Tony George's tenure as the leader of U.S. open-wheel racing and its biggest stage, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, was marked by tumultuous changes. Now George himself is being replaced -- at the behest of a board led by his mother.
Tony George has been asked to step down as president and CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and his family's business. And it's not clear how closely he'll remain tied to the day-to-day operations of the Indy Racing League.
The current Dancing champ is rooting for Castroneves to capture a third title on Sunday
Five things we learned on a sticky day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the 93rd running of the Indy 500:
INDIANAPOLIS -- While the motion picture that is Helio Castroneves' life has more sequels than the old "Rocky" movies, the back story to Sunday's 93rd Indianapolis 500 included the two stars of the 2005 race.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Five weeks ago, Helio Castroneves stared into the abyss, wondering if he would spend Memorial Day in a federal prison as his fate was in the hands of a 12-member jury as they deliberated his fate in a tax evasion trial.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Helio Castroneves' comeback from adversity is complete as the driver from Brazil who five weeks ago could have gone to prison for tax evasion won his third Indianapolis 500 on Sunday.
INDIANAPOLIS -- There are few sporting events that transcend sports and enter the mainstream. The Indianapolis 500 is one of them.
The 93rd running of the Indianapolis 500 is Sunday, and this year's race boasts one of the deepest fields in the event's history. With the return of Helio Castroneves and Dario Franchitti, and a grid that boasts a number of past champions, the Borg-Warner Trophy is up for grabs.
Race fans have a big Memorial Day weekend ahead. Open-wheel cars at the Indianapolis 500. Stock cars at the Coca-Cola 600.
Tony George's tenure as the leader of U.S. open-wheel racing and its biggest stage, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, was marked by tumultuous changes. Now George himself is being replaced -- at the behest of a board led by his mother.
Tony George has been asked to step down as president and CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and his family's business. And it's not clear how closely he'll remain tied to the day-to-day operations of the Indy Racing League.
The current Dancing champ is rooting for Castroneves to capture a third title on Sunday
Five things we learned on a sticky day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the 93rd running of the Indy 500:
INDIANAPOLIS -- While the motion picture that is Helio Castroneves' life has more sequels than the old "Rocky" movies, the back story to Sunday's 93rd Indianapolis 500 included the two stars of the 2005 race.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Five weeks ago, Helio Castroneves stared into the abyss, wondering if he would spend Memorial Day in a federal prison as his fate was in the hands of a 12-member jury as they deliberated his fate in a tax evasion trial.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Helio Castroneves' comeback from adversity is complete as the driver from Brazil who five weeks ago could have gone to prison for tax evasion won his third Indianapolis 500 on Sunday.
INDIANAPOLIS -- There are few sporting events that transcend sports and enter the mainstream. The Indianapolis 500 is one of them.
The 93rd running of the Indianapolis 500 is Sunday, and this year's race boasts one of the deepest fields in the event's history. With the return of Helio Castroneves and Dario Franchitti, and a grid that boasts a number of past champions, the Borg-Warner Trophy is up for grabs.
Race fans have a big Memorial Day weekend ahead. Open-wheel cars at the Indianapolis 500. Stock cars at the Coca-Cola 600.
INDIANAPOLIS -- For the 33 drivers who will start Sunday's Indianapolis 500, there are plenty of keys and strategies that will get one of them into victory lane in the World's Biggest Race.
Everything points to this Indianapolis 500 being one of the most competitive races in the event's 93-race history. It'll be a grueling test of speed and pit-stop execution on IndyCar's fastest and most demanding track.
Alex Lloyd's qualifying attempt for the Indianapolis 500 with five minutes remaining Saturday was daring, its result remarkable. Lloyd's four-lap average of 222.622 mph made him the only driver without a full-season IndyCar Series team to secure one of the 11 positions available on Pole Day, the toughest qualifying session of the season.
INDIANAPOLIS -- In any other year, a comeback like the one Dario Franchitti has made this month would be the big story leading into the Indianapolis 500.
INDIANAPOLIS -- How's this for a Hollywood Script?
INDIANAPOLIS -- When it comes to popularity at the Indianapolis 500, Danica Patrick is the big winner without even taking the checkered flag.
The Phoenix Coyotes are having trouble paying the ice bill, so much so the National Hockey League has intervened to steady a bankrupt club that not even Wayne Gretzky could save.
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Helio Castroneves admits this past weekend was all a blur.
The good news came in the form of a text message; not a phone call.
