proposed Formula One track in Austin, Texas, have revealed the layout for the track that is expected to host the return of the United States Grand Prix beginning in 2012. With a complete length of 3.4 miles, the track will combine modern features with details reminiscent of traditional races from the 1960s
FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — It happened a while ago, but it was only at Spa that Timo Glock confirmed to National Speed Sport News an amusing tale. During the winter some hooligans were pelting Glock’s house with snowballs, so he telephoned the police. “Hello,” said the policeman who answered the phone, “This is Michael Schumacher.” Obviously it was not the seven-time world champion but a policeman with a sense of humor, when Glock said, “Hello, this is Timo Glock and I would like to report…” and he went on to tell the policeman what was going on
MONTREAL — Andrew Ranger took one bump and gave another en route to winning Sunday’s NAPA AutoPro 100 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series late-model race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. After losing the lead briefly to Jason Bowles following contact on the white-flag lap, Ranger muscled past on the final turn of the 2.709-mile road course.
MOSPORT, Ontario — Klaus Graf and Romain Dumas won American Le Mans Series Grand Prix of Mosport Sunday, taking Muscle Milk Team CytoSport’s Porsche RS Spyder to victory in a race called after 2:19 running. A heavy accident between Luke Hines and Jonny Cocker on Mosport Int'l Raceway’s Andretti Straight damaged the Armco safety barrier beyond timely repair
MONTREAL — At long last, road-course ace Boris Said is a winner in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Said won Sunday’s NAPA Auto Parts 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve when — with the two strongest cars out of contention — the always unpredictable event ended with Said beating Max Papis in a drag race to the finish line
Freddy Loix claimed his third win in as many Intercontinental Rally Challenge appearances as both Jan Kopecky and Bryan Bouffier went off when leading in the final stages of Rally Zlin. Kopecky had dominated his home event in the Czech Republic from the outset, only to crash his Skoda out of the rally on the first stage out of service this afternoon.
Jan Kopecky continues to lead the Rally Zlin going into the final loop of stages, with the battle for second place remaining the focus. Skoda driver Kopecky only won one stage this morning but that was still sufficient to keep him 26 seconds clear of the field.
MONTREAL, Quebec — Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas collected their series-record eighth Grand Am Rolex Series Daytona Prototype victory at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Saturday while wrapping up their third series championship. The Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabats duo were dominant once again aboard their No