Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards both kicked off their championship efforts in NASCAR’s Chase for the Nextel Cup in Loudon, NH, while Robert Hight won two rounds in Memphis and is hanging on the championship lead in the NHRA Funny Car race on a busy weekend for Ford Racing

The 2007 China Circuit Championship (CCC) 4th stop concluded today at Beijing Golden Port International Circuit. Rainy He from Changan Ford Racing CAF Racing Team wonthe championship in 41’ 44”215, becomingthe first domestic racer to winthis honour inthe 2000cc Group, Rainey. He listed in first place in individual total points.

Round 4 of the CCC (China Circuit Championship) was held at Beijing’s Goldenport International Circuit over the September 9th weekend. 2006 CCC champion Guo Haisheng, driving the Nissan Tiida from the Dongfeng NISSAN Ghiasports Team, got on the podium with a 3rd-place finish.

Bearing the slogan ‘Kaspersky, the fastest anti-virus’, a scratch, amateur IT industry team came an amazing 29th out of 80 entrants in the Britcar 24 hours race at Silverstone at the weekend.

One of the first qualifiers Saturday at Chicagoland Speedway, IndyCar Series points leader Dario Franchitti posted an average speed of 214.646 mph around the 1.5-mile high-banked speedway in Joliet, Illinois, then watched as one after another of his rivals tried, and failed, to budge the Andretti Green Racing driver from his fourth pole of the season.

Tony Kanaan’s series-leading fifth victory of 2007 Sunday at the Detroit Indy Grand Prix – combined with a penultimate-lap crash that dropped fellow championship contenders Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti down in the finishing order – has set up a three-way battle for the IndyCar Series championship to be decided at next week’s season finale in Chicago.

After frustrating races at the European and Hungarian Grands Prix, the drivers demonstrated the worth of recent developments to the R27 by putting in consistent, competitive drives over the 58 lap distance. Both cars ran two-stop strategies, and ran longer than their rivals in the opening stint which allowed them to gain positions.

Dario Franchitti dominated Sunday’s Motorola Indy 300 at Infineon Raceway, but contact with teammate Marco Andretti with only 11 laps remaining resulted in the victory going to title rival Scott Dixon, who now assumes a narrow four-point lead in the intense championship battle with just two races remaining in the 2007 IndyCar Series.

Chevrolet is pleased to welcome racing’s return to the Motor City as Corvette Racing and the American Le Mans Series make their inaugural appearance racing right in our own backyard at the 2007 Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix August 31-September 2.

The 3M Performance 400 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway has been postponed until noon Monday. The race will be broadcast live ESPN2.

Andretti Green Racing’s Tony Kanaan dominated the Miejer Indy 300 at Kentucky Speedway Saturday night, scoring his second consecutive IndyCar Series race win and a league-leading fourth victory of 2007 to move into title contention with three races remaining.

Georgia Tech’s College of Computing today announced that the Sting Racing team competing in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Urban Challenge has passed its site visit and is one of 36 teams judged technologically capable of competing in the final round.