Stock car racing has always been Richard Petty's business. But he always had an interest in the Indianapolis 500, too. He listened to it on the radio as a youngster, and watched it on television as an adult from the condo at Lowe's Motor Speedway while waiting for the start of the Coca-Cola 600.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- After the longest offseason in sports, the IndyCar Series is back, beginning with this weekend's Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. That means the return of sleek, high-flying machines and some of racing's most diverse drivers as they begin a 17-race schedule that includes short ovals, intermediate ovals, big tracks, streets and natural terrain road courses.
After a long offseason, the Indy Racing League is primed for a big return Sunday at the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. With reunification complete and a budding crop of young stars, here are the top 10 things to watch for in the IRL in 2009.
Those who are talented and masochistic enough to make motorsports a career begrudgingly accept the vagaries of the profession. It provides the highest highs. But they don't last long. The lowest lows can seem particularly cruel when so much involved with success and failure is beyond the control of the driver at the wheel. And racing doesn't often indulge sentimentality. Few get that ticker tape farewell.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Squeezed out by the emergence of multi-car teams when business was booming, single-car, independent teams are going to save NASCAR's starting lineups in the Sprint Cup Series during the economic downturn.
IndyCar racing's most extroverted driver is turning his car over to the series' biggest introvert while he goes to trial over tax evasion charges.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Helio Castroneves, a two-time Indy 500 winner and one of the most colorful drivers in IndyCar Series history, will be replaced on Tuesday when Team Penske announces its driver lineup for 2009.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Stanton Barrett has already made the big screen, now he's hoping to make the big time by competing in the Indianapolis 500.
KOONTZ LAKE, Indiana -- When the Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced that it was shutting down the "Brickyard Crossing" motel last week, it drew little attention, lost in the shuffle of other motorsports layoffs, race cancellations and drug testing announcements.
Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and "Dancing With the Stars" champion Helio Castronoves was set to appear in court Friday to face allegations he used offshore accounts to hide millions of dollars in income from the Internal Revenue Service
KANSAS CITY -- This year's Chase for the Championship has turned into a three-man battle between Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle as the top three are separated by just 30 points.
JOLIET, IL -- Scott Dixon will be the first to admit he is a far different individual than when he won his first IndyCar Series title in 2003.
John Barnes has an eye for talent. There is no denying that. As for a hand for holding on it ... that was in need of a little work.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Dario Franchitti is returning to the IndyCar Series after a fruitless one-year effort in NASCAR. The 2007 Indianapolis 500 winner and '07 IndyCar Series champion will move over to Target/Chip Ganassi Racing, replacing Dan Wheldon, who has been signed by Panther Racing, the team he made his IndyCar Series debut with six years ago.
BROOKLYN, Michigan -- Danny Sullivan, the "Spin and Win" driver who won the 1985 Indianapolis 500, has put an offer together to purchase the Bill Davis Racing operation in NASCAR.
KOONTZ LAKE, Ind. -- When it comes to speaking his mind, especially when it comes to NASCAR, Jerry Carroll certainly doesn't hold back.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- A week that began with NASCAR apologizing for the embarrassing tire situation at the Brickyard, ended in similar fashion as Pocono winner Carl Edwards apologized for fighting with crew chief Bob Osborne over pit strategy in Sunday's Sprint Cup race. In other words, just another week at the races.
As one who lives within the gravitational pull of the San Francisco Giants, I know I commit blasphemy by praising anything Dodger. But the first time I set foot in Dodger Stadium, just two Aprils ago, I felt giddy, expectant -- as though I had just pushed through the turnstile into that other mid-century southern California landmark, Disneyland. It's hard to say why I got such a happy vibe from the place. Was is the Googie roofline on the outfield pavilions that zigzagged just like the roof at my elementary school (also early '60s vintage)? Was it the other mid-century modern details, like the hexagonal scoreboard in rightfield, the leftfield videoboard with the starlite-lounge sparkles adorning the "Welcome To Dodger Stadium" message, the flying-saucer planters in the parking lot? Was it the spectacular vistas of downtown LA and the San Gabriel mountains, clearly visible through hardly-hazy skies? Was it the fact that I had arrived for a night game unburdened by extra coats and
Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a touchstone for Ganassi Racing and cordial rival Penske, the backdrop for much of the glory that has defined the storied open wheel teams.
INDIANAPOLIS -- When NASCAR arrived at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Inaugural Brickyard 400 on Aug. 6, 1994, it was an event of epic proportions.
It once seemed like America in microcosm, a high-banked land of opportunity where a hard-worker with a gleam in his eye and lead in his foot could make something of himself, where money and fame flowed like high-octane gasoline.
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